Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-31
FACTS AND FANCIES.

An Iowa paper invented as an appro-
pirate headline for the dispatch about
the meat-shower in Kentucky thus
THAT Air Meat
Gen. Braxton Bragg, with some promis
uent parties from Mobile, and Austin,
is endeavoring to establish an
extensive colony in Western Texas.
According to DR.. S. Wills Williams,
for long years resident in China, only a
few thousands Of the many millions of
woman in that country can read or write.
The Kentuckians are trying to break
themselves Of the habit of thinking they
smell meat" and going to the window
to see nothing but the calm moonlight on
the grass.
The City Clerk of Hobokeu couldn't
see how his finances should be one thou
sand dollars short until he suddenly re-
membered Of betting on a horse race.
His bondsmen don't ~patronize the turf.
Madam" said a trance-medium
your husbands spirit wishes to commu-
nicate with you" "No matter" said
the widow; IF he's got no more spirit in
the other world than be had in this, it's
not worth bothering about"
The Princess Charlotte, Oldest dsugh.
ter of the Crown Prince of Germany and
granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who
has been in delicate health for some time,
has been advised by her physician to try
thu air Of St. Leonards. on-the-Ses, near
Hastings, in England.
The editor Of an Indiana paper refers
to a brother as: That walking CYCLIC
rae liza of ~billingsgste and crystalizatien
of benzlne that holds bacchanalian rev.
elries about the haunted purlieus Of
Greenville, and presides ever the prosy
columns of the Democrat"
A new conner at the city prison in
Berne, Switzerland, having told his
mates that a prisoner had escaped from
the Zurich Jail by cutting out wooden
keys, a number of them set to work and
actually succeeded in getting GU: in the
same way, a few only being recaptured.
A Chicago critic, speaking Of the
change of bill in a Chicago theater, is
responsible for the following eloquent
rhetoric: This week Mr.. McVicker will
lead his forces out of the sun-lit valley
Of comedy into the shadow which the
mountain Of tragedy casts upon the
middle land of drama"
Friends Of M. Kossuth will be inter
ested to learn that he is still able to
appear in what is popularity known in
London Divorce Court parlance as a
Co A decree nisi for the dissolution
of a Mr.. and Mrs. SCOTS marriage, by
reason of the lady's partiallity for the
Hungarian hero, has lately been made.
The Rev Adirondack Murray said in
a sermon recently: Heaven is not pop
ulated with singing thieves, or palm
bearing bankrupts, who settle with their
creditors at twenty-five cents on the dol.
lar on Wednesday aud ride to church the
next Sabbath in a thousand dollar
coach" Now let's hear from the man
who said it was,
A girl in Richmond, on Sunday last,
recited the whole of the Psalms and part
Of Ecclesiastes, 1000 verses in oil, which
she had committed during the week pre-
vious. The Sunday before she recited
1000 verses, comprising the Epistles to
the Romans, Galatians, Philippians and
one or two Others. The Democratic
party ought to engage that girl as a re
peater,
The New York Herald says; ION thu
summit of Pixies Peak, over $4,000 fee
above the sea level, where there is not
trace Of any vegetation, or, indeed, an.
earth upon which shrubs or grass coul
grow, the mountain rat, an animal twic
as large as a Norway rat, abounds i
vast numbers, overrunning the Unite
States signal station on the apex of th
mountain"
A New Orleans merchant was induce
t by a weman who told a pitiful story
poverty to give her fourteen dollars wit
which to bury her dead husband. B
fore giving the money he went to th
house and saw a discolored corpse thu
d he thought ought to have been burie
days before. In his hurry to get ava
from the place he forgot his umbrell
When he returned for it he found ii
corpse sitting up and counting the fou
teen dollars.
The monster 8l.ton gun, which is beir
enlarged from lag inch diameter to
inches, half an inch at the time, has bee
o tested with favorable results at the |
inch diameter. The problem the con
u mittee has to answer was submitted b
10 the British Admiralty in 1873, namely,
Is make a gun which can penetrate z
lie inches Of solid iron, strongly backed
a distance Of 1000 yards. Major Nobl'
re- the great arsenal authority, has calc'
r lated that this gun, when Widened to
r. l6-inch bore, will throw a shot of lSC
!. = pounds with such velocity as to penetrat'
Il at 1000 yards range, an iron-elad shi