Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-29
FACTS AND FANcIEs.

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Gently. He had been hearing from III
native State.
Siam is an ungallant country. Their
the first wife may be divorced; and aile
that every wife may be sold for cash o
traded for a yellow dog.
It will cost the Italian lroubadour on
hundred dollars TO torture his violin o
pick his tunefnl harp upon the street
OF Detroit in future.
The young lady who refused to 70 int
n rifle factory because some OF the gun
had no breeches, is spending few day
in the country. Let her stay.
A Fort Wayne doctor who kept secre
a case Of smallpox until several neigh
bors had been exposed, was treated Il
gallop around town on a sharp rail.
An accommodating young man hai
charge Of the famous Kauterkill falls II
the heart of the Catskills, and lets the
water on for fee Of twenty. Eve cents.
A mineral spring has been discovered
in Nebraska OF such curative powers
that dilapidated old ladies, after quaff'
ing il for week, find no further use fol-
cotton.
Two MichigaA youths we're invited m
TO the bushes to see a serpent. They
didn't see the snake, but saw couple
Of pickpockets decamp with their money
and things.
The Indianapolis high school allowed
its alligator TO starve to death when
there we're lots of children running
about the streets Of no particular use to
anybody. Exchange.
A child recently born in Wilmington,
Delaware, has living one grandfather,
one grandmother, two great grandfathers,
three great grandmothers, step grand
father and a step grandmother
Charles Bradlaugh, the British Radi-
cal and in6del who is coming to the
United States next fall to lecture, is
writing series of letters to the Bishop
OF Lincoln against the inspiration of the
Bible.
Professor Wise, the aeronsut, is an
angular, firmly knit, 6ne-looking, elderly
gentleman, of agreeable address, and of
such specific gravity as to carry him, if
dropped from a sufficient altitude, to
deep sea soundings without the use Of
weights.
The Shah, desiring to see Earl Russell,
was taken to Pembroke Lodge, where
the Earl ACKNOWLEDGED in French the
honor done him by the visit to his small
house, The Shah readily replied, Petite
maison, grand homme," and 30 began a
conversation.
Are you aware, my little daughter,
that You are going to hell2' is the title
of a late forty page tract for little chill
dren. II the Reverend Barebones, who
distributes them, should ever accident
ally drop one of them over our fence,
he'll limp some when he leaves, and be
a heavier man in the rudder by several
buckshot-w a strong postscriptal
probability of going there himself. =
Lexington Mo Caucasian.
The Christian Union has a department
devoted to answering "inquiring friends.
To correspondent who asked the edi-
tors opinion of croquet playing the FOL
lowing remarkable answer was returned
eve think it is amusing to women,
agreeable to men, and fascinating TO
ministers. For all persons who need
gentle exercise it is even better than
billiards; indeed, it is kind of field bill
lizards, or billiards gone 10 grass. Any
body that is too pious to play croquet
ought to be done up in starched linen,
put in bag, and hung up like a suit of
Sunday clothes, and not let out till meet
ing time"
An amusing story of Messier, the
great French comet seeker, is related by
Mr.. R. A. Proctor. The discovery Of q
new comet seemed to him more inpor-
tant than the grayest earthly event.
His wife's last illness interfered with his
work to such an extent
that a rival succeeded in detecting a
comet for which both we're on the watch.
friend who met him a short time after
Messier's death condoled with
him on that sad loss. All, responded
the man of science, it was hard, was
It not2 After all my watching, was
obliged to leave my telescope just when
the comet camel
A miss of twelve, daughter Of Mr..
Rootes, Of Rolling Prairie, Indiana, is as
horse crazy" as any man of our &C
quaintance. She is so strangely affected
that she imagines herself the very ami
NAL, and eats grass and stamps and
kicks. Then she will get up in the night,
harness her fathers team, and drive
miles away until she is overtaken and
brought back. What is more inconve-
nient, she uses the neighbors' teams in
the same way. An attempt was made
to send her to lunatic asylum, but the
committing Justice couldn't see that
Miss Rootes was any crazier than many