Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-02
FACTS AND FANcrRs.
Theirs, like Grant, receives.

: wind.
Claret costs ten cents bottle in Cali
: fornia.
, Mr.. Disraeli has nearly finished an
other novel. v aa' n.
Robert Browning has poem Of 5000
lines in press. 5e..
If money makes money it is liable to
be indicted.
Penny concerts pay the performers
well in London. a
Twenty bird cages are hung in the In
diana state-house.
Not solitary person can now be found
who uses roller skates. aa
Paper she'll boats by the thousand are
now made and exported.
There are said to have been 926 earth
quakes since the year 1900.
elliott, the penman, gathered a col
lection Of forty.six violins. ai
The Jups are sending their gold coin
to this country to be reassayed,
Three firms of New York mohopolze
the importation of singing birds.
The Spanish Internationalists illum-
mate their discussions with pistol shots.
The average salary of minister in
Denmark is $3.50 year, and in Sweden
$40. a
The ice is still four feet thick and
very hard in Penobscott river, at Ban
gor, Me. !. as
Those who visit the aunts of dissipa-
ton often wind up at Their uncle's.-
Judy.
The Mexican Congress is substituting
an opera house for their own amuse-
ment.
Leibig thinks that America will pro-
duce better beer than Bavaria, before
long
Some one discovers that Mrs South
worth has killed over 200 people in her
novels. tH3
The minister who boosted that he
could preach without notes didn't mean
bank-notes.
The pelicans are leaving California
on account of the game laws-says a
grave reporter.
A Chinese paper has entered upon its
two thousandth volume. 1t has lost all
its original subscribers.
Nilsson has taken stock in fire insu-
rance company. and turns pale when
ever she hears an alarm.
The sheriff Of Portland has closed two
hundred and ffty-four saloons in three
days and doesn't know where to go him
self to get his bitters. uaa
Jefferson was 4 sensible man, for he
said he would rather have the news
papers without government than governs
ment without newspapers.
The Canadian ministry inform their
Parliament that Americans can't fish on
the coast this year, and further that the
Fenian damages have not been presented
at Geneva.
DR.. Holmes gives his estimate of three
professions in one sentence, thus: The
lawyers are the cleyerest men; the min
listers are the most learned; and the doc
tors are the most sensible"
Mr.. Holyoske says that plots were
charged to Mazzini, just as all sorts Of
humorous things are attributed to Sidney
Smith, and all kinds Of bright, keen,
two-edged satires are ascribed to Doug
lass Jerrold.
An old topper, being asked one day
why he persisted in drinking. replied:
Dry makes me drink, drink makes me
drunk, and drunk makes me dry again.
The explanation was considered quite
sufficient
Washington has romance Twas
some thirty years ago that pair Of
Down East lovers parted in wrath, and
took different paths. The other day
they met in the treasury department for
the first time since their separation, the
old fame revived, the luminosity van
ished. and a plain gold ring was ordered
forthwith.
1t was the fashion so far back as eighty
years ago for single ladies to wear the
bows in their bonnets on the left side Of
the head; married ladies wore them on
the right side; and widows they wore
large spread-out bow in front, on the top
oftheir bonnets, stretched cut on wires
to look the larger. t.ic n
An ancient volcanic crater was re-
Gently discovered in Java, seven thou
sand five hundred feet above the level Of
sea, four and half miles long by three
and half broad--one of the largest in
the world, and very deep, which has
level sandy floor that is driven about by
the wind in wavelets like water. The
origin of such body Of fine sand is the
problem Of the geOlogists ssul
A good story is told of St.
Louis nobby dry goods clerk who at
tended dance in the rural district e
few evenings since. He wore Chevoit