Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-04
FACTS AND FANCIES.

A Knox county, Indiana, mother has
nineteen children, all her own, to spoil.
Texas typographical error: "Cle.
burne has been set all agag by wedding
in high ife."
James Gordon Bennett has Joined the
pigeon assassin Bogardus in a murder
GUS match with two other marauders.
Mrs. Moulton is to become the wife of
former Danish minister at Washington,
and her name will be Mrs De Hager-
mann.Lindencone. ,
New Orleans, it would seem, has had
enough of military terrorism, but it is
now said that Soards & Co. have just
started new city directory there.
A sarcastic dry goods clerk thus re-
lieyes his mind in the Independent:
They met; that is. she went to the store
And made him turn his department o'er
Till he vanished behind the goods, and then
She pleasantly said she would call again.
The editor Of the New Orleans
Picayune, after running his discerning
eye over the globe, reluctantly writes:
I'VE find that suicide is steadily gaining
ground throughout the Union, and is
even still more popular in Europe"
The exaggerated dispatches that come
from the Chicago Exposition are silent
as to the lumber Of pockets picked
while the show is open. However, it is
we'll that the press should not be over.
burdened with criminal details.
AT Quebec, last week, deaf and dumb
sailor, charged with deserting his ship,
crossexamined the witness, who was also
q deaf mute, by signs, and made an elo-
quent speech to the magistrate in the
same language. He was acquitted.
The celebrated boiling spring of Pa
COCA, at Del Norte, Rio Grsnde county,
Colorado, is probably the largest spring
in the world. tits an immense cauldron
of water, sixty by eighty feet. The
water is remarkably clear and Of un-
known depth.
Respect old age. If you have a maiden
aunt thirty.three years old and she is
passing herself off for a girl Of twenty
three, there is no excuse for you to ex-
pose her. The more you respect her
age and keep still about it the more she
will respect you.
The Chattanooga Times speaks these
cruel words of the infallible DR.. White s
paper: The proofreader of the Le5a-
non Herald fell asleep this week while
reading the outside. He carefully cor.
rected the chess column and then fell
over exhausted
The London Atheneum has little
fondness for American humorists and
their dry" humor, and cheerfully OBJ
serves that there seems some proba,
bility that the wave OF comic literature
which short time ago invaded our
shores from America has finally sub.
sided.
The annual autumnal outbreak of the
Fall River slaves has occurred at dan
gerous moment. Though not afraid,
General Sheridan is far away on the Pa.
ci6c coast and the California earth
quakes may swallow him half dozen
times before be can get q chance at the
insurrectiou.
In Connecticut a young man has been
engaged as a school teacher who insisted
before the examining board that Amer
lea was discovered in l776; that Bunker
Hill WAS one Of the battles fought in the
Mexican war; that Napoleon Bonaparte
commanded the American army, and
that "Bony" himself was finally over
thrown by the French.
Notwithstanding that an honest man
doesn't generally object to paying a
hotel bill in advance il the hotel is a
good one, the following conversation is
reported to have taken place at Chicago
house: "You will not object to paying
before you 90 to your room, sir2" Ger.
tainly not; make out the bill" For
how long, sir2' "Well," says the
stranger, you may charge me for about
ten minutes, on The European plan. By
the end Of that time I think shall be
AZ hotel whore the CLERKS wear smaller
diamonds and have more confidence in