Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-05
FACTs AND PANCIEs.

Yale is accused Of turning out 200
Congressman.
Miss Haskins, Of Danbury, N. H.. is
distinguished for hair 52a inches long.
There are no Milwaukeeans in the
Wisconsin asylum for the deaf and dumb.
A dollhouse man in Portland, Me. Ere
fused to sell flowers for a sick-room on
Sunday.
Mr.. Mark, OF Knoxville, chopped up
old boots and mixed them with oats for a
blind horse, and the horse kicked his
master head of.
1t is estimated that in four hundred
years from now there won't be standing
timber enough left in Wisconsin to hang
q Milwaukee alderman on.
The daily papers of Constantinople
cant find a Turk who knows enough to
operate a folding machine, and so they
keep several Americans around.
An Illinois debater T" had EN- +" when
he arose and said; Yes, gentlemen,
Waterloo was the biggest kind Of a
fight, but Washington whipped EN- like
a wink"
When a Louisville dry goods store is
robbed the proprietor pays the Courier
Journal a dollar and a half to report the
item under a head like this, Burglars
Of Good Taste"
A Leayenworth editor. who has a two
column puff on the Senator Jones mar
riage, received as remuneration a plug
hat two sizes too large, and a pair of
boots three sizes too small.
Detroit ladies can read the following
from the Toledo Democrat and never
shed a tear: Detroit women don't like
to 20 sleigh.riding because bricks cannot
be made large enough to keep their feet
warm"
An Iowa woman solemnly promised
her dying husband that her daily tears
should foster the turf on his grave, but
he hadn't been dead six months before
she drew q revolver on q lightning rod
agent and made him marry her.
A chap was seen flying down the
of Granbury, q few days ago. his
coat.tail streaming in the wind, and lust.
lily yelling, Policel policel" At his
heels was a man with a huge bowie. knife,
lunging at a fearful rate. AS the pur.
suer would make a pass with the knife,
the pursued would yell out, Policelr
The only policeman in the town was the
one with the bowie-knife. The chap had
the police" nearer than he wished
Dallas (Teras) Commercial.
Friction impedes the progress Of the
railway train, and yet it is only through
friction that it makes any progress.
This apparent paradox is explained
when we remember that by the reason
of the friotional bite Of the drivers
upon the track they draw the train. The
bearing Of the wheels upon the rails are
a mere lire where they come in contact,
iron and iron, yet this slight and almost
imperceptible hold is sufficient to move
hundreds Of tons Of dead weight with
the speed of the wind.
They have a thoroughly disguised bur-
glar in Chicago. He has been in the
habit Of riding the jewelry and silver
baskets of numerous citizens, and thus
far he has succeeded in acting with per.
feet impunity. 1t seems, however, that
he considers himself a much injured
man, for he writes to the papers to soy
hat in most houses he has entered he
has found nothing but dollar store jew
elry ~pinchbeck watches, oroide and the
like, and that the people who are bewail-
ing the loss Of their valuable jewelry
never owned anything moro valuable
that a Cape May diamond. unless it was
a CairDgorm pebble.