Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-06
FACTS AND FANCIES.


Sir Garnet Wolseley is a jewel of
general
The divorce market appears to be
lively in Washington.
Large quantities of American sand
paper are now exported.
Vienna, the Austrian capital, pro-
poses to adopt cremation.
The only hotel in London kept on the
American plan paid dividend last year
of III per cent.
The jenkins of the Sioux City Journal
describes one of the bellies at a ball
room as a graceful little toad"
A Western moralist thinks that the
two great evils of the present day are
intoxication and costly funerals. "
Sir Samuel Baker believes the inau-
ence of one steamer in the center of
Africa is equal to that Of hundred mis-
sionaries.
Colonel Valette has asked to be re-
tired from the French army with pen
sion and to be allowed TO share the cap
tivity of Marshal Bazaine.
1t is stated that the Illinois State mill
tia consists of fourteen brigadier gen.
erals and forty superannuated muskets,
with nobody to carry them.
Less cotton and more corn" is the
cry of the Georgia papers, and the re-
ports from various portions of the State
show that that is the policy the planters
are adopting.
A California paper says of Governor
Stafford of Arizona, that "he can go it as
long without plug hat and billed shirt
as any man who ever looked grizzly
square in the face.
A New Orleans gentleman recently
wrote to the Mayor of Cincinnati, stating
that he was engaged to be married to
lady in the latter city, and would be glad
for information concerning her.
A darkey gives the following reason
why the colored race is superior to the
white: All men are made of clay, and
Ike the meerschaum pipe, they are more
valuable when highly colored."
Thousands of young trout, about two
inches in length, were recently thrown
up to the height of thirty feet, from an
artesian well, in San Francisco, one
hundred and forty-fve feet deep.
The editor of juvenile paper in New
York recently received the following
fattering testimonial: Please stop
your paper. Our Annie died on Mon
day, after reading your last number"
The Chamber of Commerce of Charles.
ton is making an effort to establish a
line of steamships between that city and
Liverpool, and invites the co operation
of Southern and Western cities in the
work.
The Postmaster General has received
o note from Delta, Iowa, saying: If
you don't git somebody to run this ere
poast offus purity soon, it'll be throwed
in the river, for I'm going on bear
hunt"
The Australian colonies of Great
Britain place a moderately heavy tariff
on all articles imported from the mother
country, much to the disgust of that free
trading community. The returns show,
however, that the value of the merchan-
disc imported by the colonies is rapidly
increasing.
There is man in Colusa, California,
who took an oath during the late civil
war never to wash his face or comb his
hair until the cause of the South had
triumphed. An exchange says that his
face reminds one of half.scre lot
skirted by growth of tangled brush.
A lady at Madison, Ohio, thinking
pleasantly to surprise one of her board
ers, put gold ring which he had lost in
a pancake and placed the production on
his plate at breakfast. But the boarder
bolted the pancake in such large bites
that the presence of the ring was not
discovered, and now it is lost again.
The Scotsman, q prominent Scotch
newspaper, says that a Bible, bound in
calf, and bearing the name of William
Sim, q Dundee man, and the date 1880,
had been discovered in the stomach of
Goldfish recently. William Sim went
to sea in 1884, and has not since been
heard Of.
A few days since the roadmaster of the
Rock Island road, with a companion,
travelled from Washington to Muscatine
on q hand car, propelled entirely by
sail about six feet square. The strong
wind blowing at the time enabled him
to make the trip, forty miles, in just two
hours, the average time made by passen-
ger trains.
It is not generally known that there
is law in Kentucky giving to the wife
or any relative of a confirmed drunkard
the right to sue any whisky seller who,
after notice not to sell, continues to sell
liquor to an inebriate. The law pre-
scribes that there shall be a recovery Of
not less than twenty dollars for each
offense after notice.
A school girl at Ashland was recently
engaged upon a composition, the sub
ieet being the loss OF life to persons by
falling from buildings. The theme APP
pears to have so affected her mind that
during the night she rose from her bed
in state Of somnambulism and leaped
from the window of her room to the
road beneath, distance OF nearly thirty
feet, inhicting fatal injuries.
A lecture audience in Big Rapids,
Michigan, recently gave a remarkable
exhibition of patience. A lady had been
advertised to lecture on the evening in
question. but owing to the breaking
down Of a freight train she was detained