Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-22
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

A Michigan man thinks he could make
pneumatic tube from Chicago to the
Atlantic, for the more speedy transport
of grain.
The mistletoe season has come
around, and the popular song Of the
hour is, Tears for tomorrow, but
kisses to-day"
The South Carolina papers are &C.
cusing Governor Moses of using, with
out credit, part of Macauley's essay on
Milton in his message.
A Brooklyn paragraphist declares that
the Dayton man who recently killed
himself because his wife went to Cincin'
natl was justifable.
j. S. Kelloch, the former Boston cler-
gyman who fell away, has been recon
verified in Kansas City, Missouri, and has
Joined a Baptist church.
John H. Reagan, who was the Post
master General of the Southern Confed-
eracy, is candidate for the United
States Senate from Texas.
Governor-elect Kemper, Of Virginia,
has declined present of carriage and
horses, and proposes to run the State
government without landaulet.
A Sunderland, Mass, farmer raises q
thousand dollars worth of onions to the
acre, and doesn't belong to the grange
either. He thinks he is strong enough
without it.
A deformed, idiotic Digger Indian
with hair ingeniously gummed to his
person to represent an animals hide,
has been on exhibition in San Francisco
as the Bear Boy"
1t is said that there is only one man
in Congress who has not got a plan for
the resumption of specie payment, but
he is earnestly solicitous that his name
may be suppressed.
A Boston man wouldn't invest bis
money in Dubuque, after finding that
the Mayor didn't know anything about
Plymouth Rock" and didn't care a
cuss for George Washington"
Susan Gray, of Iowa, was tied up
by the thumbs for disobeying the rules
OF school, and after her brothers got
through shooting the school was closed
for the want of a competent teacher.
Chicago claims to have sold $780,
100000 worth of goods in 1873 at whole
sale alone. This is gain of eighteen
per cent. oyer the same business of 1872,
and gain of thirty-one per cent. over
that of 1870.
A man in Evansville, Ind, recently
had the pleasure Of attending the we'd
ding Of his own parents. They had
been divorced thirty years, but the num-
Der of times each had been married in
the interval is not stated.
A woman in Michigan insured her life
for $4,000 for the benefit Of her children
the other day. and then committed sui
eide. And now the mothers of Michi-
gan are daily leased by their affection
ate children to go and do likewise.
Julia Ward Howe says that there is
nothing but dumb submission for the
women" There isn't, eh2 She ought
to meander through the State and look
upon the splintered rolling pins and
battered potato smashers.-D Detroit Free
Press.
a panic in the cocOaD ut trade is pro-
phesied, doubtless much to the disgust
OF the intelligent small boy. A drouth
IN Ceylon, metaphorically, accounts for
the milk in the cocoanut, in this instance,
and, literally for the absence Of milk in
the same fruit.
Very few Of the aristocratic aud fash.
ionable 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 repre.
scented to be dreadful.
A married man attempted TO elope
with tbs young daughter Of clergyman
in Georgetown one day last week, bu,
the girls mother, in the absence Of her
husband, collected some Of her lady
neighbors, pursued the couple half q
mile, rescued the girl from the carriage
aud compelled Der 70 return home.
A happier day is dswning, and
glimpses Of a possible millennium glad.
den the advent of the new year. A
Western editor started out to sstOnish
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