Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-19
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

band.
Peruvian railways have ladies smoking
cars.
Hong-Kong has sent 1924 for the re-
lief of Chicago
Duluth, Wis, is so healthy that 1t
hasn't got cemetery
California ladies and lassies are going
crazy over wild flowers.
A Harvard student defines Irritation
to be attention without intention.
California claims to be able to support
| 80, 600, 900 people within her own borders.
Whaling on the Lower California coast
is reported TO be in hourishing con-
dition.
1t is said that the snow blockade has
cost the Pacific railroad company $685.
900 day.
A Western bachelor editor inserts
marriages under Melancholy Acct
dents"
The Empire of Japan contains about
as many inhabitants as the United
States
Washington county, Georgia. with a
population of six thousand, does not owe
cent, and has not prisoner in Jail.
Horse-raisers say that few carrots
given daily to horse will render his
coat beautifully sleek and glossy.
Indiana girls give the name of boot
stacks to the backward and beshful
young men who fail to make themselves
agreeable at social gatherings.
The Natchez (Miss.) Democrat says
that Natchez is the only city in the world
which has nearly ten thousand inhabi-
tants and not single hotel.
A Minnesota paper prints list of one
hundred and three bachelors who adver-
tise themselves to be disposed of to the
most attractive bidder.
Some young men prefer blue-eyed
maidens, and others prefer dark-eyed
ones; but of late years the mon-eyed
girls have had the call over all others.
Good morning gentlemen" says
brusque colporteur on entering a rail
way car. No one responded. Beg
pardon if / have said too much. with
draw the last expression"
The good people of Manitowoc, Wis
cousin. had grand celebration Of the
completion of their dry dock, and woke
up next morning to find the dock had
caved in entirely.
There are now in Rome twenty-five
pubic schools, and an aggregate atten-
dance of six thousand 1t is be: :, year
since no public school was to be found
in the Eternal City.
| kant see what women wants any
more rights for; she beat the first
man born into the world out Of ded
sure thing, and she kan beat the last one
with the same kards,
allus did admire the malice Of
mule. II freak of fortune had made
me az unfortunate az the mule IL among
animiIs, / would begin to let drive a
mile and n half off
It's unkind in people who live in the
sunny South to be sendingto their North
ern friends orange blossoms in letters.
It's not only unkind but exasperating to /
those who receive them.
While some localities boast of spring |
harbingers, such as robins, blue-birds,
and grasshoppers, Quincy brags of
cowslip last week. The COW slipped off
The wharf into the water.
A Western critic acutely observes that |
the same amount Of energy and culture {
hat Wehli lavishes upon piano would I
wiring the soul Of music from shovel |
and tongs, or a pair of old-fashioned
brass-mounted andirons." I
Mr.. William R. Morse, Of Caribou.
Maine, interfered in an ox.fght. When
be came down the other one tramped on
him. When his ribs knit be will be '
about again, but he will not mix in any
more ox-fghts.
Harry" Your dawg is VERY thin, ]
William" William" Heis very bad
but when he dies am going to stuff
him, Harry Harry (insinuatingly)-
Hadn't you better stuff him before he
dies2"
Coun. Moltke sent the following pa
triotic sentiment to some one in Monaco,
who applied for his autograph; "A ma
ton is ouly free when it has become
powerful through unity, and is able to
maintain its independence.
A Charleston paper says that an old
colored lady Of South Carolina, wearing ,
a red turban, was shot at by mistake for
a robin by Mr.. Pinekney. She there ,
upon aceosted him with o brick. and ,
gave him pink eye.
A Western exchange calls Mr. Jay
Gould the little black eagle Of railroad
jobbers." There ia an spposiieuess in
this characteristic Of the Western style,
for it is natural enough for sn eagle to
have its e(y)rie.