Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-19
FACTS AND FANCIES.

A rooted sorrow-An aching tooth.
Seymour, Ind, would like to see less
social evil
Wisconsin is in woeful condition. 1t
is out of debt.
Ministers of the interior-The cook
and the doctor.
Indianapolis people kick against the
nine o'clock law.
Terre Haute is out of spirits because
of the prevalence of ghosts.
If twice eleven are twenty-five, how
can twice ten be twenty, too?
The mania for private telegraph wires
has become dangerous to tall hats.
A bill for the abolition of capital pun
ishment is before the California Legis-
lature.
Mr.. Punshon is telling the British pub
lie something about the men of the May
flower.
The Ismalia was the seventh steamer
which has mysterously disappeared on
the North Atlantic.
There are two things incident to this
life of which no one is ever prepared,
and they are-twins.
Dandelions are blooming in the fields
around Riverton, N. j., an unusual sight
at this time of year.
Immoderate laughter at q public enter
tainment cost a man at. Greencastle,
Ind, fine of fourteen dollars.
A young man in Indiana sues his
father for loaned money, which the
father claims was his own property.
There has been no confirmation of the
reported death of Henri Rochefort at
the penal colony of New Caledonia.
Pomologists consider it remarkable
fact that the first apple in paradise
should have turned out the first pair.
There is a two-year-old boy in North
Adams who smokes tobacco, and the
stronger the pipe the better be likes it.
A cynical lady, rather inclined to
firt, says most men are like a cold, very
easily caught, but very hard to get rid of.
A popular doctor in Chicago was pre-.
scented with a silver mounted skeleton
on New Years by his admiring patients.
A York county fisherman has been
found sewing catfish heads on mullets'
bodies and selling them as genuine cat
fish
When Indiana young ladies feel their
stockings slipping down they step into a
store and ask for pair of shank
bands.
Brooklyn has twenty-five lady physi-
clans, which is an encouragement to
sickness among the male portion Of the
population.
Small children, dressed entirely in
white fur, with blue ribbon trimmings,
are a conspicuous feature of New York
promenades
In Decatur, Illinois, when a young
lady declines an offer to convoy her
home, he asks permission TO sit on the
fence and see her go by.
The Sultan of Acheen is now willing
to come to terms with Lieutenant Gene
raj Van Swieten, the commander Of the
Dutch forces in Sumatra. Both banks
Of the Acheen river are now held by the
Dutch troops.
Father Arida, Superior Of the order
Of Jesuits in Mexico, is in Texas en-
deavoring to find suitable sites for the
location Of three colleges, and to make
arrangements for transferring the order
from Mexico to Texas.
Mr.. Hancock, superintendent Of the
Cincinnati public schools, says that it is
the duty Of every community to educate
as much as its pecuniary resources will
warrant, and on that point the COM
munity must be its own judge.
a dispatch from Bismarck D. T..
Wednesday, reports that only ten inches
of snow has fallen in Dakota. The
coolest day Of the season at Bismarck
was December 9Th, when the thermome
ter marked sixteen degrees below zero.
Good still oozes out Of Nazareth coca.
sionally, and a rural writer has produced
a smile new and gaudy. Says an ex
change: A man was found wandering
about the streets Of Hudson a few nights
since, and the local Of the Register il
describing his appearance says: de
didn't have clothes enough to wad
gan.