Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-24
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


drophobia news, The Watch'Dog''
Honest Bark
A dealer in old iron has succeeded in
stealing six mountain howitzers from a
French fertilization. a
An imperious parent in Indianapolis
is accused of keeping his twelve-years'
old SON chained night and day.
There is a report that General Long
street will move to Adrian, Michigan,
that his children may be educated there.
TIE Evansville Courier says that
voorhees, motive in making that speech
"is one of the things that no fellah can
find out
Rural postoffices in Ohio are made the
scene of sehool-question discussions, in
which the disputants frequently come to
blows.
The residents of Marine, ILL.,, point
with awe to a big wagon.bed which rests
in the top of tall oak. The old thing
went up in whirlwind.
A dog in indianapolis tore piece Of
flesh from the calf of the leg Of little
girl named Maggie Holland, and then
greedily swallowed the morsel.
Four splendid Cotswold sheep,
raised in Kentucky, and weighing from
225 to $50 pounds each, have been
shipped from San Francisco to Japan.
The Brooklyn Eagle, big daily news
paper edited by Democratic Congress-
man, loses patience and styles MIR. Voor-
.hees' great Principle speech as "the
believing of fool.
A man in Washington only belongs to
four hundred and ninety-nine secret So
cieties. He is unhappy because refused
admittance to the Seven Serious Jack
asses" the number being complete with
out him.
The last census of the family of Brig
ham credits him with thirty-two wives
and sixty-eight children. OF the latter,
forty are females. No intimation is
given Of the prospects of this years
crop.
An intelligent musician of San Fran
cisco who persists in taking his dog
with him to the theater, is de-
nounced in the public prints as an
idiotic fiddler, who is usually about as
full Of bad whisky as his dog is Of fleas.
As a stimulant to the languishing
game Of croquet in Cleveland, the
Leader suggests that neat board sign
with the words Four girls dying to
play croquet here" would soon attract
a crowd of male players and make every
thing look business-like and pleasant
The New York World says: "Herr
Bulow, the pianist, is to perform here in
the autumn. All musicul critics are
hereby warned against saying, Man
wants but little Herr Bulow, nor wants
that little long, the joke being strictly |
private property"
Hearth and Home laments that peo-
pie no longer write letters, but only !
notes. The old-style brilliant and pig
uant letter-writers have gone by. The
people who can say piquant things now
sell their brilliancy to the journals in
stead of wasting it on their friends.
When the new frontier fortresses Of
Germany ase finished, it will be proba-
bly, the strongest line of defenses in the
world. The line will run from Cologne
through Coblentz, Mayence, Metz,
Bitseh, Strasburg and new Brisach to
new fortress which will be built some
where in the Black Forest region.
Anybody who imagines that Mr..
Greeley has not disciplined and pene-
trating instinct for character makes as
great a mistake as in supposing that,
when he goes to sleep in church, he does
not hear the sermon. We have known
Mr.. Greeley to sleep through long
speech, and then at its close rise and
reply to it, point for point. Golden Age.
Twenty-Five or thirty years ago Rev.
Charles G. Finney, now President of
0berlin College, was carrying on Sc
ries Of revival meetings in some East
ern city-Boston, we think. One day
gentleman called to see him on bust
ness. Mr.. Finney's daughter, perhaps
five years old, answered his ring. Is
your father in2" No. replied the de-
mure maiden; but walk in, poor dying
sinner Mother can pray for you"
There is branch of what may be
termed city garden-culture, which is too
much neglected We refer to the plant
ing Of cats. This is a good time to
plant cats. They should be prepared
with bootjack, revolver, or some other
servieeable implement, and then planted
under a plum tree or graoe vine. Peo-
pie should plant all they can, and plant
them deep. = Indianapolis EceHing
Journal
The gushing editor Of the Turf, Field
and Farm gets OF this: Only those
who have mingled much with Kentucky
ladies can have any correct conception
Of their towering pride. Years ago.