Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-13
FACTS AND FANCIES.


we're sold in New York last year.
The father of Christian Reed miss
F:sher) fell at the head Of his regiment
at Manassas.
The habit of lying in bed too long is
bad, but the habit of lying ont of bed is
great deal worse.
Pedestrianism is on the increase in
New York. There is falling of in re-
ceipts from stage and car fares.
The Chicago Times thinks that the
President will get up grand national
"hoss trot as cure for the panic.
Kaiser William reminds Dom Piatt
of General Burnside, " less the pumpkin
formation at General B. above the eye.
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks
that Kellogg goes through the thrilling
prayer scene at the church in Faust
more truthfulIy to nature than Lucea.
Ann Eliza (No. ~ is to lecture in
Denver. If she will give a synopsis of
the curtain lectures that she used to
give her much-married spouse it will be
success.
A handsome girl named Wallace the
other day, living at Cairo, shot q man in
the shoulder for treading on her corns,
and Cairo men are verge areful now
where they tread.
Father Boyle, addressing school on
the subject of Easter celebration, a
young Miss asked him: " Father Boyle,
what is the origin of Easter eggs?" "a
hen, no doubt, Miss, replied the father.
A million dollars worth of ostrich
feathers is imported into England every
year from the Cape of Good Hope.
Every pound Of these feathers is said to
be worth fifty guineas in the London
market.
The moving DOG in Galway, Ireland, it
is feared, will submerge the town of
Dunmore, owing to the late heavy rains.
The cavity formed by the large mass of
the moving bog is mile in length by
half mile in breadth.
AN unstamped letter was deposited in
Mifflin county postoffice the other day,
and underneath the address was the in
dorsement: Let her slide, P. M.-she's
all hunk inside air one of them there
post-hole keerds."
The poor Parisians are said to collect
empty sardine boxes, fill them with NOR
tar, and build tenements with them on
the commons for dwellings. Our mil
lions of empty oyster cans would over
joy the poor creatures.
A Tama county girl of nineteen sum
mers has, with her own hands, during
the past season, raised 1000 bushels OF
corn, 500 head of cabbage, 100 bushels
of onions, and calculates on netting
$500. We expect to hear that she has
netted husband.
Mathematicians differ. There is Gin
cinnati woman who obtained a divorce,
giving as her reason that she didn't
believe in going halves with another
woman" Prophet Brigham on the
other hand reduces his wives to vulgar
infnitestmal fractions.
Three little boys, good little boys OF the
Sunday-school biography sort, were COM
pairing progress in the catecEism. l
have got to original sin, said the first.
Il am in total depravity," said the
second. But am away beyond redemp-
ton, said the third.
The people Of Chicago are getting
more from their great lake tunnel than
anticipated. 1t not only supplies them
with water, but the papers say that peo-
pie spoon fish out Of their coffee and
catch small eds in their mustaches as
they quaf the sparkling water"
A couple living in New York are re-
ported to have had sixteen children
within less than six years, as follows:
July 81, 1858. !; June IS, 1853, 2; March
q, 1859, 2; March l, 1861, 3; February
ls, 1862, 4; April 4, 1868, l. That
couple keep a good many dates in their
matrimonial fruit basket
A St. Louis landlady created a sensa-
ton among her boarders the other day
by treating them 10 a dish Of game,
which, after it had been eaten with &C
companying remarks Of Deliciousi
So juicYT and Best ever tasted
she informed them was broiled rat Her
joke vas not ratified BY the bOsrders.
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