Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-21
FACTS AND FASoIEs.

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A negro doctor Of Detroit announces
that he will not attend white people.
A California writer has found a race
of Indians who live without sleeping.
Twenty thousand lawless men &c
armed in New York, Recorder Hacketi
says.
Hammocks are coming into general
use in New York houses, instead Of
beds.
Mr.. Tyler was upset on the Mississippi
and nearly drowned. Tip canoe and
Tyler too.
Mr.. Bryant was surprised to learn in
Mexico that three girls to one boy is the
ratio of births in that country.
Lorenzo Papanti, an Italian dancing
master, died in Boston recently. Natu-
rally enough, he was born in Leghorn.
Alas there are two hundred and sew
enty-fve games of base ball to be played
this year for the championship.
The Woodruff party propose to hire
grand house, issue bonds to the amount
of 100000 and stump the Union.
H. G. is a vegetarian. Being asked
what would restore a fading mustache to
its original color, he briefly responded:
Diet"
A poet in Pittsbarg has sent poem
to local paper, in which he alludes to
the dew as the Precipitation of the
moon.
.Placard for a smoking car: " If pas
sengers expect-to-rate as gentlemen,
they must not expectorate upon the
floor"
Monroe, Ind, boasts of youth en-
tirely destitute of beard who weighs
SOs. What would he weigh if he had
beard2
Asiatic cholera is said to have broken
out in Kamionck, in Poland, and twenty
one deaths from the epidemic took place
in nine days.
The dandy element seems to pervade
all nature. Even among flowers, which
are emblems of modesty, we have the
dande-lion.
A young impious sportsman was.
caught in Rochester, N. Y, last Sunday,
angling with two rods for greenbacks
in church contribution box.
Eggs specifically, are yet fair to look
at, but we would advise you to order
them fried, or poached on toast, as you
cannot safely gamble on their interior
integrity.
A Chicago reporter suggests that there
will be great demand for mutton in
Boston during the Jubilee Think, says
he, of twenty thousand people singing in
chorus: "All we, like sheep"
A Topeka paper says venerable
LIE" stalked into Marysville the other
day, with greasy placard attached to
his breast, on which was inscribed, " A
poor widow with eight email children.
How the fashions changel Nova
days, if one were going to party, col
ored gloves would be out of taste;
whereas, in the days of Jacob, his
black and ring -streaked kids were parti- I
colored.
The people of Wyoming don't know
whether to call their female judge a jus
tice Of the peace, or a justice of the
pieces. That can easily be decided
after it is seen whether she makes peace
or pieces.
An editor, who has been soliciting
" short articles from the subscribers to
his paper, lately received baby under
garment, somewhat dilapidated, but
short enough doubtless to meet all re-
quirements.
Whatever God has made is perfect"
said Western preacher. What do
you think of me?' said a hunehback,
rising and exhibiting his own deformity. |
" Why, that you are as perfect bunch
back as | ever saw"
There is not one editor among the
three hundred convicts in the Kansas
peniteutiary, but there are thirty-five
" honest farmers and one lawyer
There has been doctor, but now there
is no physician there"
A Missouri legislator clinched an ar
gument against dogs the other day by |
swearing that the money expended in
81 600, 900 dogs in the United |
States would buy l,34l, 100000 whisky |
cocktails every year.
An archaeological correspondent adj
duees as evidence Of the antiquity of the
game of euehre the passage in the New
Testament which relates how the priest
and the Levite passed and the good
Samaritan assisted +"
A Wisconsin man drew n girl toward
him and kissed her. At the same mo-
ment beam fell from the ceiling on the
spot where she had been sitting. Since
then, Wisconsin girls have beams in
their eyes quite generally.
The tree toad now pipes his warning