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

FACTS AND FANCAEo'
The best lessons a man ever has are
his mistakes.
Apprehension of evil is often worse
than evil itself.
The Smith family talk of bronze
statue to Pocahontas.
Two hundred Dubuque people nave
meningitis in their spines
wateryille, New York, is the great hop
center of this country. al
Although Colfax has stopped smoking
he likes puff" as well as ever. a
There is intense suffering out West
from the effects of cold weather.
Rev. Morgan Dix metaphoricaily
punches Tiltons free-love head.
Sioux City Iowa, prisoners are allowed
to 60 rabbit hunting at intervals. aql
Why is U the gayest letter in the al
phabet2 Because it is always in fun.
A delicate parcel to be sent by rail-A
young lady wrapped upin herself.
1t is singular that the grave part In
Hamlet is an excessive humorous jest &
West Virginia has among its corpora
tons the Pigs Ear Oil Company.
An old lady at Oswego was run over
by a boy with hand sled, and killed.
Why is a spider good correspondent
Because he drops a line by every post.
The New York snobs are preparing to
dance attendance on the japanese
princes.
Hamlet is the name of an Alabama
colored Ku-Klux. he is on trial tor
making POlonius of lone traveller.
Woodbine is the latest. 1t is used
when people depart with other people $
wives.
In Virginia, recently, prisoner who
had been dead three months was granted
q pardon.
Awriter in the Star of the West speaks
Of the Uniyersalist as the great church
of the future.
We hate some persons because we do
not know them, and we will not know
them because we hate them.
The Memnonites have had an exist
ence as church in this country for one
hundred and fifty years.
A lady advertises herself as a teacher
for persons of newly acquired wealth
and deficient education"
A bookseller in Portland named Hall
L. Davis does not wish English oockneys
to take liberties with his name.
A man with a he'd phull ov branes kan
afford to be kareless once in while, for
even hiz blunders are brilliant.
Such is the dread of smallpox at the
West that one of the papers there sug-
gests that the State arms be yaccinated.
The cold is SO great in Italy this win
Ter that there has been skating at Flor
snce and Naples, for the first time in
many years.
Rosa Bonheur has incurred the dis
pleasure of the French newspapers for
having painted the war-horse of the En-
peror of Germany. zoe
A man out West has just returned
from an Indiana eamp-meeting. He
says that the right spirit preyailed-he
tasted it out Of black jug.
Germany has got the monumental fe-
ver-no less than thirty-nine monuT
ments being nearly finished for the diff
Cerent cities Of Fatherland.
Bulwer Lytton does not grow hand
somer with advancing age. A writer
compares him to an antediluvian hawk,
With sharp beak, bony brow, and cold,
eyes,
The Roman Catholic clergy of London
have announced to their Aocks that they
will not attend the funeral Of any per
son over whose body wake has been
held.
The African Colonization Society
claims that It is doing heavier business
n the negroexportiug line than ever
before. 1t has shipped 1883 to Liberia
since the war.
An Indiana paper reports the case OF
J cat which suffers from marked par
oxysms Of feyers and ague. A good
lose of canine would probably cure
her. Whine and bark, you know.
Even the greatest actions Of a eele-
grated person labor under this disadyan-
age, that, however surprising and ex-
they may be, they are no
more than vbatare expected from him.
The downtrodden monarchies ndst
envy the blessings of liberty enjoyed by
republican France. Not a telegram can
60 into a French paper until it has
passed the rigid seratiny Of the govern
ment censor