Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-18
PAcTs AND PANCIEs.

Of the Boston FIRE.
A North Carolina horse is sheared an
nually for his wool.
Verb. sap.--lndiana is beginning Il
make maple sugar.
The robins yernal advance guard hal
reached New England.
Mr.. Sumner will make another Euro
pean trip this summer.
Longsireet has lost much Of his old
popularity in New Orleans.
Brick Pomeroy talks Of reestab
fishing himself at Lacrosse.
Bethel, Me-, expects soon to have 3d.
600 sugar. maple trees on tap.
Boston merchants have formed an or
ganizalion to suppress burglars.
Tennessee's last babe in the woods
stayed there three days without minding
il.
Tennessee pensions foriy-nine soldiers
Of the war of 1912 and four Of the Rev
olution.
Anti,Jesuit addresses by Pere Hya-
cinthe are circulating largely throughout
France.
An Idaho miner lately fell several
hundred feet out Of bucket " without
kicking it.
An Indianapolis paper announces that
blind Tom will see Rushville on the
9th of March.
Minnesota produced two hundred and
fifty twins last year, and thinks she is so
much ahead.
When Kansas lawyer quotes Latin
to the jury he is fined for profanity
and contempt"
The American gallows," being Of no
further use in this country, is to be in
troduced in japan.
Whittier says he guards well his friend
ships, as worth more to him than any
conceivable fame.
After thirteen years of angry separa-
ton Terre Hante couple now sleep
upon the same pillow.
A Kansas editor is advocating putting
up the United States Senatorship at auc-
ton for the benefit of the State.
Indiana teetotallers are firing salutes
over the passage of a prohibitory liquor
law by both houses OF the Legislature.
The courts Of North Carolina decide
that a negro cannot be required to show
tax receipt before depositing his vote.
The Boston Board of Trade has re-
solved that the State ought to retain con-
troll Of the hole of the Hoosac Tunnel
The Posen Poles are opposing the i'm
perial decree that their religious services
must be conducted in the German Ian
guage.
The female medical students in Edin-
burg are to be admitted to the wards Of
the Royal Infrmary ofthat city on Sun
days.
Edmund Yates has discovered won
derful likeness between the face and
figure of General Sheridan and those OF
the great Napoleon.
An industrious little boy in Philadel-
phia supported his aged mother during
the winter months by stealing three
hundred door mats.
A Philadelphia widow excused herself
from weeping on the occasion of her
husbands funeral, declaring that crying
always made her nose bleed.
A Louisville lass has set the fashion
of sliding down hill in tin pan, and no
housewife in that region can find her
dish pan when she wants it.
An active bachelor in Maine claims to
be one hundred and two years old; but,
as he makes his own bed" according
to a local paper, so he must lie.
The University of Zurich has one
hundred and ten female students this
session-eighty-one in medicine, one in
jurisprudence, and twenty eight in phil
osophy.
The claimant Tichborne has been
offered $4,000 to come to this country
to exhibit himself. The indictment for
perjury against him binders the accep-
lance of the offer.
1t is a saying that after an American
has rode horse down, Mexican can
mount him right away and ride him
down, and after that an Indian can
make him travel.
The performance Of the Grande.Duch-
esse at Guayaquill, Ecuador, was brought
to an abrupt close by the Mayor, who
declared it to be dangerous to the morals
Of the community.
A La Crosse wis., girl has been
turned out of house and home for rub
bling her cheeks against her sisters hus-
bands beard when she wished to get up
a healthy glow for ball.
The elergymen of Lebanon, Ind, are
indignant because the girls Of their con-
gregations eat peanuts in church. The
cracking noise often destroys the most
beautifully rounded sentences.