Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-20
FACTS AND FASCIES.

10 uisereSolusly nealthy.
There is a Chinese plant that changes
color three times a day,
1t is estimated that the Republicans
spent 100000 on Indiana.
Butterflies in summer but stands firm
in winter Washington Nation.
Michigan, an initiation State, is max
ing great quantities of dried apples.
Piute Indians are swarming into vir.
ginia City, New, for winter quarters.
A mans reputation for sobriety often
hangs upon a breath, IN. o. Republican.
Germany will order about 10000
American revolvers for its cavalry and
artillery.
Charles Kingsley used to play cricket
sunday afternoons with the villagers of
Eversley.
"0nly ~brunettes," according to the
New York Herald, SHOULD wear cardi.
nal hose
The business of sending beef to Eng.
land from this country is succeeding
wonderfully.
Master; NOW, then, where did the
Cyclops liver" Pupil: please, sir,
they lived in ~CycIOppiis ."-Er.
The Agricultural Bureau of Georgia
costs each citizen a cent and a quarter
per year, and last year saved the farmers
$4,000
Time waits for no man." That an
other. Doesn't time always wait for a
man to get firmly seated on the top rail
before it breaks?
A Kentucky hog chews of grape vine
growing from a tree, and, holding one
end in the mouth, swings itself over the
fence into a cornfeld.
At Startford-upon-Avon, Shakspeare's
birthplace, the curfew is still tolled. A
few Of the Aldermen recently voted to
e stop it, but the lovers Of old customs were
I in the majority.
White Loon, an old Miami chief, and
about the last of his tribe in this State,
died at Roanoke, near Fort Wayne, a
few days since at the age Of lO7 years.
Indianapolis Meas.
Three boys in London we're sentenced
to three days Imprisonment and to re
ceive seven stripes each with a birch roo
for having thrown stones at trains on the
G Midland railway.
y AT Stratford. upon-Avon, Shakespeare
b birthplace, the curfsw is still tolled. A
few Of the aldermen recently voted t
+ stop it, but the lovers of old custom
we're in the majority.
o.. Gentlemen's collars have reached tn
point when it is difficult to distinguish
them from those worn by the end-men i
1r the Ministries. There is supposed to b
Y, a great deal Of style in hight.
When the election is over and the di
OF politics passes away, neighbor wi,
be renew friendship with neigbbor, Will
be borrowing tea, butter and aat.irons wi
H. be as lively as formerly = hiteha,
an Times.
err DR.. Mary Walker says: Some me
nd never get beyond being interesting I
% somebody" You're right, but rel
assured we shall always stay on the sal
ow side Of your affections 81 ashingto
Nation.
In digging an a~rtesisn well at IthacI
Gu Gratiot county, hard rock has bee
'ns struck at a depth of 6l2 feet which ca
III ries considerable gold. Specimens ha,
"a been sent away to be tested with q vie
''e' to ascertain their richness.
ess
ess Florence Mccarthy, formerly a we
By known Chicago preacher, left the pulp
nd because he lost faith in his Christianit
Now he wants Christians to pray f
NO. him, because he feels quite sure there
to a great truth somewhere in the orthodc
lv. Christianity, though be is unable to FL
YER or comprehend it.
ade DR.. McCosh believes in a modif
pie evolution, but agrees with Marines
ire that it is impossible to evolve anythi
ent out Of nothing. 1t is easy to say ever
to- thing has developed from an egg, but
will wants to know where the original e
'ca- came from. And the only answer vouC
be sAfed by the in6nities and eternities
silence.
NJ Among the odd and exceptional a
re. cles at the Centennial Exposition is
telemeter. 1t is a small brass inst
ment used in warfare to measure "
distance from the enemy you desire
III. shoot, by observing the fash of his g
lin 1t records and translates into distal
nd the interval which elapses between
fash aud the report.