Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-23
FACTS AND rANCIEs.


that destroyed $50 hogs,
Maggie Mitchell is offered s2S0o il
gold per week, by San Francisco man
ager.
Why do carpenters believe that there
is no such thing as stene2 They nevel
saw it,
j A Texas grazing pasture contains
lis, 900 acres, Room enough we should
think.
The man who carried out his moral
resolutions did not bring them back
again.
Il A farce called Consequential Damages
lis having a great run at London
theatsr.
A Keokuk young woman who went to
see game of base ball now sweeps the
field with one eye.
Spank this boy and send him home,
were the words pinned TO lost boy
taken up in Detroit the other day.
A little child once defined bank bills
and currency change as make-belieye
money" Much truth in few words.
Subscriptions to the amount of 300,-
900 francs have been raised in Paris for
the sufferers by the eruption of Vesuvius.
The property of the late Erastus Corn
ing amounted to $lO,OO0,000; $4,000
worth of stamps we're affixed to his will.
Evansville lind burglars have no
more idea of the Eternal fitness Of
things than to operate on commercial
colleges. a3
Cadet Smith, the colored boy whose
presence at West Point caused at first
some trouble, now ranks in the first third
of his class.
Two million dollars worth Of ele-
plants and other insects which 90 70
make up menagerie are walking around
in the States this year.
The Mormons have lately been Wis
tied in Utah by some very severe storms
Of rain, hail and wind, damaging the
early crops considerably.
Respectable people in London send
letters in hosts beseeching admission to
witness the logging at Newgate.- Bos-
ton Trareller.
Ruskin declares that letters written to
him must be plain, brief, and ask no
favors, for am old, tired and lima
tured," he says dolefully.
Mr.. Haynau, of Austria, who a few
years ago acquired some reputation as
a butcher, is now travelling in the Indi-
ana papers as Haznau."
North Cardinals oldest is los. He
remembers the prehistoric events of the
country, and has eight children, the old
est of whom is 81 and the baby CT.
To grow rich, earn money fairly, spend
less thsA you earn, and hold on to the
difference. The FIRST takes muscle, the
second self-control, the third brains.
Isaac Speyer, of New York, poisoned
himself because his father, who is old
and wealthy, married maiden poor but
pretty, without his sons consent.
Miss Eyre, Of Philadelphia, whose ro-
mantle attachment for Colonel Downing,
the Cherokee Chief, was last fall re-
warded by marriage with him, has re-
Gently died.
A citizen of GospOrt, Ind, the other
night, mistook his wife's yeast bottle for
his favorite brown jug, and took long
pull and strong pull therefrom. he
is now regarded as rising man.
A college student, being examined in
Locke, where he speaks of our relations
to the Deity, was asked, What rela-
tons do we most neglect?" He an
swered with the utmost simplicity, Poor
relations, sir"
The first immigrant from Greenland
ever known arrived in New York from
Halifax last week. The climate being
to him oppressive he informed Scan
dinavian acquaintance that he should go
back at the FIRST chance.
One Of Baltimore loveliest bellies has
made runaway match, TO the intense
delight of the gossipers. A sympathizing
chronicler says that the bride left be-
hind disconsolate little poodle to
mourn the pangs of unrequited love"
Henry Ward Beecher indorses Oar
win, and remarks that he would just as
lief spring from monkey as from some
men he knows Of. Laughter. He wants
to know where be is going to, and
doesn't care where he came from. Zap
plause.
The counsel for Mrs. Laura Fair are
anxious to obtain some veri6cation Of
the story in Eastern journals that their
client has cleared a large fortune. more
or less, by stock speeulstions since her
Incarceration. = San Francisco BGlte-
tin.
A lady correspondent Of the San Fran
cisco Cali, writing on earthquakes, thinks
that heterogeneous parallexes pris-
matieally eonverging are not due to the
silicious introduetions Of photospherical