Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-16
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

He may live without books-what is knowl
/ edge but grievingY
He may live without hope-what is hope put
deceiving;
He may live without loye--what Is passion
but piningf 80
But where is the man that can live without
dining"
A new Geyser is reported to have
sprung up in Iceland.
Refrigerator cara are now running
across the continent.
Mr.. Gladstone will pass part OF the
Parliamentary recess at Biarritz.
Twelve hundred pounds of tomatoes
grew on q single vine in California.
Bierstadt is on his way home from the
Yosemite with his portfolio full of studies.
An Indiana mule has killed its owner
and cracked the skull of another man.
Detroit has parrot which whistles
"Old John Brown" and swears in
French.
A poet in the Des Moines Republican
wants bell that will peel on the mid
night air.
If thy conscience smite thee once it is
an admonition; if it smite the twice 1T is
condemnation.
The little New York boy who persisted
in eating matches has gone where
matches are not made.
The Chicago Times has no Stanley at
Ujiji, but it spends money to keep up
correspondent at 0conomowoc.
A man in Troy had his shoulder-blade
cut out by the doctors recently, but ex-
poets that new one will grow.
The rewards paid for the dead body of
Lowery, the North Carolina outlaw,
amounted to over six thousand dollars.
Two daughters of Elbridge Gerry, a
signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, are said to be living IN New Haven.
A Boston photographer has lately re-
ceived an order for forty thousand illum-
mated marriage certificates for the Sand
witch Islands.
A Cincinnati wife left her husband s
board. but took her bed with her. He is
puzzled to know how to word legal no
tice of warning to prospective creditors.
In order to make marriage between
them lawful, a. Michigan white woman
became possessed of drop Of African
blood by imbibing the same from a
wound in the arm Of her eolored intended.
Said youngster in high glee, display
ing his purchase to bosom friend on
the sidewalk: 1.-Two cocoa-nuts for ten
cents; that will make me sick to-mor-
row, and / won't have TO go to school.
IN august Senator, who is getting a
little bald, was the other day asked by
his heir, Papa, are you still growingY
mo, dear; what makes you think so2'
Because the top Ofyour head is coming
through your hair"
What are you digging there for? asked
loiterer of three men who were dig.
ging trench in the street. Money,
zur;" the answer came The man watch
ed the operation until the joke got
through the roots Of his hair, and then
moved on.
A Washington youth escorted young
lady up town via the horse cars, paying
her fare as a matter of course. The
next morning his mother called on the
lady and demanded back the ten cents
that her hopeful son had so extrava-
gantly parted with.
Mr.. Augusta Wilhelm, of Marion
township, has a COW which gave birth 10
a calf on Sunday, weighing one hundred
and eighteen pounds. The breed is Of
Pinacle stock, and although bought Of
Jared Loose, Republican, the calf was
born on Democratic soil The pedigree
of the bull is not known.-Redding Ga
zette.
The Marshal, ILL.,, Messenger, says the
harvest in that vicinity is so abundant
this year that farmers are nearly worked
down, and yet large quantities of grass
are still standing. Oats are so abund-
ami that they are hardly worth cutting.
Half Of the wheat is still in the shock.
and in some localities fear is entertained
that it will sprout
There is romantic story Of Major
Count Leon de Martrenon, who had
been dangerously wounded in the leg at
the battle Of Villersxessel, and was car
ried to the nearest house, which hap
pened to be that of the Countess de
Jouille. There his leg was amputated
and he vas left TO the kind care Of the
Countess. The officer has now recov-
! cred his health, and, as compensation
for the loss Of his leg he has attained