Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-14
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Horse sausages give Londoners night
mare.
California Chinese make pot-pies Of
ravens.
Bloody spring fights haye commenced
in Memphis.
DR.. Livingstone will start back to Eng
land very soon.
Strauss first opera, "The Carnival Of
Rome" is a success.
The painters of Boston will strike for
three dollars day.
Torpedoes shaped like kernels of corn
amuse Rhode Island crows.
The farmers in Iowa are moving Wig
orously against the railroads.
ga Jersey City girl jumped a rope 500
times, and was taken home senseless.
Richmond is far more prosperousInow
than at any time for the last fifty years.
The anti.secret society organization in
New York does its business with closed
doors.
President Thiers' daughter, the Coun-
tesse Maurice, died recently in San
Francisco.
The Massachusetts, Senate has voted
$50 600 to the Agassiz geological Muse
um at Cambridge.
According to the census there are
nearly half million compulsory bache-
lers in the country.
In single year fifteen hundred appli-
cations for pardons poured in on Gov.
Geary of Pennsylvania.
There are eighty-seven Children'a
Cold Water Temples in Maine, with a
membership of 10000.
at is harde to hav yure gurl 90 bak
on you" wrote John Shell of La Crosse,
before hanging himself
Cincinnati men amuse themselves by
cutting all the pretty pictures out of the
public library books.
Olive Logsy had an audience of four
teen persons at Knoxville, but she went
through with her lecture.
Old Pomeroy continues to corrnptly
influence the action Of bell-boys, walters,
etc., in New York hotel.
Ingenious Cinnamon in San Francisco
show duplicated receipts for the same
when asked to pay their poll-tax.
When Lunalilo visits this country he
will not wear the suit of tow-strings and
straw hat given him by Mark Twain.
A close.fsted merchant in New York
was recently pelted with eggs for not
shelling out to benevolent enterprise.
David Ridgely, colored Kentuckian,
with distinct recollection of the Revo-
lutionary war, died few days ago at
the age Of ll9.
A Philadelphia murderer has got some
thing better than the insanity dodgei he
claims to have been in fit when he cut
the mans throat.
August Pickard, of Rochester, recently
kept his one hundred and sixth birthday.
Uses tobacco and doesn't belong to the
temperance society.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal says that
a divorce can be obtained in that State
quicker and cheaper than anywhere else
in the United States.
A beozy young man in Williamsport
Pennsylvania, tried to swallow billiard
ball the other day. he got it into his
mouth, and medical assistance had TO be
called in to get it out.
The editor Of country weekly per
sussively remarks: We offer especial
inducements 10 our subscribers who club
together aud send in any little matter Of
satables, as 1t were"
A young lady in Terre Hauie' Ind,
who hasn't fooled her time away on
worsied.work and laees, can give the
pedigree and record Of every eelsbrated
racsr and trotter in the country.
The ne=ly arrived Italians do not take
kindly TO bard labor. Eive Of them
drowned themselves on Saturday IN New
York rather than 10 work for the gas
companies 10 place Of the men Who
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