Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-22
FACTS AND FAEcIEs.
Verdi was the son Of a tinsmith.


Dirt, some one defines as merely
matter out of its proper place.
Berlin, Prussia, has consented unto a
genuine American base ball club.
A rich Hamburg merchant is having
a statue of Washington sculped for him.
A rattlesnake informally adjourned a
colored radical meeting at Mobile, re-
Gently.
Another British iron-clad has been
ashore. This makes six within the last
few months.
Some of the sentimental Evansvillians
want to change the name of their town
to Lamasco.
Sleeve-buttons from California, orna-
mented with fish eyes, are worn by Hi
nois swells.
Fifty women are confined in the Louis
vile workhouse, having been convicted
OF being common scolus'
The widow Of the late Earl Mayo has
been appointed to an honorary post in
Queen Victoria's household.
The Benton, Ind, Jail being somewhat
insecure, is to have new board fence
and a coat of whitewash.
The editors and girls are both right
they say the mails are irregular, only the
girls don't spell it that way.
Winnie Ream is about to follow the
example of Byron and Don Piatt, and
shed silent volume of poems.
A cow in Dover, Tenn, excites the
envy of all her bovine companions in
hy-time. She has two tails.
The upper Mississippi has been closed
the past winter l22 days-a longer period
than during any season since lS4l.
A Radical convention was recently
held at Macon, Ga. That same night
twenty-five hogs we're stolen there.
Won Moltke's engineers are preparing
detailed topographic plans of the battle
fields of Spicheren, Worth and Metz.
The new patent article called "nur-
sery gate has been defined as gate to
restrain children who are beginning to
have gate of their own.
Strips of looking glass introduced into
the roofs of the street lamps in London
cause them to give three times as much
light as the ordinary lamp.
A New Orleans thief lately sent back
the stolen clothes of an understood citi-
zen with a note saying that he would
wait for his victim to grow.
New Jersey, which does more hanging
and has more hanging to do than any
other State in the Union, will hang
woman on the 18th of july
A woman performing on tight-rope,
in an English theater, fell forty feet into
the pit, upon the head of its occupants,
without any serious injury to- herself or
them.
A Buffalo man who found small fish
in the milk supplied him by a farmer,
has begun a lawsuit to recover a portion
of the money he paid the honest agl.i-
culturist.
1t has been remarked that in New
York the conductors OF the horse-cars
on the six cent lines refuse TO associate
with their professional brethren on the
FIVE cent lines.
A proud father in England lately ex-
planned to a school teac her as follows
What accounts for john being such
bad scholar is that he's my son by my
wife's first husband"
Miss Cinnie Rushmore is preparing a
captivating book on the "Vagal.ies of
Vassar," which VIII recount in a spirited
style the adventures of the sweet girl
graduates of the college.
"All Flesh is Grass-Halfa ton Of 1t
Gone to the Grave" is the feeling in
which the Cincinnati Enquirer heads
notice Of the death of Mrs. Amelia
Brooks, who weighed over 800 pounds.
In Rome they have a perambulating
steam kitchen for cooking for the poor.
1t will cook for fifteen hundred persons
a dinner in less than an hour and half, |
and at the very modest price of a sous
a plate.
An inebriated Democrat was dining
at the Ives House the other day. Beef,
pork, mutton, veal or chicken" said the
polite waiter. g don't care a d."
was the reply; anything to beat Grant"
-Seddlid Times.
If you do not know what the words
hard work" mean, stand upon the
street these bright spring aftern oons,
and see husbands trying to get their
wives to walk rapidly by the windows of
the millinery stores.
Touching epitaph on a Burlington.
Iowa, tomb stone:
Beneath this stone our baby Laws
=, lie neither cries nor hOllers:
ne hyed Just one and twenty days,
And cost Us forty dollars.
Sarah Winnemucea, Queen of the
Pi-Utes, has married young Lienten-
~ Co1t II.