Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-06
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

Charleston has ten cent city express
MIR. Cameron thinks the country wants
more money.
Savannah has free meals for the poo
at the market.
Old Governor Allen favors the wo
mans crusade.
In 1870 Pennsylvania spent Sl52,669,
945 for liquor.
Pennsylvania is organizing anti
grange societies.
Congressman fear reporters more tkar
they fear the law.
Tennyson is reported to have written
his own obituary.
Indiana has forty-one lodges Of
Knights of Pythias.
Temperance lecturers pass free on the
Georgia State railroad.
In primeval Nebraska there were horses
no larger than a goat.
A noiseless hinge for saloon back
doors has been invented.
England never produced great man
who wasn't always in debt.
A Reading dentists poodle ate eight
dollars worth Of gold foil at one sitting.
Two thousand school children Of
Springfield, o., have signed the pledge.
The snow in. northern Sierra county,
California, is nine feet deep and as solid
as ice.
Nevada las only one minister to every
one hundred square miles, and calls for
recruits.
Beecher says he was pitched into the
ministry headlong," with a small stock
of theology.
In Arkansas, when man walks into
a house and shoots the proprietor, he is
styled IAN intruder"
The New York Herald seems to infer
that offering a reward for thieves indi-
Gates their scarcity.
The Morris county, New Jersey, au-
thorities refused to license hotels where
demonstrating matches are held.
The scientific editor of Western
journal says, a single drop of nicotine
on a dog s nose will kill man in three
minutes"
A Connecticut husband sues for d.
vorce on the ground that his wife did
throw cucumbers in his face because he
helped himself too plentifully."
A humorous citizen of Gwinnetti, Ca,
arrayed himself in the attractive garb
common to females and allowed Wal
Ton county man to be married to him.
An exchange asserts that Vanderbilt
believes in plain talk, and when one Of
MS clerks contended that Worcester
was pronounced Wooster" Van. paid
aim of.
One Chinaman held monopoly Of De-
.roituntil the other day, when he saw his
ong lost brother coming up Jefferson
lvenue with satchel in one hand and a |
iausage in the other. Then there was
in the Celestial soul.
Sneezing is very seldom heard in par
ors now after the old folks have retired,
or lovers bear in mind the receipt given |
~ DR.. Brown-Sequard-that sneezlng |
IAN always be stopped by pressing the
upper lip-and act accordingly.
TWAS crush the Irecent assem-
,ly ball at Washington. A correspond
INT notes how Miss Nellie Grant went
INTO the ballroom with new pulled
Illusion that was garlanded with flowers.
She came out in cambria petticoat
rom the knees down"
A wealthy and eccentric Boston lady,
ncensed at her relatives for fancied in
,ults, died and willed all her possessions
o an acquaintance. The legatee, how
,ver, has formally refused to accept the
,equest, and the natural heirs will get
he property.
If you don't see what you want, ask
or it, is posted up in a conspicuous
,lace in Logansport grocery. A ma
i've stepped into the establishment last
Yeek. He saw the card and remarked,
| want ten dollar bill, and | don { see
t. Neither do l" was the laconic
eply.