Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
FACTS AND FANClES.

Even a banana skin will turn when
.rodden upon.
DR.. Henry NJ. Field, of the Evangelist,
has arrived at San Francisco on his
eastward tour around the world.
A dwarf in Ningpo, China, is so small
that his brother carries him in a basket
and opens the cover for those who pay
to see.
Insurance companies in several cities
sent out postal cards upon which advice
to preventing fires on the Fourth was
printed.
Lord Dudley is reported to have lost
100000 by backing Lord Dunplin's horse,
Petrarch. But that ia less than his in
come for a month.
my dear" said John Henry to his
scornful wife, Providence has spared
you the necessity of making any exer.
tons of your own to turn up your nose"
Forty.one guests Of a hotel in Omaha
we're poisoned, some of them almost
fatally, by eating ice. cream, the flavor
ing substance of which contained arsenic.
Murad V. of Turkey, is described as
good looking, pasty faced, thirty-six
years of age, with a fat nose, a small
mustache, and a tendency to plump.
ness.
Mary" said a mother to her little girl,
"if l was a little girl like you, l should
pick up all those chips" well, mann
ma" answered Mary, "ain't you glad you
are not a little girl?'
Washerwomen in New York city we're
uncommonly busy on Monday night, the
Sd, getting the sosp-suds out Of their
tabs, and putting in lemonade for the
morrow's business.
A Mr.. Sawyer, of Tionests, was stung
by a black spider not long since, and
from a stout, healthy man he became
shriveled snd emaciated in consequence,
and is unable to perform the slightest
labor.
II thought the pesky thing was q
w~ater-cooler," remarked a fat lady from
the country the other day, when q Cen
%tennial policeman ordered her to Il stop
fooling" with a Babcock fre-ex-
tinguisher.
Nurse-I wanted to 60 to town thii
afternoon, if you could spare me, to get
a new bonnet; and l admire your taste
in bonnets so much, mum, | was thinkin'
l couldn't do better than go to the same
shop,-PuRch.
The flies are SO numerous at San An.
tonic, Texas, as to constitute q perfect
plague. The Herald of that city say
the Oldest inhabitants cannot, even afte.
tax n a ctimulant, remember when they
were 50 Numerous.
A retlrn has been presented to tn,
Bri ish Ecaso Of Commons Of the mum.
Der OF al deans IN London in 1875, upoi
which 4 co,oler's jury returned verdicts
Of death fron starvation, or death accel
Grated by privalion," The number wa.
forty.six.
A boys SWEEPSTAKES is by no means
a sign of oyermastering reverence; anC
while you are making encouraging ad
vances to him, under the idea that be il
overwhelmed by a sense of your age an,
wisdom, ten to one he is thinking yol
extremely queer.
A traveller staying over night with
Texan farmer whose estate was mile.
and miles in extent, said to him: Yol
must have begun life very early to &C
cumulate such an estate as this.
YES" replied the farmer, II began lif
when | was q mere baby"
A gentleman affected with an impedi
. ment in his speech took dinner at a taV
ern, and calling to a waiter addressed
s him thus: We w-waiter, gi.give M
s.s.some r.roast b.b-beef." The waite
stammered out in reply; "W.w-we a-ain'
> g-g-got any" AT which the gentleman
highly enraged, supposing the servan
was mocking him, sprang frem his sea
and was proceeding to k~nockihim down
q when a third person arrested his arr
and cried to him not to strike, saying
HE s.s.stutters, SESAME IS w'we DIDO.