Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

horse in Ujiji.
A beautiful woman, said Fontenelle,
the purgatory of the purse and the para
disc of the eye.
A Frenchman who accompanied Ma
poleon to Moscow is still boarding il
Muscatine, Iowa.
A load of brick passed over an low
boy, last week, without hurting him. Fl
was under bridge.
An Iowa lady has invented an appa
ratus for raising bread, which will do tn
lob in five minutes.
An owl lately dashed into the hea'
light of night train on the air lin
railroad in Connecticut.
New Jersey is proud of woman
weighing two hundred and seventy-tw'
pounds in her neck ribbon.
An old American lady of eighty hai
Just returned to Paris after having beer
on fishing tour to Norway.
Louis Napoleon has been sued on &c
count of Julius Caesar" whose life h
is responsible for. The publishers o
that life have sued him.
A sect recently organized, called the
New Shakers, who hop and dance unit
they swoon away. are now enliveninl
religious circles in London.
A barrel of dried apples exploded in &
St. Louis store the other day, and the
clerk ran bleeding from the building
crying out that he had been shot
What relation does bread sustain to an
inventionH Answer: A maternal rela
ton; for bread is necessity, and me
cessity is the mother ofinvention,' Next
A young Connecticut lady was lately
taken back when her swain got upon his
knees before her and read declaration
of love which he had nicely written off
An Illinois boy ten years old was
recently bitten six times by a rattle
snake. In outrageous defiance of all
the prophecies of the occasion, he still
lives.
A machine has recently been invented
BY citizen of New Haven, Conn, fol
printing in colored and gilt enamels or
china and pottery, which, it is claimed
will greatly reduce the cost of the pro
cess.
The Princess Salm-Salm has received
from the Empress Of Germany a magni
fcent Testament valued at $1,000. a
copy. Of the Psalm-Psalms of David
would have been q more appropriate
present World.
The prejudice against color still I'm
gers even in the heart Of New England
A New Hampshire cat lately had two
kittens, one white and the other black
and she deliberately drowned her col
ored offspring and devoted her sole at
tention to the survivor. The unfelin'
creature!
A French Crispin, who has been on
Of sight for 6fty-one years, now writes
to President Theirs: In 1912 / made
you pair of bootsi you expressed your
self pleased with them May ! ask o
you, therefore, the privilege of furnish
ing the army with boots2 Your devoted
subject-D."
A prominent physician declares tina
beating the refractory schoolboy on thu
head is often highly injurious to thu
boys health. The whackers Of the pub
lie schools should make a note Of this
and hereafter assail the offending pupi
only on the parts provided by nature 70
the reception Of aagellation.- Courier
Journal.
During the recent heated term in NeV
York horse overcome by the heat fel
dead in the street. The carcass was al
lowed to remain during the night, ant
on the following morning was foun'
plastered over by an enterprising bill
poster, with placards setting forth tn
excellence Of certain kind of umbrella
The general verdict Of the militar
powers Of Europe, with regard to tn
efficacy Of the mitrailleuse, is that tn
weapon is only useful for defending mai
now passages, where a concentrated FIR
is needed. Russia, however, still az
pears TO have faith in them, as the Rui
sian army has been provided with fiftee
batteries Of Gatlins.
A car in which we're a bright littl
maiden and her mother came rushin
into the Central Depot the other day
and there engines we're footing hid,
ously, haekmen:hOwling, and small boy
of a dirty and fendish aspect wer
shouting Morning papersp Is it an
wonder that the little girl cuddled up {
her mother and inquired with terrific
ave. Mamma is this h.n9n. ".