Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-27
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Carlyle says discourtesy originates IN
dullness alone.
At Plattsburgh, N. Y, the churches
are closed and all assemblies forbidden,
Oh account of smallpox.
The farmers and planters Of Georgia
are now engaged in the annual pleas
antry of hiring negro help.
A Georgia girl allowed three hundred
men to kiss her at ten cents head, and
then went, like a good girl, and gave the
money to the poor.
A Duluth couple, despising the con-
ventional form of having weddings in
churches, consented to be married on
the ice the other day.
A newspaper has just appeared at Pal
nero entitled The Journal of the Disci-
pies Of Satan. 1t is supposed to be an
Italian edition Of the New York Herald.
The amount of time that may be
wasted on triaes cannot, perhaps, be re-
called under more exasperating circum-
stances than a struggle with greasy
china door knob.
Mrs. John G.. Fremont writes to a
gentleman in Philadelphia that the re-
port declaring her husband to be af-
flicted with cancer is entirely false,
and that the Generals health is excel
lent
Horse thieves in Texas nowadays go
in gangs, headed by pretended clergy
man, who gets up protracted meetings,
and while the people are at the houses
Of worship the rank and file Of the gang
90 for the stables.
OF the nine marshals of France who
have been condemned to death since
GILES de Laval, Marshal de Retz, was
hung at Nantes in l440, Marshal Bazaine
is the only one who has not suffered
capital punishment.
Our experience and the history of the
past eighteen centuries incline us to the
belief that no matter how we'll you treat
shotgun, nor how you bring it up, il
will bang the stufiing out of you the first
time il gets q chance.
Very few of the aristooratic and fash
ioaable families Of Madrid are to be
found in that city this winter. They
have apparently left the country, a large
number being in Paris The moral
condition of Madrid is represented to
be dreadful
A very important step has been taken
by the Bavarian government. The de-
cision Of King Macmillan II. according
10 which the Bavarian Constitution had
always 60 give way to the ConcCrdat
with the Papal See, whenever their re.
spectiye provisions happen TO clash, has
been abrogated
A Frenchman condemned to death for
numbering his wife and child without
extenuating circumstances, demurred
to the sentence. because capital punish.
ment had been abolished in France for
political oiienses, and he had killed his
wife and child for no other reason but
beeaase they were Legitimists.
1t is reported that a Kentucky legis
lator, who couldn't read, sent up TO the
Speakers desk the other day his whisky
bill, thinking it a petition from his en-
lightened constituency. The Speaker
who, happily, was better scholar than
his colleague, discovered the mistake In
time 70 prevent its reception.
A short, fat man, says the Detroit
Free Press, rushed into a grocery house
the other day, ard asked: Is it true
that Congress proposes to re establish
the tariff on tear" That's what the
papers say" replied the grocer. Then
believe I'll lay in a stock before the
rise. Give me quarter Of a pound Of
four dollar Japan" continued the eiti.
zen as be drew out his wallet.
DR.. Sehlosser, Of Holland, has found
that his own countrymen are the largest
consumers Of coffee in the world. and
next to them, the Belgians. In England
the annual consumption of coffee By
each person is one and one-eightI
pounds; in France, two aud one-half; in
Germany, four; in Denmark. Eve aui
one-half; in Switzerland. six; in th,
United States, seven; in Belgium, eigh
and one-haIf; in Holland. ten and one
half Il is 10 be considered. however
that the English are VIGOROUSLY a tea
drinking people. preferring Il to coffee
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