Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-11
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Eberlord Frederick Walchez, who built
Boston's "big organ and a great many
others, died in Wurtemburg recently.
The Worcester Evening Gazette is
glad that nothing was burned at Boston
that can by any possibility be melted
into bells.
A Milwaukee gentleman swallowed a
corkscrew Outing moment OF excite
ment on election night, and now seeks
for aid.
A faithful minister prayed on thanks
giving day for the absent members who
we're Frustrated on beds of sickness and
chairs Of wellness.
A Cincinnati editor asks, Are we fire.
proof" Probably he is; but we should
greatly dislike to see him put lighted
match to that nose.
One day when Mrs. Darlington heard
the minister say there would be nave
in the new church, she observed that
she knew we'll whe the party was. W
The first Russian newspaper was pub
lished in 1903. Peter the Great not
only took part personally in its editorial
composition, but also in correcting
proofs. ao,-'
Yeast cans full of diamonds are
casually mentioned by the San Diego
World, from which we conclude that
there is to be rise in the value Of the
precious stone.
Mrs. Partington has been reading the
Health Officers weekly reports, and
thinks total must be an awful malig-
uant disease, since as many die of it as
of all the rest put together. D.
Potatoes are going up in price. We
regret this move, especially as this isn't
the week our engraver has the tremeus,
and consequently we cannot give map
of the disaster. Ddnbaay Ners.
The following announcement appeared
recently in an English paper: St
Jalnes's Church-0n Sunday next the
afternoon service will commence at half
past three, and continue until further
notice.
At an English funeral, the other day,
one of the six bearers slipped and fell;
the others dropped the coffin and fell
upon the PROSTATE man in such a man
ner as to inAict injuries of which be died
in less than q week.
Palatka, Ala, tells of negro man
who has made nine bales Sea Island cot
ton, and one hundred and fifty bushels
of corn. he bought his land on credit,
has paid for it, and is now enjoying
handsome competency.
Children play horse" with great at
tention to details. One very young wo-
man up town cut up her mothers toilet
cushion, ruined carpet and nearly
scalded confding younger brother to
death, treating him with a bran mash
for play emizootic."
The Canadian way of measuring tree
is said to be as certain as it is grotesque.
You walk from the tree, looking at it
from time to time between your knees.
When you are able to see the top in this
way, your distance from the root of the
tree equals its hight.
The Methodists of Bay View Cecil
county, Nd, have determined to build a
new church, but being scrupulous as to
the manner the money is to be raised for
the purpose, the building committee has
adopted the following; Resolved, That
in building this church we make use Of
no means which have the least semblance
of gambling, or chance work Of any kind
whatever"
The Savannah News says there is a
little boy in Macon who can stand on
the sole of his head twenty minutes
without his liver turning over. This is
because he shot his grandmother in the
left spectacle with an Alabama sling.
His father sailed him down so that he
can't take his ease in the usual direc-
ton, and he gets up on his head TO rest
himself.
Joseph Jefferson is still at his home in
Hohokus, manufacturing village in
Bergen country, Nes Jersey, on the
Erie railway, twenty-five miles from
New York. Jelferson's eyes, which were
thought to have quite recovered, do not
improve, and some Of the oculists who
have attended him have very little hopes
of his getting any better. The medical
gentlemen even have fears that the com.
edian's brain is affected, and that he
will never be in condition warranting
his return to the stage.
John Ruskin, in recent letter, thus
turns critic on himself: 81 was obliged
to write too young, when l only knew
halftruths, and was eager to set them
forth by what / thought fine words.
People used to call me a good writer
then, now they say can't write at all
because, for instance, if ! think any
bOdy's house is on ere, / only say, Sir,
your house is on fire.; whereas formerly
used to say, Sir, the abode in which
you probably passed the delightful days
Of your youth is in a state Of inAamuial
ton, and everybody need To ike the