Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-23
FACTS AND FASCIES.

called hypothecarles'
Maine will have granger next fall
| as a candidate for Governor.
The Illinois Legislature, a la Dickens
prohibits solitary CONTINENT.
There are over $4,000 idiots in this
country, who are acknowledged as such
Have no respect for man who has to
feel the public pulse to learn his private
duty.
A New Hampshire town betrayed the
expense of providing a municipal hearse
by giving fancy dress ball.
The New York Times charges Mayor
Havemeyer with demoralizlng every
branch of the city government
The workingmen of England have
eco. 900, 900 in the savings banks estab-
lished there for the working classes.
Chief Justice Waite will take his seat
on the reassembling of the Supreme
Court on the first Monday in March.
Mr.. Arthur Cohen, one of the counsel
who drew the British case for the Geneva
arbitration, has been made Queen s
Counsel.
In Dayton, Ohio, last week, desti.
tute old man and woman were found
stretched upon bed of straw il an ice
house. Cold comfort.
The daily exports Of Lexington, Scott
county, Indiana, are stated to be i've
carloads of milk. The daily imports are
ten barrels of whisky.
A man was Boosting that he had been
married for twenty years and had never
given his wife cross word. Those who
know him say he didn't dare to.
A Maine gentleman is advertised to
read his temperance poem, The Great
Goliah." He tells how the giant was
killed with sling. Boston Post.
A Spiritualist, before committing sui
eide, made memorandum; l have
purified my soul twenty-five or thirty
years. l think l must be a rectited
spirit =.
During a revival at Green Bay, a citi-
zen is reported to have arisen and asked
to be forgiven for having been sub
scriber to the Chicago Times for nine
teen years.
Young Lady" Oh, I'm so glad you
like birds; which kind do you admire
mostP" Old Squab-"Wel | think the
goose, with plenty of stulfing, is about as
good as any.
A Chicago merchant was SO pleased
at the news that he was the father OF
daughter, that he gave orders to a baker
to distribute 800 loaves of bread to the
poor each day for ten days.
The latest faithful dog is in Sterling,
Massachusetts,. He refuses comfort for
the death Of the family horse, sleeps in
the snow upon the larger quadrupeds
grave, and goes heroically without his
victuals.
A gentleman who has penetrated the
eastern end of Wetzel county, West Vlr-
ginia, described section Of about thirty
SQUARE miles where a newspaper, secular
or religious, never finds its way. The
mud and log shanties contain from eight
to ten children each, and there was one
family of fifteen persons. Indian meal,
he says, is the chief article of food.
In allusion to the enormous sums re-.
ueived by spies, informers, custonl-house,
officers, ETC., for alleged infractions OF
revenue laws, the New York Tribune re-
marks that it should not be forgotten
that these large amounts do not repre-
sent the spoils Of smugglersi they are
the avails to a great extent, OF extor-
tons and expressions levied on the com
merce Of the country.
A religious newspaper reports the
case Of young lady at dance who, IN
wal.zing, fell from her partners arms
upon the floor. A hair-pin perforated
her head BY the force Of the conclusion,
and a most painful wound was the result.
Inasmuch as the pious paper did not
suggest moral, we will Ladies, waltz
with partner who is able to prevent
YOU from falling to the floor.
A remarkable rose bush adorns the
cottage offs A. Randall, OF Santa Rosa,
California. 1t was planted in 1893, and
is of the Lamarque variety, the most
beautiful of the white roses. Imagine
en- immense bouquet Of white roses,
twenty-five feet high, twenty-five feet
across, beautifully rounded, with bios
soming surface of four hundred square
feet, with four thousand full blown roses
and twenty thousand buds.
The Havanese have a newell way of
disciplining opera singers. Verati, the
tenor Of the Lucca-Murska Company,
was to be the "Elvino in Somnambula,
but he did not make his appearance,
much to the disappointment or chagrin
of the officials, if not Of the public and
artists. FL Presideute Of the theater,
who possesses magisterial powers, made
out a commitment to prison for eight
dars for Yerali. and Lad him put in the