Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Best thing out-a dangerous conAa
grafton.
Street cars in San Francisco are to be
lighted with gas.
Trees around farm house enhance
the market value.
The increase in the wealth of Georgia
last year was 100000.
The word humor" cannot be trans
lated into any other language.
Minneapolis has new operahouse
which seats one thousand people.
A boiler explosion in New Jersey was
heard at a distance of six miles
A musician has asked us why they
don't call Fast Day prestissimo day.
Dom Piatt calls the agricultural bu-
reau the great pumpkin conservatory.
1t is stated that Father Gavazzi in
tends visiting the United States shortly.
Potato bugs are preparing to poll
heavy vote against the Western farmers.
Tennessee has sl,3l7,3ss 60 invested
in turnpike roads throughout the State.
The cost of running a train forty miles
an hour is four times as much as twenty
miles.
1t is now rumored that Il. 6. will
leave journalism and open a writing
school.
Some one speaking Of the red nose OF
an Incorporate man, said " it was very
expensive painting.
The famous spring at Tuscumbia, Ala
bama, discharges l7,724 cubic feet of
water per minute.
A man in Freeport, Illinois, proudly
wears a coat made by A. johnson, oil
impeachment memory,
A Carolina suicide who swallowed
some pounded glass, not long ago, died
of pane in the stomach.
may sound like paradox, yet the
breaking of both wings of an army is
pretty sure way to make it fly.
A policeman, fond of reading, told
friend that, for amusement when Oh oil
duty, be often took up" book
A young student wants to know ii
5 W-o.r-ce-s.t-e spells Wooster why
Rochester don't spell rooster2
Temptation without and corruption
within, as the chap said when he bit
open chestnut and worm crawled
out.
Eight legged pigs are becoming alto
gether too common for the people OF
Lincoln, Neb., to boast as much as they
do OF theirs -
The total number of paupers in Lon
don on the 18th ult was l20,lll, q
whom 34,76O we're in warehouses and
So, 1851 received outdoor relief.
Mrs. Isabella Hooker says that Veto
ria Woodruff has bridged with hel
PROSTATE body an awful gulf, over which
women will walk to freedom"
Edward A. Eggert, of Buffalo, hai
written the Lords prayer, three time
repeated, within the circumference of
three-cent piece, and yethe is not happy
Religious freedom is not merely to-
Grated now in Turkey, but recognized a
a right, and persons may change thei
religion at will without let or hinC
rance. ..-.... ...--.s.
In constructing the new railroad i
Putnam county, New York, a swamp ha
q be crossed, and spiles have bee
driven ninety-three feet before 6ndin
bottom.
That soldier that fought under NapC
leon hasn't got through dying yet. Tn
last time that ne shuffled of this morti
coil was at Fort Wayne, Ind, only a fe'
days ago.
An English dentist recently had on
Of bis teeth extracted, cleansed, carrie
removed from the crown and replace
in the socket, where it has taken fires
root
The Emperor OF Germany is no
quite well. His son Frederick Charlie
has gone to Sicily. The Empress
Russia is on visit 70 the Crimea. Kin
Victor Emanuel ia 10 Florence. s.
Charles Dixie is in Pans The Sulta
Of furtey Wal visit the Lyons Expos
hon in May.