Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-31
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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Thomas Carlyle, the great English
author has come out in favor of a pro-
history liquor law for England. s,d
The New York Commercial thinks
that the Sword Of Bunker HUI Is
knocked all to smithereens by the prun-
ing-hook Of Chappaqua. Gfl35
The arbor-yiia and some other ever
greens are dying as the summer APP
proaches and the cause is being looked
into by the horticultural scientists.
Alboni has lately been singing IN con-
cert in Paris. 1t is not decided whether
or not she will reappear upon the stage,
She has grown stout, and her name Is
now a misnomer.
If YOU do not believe that we all OF us
came direct from England, read up on
these never-ending English estates
that are falling to this one and that one
all about tie country. tfa
A learned Theban discussing "Dissi-
patton as Profession, comes to the
conclusion that to those who adopt 1t
as sicence is charitable in supposing
their brains diseased. "a
The Aston House boasts of an OLD
gentleman, who registered his name on
the books of the hotel the first DAY II
opened, and has been there ever since' a
period of nearly "a years.
A Californian, wishing to marry a
Young girl of Mariposa who is under
age, took her in ..sail-boat three miles
off the coast of Monterey, with cler-
gyman, and then they we're made one
The most gallant man ever heard Oh
is one who refrained from kicking DOG
that had bitten him because it was a
female dog. IF it wasn't >ior your
SEX" said he, I'D kick your head Oh.
Mr.. Beecher feels badly that ne was
not born in Boston. But then he reflects
that everybody could not be born there
and some of tine outsiders, such as
Caesar, Dante, Luther and Shakespeare
have got on pretty well.
Miss Nellie Grant was entertained al
n l.
lunch on Sunday, the 9th OF May, py
Madame Theirs The Presidents Wiie
had spent the morning at the Long
champs races, and subsequently rode
with Miss Grant to see the playing OF the
great fountains in the park Of Versailles.
A boy has been found in India occu-
pying VOLTS den, and fed by the pro-
nrietor with raw meat. There is an old
story great deal better than that, In
which there were two boys, and they
sucked a wolf-or maybe it was the other
way, we don't remember exactly how II
was.
A young married man named LORD
len, in New York, in recent ht OF re
ligious insanity, smashed all his house
hold goods, declaring he would hne
favor in the sight of the Lord Tor So
doing. He didn't find favor with hi
wife. who delivered him over to the an
thorities.
The Rochester Democrat says "a
young lady in Sullivan county was killeC
in fun the other day. Her brother
pointed gun at her in fun, and thu
gun went off, very much to her astonish
ment." Some people are so funny theJ
really ought to be sent to the peniten
tiary for it.
The Cuban government has smokes
out the gamblers of Havana because ON
cials were tempted to such an extent tina
they became defaulters in large Sums u
the government. These Spanish sWind
Iers have made their exodus from Cub
for New York, where they will doubles
make love to such American girls wh
delight in foreign mustache.
Lord Shaftesbury, in speech at tn
Turkish Mission Aid Society, at Excite
Hall, abiding to the late eruption 0
Vesuvius, said I" it was q popular dell
sion to think England free from tn
probability of these eruptions. The mos
eminent geologists had often told hir
that England constituted the cover OF
subterranean well of fire, and we al
liable at any moment to meet the tate
the district round Vesuvius.
A man by the name Of James King
bury has been marrying extensively a
over the country-at least it is estim'
ted to the number of ten wives. ID
employments are as various as his W
men. The relatives Of several OF h
FIRST wives have made up a purse an
hired policeman on salary to hui
him up, this born lover. If the ord
nary sentence for bigamY should at la
be served upon him, multiplied by tel
what a steady home he win have in Il
penitentiary for his natural life.
NEws.-Bily Wilkinson, the populi
newsman at No. Ill Main, near Il