Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-09
FACTS AND FANCIES.

The society reporters Of Washington
are slightly ratified. -sf. al !
Song of the milkman. Yes, we Il
gather at the river" .tor s'b-
A Chicago Times man has appeared
as q mountain,buttressed tax.resister. .
Professor TyndalI fell in love with his
wife when she was climbing one Of the
Alps
They say Grant can accomplish more
wonder in a cabinet than the Davenport
Brothers. lodT }
Isn't an aim without a name synony.
nous with an ominous anonymous 2-4-
NeU York Mail. A yeb q.
Tilton is in Canada; but the weather
Is so cold that he has to hang up his pic
lures in an Ulster overcoat.
Kangaroo steaks have been introduced
10 the tables of France, aud the frogs
are beginning to breathe a little easier.
OF editing q newspaper, james Parton
says: "The whole art and mystery is
to be rigat." How few understand this
whole art and mystery" :.
Mr. Best, late of the Massachusetts,
Legislature, has been convicted Of steal
ing $3OOO If this is really the Best Of
that body, may we never hear Of the
worst sazssasz,s
Prince Alfred stood it all until his
wife swore at bin in Russian, and called
him third.rate fiddler. Then he ordered
up bis ship for two years Oruise in the
Aediterrsnean. m '@iA4
Strict silence is not enforced in all
Trappfh converts. In that near Que
bee the in ustes are allowed the privilege
Of saying II tsSt moarir 1--WE must die)
As often as they ,'SfBk proper.
When the war began, , esutious old
Frenchman of Vincennes, ma Got his
,iIver together and buried it. There YES
\ basketful, and the other day he ,Sag Il
up and deposited it in a bank, AJ0i'
A cOroner's jury, sitting on a suicide,
'ound THAT the deceased was fool.
He certainly must have been fool, or
ie would have dragged on hiS miserable
sxistencea thousand years rather than
fall into the hands Of a squad whose
oily he could not expect to compete
with. fjGt
New York has had enough winter to
make sidewalks slippery, The Mail
Isys: Smidkins has returned from
Florida. he arrived Monday morning
ust in time to sit down on the back of
sneck on the pavement in front of his
lwelling. Alligators was the expires
lion he made use Of.
George Dawson, 10 recent speech in
England, told a story OF Gloucesterhire
heroic curse Hehad wrestled
or long time with very tough piece
If oak. on which he had been unable to
make suy impression, and at last burst
,ut with the imprecation Dom the
pigs that didn't eat thee when thou vast
An acorn.
rt.A \, alIq .aILo sun lQ
The Omaha reporters are tender
hearted. The Herald man met a little
rirl weeping in the street because her
loll had been stolen, aud ihe remarks
hat she toddled on, With the big tears
running down her cheeks, while she
nuncheda section Of gingerbread that
seemed 70 have no effect whatever in
psulkiug up her sorrowsst
The Prince Of walsgis a mighty hun.
ter; Nimrod is nowhere, Boxed up in
bomb proof tower, be actually killed
tiger driven towards him bybeaters, and
al Albion rings With aociauations Of
praise aud rejoicing Unless be is be.
lied, however, he has hunted the tiger
when the beast got much the best Of him.
-.zInd. Herald. ane naa 9.sia4
n g Ina fIT0lltd1 10 ron pl Ndall
hItis said that there isl at SnithdowA
Lane Cemetery Liverpool, where Susan
and Others Of her kin we're bu-
ried, the following inscription. erected
over the graves This is also the last
testingplsce Of Charlotte CushmAn. 4
This would ssein 10 indicate that Miss
CuShmau changed her mind With refer
ence to q 6nal resting place, Boston
AdpOcdte,