Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-18
FACTS AND FANGIEs.


Thirty Hindoos are studying law in
England.
Suffrage singers" is the appelation
given to the negro voters of Mississippi.
Some wag suggests that bald-headed
men have their monographs painted on
the exposed spots.
A river man says the Arkansas river
is going into decline. 1t keeps its bed
and is very low.
zone more importunate," is the way
an exchange heralds the arrival OF a
persistent beggar.
An old woman in Alabama has missed
but two meals in seventy years. She
was an Improbable boarder.
A st. Louis paper is of opinion that
it is highly proper to speak of President
Grant as the present incumbent.
SAKE, the lecturer describes beef
steak which he attempted to eat IN
Western hotel as an infringement on
Goodyear's patent.
Politeness has its reward. A few days
since a Boston gentleman gave mp his
seat in the last car of the Beverly train
to a lady and passed forward. The
smash-up came and the lady was killed
The gentleman was unhurt.
The life Of Gen. W. I. Haskell is
almost ready for the press. This work
was prepared under the supervision
of Mrs. Paralee Haskell, State Librarian
and widow of the famous orator OF len
nessee.
A lady in Indiana of a literary turn OF
mind, called her lap-dog Perchance,
the name being suggested by Byron S
dog, of which she says Byron wrote as
follows:
Perchance my dog will howl"
1t is curious fact, for the first time
publicly announced by Theodore Tilton,
that in pleasant weather Victoria
Woodruff has n habit of sitting on the
roof of her stately mansion and com
munirg with the spirits.
The London Daily News confirms the
statement that the potato blight in Ire
land is extending from the coast to the
interior. Some scientific chap asserts
the cause to be cloud or thick fog
which has been prevailing and which he
calls the cholera mist
Mr.. Robert J. Brown, Of Leavenworth,
Kansas, and the only living representa-
tive of old John Brown whose body lies
moldering in the grave, and whose soul
is believed to be marching on through
space, responded recently to the toast
Kansas" at Pharmaceutical conven-
ton held in st. Louis.
Paschal Grousset, the notorious Com
munist, has the reputation of being one
of the daintiest and best dressed men in
Paris. Since his arrest and arreign-
ment for trial he has been more than
ever elaborate in his toilet, so much so
that the satirists on the Seine style him
the perfumed and curled cut-throat of
the Faubourg st. Antoine.
A late writer to Sunday paper pa
thetically describes what he terms the
" Church Of the Future ~: Choral music
and softly falling light and flowers
abound, and every worshiper, whatever
be his wealth or penury, his obscurity or
fame, is habited in a spotless linen gar
ment, wherein he robes himself in the
lobby before crossing the threshold OF
the church proper.
A Front street merchant traded bar
rel of whisky to horseman for mule
some days since. The horse trader
watered the mule before the trade to
make the animal look strong, and the
merchant watered the whisky to make it
taste weak. The mule was sold for forty
dollars, but the whisky remains on the
hands of the trader. 1t was diamond
cut diamond" but the mule could stand
the water better than the whisky.
It is the duty of every true woman to
look as beautiful as she can. It is her
duty to brighten and gladden. the world
with her loveliness just as the flowers
and trees, the skies and waters brighten
and gladden. it. Her sense Of the beau.
tiful should always and everywhere be
cultivated for thus will her thoughts be
made pure, and her mind be the home
of sweet and lovely things. Refinement
comes of love of all things beautiful.
To aid farmers in arriving at accuracy
in estimating the amount of land IN
different fields under cultivation; the fol
lowing table is given: 5 yards wide by
96s yards long contains one acre; II
yards wide by 4s4 yards long contains
acre; 20 yards wide by 242 yards lonl
contains acre; 10 yards wide by IL
yards long contains acre; 80 yard
wide by Coz yards long contains acre
20 yards wide by G9l yards long contain
: l acre; 200 feet wide by l9S feet lonl
contains acre; 440 feet wide by % fee
long contains acre. ITO feet wide b.
; 1863 feet long contains l acre. 60 fee
wide by T26 feet long contains acre