Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-15
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


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A poor trough for a hungry pig-th
! trough of the sea.
The latest mad dog dodge out West
to wear length Of stove pipe.
The best champagne in the market
said to be made out Of tomatoes.
All respectable families in Portlan'
eat baked beans on Sunday morRing.
General Joseph e. Johnston is 10 b
made President of the Georgia Militar.
Institute.
The average depth of the Atlantic
ocean is three miles; that Of the Pacific
four miles.
Where ought we always to find thu
milk of human kindness2 In the pail
Of the church.
John Wesley, the celebrated founder
of Methodism, was born at Epworth, in
Lincolnshire, June II, l7O3,
A Detroit bridegroom was so affected
by the marriage ceremony, that he burst
into violent 6t of nose.bleeding.
DR.. Logan, of the Missouri Legisla'
ture, recently made four hours speech
on dogs.-IndianapOlis Journal.
Miss Nary Somerville, the astronomer
is spending the winter at Nice. She has
just passed her ninety-6rst birthday.
A resident Of Indiana is reported to
have had seven wives, all named Mary.
Like Byron, he had "a fondness for the
name of Mary"
Zone hundred young men are want
ed in Erie, 'to learn to play the accor-
deou," so says an advertisement in one
Of the papers.
A gushing young woman has been
shipping a piece of leather off one Of
Alexis ducal trunks. She ought to
have the whole strap
The nitro glycerine works at Mays
vile, KY, will be started this week, and
the inhabitants are anticipating speedy
rise in personal property.
A Chelsea Massachusetts, burglars
life was recently saved by Bible car
ried in his pocket, which received the
bullet from a policeman's revolver.
A fourth Atlantic cable is seriously
proposed. This new bond ought to Sc
cure an ame-cable adjustment of our
troubles with England.
A man out West was offered plate
of maccaroni soup, but declined it, de-
claring that they couldn't play off any
billed pipe stems ON him"
1t is said to be curious fact that peo-
pie who deal in imported goods are usu-
ally free traders, whilst dealers in do
mestic goods generally are protection
lists.
There has never been as much lumber
ing done on the upper Mississippi as
during the past winter, and the river
will be crowded with logs and drivers
all summer.
A Danbury man makes a regular prac-
tice Of kindling his fires with kerosene.
If his wife's father owned an entire
grave yard he couldn't be any more
In consequence Of the crowded condi-
ton Of its columns, the Boston Traveller
thus condenses: Joseph McElwell, Of
rural New York, coasted into the well.
Etat I.
An eminent English physician, after
a full and careful examination, thinks
that in reality no more people 60 mad
now, in proportion to the population,
than formerly.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says: There
are good many real miseries in life
that we cannot help smiling at, but they
are the smiles that make wrinkles and
not dimples"
Riel, the Emancipator of Manitoba,
has arrived at St. Paul by forced marches,
bringing with him his entire command,
consisting Of two French halfbreeds and
an Indian.
The failure of Augustus Day is an
nouneed. Day ia a very unfortunate
chap, but he should be used to failures
by this time. Day breaks" every
you know.
The New York Mail learns that a
large party of Americans are travelling
through Egypt and the Holy Land with
guides, camels dronedaries and all the
desert paraphernalia.
All the insignia of the order Of St.
Andrew, Alexander Neysky, and the
White Eagle, valued at many millions,
have been stolen from the Imperial Ar
tillery Museum at St. Petersburg.
The fight OF time ct Bangor, Ne, is
by the doves that spend their
nights perched upon the hands Of tho
city clock, and by their weight stop the
motion Of the machinery within.
The maximum money value Of human
life has been determined BY an act Of
the Ohio Legislature fixing $4,000 as
the largest sum that may .e demanded
from railway company for killing any