Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

1t has been discovered that the popu-
lar sentence. In the midst of life we
are in death. is not in the Bible. Then
it is not true thl
Men who expected places in the GUS
tom-house complain that General Ar
thur does not turn out as well as they
expected. -NeW York Post ~
A Terre Haute Qndiana) belle tried
to bleach her hair, butts now confined to
the house, seriously indisposed," and
bemoaning her blighted hopes.
Mrs. Sarah Norton is back-slider, in
asmuch as she has been, an ardent adj |
vocate of women's rights, but ow pro-
nounces female suffrage a fraud"
A young lady who corresponds with
several gentlemen friends, when remon-
strated with by her mother, said she
only did it to Improve her hand
writing"
II is estimated by the Louisville press
that three hundred thousand hogs will
be packed in that city this year. 1t is
estimated by outsiders that this will in
clude a fair quantity of citizens.
A New York farmer killed hims,slf by
lifting a barrel Of potatoes Erch Gnge.
Many a man has killed himself by
lifting a jug of whisky. Why publish
incidents without any moral significance.
The Sandusky Register indelicateI.y al
ludes to the Democratic party as a
party with shifts Wherenpon the
Ohio State Journal blushingly remarks;
I'VE supposed it was Schurz they we're
after"
In the name of the Nine MUSES., here
is something truly astonishing. Some
body in Russia has set up new relig-
ion, and the peculiarly of this preacher
is that "he always expresses himself in
rhyme"
when one sweeps with his eye the
operate horizon, says the New York
Standard, he is amazed TO find how
very few genuine and great Italian
singers remain. French, German, Swe-
dish and even English artists abound
The Chicago Post says one Of its re-
porters, who was rather rndeiy treated
by Bishop Whitehouse the 9th or day, at
the Episcopal residence, took a CRATE
ful glance at the hat-rack, silently
blessed the umbrella stand, nd then
took his departure. "
Tilton said, in substance, not long
ago, that Victoria Woodruff could climb
tree with the agility of squirrel, and
now leading editorial in the Oh icago
Post, though perhaps not a plagia rism,
asserts that woman viii rapidly learn
that the world is hers to rise in if she pos
sesses the necessary qualifications to
climb"
1--WE, the undersigned jurors, impan-
eled to inquire into the cause Of death
OF Yup Kow, do find that the deceased
was native of Chine, agedl sixty-fve
years, and that he came to his death
from the automatic action of a piclr-ax
in the hands of Patrick ORE .fierty, and
was afterward chewed by self-winding
bull dog belonging to the 8 a me party.
Here is something frol Tennyson's
new poem of a thousand ines;
Down in a ca semeiit sat,
A low sea-sunset glory1ngr ound her hair.
And when she heard the fe' 4 Of Tristram grind
The spring stone that seal ed at out her tower,
Flushed, started, met hi m at the doors. and
there f.NT a.Hf I-IA
Belted his body with her white embrace"
That's just what Co burn d with Mace
at the prize-fght-b elt,d hin over the
head besides. -Ne'o Orleans Times.
A lot of clerical iincurabl es at Petalu-
ma have passed resoluti on pledging
themselves to discourage wine growing
in the district .flieted by their presence.
1t is quite ur necessary to take any &C
tive measur es for this purpose tn cir ex-
istence is sufficient to produce dis cour-
agement in a general way; and the as
peet OF their vinegar visages will prevent
the gro pes from ripening.
The new imperial banner Of Ger
many represents the imperial eagle
oil Germany in its most ancien form,
with one head instead Of the two lnbse-
qnently given it, said to be in token Of
the claim to universal dominion. The /
eagle is blazoned on a golden escuteh-
con, and is quite black, being Invested
of the red talons bestowed on him in the |
last centuries Of the old empire.
A man in Baltimore, formerly jour
nalist in Chicago, sets down in a private
letter his estimate of the people among
whom his lot is cast, in the words fol-
lowing This folk is 50 impenetiably
thick-skinned and fatbrained that it irks
me. Its selfesteem is transcribed only
by its ignorance. Yagh-aghl-with what
yawps of rage and scorn could I bs.rate
it, if had but the time and apt occa-
sion"
The Titusyille Herald comes to the
rescue of Janauschek: Her name is
pronounced as if the J we're a Y, and the
accent on the first syllable. thus, Yan-a-
shek. Since her coming has been an
nouneed, we have heard her name pro
nounced as follows, and by some indi-
yiduals who sleep with dictionary every
night: Jabon-a-shay, Janney.shank
'Shane-shake, Janne-eheek, and Zha n
u-shay.'"
The other day a youth, who had asst
entered a mining Office as clerk, was OBJ
served to be holding a specimen of tin