Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-09
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

The tolls on the Suez canal are to be
increased.
A double-headed cat in Iowa torments
a quiet neighborhood with aouble-headed
yowls.
Darwinism-A mulberry leaf becomes
silk gown, and silk gown becomes a
woman.
Tom Scott says: Texas, on the whole,
is about the finest piece of property I
have yet SEEN"
The Raw Carrot it is thought will
be good for "Supes." if it is well-done,
aud may prove an excellent DAILY
dish.
The land of Western farm is SO wet
that the owner hoes his corn with dip
per and digs his potatoes with hook
and line.
Our friend Herr Schmidt wonders
what for de beebles make drubbles
apout de sckman-box house ven it is de
pest-house dey have got. !"
A Milwaukean drank quart of ice
water to get cool-and he got cool, SO
that his friends not being able to warm
him up have concluded to bury him.
Longfellow is named after the poet.
His trainer, who knew nothing of the
author of "Hiawatha,' thought it was
because the horse has an unusually long
body.
The politeness of the Hebrews as a
race is accounted for from the fact that at
an early stage of their national exist
ence they were supplied With heavenly
mama.
They even have domestic Ku-Kluxery
in Arkansas; for instance, loving wife
recently tarred and feathered her hus-
band, and then turned him into the street
like "a rained on fowl"
There is more than 81 100000 invested
in the manufacture of lamps in this
country. OF chimneys about 100000
dozen are annually sold, at an average
Of fifty cents per dozen.
A new Spanish dictionary, intended to
be complete, devotes to the word ojo,
eye, fifteen royal octave pages, giving
citations from lightweight authors. Who
wouldn't write dictionary?
dolly Warden Theology" is what
the New York Herald called its religious
reports. This is one of the instances in
which the term is properly applied, if
variegated is what is meant by it.
The Crown Princess Victoria of Prus-
STA offers prize Of ten thousand thalers
for the best essay on advancing the ma
terial prosperity Of working-women.
The essays may be written in German,
French or English.
In consequence Of the passing of a
new law by the German Parliament rel
alive to damages for injury or death
caused by railway accidents, the Ger
man railway companies have formed a
mutual assurance company.
Let amusements ell up the chinks of
your existence, not the great spaces
thereof. Let your pleasures be taken
as Daniel took his prayers-with his win
dows open; pleasures which need not
cause single blush on an ingenious
cheek.
Robert Collyer says in letter to the
London Inquirer that he has written
many sermon in the Pullman cars.
The Christian Register thinks this may
account for some of his most progressive
thoughts, as well as for his rapid de-
livery.
Some of Mr.. Bergh's admirers in New
York are making contributions to raise
a memorial to him, and talk Of expend-
ing the money in drinking fountains,
which would, doubtless, please the friend
of animals much more than the tradi-
tional statue.
Greeley is getting the hazelbrush
cleared off his farm without ever putting
seythe to it. Every member of the
cavalcade who visits it on Saturday car
ries away a " Chappaqua cane" and one
by one the troublesome clumps Of bushes
are disappearing.
The police of Morrisania, N. Y, re-
Gently undertook to abate a public nut
sance, and collected under their imme-
date supervision happy family of three
hundred geese, together with goats,
sheep, pigs, chickens, dogs and boys.
Barnum was nowhere then.
Always avoid the company in which
you are willing to tell coarse jest, be-
cause, for you, it is a demoralizing com
pany. GrOssness is never humorous,
profanity is never admirable; and if your
manner and speech once begin to rayel