Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-06
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Il. wHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor.

Charlotte Cushman went and picked
out her cemetery lot in 1874.
An eccentric Massachusetts, family has
been keeping pork bsrrel for 200 years.
Fifty grandchildren, all his own, are
among the mOurners for Reverdy John
son.
A London court is deep in the mazes
Of a divorce suit in which the respondent
is 80 years old
There are eight negroes in Congress
and only one German, Gustave Schlei
cher, Of Texas
Godlove 0rth, the Republican nominee
for Governor Of Indiana, is only fity-nine,
and can not, therefore, be expected to
run like sixty.
A mean man thinks more of dollar
than anything else in the world, except
ing $2.-N. Y. Mail. What about So,
"a, % and so on2
When Persian woman talks to her
husband in loud tone Of voice, they
shut her up; that is to say, they send her
to Jail for thirty days.
Punch once told a droll story OF man
who, being suddenly raised to riches. ex-
claimed, in the fullness of his satisfac-
ton: "Ohl that | could stand in the
road, and see myself ride by in my own
carriagel"
Last week the bodies of six negroes,
tied with ropes and with their throats cut,
were found on Wattss Island, in the
Chesapeake river, but no clue to the per.
petrators of the deed or its motive has
yet been discovered.
The Efiugham House, Efingham, ILL.,,
had cook whose whold mind was in his
profession. On Faiday last his pies did
not rise we'll, and the conscientious artist
went out and shot himself through the
lungs. He is still alive, but will die.
A fellow has succeeded in obtaining
from Terre Haute hotel, by means Of
false representations, valise belonging
to learned Jewish Rabbi, which con-
tained large number Of manuscript
lectures, and the proprietors of the hotel
have been sued for $4,000 damages by
the owner Of the valise.
The engineer of a train of cars ap-
rrcsching Alfred Maine, several days
, u, SaW q Newfoundland dog on the
ra ok, aud tried to friRhten him of by
iou. ,ding h't Whistle. As the dog did
lot move he topped the train. and then
ouud that just SrOund the curve close
,y was an ox-team fast to ise track
The Sword to be pre- Nented to TIE Prince
,fWales by the Rance # SehivaGVDga is
'aid to have once belong "a 70 Cataoa~'
anaik. This is evidently a /. typographical
error. There may at some t'@s been
such person as Catabamanaik Dat tne
great chief who owned this swor q was,
without doubt, the well.known HiLHOo
leader, Catwithhisbackup.
A history Of old Boston says: Ed
ward Palmer had been employed to erect
stocks in which TO punish offenders.
Having brought in his bill for the wood
work, amounting to eIl3s I'd, the court
decided that il was exorbitant, and in
stead Of drawing an order on the treas
urer for its payment, they ordered him
to btset in said stocks half an hour aud
to pay . 6ne Of e5."
There we're found in a chest at Elizs-
beth, N. j., he other day, which had not !
been opened iar half a century, about
$4,000 in Coltpial and Continental
money, deedS Of and in Ulster county,
New York, the documents being one
hundred and City yeals old, letters from
Continental soldiers bei.re and after the
evacuation Of New York, and other pa
papers Of historical value.
A young woman who seemsto be op-
posed to girls being taught to sew, writes
as follows 10 the Woman's Journal:
Some time since a gentleman Of Ithaca
said, in quite company, 1 mean to
offer a prize forthe the best shirt made
by the lady students Of the University.
If you do, rtjoined, impulsively, I
will offer and equal one for the best
chemise made By a male student. II is
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