Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-16
FACTS AND FANCIES.


insects that produce iron.
The President of the Swiss Republic
gets salary of $4,000 year.
Have no respect for any man who has
to feel the public pulse to learn his pri-
vate duty.
The Wesleyan University at Middle
town, Conn, has four female sophs
and one fresh.
A st. Joseph, Missouri, man adver-
tises, Bowie knives sharpened and
warranted to cut hair.
Tallahassee, Florida, finds balance
of 1898 in her treasury, and is in very
anxious state of mind.
Extensive and well-organized gangs
Of colered banditti are said to be scat
tered along both banks of the lower
Mississippi.
Only six native Jerseymen can be
found to study theology at Princeton;
the other ninety.fve pupils are from the
United States.
A drunken Frenchman chatters; q
drunken German sings; a drunken Brit
on fights; drunken Spaniard swears; a
drunken American talks pelitics.
Stebbins says: Elderly people ought
to retire early at this season Of the year.
1t is better for their health. Besides,
it gives the young folks better chance.
Happy st. Augustine, Florida There
the flowers are blooming, and the orange
trees dropping their fruits; and, still
better, the people havn't yet felt the
hard times.
Peoria has produced the champion
mean man, who, during the present hard
times. gives his children a penny for
going to bed supperless, and the next
morning charges them a cent for the ir
breakfast.
Thompson is not going to do any
thing more in conundrums. He recently
asked his wife TIE difference between
his head and hogsbead. and she said
there was none. He says that is not the
right answer.
When / think of the bummers that
left Boston in ls49 to find their fortunes
in California, and then hear Bret Harte
call EN- Argonauts, said gentleman
after the lecture, / must award to Bret
Harte the credit of refining whatever he
touches"
A couple in Colebrook, Mass, tied
their sick child to the bed and went to
church. They we're gone four hours,
and when they returned the neighbors,
attracted by the prisoners cries, had
broken in the door. The parents were
arrested.
A woman at Fort Laramie has sued
paper for saying that she has murdered
three husbands, when the fact is she
hasn't murdered but two, the third one
getting away with broken rib. There
is nothing like being accurate when
dealing with such grave matters.
A woman in Louisville, Tenn, re-
Gently sneezed false tooth out while
feeding her chickens, and one of them
picked it up, whereupon the woman
caught the chicken, cut open the crop,
and, having taken out the tooth, sewed
it up again. And that chicken is as
proud as a Credit Mobilierist.
John Paul is convinced that it is
sound business Judgment to avoid the
vicinity Of any animal whose skin is 20
short that he can't drop his ears without
raising bis heels, the more so if he hap
pens to be so particularly lively that he
can 20 through both motions at once
A lady stepped on ex-senator Doc
little foot while getting into a Chicago
stage the other day. She blushingly
begged the gentleman's pardon, where
upon be said: Mss for bright. sunny
smile like that ] am perfectly willing
you should dance the Boston din on ,uy
favorite corns."
A few mornings ago, says a Kentucky
rural paper, We meekly approached an
emigrant wagon ard inquired Of its aus
tere proprietor: Whittier boundY Nv
lore removed bis quid to the larboard
side Of his mouth, and coolly remarked:
None ofyour ID business" And
It wasn't either.
In some parts Of California they have
gopher crop" the animal in question
being so destructive to other crops-
and especially to the alfalfa or lucerne.
on the roots Of which II leeds vi,b