Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-26
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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warm stove,
A preacher speaks of the Black Crook
edness Of the devious ways of sin.
Now that the snow is all gone, Vassar
girls coast down the hall banisters.
A statistician estimates that court
ships average three tons of coal each.
Adam was proudly conscious that he
never made a mistake in his boyhood.
The sentinel who did not sleep on his
watch had left it at the pawnbroker's.
The carrying Of a contribution box will
not be discontinued so long as there is
money in it." =
The window of the late Confederate
General Stevens is a clerk in the Pat
ent Office.
The fountain which Lolita Crabtree,
the actress, has given to San Francisco
cost $4,000.
The only objection to the female chap
tain of the Maine Legislature is that she
has too much to say.
Lawyer Evarts has a nephew clerking
in a Chicago business house. But that
doesn't help the case any.
If that smashed church building in
New York had only beer a theater, how
Talmage would have crowedl
Prince Arthur is said to look exactly
like the portrait of his royal father,
taken at the age Of twenty-four.
St. Joseph (Mo.) paupers refuse to
take the wood sent to them by the poor.
master if it is not all second.growth
hickory.
Elmira has q live goose seventy years
old, and for some remarkable reason the
goose is employed on neither Of the
daily papers.
A Kentucky paper speaks of a mar
who had a morrow escape from a sun.
stoke, he having stood only two fee
from a man who was struck.
DR.. Manning, Archbishop of Westmin
ster, is amsng those who are likely tt
receive the Cardinals hat at the ap
preaching Consistory Of Rome.
A Chicago paper recently burned ~
one of the theaters in that city in
most graphic manner, just to show wha
an awful event it would be if it occurre,
in reality.
When Brigham Young was in Jail tn
other day for contempt of court, Their
were five of his wives weeping at eac'
window of that institution, and twelv
at the door.
Miss Nelson became suddenly indii
posed at Cincinnati the other night, an
Miss Ada Gray took her place for tn
evening. The particular trouble ism
mentioned this time.
Anthony Comstock last Friday cause
the arrest of two saloon-keepers in Ne
York for exhibiting, among other o.
scene pictures, photographs representa-
Mr.. Beccher dancing the can-can wit
an unknown damsel. Coed for M
Comstock. There is enough to regrI
/, in this scandal without permitting
, lechery the privilege of its sole anus
ment in the premises.
, A girl was smothered to death Will
on q sleigh ride neal Bangor, Maine, c
one Of the recent intensely cold night
! A party of young people were out on
frolic, filing a long sleigh. This q
grew very cold, aud to keep her war
/, her sweetheart wrapped her closely in
I, huge blanket, covering her head al
face. Too drowsy and benumbed
. stir, she s~uffocated without her compa
ions being aware that she was dying.
Colonel Stuart Wortley, in his ane
dotes relative to reasoning in ANNA
says: After the battle of Inkerman,
\ fine Russian dog remained with his mi
# ter's body, and l took him away.
tolerated me, but at intervals Of ten da
or so he would go off down a valley
front Of our camp into Sebastopol, a
not return for a day or two. Clearly
:, went to search for his lost and low
master, and failing to find him, return
to his friend. This dog never recover
d the loss Of his master, and even VIII
9 living in England would 60 restlessly
q, in search Of him. Many Of my frier
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