Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-28
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

lar each.
Illinois has four hundred Methodist
preachers. gaH
The Seine has not been so low as at
present for hundred years.
The last woman hung on Boston Com
mon was guilty Of robbery.
The name of new Odd Fellows lodge
at Newburyport is Quascacunquen.
A canal across Cape Cod is agitating
the minds of the Massachusetts, states
men. a
The Emperor Of Brazil has been the
largest buyer Of photographs ever known
in Paris.
An eccentric ghost in Sioux City sits
calmly on backet with his head under
his arm. aa
The old Tolman mansion in the Bos-
ton Highlands, built in 1850, is being re-
moved
There is food for royal reflection in
the fact that Signor Maccheroni has
started revolution in Sardinia.
George Eliot says: There are men
who don't mind being kicked blue II
they can only get talked about.
Many a soldier, with good record Tor
bravery, would have run away from his
first battle had he had the courage.
There are almost as many black men
as white in the Florida militia, the num-
bers being IL, O66 and ls, 297 respectively.
The Atlanta Constitution publishes a
poem, the first stanza of which COM
mences with this suggestive line;
The memory of thy laugh has kissed her.
back"
Hotels on the American plan are
becoming popular across the seas, while
hotels on the European plan are
growing in favor here.
A Des Moines damsel having offended
a young man at leap-year ball, he
to. send his big sister to de-
mand an apology.
At Plymouth, Mass, recently a law
suit was referred for decision to a
committee of four ladies and one gen
tleman. o
1t has been estimated that during the
late war between France and Germany
two hundred and fifty cartridges were
fred to each man struck.
There is one game of cards in which a
baby can play a great advantage, for, no
matter who deals, the little thing always
has its crib.
Don't put the opium where your
can get it, if she should
chance to take strychnine. The two
mixed are harmless.
At recent spiritual circle, the spirits
being asked if sickness was known in
he other world, promptly raped in
reply: Cholerain,phsntom."
A widow being cautioned by her min
ster about flirting, said that she knew it
vas wrong for unmarried ladies to firt,
,ut the Bible said widows mite"
Vicksburg is greatly alarmed at the
'apidity with which the Mississippi is
,utting through the peninsula oppQsite
hat city, threatening to leave it high
md dry in the interior.
Mrs. Dougherty, of Kentucky, who
gave q loaded pistol to her
,randchild and told him to shoot, was
urprised to find herself dead immedi-
.tely afterward.
There are twenty-four vacant cardi-
lals' hats in the Roman college, and the
New York Herald thinks that one or
more of them should be conferred on
American prelates.
Says an Illinois paper: " During the
old weather Of Thursday last the city
ditor of the Jacksonville Journal froze
lis ears to the depth of about eleven
inches from the tip"
The clipper-ship David Crockett ar
lived at San Francisco Saturday, after
passage of one hundred and three
avs from New York, the shortest since
hat Of ninety-six days, made by the
,eminole in 1865.
One of the editors Of the Cincinnati |
inquirer recently saved the cook Of a
anal boat from. drowning, and has re-
eived letter from the girls father, say
ng: "You saved the girl and she's
our'n." No cards.
A colony of Quakers from Iowa is to
ettle on the line Of the North Pacific |
abroad, in Otter Tail county. This
olony will, among other branches of in
ustry, establish an extensive nursery of
-uit and forest trees, if a suitable loca-
ion is found.
Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the late Presi-
eEt Lincoln, recently visited a public |
eance Of well-known medium. She
Tas not accompanied by any one, it is
tated, was closely yelled, as il to avoid !
ossible recognition, but the spirit Of
lincoln came and told her a story.
The elixir of life has not been dis
overed, but medical science has dis
losed that marriage has the effect to
'rolong life. The Medical Press and
circular says NJ Bertillon has made a
on this subject TO the