Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-13
FACTS AND PANCIES.

man. ut begins, 'p%.n.e-u,'" was his
solemn reply. And he dealt a fresh
hand.
There is nothing mean about Massa-
chusetts. Lucius W. Pond, the distin-
guished Massachusetts forger, was con-
veyed to the State prison in a palace car.
Globe Democrat.
There is no simpler method for pre-
venting cider growing sour than mustard
seed, says an exchange. But there is a
simpler method, and it is to drink the
cider as soon as it is made.
James Boyle, of Iowa, was killed be.
cause he wouldn't give John Shannon
some more beer. Shannon was more
liberal; he gave Boyle all the bier he
wanted Detroit Free Press.
Laura Fair has settled down into a
quiet, peaceful body, who wouldn't stem
on a cats tail if she could just as well a,
not. She says she wouldn't shoot az
other man for $50. That's fair.
Mr.. %Spooner, a total abstainer, de.
clares that halt the ~cIergymen of Boston
drisk wine. Two of his clerical &C.
qu~aintances have been treated for de.
lirium tremens.- Courier Journal.
The amount of the forgeries perpe.
trated by Mrs. Upper, the Iowa bee oul.
turist, so far as yet dicovered, is nearly
$4,000, and other Irregularities are still
coming to light. She has been arrested.
and lies in Jail quite i'll with heart
disease.
Chief Justice Ryan, of Wisconsin, de-
cldes that women cannot become lawyers
in that State, and he says he is glad of
il, because THE bar is not the place for
the exercise Of a woman's peculiar
qualities or for the preservation of her
parity.
The Southern negroes are mysti6ed
over the frequent visits of cyclones and
hurricanes, aud an aged Savannah
dsrkey remarks; If desc yere winds
cant be turned down a little, watts de-
use of buying mules and cumulating a
family"
Tie backs would seem, after oil, to
be no new fashion, but simply al old
fashion revived. Hesiod, who wrote
twenty-seVen hundred years ago, says:
Let no fair woman tempt thy sliding
mind with garments gathered in a knot
behind"
In France the postal cards appear in
great variety, because it is legal for sny
man to make his own, the payment being
by an adhesive stamp. The result is
that some are ornamented with elaborate
designs on cardboard of various colors
and materials.
During the Christmas and New Years
holidays the Paris police seized in the
eonfectioners' and grocers' shops $4,000
pounds of unhealthy candy, candied
fruits, sugared almonds, etc, which
were thrown into the sewers, to the de-.
light of the rats.
OF a once influential but now fallen
M~ilwaukeean it is said "At one time
he was at the head Of the most celebrated
brass band in this State, but the instita.
ton which his genius had built up was
destroyed and scattered on account of
his vices aud reputation"
The real sherry district occupies a
very small spot in the southwest corner
of Spain, lying for the most part be.
tween the Guadalquiver and the Guada.
lete. The small triangle in which the
choicest wines are produced is scarcely
more than twenty miles broad at its base.
Field.Marshal Count Benedek, the de.
heated of Sadows, narrowly escaped
death in Vienna the other night. He
was going to the opera in a cab, when a
mail cart ran into his carriage. The pole
OF the mail cart struck the Marshal on
the breast, aud broke one of his ribs.
DE went home a Sadowa, but o wiser
man. >
At Cincinnati, a little girl, while play.
ing, stuck her tongue through the crack
OF a door, when other children suddenly
closed the door, cutting two-thirds Of her
tongue completely off. This is a very
sad accident, but the girls chances OF
securing a husband, when she grows up,
are greatly increased thereby Norris
toWa Herald.
Brother Beecher declares that he still
loves Brother Bowen, and will continue
to love him till the day Of his death. If
We knew a desperate who loved us just
as Brother Beecher lsves Brother Bowen,
we wouldn't meet him by moonlight alone
for all the $50 bills you could cram into
the Mammoth Cave with & hydraulic ram.
- Courier. Journal.
George G. Harding is spending a short
vacation in a sterile portion Of Arkan.
sas. He writes: The country is so
poor that even huckleberries are stunted
in their growth. 1t must have been here
that the traditional cat was seen making
such remarkable time, instead Of in New
England. A dog might find enough Of
pulverized 'tufa' on the hot mountain 10