Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-28
FACTS AND FANCIES.
K. wH1TMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor

Montreal is considerably out of work
and in snow.
Tweed, junior, said, go, father, you
cant fare worse."
Alexander Dumas denounces dandies
as corrupting insects.
Mexico City is agitated over a statue
Of Columbus, soon to be erected.
Miss Anthony is wading through the
SHOWS of Iowa, hoarsely whispering
"woobud suffrush."
The German police is giving justly a
lively hun: for the dynamtical cuss de-
sirous of blowing up Bremerhaven
steamers.
Ten new iron-clads will be finished and
added to the Italian navy next year.
Their machinery has mostly been made
in England.
Il is proposed to abolish telegraph
poles in Chicago, and the town loafers
are around trying their backs against
lamp-post and railings to fnd an exact
fit.
Blondin walked on rope from mast
to mast of ship, the distance being 43l
feet, aud several times he was compelled
to stand still while the waves rocked the
vessel
The best Eastern music they could
get up in India for the Prince Of Wales
was Gil Creve. The native Princes had
been notified Of his partiality to opera
bouffe.
Letters are distributed ffty.four times
daily in Paris through pneumatic tubes,
from and to the central Office and its
succurssls; time of transmission, three
minutes.
One hundred and sixty-four thousand
Turkish soldiers are waiting patiently to
be impsled by Cossscks in the northen
portion of the Empire, They are not
in a hurry.
Gambling is on the increase at Mon
AGO, in the face Of mild sun and the
blue waters Of the Mediterranean. He'll
has charms no less renowned than
heavens.
Many things can be learned in the
courtroom-one is that where a party
sues for good character he is sure to
get bad one. We never knew it to
il.-Bucyris Forum
Bridal,tours are entirely out of fashion
now, and the pride of the sleeping-car
conductor is crushed, and he plods
mOurnfully along through a. life Of sterile
and unbroken common-plSces.
Madria intends concentrating two
hundred thousand soldiers in the North
to crush Carles once for all although it
will be an impossible task SO long as the
Atlantic cable is in existence.
Queen Isabellas friend, Mr.. Marfori,
has been sent to the Philippine Islands
by the king, her son. She got into
rage over it, but was calmed down by
the Spanish ambassador in Paris.
John is King Of Kings of Ethiopia.
Who is John2 Well, he is about as much
Of John and as good a King as any
other evolved from the joint ribs Of
Adam and Eve, who, We are told, were
the Siamese twins of Paradise.
1t is a stunning blow to the doctrine Of
foreoYdinstlon - the statement that if
buckwheas cakes had been foreseen from
the beginning, the human arm and hand
would have been so formed that man
could easily scratch his own back be-
tween the shoulder-blades.
A cabmGn residing at Sale, in Scot
land, found a ESQ note, which had been
left in his cab. After hunting about the
greater part. Of day endeavoring to
trace out the owner, he was at last sue
cessful. His labor was rewarded by the
owner, lady, handing him the sum Of
one shilling
Rev. /. s. Kalloch, of San francisco.
says the newspapers publish too many
details Of crimes and imworalities for
tho good Of the public. Had it not been
for the press, Mr.. Kalloch might yet DC
preaching to wealthy congregation at
Boston; but, as be says, the newspapers