Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-15
FACTS AND PANCIES.

Neuirai 0soFg1a lRmllles raise their
OWL tea also.
Clara Morris is well enough to ride ont
On horseback.
The plague has appeared on the banks
Of the Eupbrates and Of the Potomac.
Twenty six carloads Of emigrants
passed through Iowa in oue day for the
Black Hills.
San Franciseo hoodlums badly whipped
their Mayor, although be was defended
by policemen.
What big Christian names Grant and
his Cabinet have. Even the honest Sec
rotary Taft is Alphonss-kind of roman.
tic too. I'd
The Chicago Post thinks that
have more mental work to perform than
men. 1t must wear the brain to put a
border on a lamp-mAt.
A Michigan man has raised five lemons
on 3 tree which he keeps in a dollhouse.
II took four tons Of coal, and he sold the
lemous for twenty cents.
Senator Edmunds says there is just
one little place in the middle of his back
that be can get at to scratch without
leaning mp against a door.
There is a clergyman 10 Philadelphia
who would be recognized as the organ Of
his denomination il there was only any
stop to him-when he gets to preaching,
Writes a friend; Some tribes inAict
punishment upon themselves as a relig-
ious duty; but my shoemaker says be
don't see bow they can heel soles With
welts.
Sir John LnbbOck writes from England
to the Wisconsin Historical Society con.
graduating it on its copper findings,
relics Of an age scarcely traceble 10
Europe"
A Hartford girl, treating a too frequent
gentleman rather coolly, drew from him
the remark: u fesr you are not dealing
squarely with me" That's because you
are round 90 often" wa the quiet reply.
Detroit Free Press: "a pawubroker at
Auscatine. Iowa, advanced money on all
the futs that came along last winter, and
ct the present time can offer only one
summer garment for sale, and that is a
coral ring"
Some English economists contend that
spade husbandry is mere productive than
farming on q large scale; but they are
almost always deluded by the fallacy Of.
reckoning gross returns.o Of produce in
stead Of net profits,
Amarillo. do not bewail the fact
that, now that he has been Tilted. you do
not know how to spend your weary even.
ings. Try to cit up with yourself till
one or two o'clock some night and won
der il It was all his fault.
In Russia the mediums are able to ma.
terialize spirit hands that swing dumb
bells in the air, One them was asked
what this was for, and It said it had just
been putting up the ding-bats to Eight a
sucker who vas going to be backed by
POntius Plate.
Polish ladies have q special, vivid,
delicate, spirited, haunting leveliness,
with grace, distinction and elegance ia
their limbs and features that is all their
own you caOnot call them fragile, but
they are Of SO Cue a 6bre and so delicate
q coloriug that they only just escape
that apprehension.
The London World wants a London
hotel on the American plsu, so that PEG;
pie can pay so much a day, and then eat
all day Il they want to. Let us, too,
have a hotel on the Euglish plan which
permits a man to pay for as much as be
can drink iD an hour, EVENT. a man only
lasted ten minutes.
The Salem OBSERVER says: we heard
a day or two ago Of 9 most praisewortby
act Oh the part Of a uoble.besrted aud
wealthy gentleman of this city, who,
holding notes aud mortgages for $4,000
FOE money furnished to aid humble but
deserving persous, cancelled the obhga-
tons By destroying them, tits not often
that a6ts Is kiudlsd for 90 noble q pur-
pose or hat will cali forth gratitude from
20 many hearts"