Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Somebody has just ascertained tina
CASTELAR, is Jew.
Cincinnati is said to be enjoying al
unusually prosperous pork season.
A branch of the Evangelical Alliance
has been organized in Charleston, S. G.
General George B. Mcclellan and
family will spend the coming winter at
Nice.
A fne bust Of her husband has just
been finished by the MarchiOness o.
Lorne.
A submarine tunnel between Scotland
and ireland is the latest engineering
scheme.
Collectors in Jacksonville, Fla, are
said to carry a shotgun =" for mora
effect"
The Empress of Russia has got out
her Saratogas again. She likes Italy
better than Alexander.
A Chicago paper has made the discov-
cry that the schooner Sunrise is the
fastest vessel on. the lakes for one of her
speed"
Michigan moonlight is dangerous, we
should judge, from the statement that
two men were robbed in Manchester
Michigan, by moonlight"
In letter to a friend, young lady OF
Illinois states that she is not engaged
but she sees a cloud above the horizon
about as large as a man hand.
Western women are grumbling terri
bly, because the managers of the agri-
cultural fairs don't give at least year s
notice when they offer prizes for the
finest baby.
An old lady from the country, with
six unmarried daughters, went TO Au-
gusta, Georgia, the other day, hunting
for patrons of husbaudry. She meant
business.
An Iowa newspaper proclsims itself
an honest newspaper, and In. another
paragraph says, When man processes
honesty nowadays, keep your eye peeled
for a thief
The Young Mems Christian Union Of
Boston have resolved to have Thanks
giving dinner for all those members who
are unable to spend the annual festival
with their kindred
A workman on the spire Of st. Peter s
church, Germantown, Pennsylvania,
slipped last week and fell distance OF
seventy feet to the ground, dying in
twenty minutes.
This is from the Augusta Georgia.
Delinquent Subscribers
should not permit their daughters to
wear this paper for o hustle. There
being so much due on it, there is dspger
Of taking cold.
A gushing but uugrammatieel editor
says We have received basket of
fne grapes from our friend -, for
which he will please accept our compli-
nents, some of which are nearly an inch
in circumference"
A peculiar way Of discharging printers
exists in the Dayton (Ohio) Offices.
Each eonposiior has nail to hang his
loat on, and when the foreman con-
,ludes to dispense with the services Of
me of bis hands he takes hammer and
lrives the nail in to the head.
In a recent suit in the Supreme Court
At Geneseo, New York, for breach Of
promise, it was proved at the time the
engagement was entered into the plaintiff
vas married, although she subsequently
obtained divorce from her husband.
She vas noR-suited.
A Nursery Scene Vow, Willie, do
have little courage. When / have g
powder to take don't like it any more
han you do; but make up my mind
hat I viii take it, and I do. And
Then I have powder to take" replied
Willie, " l make up my mind that won't
axe it. and don't"
The veritable pins used by the Salem
stitches. and nov on 6le in the clerks
1fice in the courts Of Essex county,
aass., have been so appropriated By
relic hunters that those left are sealed
10 a vial and can only be seen through
glass. The death-Earrant Of one Of the
naleiactors. with the return Of the OIL
aer that be bad caused the prisoner to