Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

lightning were recently so strong in one
of the Swiss mountains as to sutfocate a
man and q number Of cows.
All Foy and Miss Cue, two celestial
lovers of California, who wished to re-
turn to the occidental land but couldn't,
took poison and died in each other S
arms.
The matrons of Pleasant View, Mo-,
keep their children pretty close, as a
roaring, untamed lion, with no nonsense
about him, has taken lease of the forest
about there.
The time for feasting has commenced
in South Carolina; the reed birds are
eating the rice, and the citizens are get
ting even with them by high living on
their well.fattened bodies.
A thief who got away from Athens,
Tenn, few years since with $4,000
returned recently saying he had come
home to die. A good many of his old
victims feel like assisting him.
He who betrays another's secret, be-
cause he has quarreled with him, was
never worthy of the sacred name of
friend; breach of kindness at Que side
will not justify breach of trust on the
other.
Barmaid-" We never serve anybody
who's had sufficient; you've taken too
much already" Thirsty customer
You'll xshcushe me. maram. may've
had too mush (hic), bu' / 'aven't 'ad
enough. Punch.
A servant girl in Minneapolis was
recently badly burned by kerosene, and
her employer charged her for the oil she
spilled and the -four, etc., used to ease
her sufferings. He then turned her
adrift, and she died.
The best definition OF scandal ever
given, according to Arthur Helps, was
that of the little girl who described it
thus: Nobody does nothing, and every
body goes on telling it everywhere.
This is better than dictionary.
Among the things that might be more
profitable in Texas and some other
Southern States than politics is the rails
ing of figs. A man in Houston claims
that the native figs Of that State are
better than the imported article, and are |
easily raised and easily cured.
DR.. Ayers, of Cheever colony, Kan
sas, was seriously injured by a well
caving in on him." Served him right.
he should have attended to the sick
and let the well alone.
It's reported that the women of Nan
tucket have formed club for the pur-
pose of securing husbands for its mem
oers. There are ten men in that town
% one woman, and the idea is to rattle
or the men.
One of the Yale students asked Mr..
3eecher if a man who is naturally cold
Ind unsympathizing should go into the
ministry. No" Mr. Beecher replied,
you might as well take an icicle to
warm an invalid's bed witt"
If man must squander money for the
Indulgence Of pet passion, we know of
10 more harmless form of dissipation
Han buying fddles. A man in New
Haven has expended $4,000 in gratifying
passion for that sort Of thing.
Economy is wealth. A well-regulated
Newark family ate hash for breakfast in
hree hundred and sixty-fve different
tyles last year, and the mother, in con-
equence, is enabled to blow her nose on
ninety-doIlar laced handkerchief.
The following is now common in Hi
lois papers "Notice-All women who
10 not wish their husbands to frequent
ny house for the purpose Of drinking
Till oblige me by leaving note at the
box 80. Signed. -"
The longest bridge in the world is said
0 be on the Mobile and Montgomery
abroad, over the Tensas and Mobile
ivers. 1t is fifteen miles in length. and
las ten draws, one for each nayigable
hannel. The bridge itself is Of wood,
,ut the supports are iron cylinders.
The structure cost 81 800, 900, and has
,een three years in course of construe-
ion.
Michael Sullivant, the famous Ford
county farmer Of Illinois, has 10000
acres Of corn the present season, from
which he expects to harvest 100000
bushels, IAN average Of fifty bushels
10 the acre. Mr.. Sullivant contracted,
a few days ago, 100000 bushels Of his
last years crop at thirty-seven and
half cents per bushel.
A Utica man has invented a travelling
trunk with this Improvement: Taking
hold Of the handle and lifting one end
from the floor, a sharp pull draws out
hand-bar similar to those by which
hand-cart is drawn or propelled, and at
he same time two strong wheels drop
seneath. The trunk is at once a box
On wheels, and the traveller can draw it
away independent Of porters or express
men.
The passion for notoriety in these de-
generate days leads people into very
strange conduct. A girl up in Montgom-