Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-23
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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TO Dom Piatt.
A flock Of sparrows got on grain car
at Boston and rode to Concord. where
they have settled.
A Russian nobleman has just bought
Boston buggy, and hopes for better
acquaintance with the Hub.
Pomeroy, the young Massachusetts,
murderer, is now said to have acquired
his thirst for blood from hearing Indian
stories. at.
An Arkansas grocer has been sent to
the penitentiary for six years for shoot
ing man who kept helping himself to
the crackers.
A Western paper consents that ladies
shall wear monogram garters; but no
patriot has yet moved that the gsrters be
put in the constitution. Rochester Dem.
Ocrdt.
Mad. Nilsson has taken a superb suit
of apartments on the Rue Auber, in
Paris, not halfa.dozen blocks from the
house of her black-eyed rival, the Mar
quise de Caux. She is to reside there
during her approaching visit to Paris.
The Rev. Mr.. Rexford, of San Fran
cisco, is not an admirer of some Of the
bible celebrities. In late sermon he
said that job was a stupid fool, with
character beneath contempt, and the
author of Ecclesiastes was poor, for
lorn, morbid.minded creature.
At sunset recently a most distinct
mirage was recently witnessed in Lewis
ton. Maine. For half an hour Portland
Harbor was distinctly visible, seas and
islands appearing to be no more than
two or three miles away. Lewiston is
thirty miles distant from Portland, and
at no point in either city can the other
be seen.
A flock of 10000 sheep arrived at
Omaha on the 25th ult., after travelling
400 miles in As days. They were the
property of Mr.. Peres, by whom over
1000 ewes-not black one among them
were huddled together, the movement
of their bodies, as the sun shone across
them, reminding the beholder of the
waves of ths sea.
The French Assembly is divided into
parties, and the adherents of these par
ties range themselves on the seats to the
=" Right" and "Left" sides of the Cham
Der, just as they do in most legislative
bodies where there are political parties.
In the French Assembly the Republicans
of all varieties are seated on the left side
and those opposed to the Republic, com.
posed of Monarchists and Bonapartists,
are on the right. The extreme Radicals
occupy the extreme Of the Republican
" Left" the moderate Republicans oc
cupy the seats nearer to the center of
the chamber, and so they are designated
as the Left Center" Similarly the ex-
treme Monarchists are on the extreme
right, and the more moderate Of them
have their seats nearer TO the center of
the chamber, and are called the Right
Center" The Right Center" and Left
Center" are respectfully the reasonable
and conservative portions Of the Mon
archists and Republicans of the French
Assembly, being checks upon the ex-
treme politicians of both sides.
Yesterday morning nice young man
got into car on the Dayton Short-line
and saw to his delight the only
vacant seat in the coach was by the side
Of a young lady acquaintance. He
reached for that seat with joyous strides,
and her eyes answered his delighted
ooks. But just as he got there an
elderly party from the other end of the
car wsltzed up the aisle and dropped |
INTO the coveted seat. The young man
more slowly and accosted
he young lady: How is your brotherY |
be asked, is he able to get out?" "Oh,
res" she said. Twill be be very badly |
narked2" be continued; and the old gen.
.leman grew suddenly interested. "Oh,
no" said the fair deceiver, with the ex-
,eption of few small pits on his fore
lead, you would never know he had ever
had it" Were you not afraid Of TAX
ing itT' the young man went on, while
he old gentleman broke out in cold per-
Jpiration. Not at all, /" she replied; II
lad been vaccinated, you know" The
Iest was vacated instantly, two young
hearts beating as half dozen, and the
orattle of mice talk !" strewed that part
If the car, while q grayhaired old man
Icowled upon them from the hard accom-
Of the wood box Cincinnati
Night.