Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-17
FACTS AND FANCrRs.
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Boston has charity hospital for the
cure Of corns.
A Rock Island lady averages fifty
love letters day.
1t is no uncommon thing for bot words
to produce a coolness. ssiisloiiiss. a,l
A Hindoo astronomer he's built an OBJ
servatory on the Himalayas.
The falls Of Minnehaha have been
bought by far-seeing Spectator.
Politeness is often wasted, but it IL q
good and cheap mistake to make. i
The girls of St Mary's academy, at
Niles, Michigan, ride Mexican ponies
for exercise. .s.....,.. iiieqrs iss'-
Mr.. Meyers. of Indiana, undressed in
ten seconds, with the assistance of a
revolving shaft. f.s
elliott, the lately deceased steel-pen
left a magnificent art gal
lery valued ut 100000.
AWyandotte lover committed the hor-
rible mistake of kissing his intended
mother-in-law in the dark. = p.a ,se'
A young mathematician estimates that
one thousand million tons of ice repose
on the bosom Of the Snsquehanna.
East Saginaw, Mich, has police
force of seven men. 1t is divided into
two reliefs of three and half each. :.
An Indiana girl deliberately placed
her neck on railway track in front Of
an approaching train, and was beheaded.
Fust .impreshuns are said tew be last
ng. Emmy man who has only been
Jtung bi hornet once will sware to this.
An Indian out West sat down on a
lot stove, installing it for a valise. He
vas very much surprised, but is recover
ng.
1t is sweet to have friends you can
rust, and convenient, sometimes, to
ave friends who are not afraid to trust
-ou. COZ d4aiI
You had better lend man your name
n bill than lend him your umbrella,
because the first is pretty sure to be re-
urned.
Mr.. Pasenbach, of Kentucky, was
lied in playful scufle by the sharp
oint of a lead-pencil penetrating his
rain. b .55i Ti
When a man has dun charitable |
hing without letting the world know it, |
e haz dun all that an angel kould do in |
he premises.
NJ beginners in literature are always |
othered tew find a subjekt tew write on;
S they progress they are troubled tew
nd what tew write on subjekt.
The old saying haz it, it is a wize
hid that knows hiz own father" but in
leze days ov progreshun it IL wize
lther that knows hiz own child
Men are seldom moderated; the mer-
ury in a man finds its true level in the
yes ov the world just as certainly as it
oes in the glass ov thermometer.
The seventeenth man who played the
rst stream of water on the FIRE which
nrned Chicago, has turned up. His
anne is Rice, and he knows he did it.
A Milwaukee man who shock hands
it'll Alexis has ever since carried the
onored hand behind his back, and ex-
nds the left only to ordinary mortals I
Love can get along with very little Ian
lage. Two squeezes and hug will
,nvey more meaning to an ardent tenn
srament than the whole FIVE books Of
oses. oEt AH 0
Mrs Brown, Of North Carolina, hav-
x stated that she cured her consump-
on by partaking of kerosene oil, her
Iample was quickly followed by seve-
i neighbors. The delusion was soon
Iploded, however - Boston Post.
The smallest steam engine in the
orld is in the possession of John Penn,
Greenwich, England. 1t win stand
l three penny piece, and really is
lily three-eighths Of an inch by about
Its whole weight is less
an three pennyweights. |.
Whats the damage2" inquired a
iyerton bridegroom after the knot had
.en tied with gordian security. The
" allows me dollar and half, mod
tly replied the parson. The elated
enedict produced a two-doller bill, and
Id the parson he was welcome to the
hole Of it, as he had come four miles.
Mrs. Browns pretty Irish waitress got
arried the other day. And hear
u are going to Australia with your
lsband, Kitty" said her mistress
Are you no; afraid of such long,
lpgerous voyage?" Well, ma'am,
ats his look out; belong to him now,
/ if anything happens to me, sure it'll
his loss, not mine"
John Bright for many years the leader
the Liberal party in the house Of com
ons has written letter to the 0'Don-
,hue on the subject Of home rule "
T Ireland, in which he says To have
70 representative legislative assemblies !
parliaments in the United Kingdom {
ould, in my opinion, be an intolerAble /.
ischief, and think no sensible man