Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-19
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

A young man near Leavenworth has
become raying maniac just because
girl Tilted him.
A rural correspondent wants to know
whether the game Of croakey is any
thing like leapfrog.
1.-THE Old Prostitute" and Our Dog
Jakey," are pet names for editors in Ar
kansas politics.
Psychological novels is what the
critics call those novels which are not
logical in any other way.
The last big story is about rat, which
comes out of its hole to keep the flies off
a sleeping baby's face.
At Clug station, Wyoming Territory,
four Indian squaws we're taken to the
polls and their votes accepted.
The Dubuque Herald is published BY
Ham & Carver, but they don't cut up as
much as you might suppose.
The Stet, a paper published at Linn
Creek, in this State. has a young lady
assistant editor, and she has the chills.
The question of introducing the En-
glish sparrow is now being agitated in
San Francisco. Has the sparrow asked
for an introduction
An Illinois editor says that afixef,
suffixes and pre6xes are not according
to his taste. Perhaps he would prefer
to keep clear OF all kinds Of fixes.
Sam Bard says that Andy Johnson
lately measured negro for a suit of
jeans. He was unable to make the suit,
as his goose has been cooked"
Yale students are gathering geological
specimens along Green river. A day
or two since they found large petri6ed
animal, closely resembling the South
American tapir.
From the fact that the telegraph is
once more in operation between Hell
ena and Corinne, Montana paper infers
that the grasshoppers have either
crossed the line or gone into the egg
business.
Among the Friday night amusements
OF Kansas City was a masquerade. A
cheerful fellow covered his face with a
mask, and knocked young lady down
three times with club or slung-shOt.
Three hundred and iorty-six is the
number of the newspapers that simulta-
neously remarked, last week, that the
balloon did not go up, but Butler did.
Such chance may never again occur.
In Idaho Justice has been unable to
decide whether twisting the taila of Of
Eve pups at the first joint" has injured
the pups or benefited them, though he
has had the case under adyisement for
a week.
At Virginia City, Nevada, a man
named Morris Cabill fell down the Chol.
lar-Potosi shaft distance Of 1000 feet.
His body bounded from side to side on
the timbers, mutilating it in fearful
manner.
The fact that nature is full Of compeu-
sations is beautifully illustrated by a re-
cent bit of scientific information, which
announces that the horse.hy is torDen-
Ped by parasites. Of which it cannot get
rid, aud that it suffers dreadful agonies
from their tickling.
Joseph Arch, the champion Of the Ia
boring man, proposes to stay five years
in the United States aud Canada. Il that
period be necessary for full investiga-
ton into the condition Of the working.
men on this continent. Ben. Butler
could tell him all about It in ten min
utes.
hog killing is becoming recognized as
one Of the fine arts. 1t was illustrated
BY cartoons at Vienna, and lately has
been embalmed in immortal verse in
our own free America. No aesthetic
sOiree is nov complete unless the slaugh-
ter Of a small porker is included in lis
attractions.
A Caldwell county paper gives an &C
count Of an accident resulting from
horse-reeing on Sunday, and winds it up
with this excellent anti-climax: ''violat-
ing the laws Of the Sabbath is not very
profitable business in any shape, but
when human lives are At stake. Il is Gar
beneath the dignity Of gentlemen"