Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-01
FACTS AND FANoIEs.


NOn-explOsive is now called orphan
elixir"
A Wisconsin justice granted himself
divorce.
Connecticut gets fuddled on rye
gin"
Horace Greeley got his wife in North
Carolina.
Peacemakers- Steam, gunpowder and
glycerine.
The Japanese use all river creatures
even sharks, for food.
A bat that frequently flies in the day
time-A brickbat.
England is afflicted with Prince oil
Wales Recovery Polka"
Osceola county, Iowa, with 277, 1870
acres Of land, contains not single tree.
There are two things that a man sell
dom forgets-His first love and his first
smoke.
Strasburg University, where Goethe
took his doctors degree one hundred
years ago, is reopened.
A man blew out the gas in a Kansas
City hotel, and then wanted to know : IT
that hotel was glue factory.
Boston has FIVE men in prison Tor
debt, and is sending schoolmistresses
South and missionaries to the heather.
A Connecticut woman's grief for her
husbands death was increased by the
thought that the parlor curtains we're in
the wash.
A maiden of ninety-three summers,
living at Bloomfield, Conn, had the
nerve to refuse an eligible offer of mar
riage.
The youngster may be coaxed to bed
early on Christmas eve, but he is apt to
make his presents known early in the
morning.
A chandler having had some candles
stolen. a person bid him be OF good
cheer, for in short time, said he, they
will all come to light.
A Danbury poet named Button has
written poem. The first line reads,
"I am sitting alone on an islet." Pref
ty good for Button.
Superior is the favorite Boston
feminine word of commentator, and
is applied chiefly to bonnet or SER
mon, painting or a pie.
Anna Dickinson, report says, is not to
marry, but is to go on the stage. Her
experience henceforth is to be animated
instead Of Anna-mated.
A boy in Cleveland had cent of the
date of ls47 extracted from his throat.
As the boy is only four years old, the
query is how so old coin got thereY
DR.. Cumming, the distinguished pro
phet, who some time ago declared that
the end of the world was at hand, now
says that the world will never come to
an end
The Southern rail-splitters net re-
latives of the late lamented have
been made happy by an ingenious Geor-
gian, who has greatly simplifed the riv-
ing process.
James Russell Lowell has invented
what be calls new beatitude, which is,
Blessed are they who have nothing to
say, and who cannot be persuaded to
say it,
Sir John Duke Coleridge, in his famous
speech in the Tichborne case, spoke,
altogether, twenty days, occupying four
to FIVE hours each day. The speech is
the longest on record.
A poem entitled 1.-THE Strains the
Angels Sing" is going the round. If 1t
strains the angels as much to sing 1t as
it does the mortal who reads it, they
don't sing it often.
During the twenty-ffth year Of the
ponti6cate of Plus TX, he received
presents to the amount of 100000
francs, Of which sum 100000 francs
we're contributed by one American.
A farmer residing near Utica, N. T.,
while being run away with by pair Of
frightened horses, shouted, 81 leave my
wife $4,000; no time to make a will. "
He is still alive, but badly b.uised.
In science read by preference the
newest books; in literature the Oldest
The classic literature is always modern.
New books revive and redecorate old
ideas; old books suggest and invigorate
new ideas. -BnlUer
The Detroit Free Press mentions the
fact that the Radicals in Illinois are al
ready laying their plans to defeat the
reelection Of Mr.. Trumbull to the
United States Senate. Ex-Gov. 0glesby
IL - 60. f-...I. I'll "a r.