Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-22
FACTS AND FANCIRs.

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John H. Surratt is teaching school at
Brookville, Montgomery county, Md.
The mayor Of Salem. Massachusetts,
favors a reduction of his salary fifty per
cent
Another of the authors of Beautiful
Snow" is dead-William G. Barnes, OF
Bangor.
Minnie Bealis, of Topeka, Kansas, IS
going to Europe to become great
lyric artist. i1a
The mordora is the name of an En-
glish invention for the purpose OF taking
off the top of an eggshell.
A goose eighty-cight years old died not
long since on the farm of Mr.. A. d.,
Gould, OF Topsfeld, Massachusetts
The Lowell Courier supposes that the
New York Worlds filicide " must have
been committed with a Colts revolver.
The revival at the Broadway colored
church, in Indianapolis, which began
about three years since, is still in pro-
gress.
Portsmouth, N. H., mad a masquerade
the other night in which the ladies were
attired in dresses made entirely OF tissue
paper. fsae'a
jeff Thompson says; II change my
religion every week, my politics every
day, and my opinion every hour; and
yet can't keep up.
A minister not long ago preached
from the text, Be We therefore stead
fast; but the printer made him ex-
pound from " Be ye there for breakfast.
St. Louis lawyers are soon to appear
in court in black gowns. They think
such a costume viii elevate their dig
nifty, and inspire the irreverent client
with awe.
The seal Of the Confederate States was
made in England, received in Richmond
only the week before Lee evacuated the
city. and never used ON any official doc
ument.
"Howthe Baby Came is recent pub
Iication. Although obviously a childs
story, it is not, as its name would seem
10 indicate, scientific treatise on OBJ
stetrics.
Wine was made at Los Angeles, Cali
ornia, last year at cost of fifteen
tents a gallon. There is no excuse for
my man not getting drunk with wine at
his price.
A candy man follows Mr.. Hammond,
he revivalist, at Leavenworth, on his
'ound, and, when the spiritual adviser
inishes his exhortation to a crowd, the
,rize candy man commences business.
The Courier.Jou man insists that
he reason why the editor of the Cincin-
lati Enquirer favored pulling down the
bridge over the OHIO is be-
.ause he couldn't pass under it without
owering his ears.
Biologists affirm that the eastern shore
# the United States is sinking into the
,cean at the rate of about one-sixth of
N inch per annum, or sixteen inches
very hundred years. The island OF
New York goes under at the rate of sew
nteen inches per century.
There is great deal of force in what
he New York Tribune says about send
ng a man out of the world with all his
on his head, thinks the
Iontreal News. He had better take
hem with him than leave them, as Mr..
)thello says, q for others uses."
What is believed to be the most laconic
ddress to the jury on record, was de-
vered by Mr. Montague Bare, Q. c., at
Iristol, the other day. The recorder
ummed up the case in the following
lords: Gentlemen of the jury, which
f the parties has spoken the TRUTH
The occasional explosion of coal oil
amps from attempts to extinguish them
Y blowing down the chimney, gives
alue to the following suggestion Give
sharp but rather prolonged puff, at
ght angles with the top of the chimney.
he draft thus produced is said to draw
ne fame away from the wick, and the
IMP goes out.
The year 1871 was particularly unfor-
lnate for fine trotting and stock horses,
1me ten or twelve notable stations
aying died, among the number Royal
gorge, Curtis, Hambletonian, Nam
rino, Columbus, Clark Chief and Gold
ust. They were all valuable animals,
nd it would have taken a small fortune
, have purchased any one Of them.
A reward of 10000 francs has been Of
red in Paris to whoever will make the
blowing diagram with one stroke of the
encil or pen. The thing can be done,
5 has been proved to satisfaction: