Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-23
FACTS AND FANClES.

a good teXt-pretext.
If truth inhabits we'll how about the
lighted torch arrangement
What is lover We must give it up,
and many people wish they had.
A. wildcat, Eve feet long, was killed
near Titusville, short time ago.
We would sooner hold several beers"
than have one bier hold us.
Some country people imagine that liv-
ing in a capital makes a man a capital
ist.
China has decided upon sending out
ambassadors to reside among the outside
barbarians.
You have fair chances of touching a
womans heart when you have just
touched a fair salary.
There is a lamentable and ever in
creasing failure in the crop of prima
donnas and tenors IN Italy.
1t is asserted that more geese have
been shot this season in the Great South
Bay, l.. l., than during any season for
ten years past.
The largest polished plate ever exhibi
ted was the work Of the Thames Plate
Glass Company, of England, measuring
nineteen feet FIVE inches long, and ten
feet three inches wide.
Z" Poor fellow-he had COED deal in
him" was the sorrowing remark of q
Mississippi editor over the body of a
subscriber shot in gin-mill. The coro-
ner's inquest subsequently verified the
assertion.
France and Italy are negotiating a
new treaty of commerce through the
irrespective Representatives at Paris.
The duties and distractions are to be
lessened in accordance with free trade
principles.
An unbroken line OF railway now ex-
tends from Mount Gents to Reggis, oppo.
site Messina, a distance of 1880 miles.
Passengers are ferried over between
Scylla and Charybdis in an hour, and
then proceed by rail to the southern ex-
tremity Of Sicily.
The late Duke of Modena, who was
an Austrian Archduke and extremely
wealthy, furnished much of the sinews
Of war to Don Carlos. His death and
the consequent stoppage of remittAnces
have occasioned quite stampede in
the Carlist camp.
A committee has been formed at Flor.
ence for the purpose of celebrating next
May, the centenary Of Christofori, the
inventor of the piano. The principal
feature Of the celebration will be inter.
national concerts on large scale. The
Able Litz has promised to play.
A young miss is soon to marry a
young mister, both being Of the house
Of Rothschild. She banks al Paris and
be at Vienna, accordingly the money
will remain in the house, and whatever
else may Se lacking at the wedding, there
will be no lack Of funds There's mil
lions in it.
| A fellow somewhat "bOozy' had seat
! ed himself by o stove in q church, and,
on becoming somewhat affected by the
heat, and making disturbance, was
shown to the door by the usher, when he
turned around, taking a good look at
| the minister, Rpd said, in a low, clear
voice: "SuGh preacbIpg that's enough
to make dog sick.
'Tis remarkable what effect wooden
toothpicks have on some people. We
noticed one young man, who went out
after each act at the opera house a few
evenings since. His fair partner, toward
| the close of the entertpipment, asked
him what made his tongue SO thick,
"Mus' be ze teothpicks. Pint sharper'n
SEWN chine needle.'
A resident who reached Detroit by a
noon train yesterday, after an absence OIL
two weeks, was met at the depot by his
eight.year old son, who loudly welcomed
him. "And is everybody we'll WillieT
asked the father. The wellest kind,
replied the boy. And nothing has hap
peued2 Nothing at all. I've been
good. and never saw ma behave her
self 80 we'll as she has this lime.