Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-10
Il. wHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor.
FACTS AND FANCIES.

a sunday lecture course has been
undertaken in Milwaukee.
There is poet in California appro.
priately named Gassaway.
Dong Gong, late of China, is now Rev.
Dong Dong, Baptist, Of Oregon.
A meeting house was sold at auction
at Plymouth, Indiana, for $40 so.
A Louisville inebriate fell face down
into mudhole and was suffocated.
Somebody compares autumn weather
to apple sauce-half sweet, half tart.
A number of hotel keepers in Chicago
now require guests to pay in advance.
Angle worms to feed the trout in the
brooks of Wyoming bring two dollars
per pound.
Charles Nutting, of Amherst, has
picked from a single tree thirty. seven
bushels of apples.
A fretful porcupine has been killed at
Hudson, Michigan-a rare animal in
those parts.
Grand Haven, Michigan, is to have a
European clubhouse run on Republi.
can principles"
The funds of the Antiquarian Society
in Worcester, Mass, now amount to $780,
OOO with Aourishing library.
Notice in front of grocery store in
Harrisburg: "Preassnts givn ava more
usfull than kromers" (chromos).
At prohibition meeting in Pennsyl-
vania a very tight" man was hired to sit
on the platform as an example.
The oldest Free and Accepted Mason
in Vermont is the Hon. Daniel Baldwin,
of Montpelier. He was made in 1918.
A maniac recently threw himself from
the top of the Chicago water works
tower, l5O feet, and was dashed to pieces.
Thaddeus Stevens housekeeper, Lydia
Smith, TO whom he devised $50OO has
sued the estate for six years pay at 5000
per annum.
Mr. Brady, of Stone Corral, Kansas,
shot himself the other morning ,while
in bed. Another proof OF the sdvan
tage Of early rising.
California has just consigned the
young Mcdonald, aged fourteen, to her
Industrial School. 1t was time; for
Master Mcdonald had within fortnight
committed a burglary, stolen horse
and buggy, wounded playmate, stolen
a hatchet, cut man with knife and
stabbed his mother, who, with tears in
her eyes, begged the judge to let him off
because :" he was a real obedent little
boy"
The last words of George Speer, hung
at Fayetteville, Georgia, for rape we're:
II am as innocent as an angel"
Curiously enough some expression
Of the doomed man on the gallows
offended another man in the crowd, who
to get at Speer with a large
bowie knife. This interference being
repressed, the hanging went on and
Speer was launched into eternity with
out further interruption.
There is a beautiful girl of sweet six
teen in the San Francisco jail Shy as
a fawn, blushing as Aurora, shrinking as
the mimosa, fainting almost at the
coarseness of her surroundings-thus
reporter pictures Mile Antoinette Gil.
lard Alas tbs pity that he should
be obliged to add that this fearful and
fragile creature is Tin" for thrusting
knife four times into the person OF q
enemy, and then finishing
him of about the Uranium with a brickl
What woald Isaac Walton say to "a
scientific FrenchmaG's" " new way Of tax.
ing 6sh2 1t is rather rough on the 6nny
fellows, but doubtless it is ingenious.
Platinum wire is placed in green bottle
and iguited by electricity Seeing this
remarkable iilamination, the silly fish
swarm round the bottle like SO many
boon companions, when tha scientific
Frenchman scoops them out in q net.
This may be sn improvement upon the
elegant simplicity Of rod line, and fly;
but it isn't gentle, as fishing should be,
and it 10 taking Q rather mean advantage
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