Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-15
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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FACTS AND FANCIES.
Ten marriages to one divorce is the
ratio in Topeka.
Bazaines private fortune amounts to
1000, 900 francs.
The Marquis of Westminster has just
paid $4,000 for ceiling.
Skcupschina is what the Servians call
their house Of representatives.
Equipeupleughsunibus is what some
of the papers call it.
Oranges fifteen inches in circumfer.
ence are Kansas product.
The city Of Denver reports only City
two deaths in four months. 500
A precocious Minnesota infant has
won $3.50 watch at rattle. aa|
A Texas man has to have forty miles
of fence to go around his farm. pa
In spite Of the horse disease, panthers
are eating young colts in Texas.
The centenary of Linn@us' death win
be celebrated at Stockholm in January.
Mr.. Aschalgaptiskoff Hocowschanre-
GUS Komunkapampi edits the Alaska
Herald.
Home, the famous Spiritualist, will re-
turn to America soon and bring his
spirits with him.
A drunkard is bad arguer, for the
oftener he comes to the pint the more
incoherent he is.
Eighty-two mummiGed Cinnamon
were lately shipped from Sacramento to
the Celestial land.
The husband who devoured his wife
with kisses found afterward that she dis.
agreed with him. u
An intoxicated man was detected, on
Saturday night. in an attempt to pick
the pocket Of billiard table,
Emigration toward Nebraska is
rushin', or will be ahen those 10000
| Muscovites settle down there.
England has imported nearly $4,000
600 of eggs within the last nine months
besides what Hodges hens laid.
An Arizona woman has had three
husbands murdered within the past ten
years, but isn't discouraged yet.
A Detroit paper says that since the
horse distemper came on not single
runaway" has occurred in that city.
The Mexican Congressman, in admir-
ing imitation of ours, have taken to re-
ceiving railroad stocks and other gifts.
New London, Conn, thought she had
the yellow fever before anybody else, but
it turns out to be only buff kind of
typhoid. "
The Apaches now have another griev-
ance. One oftheir young men has been
captured in New Mexico and forced to
go to school.
The last horse ridden by General John
Morgan was Skedaddle, that lately took
the premium in the sweepstake ring at
Paducah.
A Chinese tea clipper, on her way to
London, was lately lost, and 100000
pounds of the precious drug went to the
bottom of the sea. ai
Eben Childs. Chief Clerk of the Post
office Department, who died the other
day, in his seventy third year, was mar
ried only few days before.
There is mourning in Walker, Michi-
gan. A barn burned down and forty
barrels of cider had to be used to pre-
vent the spread Of the flames.
Alligators are SO thick around Rich
land county, South Carolina, that they
trip up horses in the streets and then
extend their jaws in genial smile.
An enthusiastic Nebraska editor says;
mine months of the year in Nebraska
is summer, and the rest is mighty late IN
the spring"
This is the affecting epitaph on de-
ceased Block Island captains tomb
stone: 81 am through catching cod, and
have gone to meet my God"
Women are uncertain ereatures-so
are snakes, Aeas, snapping-turtles and
lightning, but the election for Admistra-
tor of improvements is uncertainer.
The Tichborne claimant sturdily re-
sists all solicitations to lecture in this
country. Filthy lrcre is not SO much
what he wants as fame and bsronetey.
A cat was so rash as to lick the cheek
ii young lady of improved complex
,Son, and in a few minutes it was no
more. Young gentlemen will take no
tice.
A Connecticut man has invented
machine by which one man can make
1000 keys in day, or double the num-
Der which can be made with any tool
now in use.
That was very tender-hearted man
who, on being told that his wife. who
had left the house only an hour before,
was drowned, and that her body was
found a mile or so below, said: She
must have ioated down quite lively"
Every candidate is not so modest.
The merits of an applicant we're dis
cussed in the presence of Monster V.
The majority we're dead against him.
q For my part" said Monster w. Il
rive him my vote. He is an exceedingly
polite and well-bred man. the only /
things against him are his writings, and
thew YOU know, are the merest trife.
Duluth. in her infancy, takes a sep