Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

England has 300 different religious
sects.
The kerosene oil can is blowing up
the Japanese.
A rough estimate-Guessing sou can
knock a man down.
Incredulity robs a man ofs many
pleasures and gives nothing in return.
The late Horace Greeley's daughters
are said to have lots of good looks and
common sense.
With a little energy aud a few patent
office reports every town could have a
public library.
New Years callers in New York had
to pay for paying calls at the rate Of
$50 per day for hackmen.
Nothing can exceed the beautiful and
remunerative effect of an advertise.
ment-not too short-m a good news
paper.
Marion Harland's Cook Book" yields
her. an income of S25OO, which places
her beyond the necessity Of learning TO
cook.
Marshal Bazaine's wife is no longer a
heroine. She is brave. and oil that. Int
she won't get up in the night and shake
down the coal stove.
Lieutenant Lobowitz. who rode from
Vienna to Paris on his mare Carodac in
fifteen days, has gone home after,being
feted to his hearts content.
1t is a curious scientific fact that a
woman can open q strange eight-page
paper and find Another Clerical Scan.
daI' before a man can getit unfolded.
A Canadian rooster and an American
eagle were matched at Hamilton the
other day, and the eagle was w~holloped
in six minutes. Where are q liberties7
The directors of the Boston and Maine
railroad have decided that their cars
could be run without peanuts, Police
Gazettes or dime novels being sold in
them.
A favorite article of food with the
Chinese is the dried sea slug, which is
collected in abundance among the reefs,
islands and bays of the east coast of the
Palawan.
A Rochester detective can go to a bin
holding 800 bushels Of oats aud select
ten bushels which have been stolen from
a farmers wagon. He doesn't drink the
whisky used by ordinary detectives.
Redpath, the lecture agent, says Bos.
ton is SO conceited that it chills the lee.
turer and puts him on his defense for
the first half hour. He wishes all Bos.
ton had n nose and he could tweak it.
The French association Of dramatic
artists is worth 3.722, ZIG francs. 1t pays
pensions to 2O4 persons. 1t edueates
eighteen orphans, and last year distribu
ted 1888 francs for the support Of 1922
members.
mo eetin .appulS in skule ours"
reads a sign on the blackboard Of a
schoolhouse in enlightened old Massa-
chusetts, where education is supposed 10
sit on the top rails and make faces at
ignorance.
An Iowa lady concludes an anti
suffrage letter as follows: You may
look at this matter in whatever light you
will, but simmer it down and it is but a
quarrel with the Almighty that we are
not all men,
Parishioner to his clergyman III
suppose you don't know much about
stock exchange matters, or I'd ask you
what bonds a man with money SHOULD be
most shy Off Clergyman" Oh, / can
tell you that-vsgabonds."
Hepworth Dixon is surprised to 6 nd
that Americans are losing their p.asaI
twaug. Poor old Hepl He ought to
loaf about the suburbs Of Detroit, and
hear yelling to strange boys to
keep offn that air gait"
The widowev's grief has been pro.
nonnced by competent authority to be
lovely while it lasts but it is not con.
strncted to endure the rode assaults Of
time. a Connecticut man who only last
spring threw himself upon the cold turf
that wrapped his beIoyed's clay and %ept
until his eyelashes fell out, has since had
three women following him aronnd for