Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

All the brothers and sisters Of Eng
and Chang were twins.
The international postal congress at
Berne will be a red-hot affair.
The population of the world, includ-
ing enlarged Boston, is l,377 900, 900. :.
Does your new leaf remain turned
over, or does it persist in turning back
A Vernon. gentleman fell over dam.
It was only a slip of the tongue, how
ever.
Chief Justice Waite has eleven chill
dreu. A little heaven 'leaveneth the
whole lump
Most of the missing merchants =
who disappear from New York turn up
drunk in Chicago.
London papers spell it Hsvanah. If
the Cubaus insist upon it, they leave off
one h, and call it Avansh.
Woodruff is lecturing in Wisconsin,
and she has got SO she can dodge a
frozeH potato nine times out of ten.
A Japanese youth who has b9en to
America is as great bore at home as a
Yankee STRIPPING who has dined in Paris
Seamless paper boxes, made directly
from the pulp, is the latest novelty in
the paper line for which a patent has
been obtained.
Jones, being told that he looked
seedy, and asked what business he was
in, replied, The hard wear business
look at my wardrobe.
Quiz, who is a bachelor, says its
mighty hard, when man has the repu-
tstion Of being bear, that he never
gets chance to hug
Fourteen Quincy fathers have signed
an agreement not to permit their daugh-
ters to take music lessons until the said
daughters know how to bake bread,
Albany people have been cheated so
often that they won't buy any more but
ter without cutting the roll open to see
if there ism I wad of mashed potatoes
in it.
The Superior Sex is the title Of a
new novel which is going to plunge fam
lilies into dissensions until they have
succeeded in finding out which sex is
meant. s'-.'-
Belgium has already adopted the
double postal card system, by which
answers can he returned on the same
card, without expense to the sender Of
the answer
Miss Lydia Thompson is said to be.
about TO leave the American stage. In
April everything is to be sold, from the
the troupe title down to the company's
wardrobe and effects.
Owing to John Robinson's circus
being in town, the regular Thursday
evening prayer meeting has been post
poned said recent number Of the
Enterprise, Dallas Texas.
One can judge something of the pa
thence Of boosters from the statement Of
an Indiana paper that twenty men
handled over thirty-fye cords of wood
to get at rabbit, which escaped after
all.
General Cook sharply criticises Gen.
Towards assertion that the widest
Apaehes may be me; and conquered
without arms by Gods help. Howard
should reserve such ammunition for
himself
Somebody in Georgia court zap.
plauded, whereupon the judge I'VE
quote from the Griffin News indig.
nantly remarked: Now, dry up; I
viii let you know that this is no camp
meeting"
Says the Atchison Globe: While
the soldiers we're digging up the dead at
Fort kearney last week one coffin vas
taken up that was literally filed with
snakes. Some wag remarked that it
was plain enough what that fellow died
Of"
A Missouri gentleman. Who drew al !
his money out Of the bank during the
panic died very suddenly the other day.
A large reward is offered By bis relatives
to any one who viii find where b, bid
the money.
There Is 20 animal worse treated thaB
the rat aud 20 animal ofteuer has bic
little reveuges For instance rodent
gnaved recently boIe IN . Dubuque
elevator. aud before The mischief vas
discovere d 500 bushels Of wheat stream