Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-16
FAcrs AND FANCIEs.

Baker City, oregon, was lnAhink ga
den on the 22a Of March.
Three relics Of barbarism are confined
ia Hartford jAl foF debLgvylg
A shower OF coronets succeeds th'
ministerial storm Of England.
New England Is at present rAyaged BY
innumerable debating clubs
! Minnesota forces its liquor dealers i'
pay the expenses Of an insbriAle Asy
lum. a1itt
! A female lecturer in Georgia gets .
free ride all over the State by riding h'I
own mule. ,l
Four pounds Of tobacco to the head IN
Germany annually is not regarded AZ
too tonic
During the year ending March 81,
2O65 more people died than we're born
in Chicago.
The London Times publishes an Ad'
vertisement soliciting assistance for Don
Carlos of Spain.
The latest heiress to a fortune has
been for some years living in the Cleve'
land poorhouse.
Thirteen vessels have taken $4,000
seals along the coast of Newfoundland
the past winter.
The base ball epidemic has broken
out again in Massachusetts,, and is raging
with great virulenee.
A would.be suicide in Brooklyn tried
to get rid of a scrape by swallowing a
box Of friction matches.
Nine HUNDRED and eighty-6Ye young
men in Philadelphia answered an adver-
tisement for q clerkship.
One young man at Scranton has four
breach of promise suits on hand, besides
being down with the measles.
A young lady of Lewiston, Me-, re-
quires 10000 grains Of opium per an
mum for her own consumption. ~,
A noble Connecticut patriot of 1872
declines to draw his pension for fear OF
"impoverishing the government" a4L
A Pitsburg merchant knows Of thir-
teen first society lsdies who steal his
goods whenever they get a chance.
A New Jersey tobacconist advsrtises:
81 shall continue to keep on hand i'm
ported cigars of my own manufacture. "
The farmers of Ashland, county, Ohio,
will sell their cows milk at four dollars
per hundred pounds rather than make
cheese. $40 -e.r ,s.w v sge
Memphis, Tenn, has prepared an al
most natural-sized map of itself, FIVE feet
BY six, for distribution at the Vienna
Exhibition.
A Missouri beldam sans merci re-
Gently burned off her lovers whiskers
because their color did not match that
of her best dress. aH1s
Ii is stated that Brigham Young is
the father of one hundred and seventeen
children, with quite number of pre-
cincts to hear from.
The New York Legislature has bill
before it which provides that every room
above the ground floor Of hotel shall
be provided with rope ladders.
An exchange remarks: You do not
need to black your boots in Pittsburg.
You hang them cut Of the window at
night and they are black enough in the
morning" POI
A septuagenarisn Vermont dame has
spent the last four years in making four
patchwork counterpGnes containing in
all twelve thousand seven hundred and
sixty pieces.
A Virginia paper laments the fact that
one Southerner can now call another
liar, rascal, or even a horse thief, with
out fear Of having to eat his words or
take bullet.
Danville. Tennessee, has resurrected
some fifty skeletons from seven to eight
feet in length, which are supposed to
have belonged to the pre-Indian race Of
mound builders.
Laura Fair is not yet quite out of
court. Lawyer Quint, of San Francisco,
who defended her on her recent " trial,
is trying to collect his fees her from re-
luctant pocket-book.
A Cairo reporter who started out to
publish the names Of all those in Cairo
who look upon the wine when it is red,
had his eyes ornamented until he
couldn't see daylight.
The oranges and lemons in the groves
around St. Augustine, Florida, are now
in full bloom, and though the latter have
no fragrance, the sweet perfume from
the former is almost overpowering.
Josh Billings says: "Y u kant find
conteutment laid down on the map; il
IL an imaginary place not settled yet;
and those reach It soonest who throw
away their compass and 60 It blind"
A lady in Indiana thinks she has a
good cause for complaint. Her hus-
band hung himself with her best table
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