Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-28
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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shed it now.
Where to go when short of money
90 to work.
Whenever business falls off it is sure
to get hurt.
The flies have begun to step down
and out" Au revoirl
St. Louis female lawyer is appro-
priatly named Feeble Couzins. -Nor-
ristown Herald,
The rulers of fashion now say that
the ohignon is forever dead. The
troubles used to be that it was too much
alive.
A Hartford reporters description OF
an inoipieut conaagration: "a hole was
burned in the floor but was extinguished
wi.hou, the aid of the fire department"
Ii is estimated that there are at pres
eat 100000 canary birds in the United
States, of which number 100000 we're
exported last year. In addition to these
there are upwards of 100000 other cage
birds. To feed this army of feathered
songsters 10000 bushels of seed, re-
presenting value of s., 900, 900, are an
naAily required.
NJ. 6uiuot has left will, in which he
makes a profession OF his faith, He says
that he dies in the bosom of the Chris
tan Returned Church of France; that
be has inquired, and even doubted, but
that be has returned to the convictions
in which he was Graded; and that he be.
heves in God, and bows before the mys-
teries Of the bible and the gospel.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, being confn-
81 to her home in Chicago by nervous
exhaustion, was unable to be in attend
auce at the ceremonies at Springfield,
il honor Of the memory of her distin-
Euished husband. She has been con-
fined TO her room for the past FIVE
months by a severe illness, from which
she is just now slowly recovering.
The gushing young lady the Boston
Traveller tells about who let the mos
ouisoes prey on her unmolested while in
the woods, merely remarking, This is
their home, not nine was heard rush
ing frautieally around her bed room that
same evening with wet towel in her
hands, exelaiming, "Ahl you vexatious
little wretch, I've got you now. This is
nv home, not yours.
Professor Webster told, at the late
meeting OF the American Association,
the story of party that divided in the
Great Dismal swamp, one portion of the
party having no compass. The latter
portion of the party was lost, and after
long wandering found their way out by
a singular expedient. They made use
of the insect for which fine tooth combs
we're invented. Putting the insect on
fiat piece of wood, and leaving it to its
own devices, it invariably began to move
in a certain direction. This direction
was followed out by the party, and they
we're thus led out to the northward. 1t
is supposed that this instructive move
ment of the insect is due to its seeking
the way toward the greatest light.
A remarkable verdict was given on
October I in the Recorders Court in
Dublin. A man named Walsh, master
of a Catholic orphanage, was indicted
for cruelty Aogging one of the pupils.
The boy, about two months ago, having
had fight with another lad was put in
a dark cell for seven hours, and then
stripped to the waist and logged on his
naked back with cane The resident
surgeon Of Jervis Street Hospital, to
whom he was brought by his relatives
within few hours, deposed that he
found seventeen wounds from which
blood was oozing. Evidence for the de-
tense showed that the boy was rather
unmanageable, and the jury, without a
moments hesitation, acquitted the mas
ter.
A little girl named Wilshin, in the
service of gentleman residing near
Uxbridge, England, was fearfully worried
by four mastiffs on Saturday afternoon,
Oct. 3. 1t appears that she had been
left alone in the house with the animals,
and, while she was in the act of attend
ing 20 some food which was cooking for
them, they suddenly turned upon her.
Her cries attracted the attention Of the
passers by, and on some neighbors en-
tering the house they found the dogs
literally tearing her to pieces. After
good deal OF trouble they succeeded in
beating the animals off; sut the girl had
by this time become so frightfully man
gled, especially about the face, that it is
thought she would not recover. 1t is
feared that erysipelas or lockjaw will
set in.
LOUISVILLE AND CINCINNATI