Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-02
FCTS AND FANCIES.


before Eve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nash constitute the law
firm of Nash & Nash, of Columbia, Ne.
The Pope has seen lO4 cardinals die,
but he just keeps on distributing the
little red hats.
A ten-year-old Louisiana boy captured
burglar the other night. The burglar
was probably small one.
Tiger Tail the sub-chief of the Semi
mole Indians in Florida, has three wives
and two coal-black slaves.
An Illinois paper thus describes a
thunder-bolt: " 1t first struck the light
ming rod, slid down to the roof, ran up
to the cellar, tore shingles off the
weather.boarding, and went away with
out hurting anything.
Emily Faithful is reported as paying
"a high compliment to American ladies'"
in one of her recent lectures. Emily was
sharp enough to see, when she was here,
that there were ao.lenge anyr women in
America.
A Texas editor says: ALI men who
avoid female society have dull percep-
tions, are stupid. Poetry is uninspiring
to yokel; beauty has no charms for a
blind man; music does not please a poor
beast, who does not know one tune from
another"
There are very few women in Havana
Cuba. Poor, downtrodden man doesn t
have to hang on to the street car strap
there, and the rudeness he is subjected
to on the street crossings of other places
is unknown in the Cuban capital
An elephant in Paris has been taught
to speak the word papa" but he doesn't
know what it means. If he should ever
come to understand it, and then look
around upon the present crop of fathers,
he will make horrible example of his
teacher.
The coffee-planters of Ceylon are
threatened with pecuniary ruin, the rats
having seized their plantations, grass
hopper style. Not being able to import
American music, they are trying to
frighten off the invaders with the tom
tom, home instrument.
The famous French surgeon Ricord,
recently had corn extracted by an ope.
rator in the neighborhood. After the
operation the great surgeon drew from
his pocket 20 franc piece. "0h, sir"
cried the chiropodist with emotion, while
declining the money, there is no charge
between professional brothers.
In Germany the keeping of dogs is
not to be monopolized by poor men with
thirteen children. Prince Albert Solms,
prominent idiot, who has been visiting
the dog shows of England, has just i'm
ported lot Of canine stock, and others
are following his example. II France
will wait awhile she will be amply
avenged, without going to the folly and
expense Of war.
The bees have become very bold in E
Paso, ILL.,, and cluster around the beer
faucets in the beer shops. A thirsty
man who was drinking a glass of beer
tie other day was Mortified to feel one of
the insects fly into his mouth apparently
intent on having a sip of the beverage
before it disappeared down his throat.
he has not been able to taste anything
since, and bis tongue has swollen so as
to be with difficulty confined behind his
teeth.
When business at the whipping post is
dull, the Virginia papers enliven their
columns with reprinting little stories Of
old times. The Staunton Vindicator
says; "0n the 18th of February, 1880,
the court of Augusta county sentenced
Violet, slave of Sampson Sawyer, to