Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-15
FACTS AND FANCIES.


ly demands the Baltimore Sun. We
don't know anything about it, bat it'i
easy enough to tell where they are 60
ing. They are padding out into the vast
unknown, as it were, over limitless
ocean of cheap whisky.-St. Louis Re
publican
A Carmelite convent is soon to be
established at Paterson, New Jersey, by
community of fathers recently exiled
from Germany. They have recently
purchased a large plot, containing
eighteen city lots, at West Paterson, for
the purpose of erecting a monastery
church and schools.
When you see lady with no gloves to
wear how suggestive it is of giant pov.
ertyl-Not oVer-fond of high living
People who live on the sixth floor of a
tenement se.-Why is the letter q
the handiest in the alphabet2 Because,
when its in use you always find it before
u,-Neto York Com. Ado.
Mamma, are you going to
heaven? Mamma" Yes, l hope so,
dear" Child" And Jane2" Mamma
II hope SO. She is good woman,
and all good women go to heaven" Z"
Child" Then, please, may l 60 to the
dogs with papa2 He says he is going
there, and it will be so much nicer"
The death of Ex-Governor Weller, Of
California, revives this anecdote of him ::
Weller was once unfortunate enough to
be caught in a shipwreek. Arriving at
San Francisco, he was asked by sym.
pathNing friend if he had lost much.
Lost everything, sir," said Weller,
Everything but my reputation" "Gov-
erhor," said the friend, you travel with
less baggage than any one l ever saw. +"
Arecent advertisement (says the AL
bany Evening Journal), contains the
following startling information: IF the
gentleman who keeps the shoe store with
a red head will return the umbrella of a
ysung lady with the ivory handle to the
slate-roofed grocer's shop, he will hear
of something to his advantage, as the
sans is the gift OF deceased mother,
now no more, with the name engraved
upon it,
The young lady who went into the
country making hay, with intent to be a
Maud Muller, has come home again.
The only judge she saw was a Judge of
whisky, and he was so far gone that
glass Of water would have struck him
dead. But the skin is peeling off her
face with sunburn, her nose is like
banana, and she has the most beautiful
pair of swelled feet you ever heard of.
Inter Ocean.
At Brownsville, Texas, bees have be-
come troublesome IN . number of gro-
Gerry stores. They have taken possession
Of some stores, and had to be driven out
with smoke. The places where sugar is
stored is alive with them, and they have
driven custom away in consequence of
children being stpng. They have be-
come a nuisance, and the storekeepers
show them no mercy. Large numbers
have been killed, as the only way to get
rid of them.
A NorFistoRn man has invented a she'll
which deserves the immediate attention
Of Secretary RObeson :" 1t is filled
with small shells, and when it bursts
among ten thousand soldiers, these
smaller shells are scattered in all direc-
tionS, and, bursting in turn, send out
still smaller shells, which travel around
recklessly, and by the time the miniature
shells, contained in the third size, ex-
plode. the army is nearly wiped out, and
the few mon remaining want to so
home"
New Lodi, Ohio, boasts of man who
is ll6 years old His name is Lemar
Griffin. He has voted for every Presi-
dent except Washington. He had OBJ
jections to the Father of his Country.
What those objections we're be now re.
fuses to soy. In the sane cogpty With
Mr.. Griffin reside Captain L. N. Bates
and his lady Their aggregate hight is
IA feet 3 inches. They are known 90
the Kentucky Giant and Giantess, and
formerly travelled as such with Mr.. Bar.
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