Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-25
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

kellogg has become pious.
Dundrsary is going to England.
Stokes has commenced waxing his
mustache again.
Wet goceries is n dry way of putting it.
The Chinese are said to be wish-y
wash.y folks.
Walt Whitman and his soul are loa6ng
together in Canada.
The farmers seem disposed to go into
narrowing details.
The Texas grasshoppers are as bad as
the Kickapoos.
Gladstone recently led church choir.
Hence, Premier"
Philadelphia has new dam. Any
improvement on the old one2
A Western physician recommends
vaccination with tartar emetic.
An Iowa county realizes more money
from eggs than all other staples.
Louis Napoleons villa at Vichy was
disposed of by auction recently for
$4,000 francs.
The manager of Mobile gas COM
pany is appropriately named Dim.in the
opinion of the citizens.
A gift of bank stock, valued at from
$40, 900 to $4,000, has been received by
Washington University, Missouri.
A female student of medicine out
West, wrote home to her friends for
twenty dollars to buy man to cut
up"
The Japanese edict ordering that the
natives shall in the future eat bread as
we'll as rice, has made rise in the wheat
market
Ten thousand dollars and more has al
ready been secured by Washington and
Lee University for the endowment of its
South Carolina chair.
More corporal punishment" discus
sion. Nashville says, continue;" Pitts
burg says, abolish" We have no
manner of doubt as to the sentiments of
the children of both cities.
A reporter for a Wisconsin paper
writes, Those who personally know our
esteemed fellow citizen, Colonel -,
will regret.to hear that he was brutally
assaulted last evening, but not killed"
One of the bluest of Bostonians on
being requested by rich and vulgar
young fellow for permission to marry
one of his girls gave this rather crush
ing reply Certainly; which would you
prefer, the waitress or the cookY'
The mania for hashy imitation jew
elry has broken out among our bellies
again with great virulence. There must
be tr ce of semi barbarism in Ameri-
can society, to account for this Hotten-
tottish taste.
The editor Of the Fredericksburg,
Virginia, News was asked by stranger
" if it was possible that little town kept
up four newspapers" and the reply was,
" No, it takes four newspapers to keep
up the town"
A long halt has been occasioned in the
proceedings of the Tichborne trial in an
attempt to discover whether scar on
the claimants arm is as big as six
pence or only about the size of four
penny bit, or whether it is deep or
scarcely perceptible.
Old Sir John Stepney, Welsh NJ. P,
who fought at Waterloo, and is SO deaf,
that you have to scream at him, sits
wakeful every night in the House Of
Commons, and seldom leaves until the
doorkeeper shouts, "Who goes homer"
and puts out the lights
The Germans are reported to have
adopted a l5S.pounder gun in the siege
artillery. This is the largest gun ever
attempted TO be used in field operations.
They have also been making some 700
FOUNDER guns, throwing projectile 100
pounds heavier than any Of those now
made by the British.
A letter from Rangoon says; 1.-THE
Burmese in British Burmah are in such
a prosperous condition now that they
have taken to gliding their pagodas with
gold leaf, and as the rebuilding Of one
pagoda alone costs $4,000. some idea
may be formed of the money they are
throwing away in this useless amuse-
ment"
The rebellious inhabitants Of Bsnber-
ry, South Carolina, want their colored
postmaster removed on the trivial
ground that be can't read, and they have
to sort over the mails and pick out the
letters for themselves. The Presidents
proclamation warning the insurrection-
airy inhabitants Of Banberry to dispense
is expected in q few days.
A correspondent Of a Baltimore paper !
suggests that it would n OF be bad plan
if convenient rooms were provided in