Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-02
FACTS AND FANCIES.

covered that the air OF coal NINE IS q
cure for whooping cough.
HE winnowed her into Paradise with
a fence rail, is a new phrase in Western
journalism for wife murder.
The will of the late Mr.. Seth Adams,
of Boston, founding an asylum for hypo'
chondriacs, is disputed on the ground of
mental unsoundness.
The noxious effects of mercury on
the health of workmen in factories
where this metal is used are being dis
cussed with q view to a remedy
A Louisville paper recently contained
an affeetionate tribute to the memory of
a tortoise shell tabby cat, who died at the
advanced age of twenty years.
4 Western farmer thinks that if the
trees in his vicinity continue to be cut
down at the present rate, his COWS will
soon have to be provided with parasols.
Mr.. Charles H. Bliss, of Washington
City, recently horsewhipped his daughter
severely for attending a dancing school,
and the matter will now be settled by
law.
1t is painful to contemplate the indus
try of a young man who attempts to
haul on a twelye-dollar pair of boots
and splits a seventy.dollar dress coat
down the back in doing it,
A Paris correspondent Of the London
Times says Bazaine intended to put
himself at the head of an Alphonsist in
surrection in Spain if his sentence had
been committed TO Punishment.
So witty compliment is rarely made
as that of Sidney Smiths to his friends,
Mrs. Tighe and Mrs. CufFe: "Ah, there
you arel the cuff that every one would
BE glad to wear, and the tie that no one
would loosel"
There is no law in Georgia that for
bids the marriage of fools. A Georgia
justice who, some time ago, tied a nup-
tial knot in a graveyard, has just pre-
sided at marriage ceremony in bar
room.
California has about 100000 sheep.
The wool crop in two shearings, at an
average of ten pounds per head, would
amount to sO,OOO,OOO pounds, or
$4,000 900 more than the total product
Of TIE United States in 1871.
The Shasta Zeal. Courier says: The
former residence of Joaquin Miller, in
this town, which has been occupied as q
school-house for the last twelve years, is
to be sold at public auction, by order Of
the school trustees"
The Cincinnati papers disclose it all.
The new public librarian there is an
idiot jacksnipes," and aap-waist-
ed fool" and. though no other town
can boast of such Librarian, they don't
seem stuck up about it, Chicago Post
The Governor Of Wyoming closed his
Thanksgiving proclamation with Give
thanks unto the lord for His mercy en-
dureth forever. In witness whereof,
have hereunto set my hand and caused
the great seal Of the Territory to be
affixed" etc.
"If you hang me, said Georgia
murderer, to the Judge who sentenced
him, may the grass never grow on
your grave, your children never more
see the sun, aud the buzzards Fly away
with your bonesi" Nevertheless, he is
to be hung.
1t is stated that the utmost capacity
Of a population to consume grain in the
form Of food is eight to ten bushels per
capita per annum. The grain product
OF the commercial world, however,
amounts to eighteen bushels per head,
giving an excess Of supply which neces.
sarily makes agriculture Improbable.
An amateur sermonizer at Rome.
Georgia, made these remarks upon the
souLsaving question: My brethren. a
man cannot afford to lose his soul. He's
got but one, and he can't get another
If man loses his horse be can get
another; il he loses his wife he can get
another; if he loses his child he can get
another; but il be loses his soul-Goo5
bye, John"
The Boston Traveller says: Posi-.
lively frightfall Are our liberties thus to
be insulted2 They propose to raise the
tax on whisky TO one dollar a gallon
| DO they forget a hundred years agoi
Send a cargo Of whisky here with dol