Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

: The crate game now-poker'
Election fruit-the candy date.
Always on the spot-detectives.
The best frontispiece-an honest face
The question of the hour--what time
is it2
1 What tree bears the most fruit to mar
ket2 Axletree.
| Query for spiritualists--Are low spirits
less than medium sighsa
The only and original exile of Fri
nobody but Jay Gould.
A Des Moines milkman drives cream
horses. 1t is all on the horses.
When candidate declines to stand
does he mean that he will run7
The King of Siam has adopted the
civilized habit of wearing shirts.
A Wisconsin editor speaks of wind
which "just sat on its hind legs and
howled."
Science shows very clearly that man
has lived upon this earth for more than
six thousand years.
Mr.. Sens, Of Wisconsin, hanged him
self from remorse. His Sens-tiveness
was too high-strung.
A Missouri husband obtained divorce
from his wife because she insisted on
naming the baby Forney.
An Evansville family. nearly got up a
corner in funerals by accidentally mix
ing arsenic with their plum cake.
Rumor says that George Sand, whose
past and young life was so notorious,
has abjured her in6del opinions, and has
become sincere and devout Catholic.
The Texas papers get up murder
items so easy, and in such abundance,
that one dislikes to open such ex-
changes.
A Western girl, after giving her lover
a hasty smack, exclaimed: Dog my
cats, if yon hain't been taking rye, old
boss.
A Western farmer says that he
doesn't want any railroad shares-it's as
much as be can do to run thirty-eight
plow-shares.
A celebrated clergyman recently said
that he had found more good in bad
people, and more bad in good people,
than he ever expected.
A leap-year young lady in Geneva,
who was about to propose, changed her
mind when she found that the object of
her attention did not understand house
work.
Thare amt but phew kan stick a
white handkerchief into the brest pocket
ov their overcoat without letting little
of it stick out-just by aksident.-JOsh
Billings.
The Hon. Mr.. O'Baldwin, P. R., puts
on airs since he has served term in the
Massachusetts State prison, and alludes
to the Hon. James Mace as the "dross
of the dregs of society"
The bayonet derives its name from the
place where it was invented, Bayonne,
in France, and was first used in battles
as weapon by the French in the year
1903, and soon became universal.
The practice Of insurance is of great
antiquity and was known in the time of
Claudius Cesar, A. D., 40. 1t is certain
that assurance Of ships at sea was prac-
ticed as early as the year 45 A. d.
Calico, the we'll known cotton cloth, is
named from Calicot, city in India,
from whence it FIRST came. Calico was
not known in England at all until as
late as the year 1881.
Among the Romans all men of full
age we're Obliged to marry, and it is even
modern law of England which inhicts
fine upon all old bachelors in the
kingdom, Of twenty-five years and over.
The first book ever printed was the
book of Psalms, by Faust and Sch@fer,
A. D., l457. 1t was printed on one side
only OF the leaves, after which they
were IN the binding pasted back to back.
De Quincy mentions chapter in Won
Trails work on Iceland, which is en-
titled Concerning the Snakes of Ice
land" The entire chapter consists of
these six words: There are no snakes
in Iceland"
A learned and entertaining book up
on blondes has appeared in Paris. 1t
traces the origin and history of the pas
sion for light hair, which is shown to be
away back in the medieval times and
among the women Of Italy.
The Emperor William of Germany
has ninety-two orders and decorations.
If be should wear them all at one time
their weight would be fifteen pounds.
The Emperor Francis Joseph Of Austria
comes next. He has seventy orders,
weighing, in the aggregate, thirteen
pounds and half
A correspondent Of contemporary
has copied the following epitaph, to be
seen in the churcbyard at Malaga;
Here lies Juan Perez, who was good
father, good son and good husband.