Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-11
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Baltimore clergymen gather strength
in ten-pin alleys.
Atlanta, Georgia, has announced the
first strawberry festival.
The masculine spring hat is straight,
ungraceful looking utensil.
Chicago divorced lawyers sare now
known as patent separators.
The Delaware peach,crop, it is said,
will be the largest ever dreamed Of
Some Partisan aeronauts now talk Of
a transcontinental ba loon excursion.
Forty-seven crows are considered a
pretty good return for one sportsman in
New Hampshire.
And Maryland, too, proposes to have
a centennial-the Annapolis ea-destruc-
tion of October, l774.
Three men in Ashland, Wis, have
caught two hundred half barrels of lake
trout during the past winter.
The femestrom is what a Dayton
newspaper calls the present woman's
movement in favor of temperance.
The practice of medicine by ladies,
in Chicago, has recently been supple
mented by female sexton and under
taker.
"You can make it plain, but at the
same time smart, as sit in a conspicu-
Gus place in church" (Her order for
spring style bonnet
The Nuhon Hawaii, of Honolulu, says,
Zone of our legislators was very much
put out on account of the riot. he was
put out of two-story window"
The editor of the Leavenworth Daily
Argus remarks in the obituary Of his
paper I'VE went into the business de-
termined to run it or bust. We have
busted.
A Dubuque man hired policeman at
three dollars per night to watch his wife,
and she was at the same time paying the
same man four dollars per night to watch
her husband
A Lutheran minister in Freedom, Wis
consin, recently refused to conduct the
funeral services of deceased farmer
because he was Granger. The church
dismissed him. .trn
Oakland, California, complains OF
eighty-six wet days during the present
rainy season. A man there may have
some chance Of wearing out an um'
brella before it is stolen.
In the Oregon Museum there is a scalp
on exhibition for the purpose of enabling
the friends of a deceased soldier, who
was killed during the late conflict with
the Modocs, to identify him.
The authorities of the Mintin England
are about to coin large quantity of
halfcrowns, none of which have been
coined since l648, when they were
abolished by royal proclamation.
A regularly arranged dog fight was
| broken up recently in Sioux City by a
Newfoundlander. He rushed into the
ring and separated his combative broth
ers by persuasively chewing their ears
For playing on a jewsharp in church
during divine service in New Britain,
! Connecticut, William Rathburu has
been fined $40, Notwithstanding he de-
Tended his solos by quotations from the
Bible.
Detroit Free Press "The quickest
way we know of to make a man believe
there's nothing in this world worth living
for is to excite him into chasing a cat
across a yard where two or three clothes
lines are innoeently swaying in the eve
ming breeze. .l
There is something very sensible in
the impromptu remark oi a pretty girl
"If our Maker thought it wrong for
Adam to live single when there was not
a woman on earth. how criminally wrong
are the old bachelors, with the world full
of Pretty girlsl
The Strasbourg library, which was de-
.stroyed during the late Franco German
war, is being replaced with great rapid
1 ity. Eighty thousand volumes have
been added to II during the past year,
and il now numbers about three hundred
thousand volumes in all.
On the occasion Of the annual slRy-
ing Of the victims in Dahomey, the
kings umbrella, which is slowly turned
around above his head by an Amazon. is
black, with white skulls and cross bones
on the lappets, and with human skull
erowntng the top Of the stick.
| General Francis A. Walker Superin-
tendent Of the Census, is doubtless the
only officer in the service of the United
States who refuses TO receive 'suy salary
at his own request The word emolu.
ments was erased from his commission,