Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-01
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Aristotle informs us that there is a
foolish corner. even in the brain OF the
sage trft amos
The Chinese, with good deal OF quiet
4 sarcasm, call ceremony the smoke OF
friendship. $3.50
The cost of running q train forty
miles an hour is said TO be double that
of running twenty. ,iat.M n
The Cleveland Leader says the potato
bugs are healthy. and will poll a full
vote this summer
Ordinary laborers in Dublin receive
sixty cents per day, and skilled laborers
one dollar and half.
Commissioners report that the coal
fields of Great Britain are sufficient for
three hundred years. ~
st. Paurs Cathedral, in London, was
nearly forty years in building, and cost
five million dollars.
The first Napoleon asked, with ex-
ouisite nonchalence, what is history
bat fable agreed upon2
They say female compositors get
through their copy very rapidly, being
anxious to get the last word.
Lord Northbrook, the newly-appointed
yiceroy of India, will sail from London
for Bombay on the 18th inst.
In New York recently, burglar was
caught refreshing himself in the bath
tub Of the house he was robbing.
Adelina Patti made nice distinction
when she said that opera in the United
States was not ramour but Ia mode.
Barnum's cannibal from FIJI says be
jabers he'll not stand being stared at for
tin dollars wake, dye moind, now2
An Illinois clergyman has petitioned
for a reduction of his salary, and his
friends propose to place him in an in
sane asylum.
Women are poor advisers, and so are
men, unless their judgment is Of that
sort which stands constitutionally at the
freezing point.
Madame Fua is one of the leading
revolutionary personages of Italy, and
Victor Emmanuel thinks the Fua of
such women there are abroad the better.
A singular accident to lad is reported
in Illinois. One Of his playmates came
behind him and leaped on his shoulders,
crushing him to the earth and breaking
one Of his legs.
Calico shirts, with horse figures, and
stove-pipe hats are the very acme of a
Sandwich islanders desire. Only the
royal family aspire to brass earrings and
pewter breastpins.
81 am afraid, said lady to her hus-
band. that am going to have a stiff
neck" Not at all improbable, my
dear" replied her spouse. !" i have seen
strong symptoms of it ever since We
wsre married
Seats to view the recent Thanksgiving
procession in England ranged from one
to seven guineas each. A front floor in
Fleet street was offered for IS guineas.
f25O, it is said, was given by a eontrae-
tor for the use Of a church yard on the
Strand /
A lady in Atlanta tied her husbands
hands and feet the other day. just for
fun, and then went through his pockets
for certain billet-doux, and found it.
His physician tells him that his face
won't be badly SCARED, though he may
remain permanently bald.
A young lady, the other day, in the
course of lecture, said: " Get married,
young man, and be quick about it, too
Don't wait for the millennium, hoping
that the girls will turn to angels before
you will trust yourself to one Of them.
A pretty thing you would be alongside
of an angel, wouldn't you, you brute?"
The humber Of persons now residing
at the Vatican, which consists Of fifty
separate buildings, with fourteen court.
yards and twelve thousand rooms, is
three thousand. 1t is town without
streets. None Of the officials have been
changed Antonelli is still Secretary of
State.
Young man, do you ever drink"
asked mild-losking man, accosting
Jones We'll. yes, thank you, as it's
a cold morning ! don't mind" replied
Jones, removing his guild Of tobacco
Don't do it any more" rejo1ned the
mild man, or you will eventually be
-. Good morning. God bless you /"
The gales this season are pronounced
by seafaring men as the most severe
that have been encountered for years,
and much damage has been inhicied'on
shipping Vessels over due on account
of adverse weather are beginning to ar
rive freely in the Atlantic ports, and
tales Of suffering and disaster are fire..
quent.
A Partisan quaek has been sdyertis-
ing an infallible remedy for curing dis
eases Of the skin. Il anneared- on his