Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

ored borders, is called :" the Irritation. I"
The Titusville Herald calls him the
Bonaparte half orphan" Poor Louis
Wearing shirt collar is considered a
drawback to political success in Omaha
The Russian Czar is said to be very
fond of the national sport Of bear hunt
ing
An Austrian officer was recently dis
missed from the service for refusing to
| fight duel. .-..-. - .s.s..is.sst.a
Men who marry red headed women are
recommended to provide themselves with
pair of brass knuckles. .--rs-1-
1t is stated that lamp chimney put
in water and allowed to remain till the
water boils will not readily break.
The halest man in New York is Mr..
Bryant, of the Evening Post. Virtue
and boiled eggs.-N. T. Graphic.
DIR. Brown-Sequard in a recent lee
ture, stated that he once successfully
grated cats tail into ROSTERS comb.
Shad are reported to be so plentiful in
the st. Johns river, Florida, that the
farmers are using the fish as fertilizers.
Only nine families, it is stated are
left in Pithole City, Pennsylvania. 1t
once boasted population of $4,000 Sic
transitl
Georgetown, Massachusetts,, has been
scandalized by the marriage of conso-
late widower the day after his frst's
funeral.
1t is said that there are old people
living in the mountains of Kentucky who
have never tasted or seen tea or coffee
in their lives.
The Ashantee prize money only
amounts to about two dollars per man,
with proportionately larger amounts ac-
cording to rank.
Birmingham, England, complains that
orders from the United States and Can
ada are very small, although prices gem
orally are easier.
Katkoff, the editor of the Moscow
(Russia) Gazette, it is said, is shortly
to be elevated to the rank of Prince.
His wife is Princess.
Prince Arthur was initiated as Free
mason on the oath utimo by his brother,
the Prince of Wales, the Worshipful
Master of the Lodge.
A scientific journal desires its young
readers to remember that their marbles
were originally nothing but amorphous
chunks of protoplastic clay.
A meeting of merchants and railroad
men is to be held at Atlanta, Georgia, on
the 5th of May, to consider the question
of direct trade with Europe.
A Pittsburg saloon keeper has had
several lady members Of the temperance
crusade bound over for obstructing the
sidewalks in front of his store.
The Prince Imperial has gained the
largest number of marks at the Woolwich
examination, and, therefore, has the first
place on the list.
Beecher's congregation have definitely
decided to build new church. 1t is to
cost with the land, 100000, and seat
5000 people.
A reckless jester declares that Winnie
Ream never made bust half so good
as her 0wn. That is not strange; nature
generally excels art Graphic.
Arthur Sullivan will set Tennyson's
Welcome" to music. He is to be
knighted after performing his Sight Of
the World before the Duke of Edin-
burg.
A Georgia bridegroom, who did not
appear in time for his wedding, was
found asleep with fifteen cents in his
pocket, waiting for the initiation of the
currency.
An affair of honor" may be looked
for soon in Brooklyn. An affectionate
wife recently found pieces of an ostrich
plume in her husbands beard-and the
plume was not her own.
A man in New Haven recently sued
an editor for libel for calling him an
. old ballot-box stufer," but the court
held the accusation to be true, and ac-
quilted the defendant.
As the tenure of royal honors in Hon
olulu is uncertain, the New King,
Kolakaua, has thought it necessary to
designate the next heir to the throne,
Prince William Pitt Leleiohokee.
People who believe the current stories
about intelligent dogs, will read with
pleasure that lost dog in Norfolk, hav-
ing seen his masters advertisement in a
local print, promptly went home.
Heroism is limited, after all. A girl
who, the other day, jumped into the
Merrimac river and rescued drowning
child, tainted away when she saw her
false curls floating down stream.
A reporter on an Iowa paper wrote:
" Yesterday morning winter and spring |
kissed each other in the sunrise, and |
spread its choicest favor on the purple |
air" He was married next day.
The Chicago Tribune estimates that
getting born costs the people of the
United States S220, ,095, 900 annually; get
ting married, $3.50, 100000; getting
buried, s7SS39, ,45O; total, S54S, ,9S4, ,45O.
A young Frenchman recently shot
himself in a Montreal hotel, and while
in fear of death confessed that he had
gambled away a large amount of money,
and that the Solicitor General OF Canada
was one Of the winners.
Let him that hath ears to hear take
heed lest he eincontinently shed them, for
a Pennsylvania wife has introduced the
bob;t Of chonninge off a husbands ear