Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-30
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Peter to Pho Mono is two hundred and
fifty-seven.
Three Arabs are bricklaying in Massa-
chusetts.
Dying Frenchmen make wills be-
queathing their sins to Prussia. as
Seven.feet black snakes bask in the
sunshine of Detroit door-steps.
\ Agassiz requires us to believe that the
primitive oyster was foot long.
The Princess Imperial of Germany,
who recently gave birth to a daughter,
has seven children-three sons and four
daughters.
The old whipping;po in the Virginia
penitentiary has just been sold for 1888,
the money TO be expended in the distri-
button of tracts.
A Western preacher, just returned
from begging expedition to the East
thinks that while martyrs will have the
highest places in Heaven, next to them
will come the beggars.
A tremendous hailstorm, of ten min
utes duration, devastated the west end
of Prague on the oath ultimo. Some oi
the hailstones weighed three ounces
the average being the size of filbert.
William II. .Milburn, the blind preacher
has Just obtained divorce from his wife
on the ground of desertion, they having
been separated several years. She was
formerly beautiful belle of Baltimore
Madame Thiers has for sometime been
persevering in crusade against CHG
mons, and now Queen Victoria and the
Princess of Wales have discarded them
also. Down with the chignonsl Roy
atty has decreed.
An officer of the law in Burlington,
Iowa, had writ of attachment on tel
egraph office. He was attaching every
thing he could lay his hands on, includ'
ing the wires, when he received shock
that won't be soon forgotten.
The city editor of the Jacksonville
Journal, in writing an obituary of a
highly respectable citizen, says: He
has gone to that undiscovered burn. "
That being the place, we believe, whence
tits said no traveller has ever returned.
"Sunset Cox" closed a recent lecture
on American Humor" by saying it
lacked refinement, and should be pruned.
He advocated the gathering of the roses
of hilarity, but with a gentle grasp that
will not destroy the plant.
A clergyman, having made several at
tempts to reform a proaigate, was at
length repulsed with, 1t is all in vain,
Doctor; you cannot get me to change
my religion. 81 do not want that"
replied the good man, / wish religion
to change you"
The thunder storm in London on
Tuesday appears to have been more
playful than mischievous. The wild
lightning visited its tame and domesti-
Gated brother ia the telegraph wires, and
romped about after somewhat bolster
GUS fashion.
George W. Maley, famous Methodist
preacher of Kentucky, in addressing
himself especially to the cOlored people
of his congregation, cried out; You,
my dear black brethren. God bless your
black, greasy hides, when you get to
heaven you will be jaPanned all over
with glory"
The railroad tunnel under the Detroit
river is going on we'll IL advances at
the rate Of Eve feet in twenty-four hours,
the masonry being carried forward as
fast as the excavation. The bottom of
the tunnel is lis feet below the waters
edge.
In the world where Martin FaFquhar
Tupper passed to the thirty-seyenth edi-
tion,' said Thackeray, in company Of
authors. let us all think small beer Of
ourselves" "'Small beer was comph-
mentary since supper vas only milk and
water. Thirty-seven editions " set in a
cool. dry place. would not raise cream