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

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phobia in Juliet, Ill.
The Heather Chinee' insures his life
for enough money to send his body
home when he dies.
Brigham Young has just inyoieed his
stock of children again. and thinks there
are sixty.eight in all.
In Switzerland law is proposed
making it unlawful for any one under
fourteen years of age to smoke tobacco.
New York brewers cannot make a
good article of lager beer to save their
lives, and all BECAUSE of the Croton
water.
Healthy wild cats, weighing from ten
to thirty pounds, make the citizens Of
Fernandina, Fla, keep early evening
hours.
There is a barber in Chicago who really
cuts his customers hair as short as they
desire it, and does not ask them to have
shampoo.
A Crestline citizen shot the stufing
out of his wife's back hair, which was
calmly reposing on the window-sill, and
which he took for cat.
The city editor of the Jacksonville
Journal, as well as one of the editorial
staff Of the Chicago Post,is accused OF
wearing "glove-ftting" corset.
An Albany family is making a pleas
ure trip the entire length of the Erie canal
in steam canalboat Their family
physician advised them to try sea voy-
age.
A crowd Of rowdies, despairing of
ever receiving any letters in legit-
mate way, went through the Harvard,
Kan, postoffice the other night and cap
tured bag full.
Hogs dash through the streets of Ev-
ansburg, Ind, with tin kettles tied to
that portion Of their anatomy which PHI
losophers have affirmed cannot be made
into whistle.
A Georgia negro jumped from an ex-
press train the other day to recover his
hat, which was so little injured that the
jumper oldest boy wore it to his father $
funeral two days later.
Jim Fisk, ST., tried to horse-whip Gen.
j. W. Phelps at Brattleboro, Vt, the
other day. 1t is thought some of the
furniture in the upper story of Mr.. Fisk
has become disarranged.
A company has been organized IN
Chicago to encourage the immigration
of Italian organ.grinders. This is the
worst news received from the Garden
City since the great fire.
The poorest family can afford to have
an Egyptian mummy for parlor orna-
ment, since factory in Connecticut has
increased its facilities for the manufac-
ture of those interesting relics.
The heavy chignons worn BY the ladies
are said to be great promoters of bald
ness, and many once pretty heads now
have skating parks and base ball grounds
mapped off on their surface.
The Cleveland Sheet Iron Cat Works"
have increased their manufacturing
facilities, and are turning cut some very
fine Thomas cats for offensive purposes
against their flesh and blood brethren.
An Iowa lady has made $4,000 on
two husbands by insuring their lives,
and is now looking around for third
who has a hectic flush and wants some
one to love and plant him when he dies.
A case of connubial three-card monte
occurred at Whitehall, Illinois, the other
day, where two married men eloped |
with one woman. The winners in the
game are the deserted wives and the odd
husband.
Montana grasshoppers are more raw
enous than usual this season. They eat /
wagon tires, and have been known to
tickle mule in the ribs until he kicked,
and devour his shoes while his feet we're
in the air.
A Salem Mass. man swallowed his |
teeth and came near going toothless to
the grave, but a doctor with set of
irons fshed them up, and the
patient now wears them tied to his ear
with string.
The Wabash is SO low that Terre |
Haute, Ind, is threatened with another
milk famine. The milkmen own most |
of the pumps, have got up a corner in
chalk, and much suffering will follow
unless it rains soon.
A West Point barber manages to
earn his living by shaving, playing /
the cornet, drum and French horn,
sells canary birds, amputates rat-terriers'
ears, leads church choir and plays a
healthy game Of drawpoker.
1t is said that the French government
has positively declined to Join with other
powers in placing a veto upon the cleo
ton of the next Pope, on the ground
that no right to exercise such veto
exists.
Prairie chickens that take the papers