Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-25
FACTS AND FANCIES.

England speaks Of the Colorado
beetle as the Republican insect"
There are 800 journals in the
German language published in this
country.
The trees in the New York streets
are already going into the sere and
yellow leaf.
The constitutions of twenty
eight Of the States recognize the
existence of God.
Steamships and vessels taking
the northwest passage to Europe
lately have passed many vast ice
bergs.
Boston Corbitt, the soldier who
shot Wilkes Booth, the assassin Of
Lincoln, is now a halter in Cleye-
land, Ohio.
The death is announced in Wen
ma Of Madame Hulsenstein, form
erly maid of honor to Maria The
resa, at the well authenticated age
of 119.
A Paris, Tenn, dog has achieved
fame by devoting his days to the
destruction of worms on the tobacco
plants that abound on the farm
where he is kept.
Marriage is promotion" says
George Eliot. In the eyes Of such
q reasoner a man with his third
wife would doubtless pass for a
brigadier general.
The aristocratic tastes of New
port soiourner8 were gratified the
other day by the presence Of five
%noblemen, who took part in a single
figure of the German.
In a pamphlet circulated among
workingmen in Germany, Cain is
eulogized as the industrious laborer
who, in killing Abel, struck a mer-
tied blow at laziness.
The potato bugs are so plentiful
in many fields near Meriden, Con-
n%ecticut, that they give the entire
field, to the eye of an observer from
a distance, a hueof their own.
81 wish / might die" said a sen.
timental maid, as she stood rubbing
the shoulder of her dress with ben
zine. And yet, the very next time
he came she let hm lay his hea(
right in the same spot.
The Supreme Court of Louisian.
q seems to be in a state of war will
the lower courts. Out of thirty
nine cases appealed twenty-nin
d have just been either reversed
Ie amended or remanded.
!. There is a brilliant future for tn
ie boy who, when he sees a ton of Goa
&c coming to the house, rusheS to hi
r mother, asks for the peppermint
d rolls on the floor and groans, ant
IS says he has the cramps.
u An Allegheny woman was strucl
e in the side by a bullet fired from
At pistol, and she jumped up anC
down, and cried out: 81 never ge
le a new corset that something don
le happen to it right away"
"What can l do to make yol
ID love me more?' asked a youth o
d his girl the other evening. "Bu.
d me a ring, stop eating onions, AM
r. throw your shoulders back whe.
you walk" was the immediate rt
ply.
ed 1t is stated that some diamond
and other jewels belonging to tn
IN, late Sultan have been pawned
the Paris Mont-de-P Pete for $2,400
IL. 600, on account of a Greek banke
at Constantinople, representing,
is said, the new Government.
N The students at Coimbra, in Pc
M, tugal, recently created a disturb
=. ance because of the alleged severit
of the examinations. The milital
were called out, and one mar killt
re and several wounded on both sid.
before the riots were quelled.
ST The Dutch have a white elepha.
on their hands in the shape of
turret ship of great power whic
er they have just completed, but cal
va 10 not get down to the sea. She hi
to been built at Amsterdam and Il
North Holland canal is not dee
adj enough to float her.