Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-17
FACTS AND FANClES.


aire.
Plus TX has buried over one hundred
cardinals.
Lsadon is experimenting with wooden
pavements.
The Cincinnati coroners retire rich
after five years service.
Not one family was saved entire from
the wreck Of the Vile dn Havre.
A genius is popularity supposed to be
one who can do anything except make a
living.
Promotions are rapid in some national
banks nowhere is so much running
away.
A Philadelph ia paper has ascertained
that Noah Webster used TO play enehre
and steal eggs.
Robert Collier thinks a man should
not marry unless be does it before he IS
twenty five.
Gath speaks of the office OF an eve
ming paper in Philadelphia as "a boozing
ken for cock-spArrows
Mike Kemble, former coachman OF
President Lincoln, has Snug nest IN
the Treasury Department.
California papers get enough earth
quake items to have special depart
ment on that shaky subject
There's fine crop Of pairs in Steuben
county, New York pairs OF twins
within a radius Of two miles.
Sphinx says the use OF the bass viol
in the church of the olden time was
base violation Of the Puritan sabbath. "
Pianofortes were invented 10 Dresden
in l7l7. FREDERICK, an organ builder Of
Saxony, made the FIRST sqnare piano IN
1853.
Bishop Meade lately said; Oar girls
are poorly educated, but our boys will
never find il out" which is pretty rough
on the boys"
Mr.. A. 3. Walker, the new Mayor Of
Liverpool, has announced his intention
of providing an art gallery for the city
at cost of $l50.0OO 2
Mrs. Burnham, NJ. h. B., of the ST.
Louis Republican, is described as a
blonde, thirty-two. in years, aud one hmm
dred and fifty in weight.
Lovers are alwuss defining their ex-
tacys, but they are in no better condi-
shun tew do it than drunken man IL 10
deliver tempranse lekiar.-Josh Bill
liRgs.
Nilsson sent back word to the man
ayers of the Industrial Exhibition at
Newark that, inasmuch as 1t WAS
them, she would sing at their concert
for $4,000.
DIR. Lee, Of All Saints Church, Lon
don, celebrated All Souls day 10 white
satin cape, lined with pink and gor'
geous in embroidery His tournnre was
much admired
War" said John Stuart Min, IS an
ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed aHd degraded state of
national feeling that thinks nothing
worth war is worse"
Aslyonng lady of Lancaster broke her
arm the other day Will turning &
somersault 1t is sad that such inno-
cent amusement should result so dis
mally. Somersault hath lost its SAVIOR
for the above damsel.
There is a man in Wisconsin who has
an owl that is forty-six years old.
Either the man or the owl ought to have
died forty-six years ago, but being &C
quainted with neither We are not pre-
pared 10 say which
One day last week an Indianapolis
editor wrote: About this time look out
for shooting stars" aud sure enough,
the very next morning the leading actor
Of the city was seen hunting around Cor
him with le.bArreled shotgun.
There are four women decorated with
the French Cross Of the Legion Of
HoBor-Rosa Bonheur. the painter.
Madam Dubar, Superior Of the Convent
OF the S0urs DE- rEsperanes At Macy
Lady Pigott, Tor h-r d-votedness 10 tie
sounded dsring the Frahco Pmssian
war, AND n he Bertha Richer Vt Havrr,
founding a hospital
Al knglisbu,an travelling la Kilkenny
came o. a ford. and hired = boat ~ take
him acros- TIE ~ai-r benny more AL