Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-29
FACTS AND PANCIRs.


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General Harrison's monument will DO
erected in Cincinnati on the centennial
Of his birth.
A Missouri girl washed all day, ate
twelve boiled eggs for supper, and then
danced all night.
JOAQUIN Miller is now called a retired
Modoc. He lived with that tribe for
number Of years.
The FIRST nautical person alluded to IN
the Scriptures is said to be Eve, because
she was the first mate.
James says that his sweetheart is like
a melon, because her "old man" has
locked her up aud she cantelope, 4
California anticipates Chinese emf
grafton Of Is, 900 this year, and considers
Il IAN alarming condition of affairs"
Bergh has been appealed to by a
farmer Of this State to know II folding
doors in hog-pens are the fashion this
year.
Kentucky. wants one more portrait OF
Daniel Boone. The last artist put
paper collar on Daniel, which wasn't
right.
Now San Francisco has the epizootc
aud the Cinnamon are making asses OF
themselves by hauling burdens for the
superior race"
A Maine man, who could not get pass
to Utah, nor marry two women where he
lived, blew his brains out, much to the
relief of his friends.
Northumberland, after being sent to
grass, became dumb, for whenever asked
how he managed to live, he always
answered with his :" / browse"
An old lady 3l9 years old lately walked
200 Iowa miles in one day, chopped ten
cords of wood, dug fifty bushels Of pota-
toes, and then danced all night.
Altoona is so pestered with the depre-
dations of rats that the citizens desire
the City Council to take some measure
for the determination of the rodents.
An old lady was admiring the beauti-
called Saved" It's no
wonder" said she, that the poor child
tainted after pulling that great dog cut of
the water"
A Michigan subscriber wants to know
if we remember the spring floods of l72l.
We don't, but Susan B. Anthony, who
was 40 years old then, can tell him all
about them.
Milkmen pour water in their milk
merely to prevent the accumulation of
butter ia the bottom of the cans. The
jolting of the wagon churns the milk,
and unless the fluid is thinned the but
ter is sure to come.
A thrifty Vermont widow, finding
some delay in the burial of her late hus-
band, owing to the caving in of the
ground, rather than to waste time, went
to the minister's house and was mar
ried to another husband, and afterward
returned to finish the burial of the first.
A witness, in describing a certain
event, said: 1.-THE person / saw at the
head of the stairs was o man with one
eye named Wilkins" What was the
name of his other eyer" spitefully asked
the opposing counsel. The witness was
Disguised with the levity Of the audience.
There is a curious relic 10 be seen in
the Holy Trinity Church Minories. 1t
is nothing less remarkable than the head
of the Duke of Sussex, the father of Lady
Jane Grey. 1t is kept in a small tin
box. There is a mark as of cut from
an ak on the neck. The skin is very
like thick parchment.
When the wife of certain citizen of
Ohio, gets too lively in her
facial and lingual demonstration, he
her and removes her false
teeth for day or two, until she becomes
meek and good-natured. He says,
Ether is better than ball clubEas an
A Boston man has invented machine
for cleaning the old bricks in the burnt
district, which removes the mortar, etc.,
from them, at the rate Of thirty-fve or
forty a minute, or about as fast as they
can be placed in position. Each brick
is also shampooed and scented with
cologne at triaing extra expense.
A serious charge has been brought
against school teacher in Illinois, the
specifications Of which are 4. In
2. Parshalityl 8. Keeping
iisordly schoall 4. Carrying unlaae ]
wepingsl" The committeeman who
wrote the charge thinks Of running the
school himself next quarter.
Sympathyis not always appreciated.
A Titusville woman seeing a little shoe
black crying, opened her heart to him :
something as follows, There, dear,
lon't cry so. What is the matter with
you, my little man2 Won't you tell me
What the matter ISL and perhaps l can ,,
lelp you" Said he, Shut up yer 4
head" Z