Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

OdllIOTnld Is aubdu OI tue Olu6r states
in one thing. 1t taxes church property.
Parson Brownlow calls Reyels "a
high.nosed niger, without an honest
kink in his wool"
DR.. Momsen, the historian of ancient
Rome, has been appointed Professor of
jurisprudence of the University of Leip-
sic.
A petition is circulating in Stockton,
California, in favor of introducing the
study of the Irish language in the pub
lie schools.
A number Of prominent lawyers of st.
Louis have petitioned the Missouri Leg
islature in favor Of the repeal of the So
cial evil law.
Emerson says, The way to make the
world better is by reforming number
one. then there is surely one less villain
in the world"
odd age is coming upon me rapidly"
as the urchin said when he was stealing
apples from an old mans garden, and
saw the owner coming with whip in hand.
Count Woldeck, painter residing in
Paris, has attained the age of los. For
the last torty-eight years be has received
from the Ecole des Beaux Arts an an
nual allowance of 2000 francs.
There is mutiny in the Universalist
Church in San Francisco The Rev.
W. N De Mark heads the schismatic
faction, aud the Rev. A. A. Miner, of
Boston, has gone there to guide the reg
ulars.
Lady Houghton, better known as Mrs.
Monckton Mines, died on February "a
at Fryston Hall, England, after short
illness, in the sixtieth year Of her age.
Lady Houghton leaves a son, born in
1857, and two daughters.
The pupils of girls school in Pitts
burg, out for their daily promenade,
were recently mistaken for an approach
ing band of temperance reformers, and
their appearance waa the signal for a
general closing up of the saloons.
"This is remarkably open winter"
says the Danbury News man. The
Oldest inhabitant does not remember a
winter in the past twenty-five years when
loafers could stand on the corners in
VhS mluuic vi Vanudr1 dS tHoJ w hO"'
A mudhole in Bennington, Nebraska,
is so deep that small children are often
lost in il, and local paper says: 1--WE
don't care anything about it, cause our
folks are just out of children, but for
the sake of our suffering neighbors we
call attention to the matter.
A Detroit lunatic recently stole baby
from its cradle while the mother was
absent for a moment, and carried his
plunder in triumph to his friends. They,
however, saw no cause for rejoicing, and
bribed him with dollar to show them
where he had stolen it from and carry it
back.
A couple of Iowa bIacksmiths, for
merly in partnership, have curious
lawsuit. One sues the other for labor
performed and money paid out, and the
other presents counter claim for twelve
months checker playing, INDUCED in by
the plaintiff when he should have been
at work.
A family passing through Detroit lost
their tom cat. Come, children, said
the father huslily, as he turned to the
wagon, Johnny died of scarlet fever,
little Mary went with the whooping-
cough, and now we We lost Sardimus2 l.
wonder if mother or I'd be the
next to go.
A Nebraska journal invitingly says:
Who says farmers cannot get rich in this
StateP Fifteen years ago young man
came to this State without q dollar in
the world. Last week he went out of
the State, carrying with him the sum of
one dollar and thirty-eight cents, the
savings of fifteen years of frugal life.
N. Ledru Rolin, who has just been
elected member of the French National
Assembly, took a prominent part in the
revolution Of February, 1913, and was
Minister of the Interior in the Provis-
ional Governments. he is an uneom-
promising Republican, and never relaxed
his hostility to Napoleon III.
A female Of Washington, Ind, writes
to Nevada that a society numbering
thirty women, mostly girls from eighteen
to twenty-five, has been organized to pay
a temperance visit to the Pacific coast.
They will commence their labors at
Omaha, and stop at every saloon on the
line Of the railroad from there to San
Francisco.
Little George Cough was sliding down
hill in East Hampton, Conn, about half
a mile from home. His mother stood at
the window and saw him slide into a
pond at the foot of the long hill. No
body was with him, and he was too
young to help himself. She started for
the pond as fast as she could run, climb
ing fences and stumbling through banks
of snow. Before reaching the place she
became so breathless, scared, and ex-
hausted that she fell half fainting but
she got on her feet again, and staggered
on. When she came to the water, which
stood there feet deep over the ice, she
waded in and drew her boy out, but ne
was dead.
A novel amusement in Northern Del
aware is crow shooting as substitute
for pigeon matches. The rules and Gus
toms are the same in either case. Reedy
Island, in the Delaware, is the favorite
roosting ground of the crows, and to-
ward nightfall they congregate there by
thousands. When darkness oyerspreads
the island, the catchers enter among the
low trees with bags and capture any
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