Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-08
FACTS AND FANCIES.

The gamboling kline of Iowa are dying
from blackleg.
In Baltimore there are from fifteen
hundred TO two thousand vacant dwell.
ing houses.
The Judicial" " entrance to the Phila-
delphia public buildings is adorned with
head Of Moses.
The Chicago Tribune wants to get up
monument for Anna Dickinson, nov
that monuments are being scattered
around. "
A Scotchman, in narrating his adven-
lures in strange city said II had ma
been in town more nor day, when bang
went saxpence.
The grave of Benton, the Missouri
statesman, at Bellefontaine Cemetery,
st. Louis, has been sadly neglected, and
is now overgrown with weeds.
An old German proverb tells US that
war leaves q country with three armies
an army Of cripples, an army of
mourners and an army of thieves.
A gentleman interested in navigation
on the Hudson is building 50O-horse-
power electrical engine, with which he
proposes to supercede steam on his line
of boats.
1t is said that the new style of panta.
looms to be worn this fall will be large
enough to tie back. Also, that modest
man cant climb ladder with pair of
EN- on.-Boston Post.
A St. Louis physician has offered a re-
ward Of $1,000 for an authenticated case
of death from eating ripe watermelon.
He may supplement the offer by another
of $1,000 for watermelon he will call
ripe.
The monument to Cineinnatus ism
getting on very fast in Cincinnati. Some
one has discovered that he was a mur-
derous old egotist, who was vastly over
estimated, and the monumental fever is
subsiding. "
An order has been issued by the Paris
police forbidding any person to drive
four-in-hand or tandem in the streets Of
the city unless furnished with a certif.
cate of capacity, to be issued by the po.
lice after inquiry.
The playful young man in Ohio, who
snapped pair Of scissors the other day
too close to young lady's face, and who
now sees that he is in honor bound to
make amends with a wedding ring, con.
soles himself with the reflection that she
can never turn up her nose at him, any
way.
At no time in mans life does he feel
so much the necessity Of being selfpos-
sessed as when be is seated in his best
clothes at a family dinner-party next to
the small boy with greasy hands, who
has a penchant for gripping the first
coat.sleeve in sight when he gets too
much molasses on his fingers.
Up in Ohio they have begun to shoot
each other while engaged in religious
discussions. First thing we know the
telegraph, in reporting homicides, will
be compelled to distinguish the ordinary
accident from thechurch tragedy by ad.
ding, Religious differences had nothing
to do with the melancholy affair.""
Some Indiana women have issued an
address in which they say: 1T is a sad
commentary that wherever our brothers,
sons, fathers and husbands are expected
to gather, there the rum-seller invariably
plants himself, plies successfully his
vocation and spreads his snares. And
it is another sad commentary" that
brothers. sons, fathers and husbands
would hunt whole days for these snares
il they were not convenient.
One OF the most melancholy conse.
quences of the expiration of Governor
Leslie's term is the going out of office of
Colonel Edward T. Daft. aged six
months, who was only recently appointed
aide-de-camp. The conduct Of the re-
tiring Governor in thus triAing with the
aspirations of young man upon the
threshold, as it were, of public life, is
one of the darkest spots in our politics,
and the young colonel will find the
whole Commonwealth sympathizing with
him in his sudden and wholly unmeritOd
downfall.