Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-19
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

RULERS OF ENGLAND.
First, William the Norman,
Then William his SON;
Henry, Stephen and Henry,
Then Richard and John.
Mkt, Henry the Third,
Edwards one. two and three;
And again after Richard
Three Henrys we see
Two Edwards. third Richard,
If rig. tly guess;
Two Henrys, sixth Edward,
Queen Mary. Queen Bess;
Then jamie the ScOtchman,
Then Charles. whom they slew,
Yet received, after Cromwell,
Another Charles too.
Next Jamie the Second
Assembled the throne;
Then GOOD William and Mary
Together came on;
Then Anne. Georges four,
And fourth William all passed.
And Victoria came
Pray God she's the last.
Boston boarding houses serve up Dolly
Warden hash.
West Tennessee farmers are six weeks
behind in their blowing.
New York bellies promenade with the
parasol hitched to the belt.
We learn from most of our exchanges
that their adyersaries are squirming.
Daring street outrages enliven the
local columns of the Chicago papers.
Aman in New York recently bled to
death after having FIVE teeth extracted
They have a machine in Indianapolis
that turns out nine flower pots in min
ute.
Dan Rice has been sold out by the
sheriff. He is now considered a broken
tumbler."
Punch once called the victims Of the
Southampton railroad accident broken
English.
Relic-mongers are in pickle over
an earthern jar which came over in the
May and now turns up in Ala
bama.
A lady widowed by the Chicago con-
Aagratior has been recently remarked.
Her second husband calls her his relic
of the great fire.
The latest affair Of honor in New Or
leans was between two colored gentle
men. The son of the internal revenue
assessor winged his adversary.
To shoemakers: The population Of
England increases one thousand Soles
per day .-Ereh0Rge. But, alas in
life rough path how soon pegged out "
Gentlemen who admire black eyes in
their wives, are informed that they can
furnish them with that ornament in Con-
necticut at cost Of five dollars per eye.
Ia Louisiana they have new appa-
rstus, which evolves ten gallons Of pure
turpentine, eighty gallons Of pitch and
sope other products from half a cord Of
wood.
San Francisco people make use Of
earthquake gauges which tell them in
the. morning the duration and direc-
ton Of the shock occurring during the
night
1t is mentioned as humiliating cir
cumstance that Juarez has twelve States
ahdeF srhartial law, while Grant has
one. But it will be better before cleo
ton.
A broken-hearted widower in Indian
apolis has erected pine-slab over biz
wife's grave, and presented fine piano
to the -girLwho was kind to him during
his affiietion.
Rock Island boasts of a COW that re
Gently slid forty feet down a bluff, anC
fslftliirts feet over a precipice into tn,
river, from whence she walked of as i
nothing had happened
New York- clubs are agitating thu
question or admitting ladies. If i
we're done when It's done, then twer,
well it we're done quickly" But will tn
agitauDE among the laie inehi"ete Neoe
thel2 80 .,g
S. Barring Gould as writing a work oil
The Livfsof.ihe Saints" Of which h
has read thiffy-six hundred, and is still
alive. which is the most remarkable in
stance of, constitutional endurance OF
record.
I.aa
No one would believe the bursting o
the New Orleans reservoir, because !
occurred on the hrst of April and al
unfortunate bank messenger was treated
with derisich when be attempted to Sc
cure the services Of the police TO recove
a wallet Of which he had been robbed.