Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-28
FACTS AND FANCIES.

The next Congress will contain only
two Smiths.
It looks as if Tice had been b~ulldoziag
the weather.
Edwin Booth has purchased a block oe
buildings in Chicago.
Indian scalps, with right ear attached.
are worth $50 apiece at Deadwood City.
The San Francisco Post, in the course
Of a long descriptive article, says hat
oysters have no feet.
Eleven hundred girls are employed 40
one artificial flower factory in France,
none being over twenty.
When General Banks speaks of the
Clerk of the House, he uses the old Eng.
lish pronunciation of clark"
There are doubtless two sides to all
questions; but have observed that sue
c%essful men never recognize but one.
In the legislation to prevent fres ia
theaters it should be carefully provided
that none Z the company shall be sticks.
Far.western farmers are sowing Ken.
lucky blue grass seed, to replace the
rank and comparatively useless prairie
grass.
Deadwood City, in the Black Hills, is
right over a gold mine, and the town is
likely to be undermined by the eager
searchers after treasure.
A nan out West, who offered bail for
q friend, was asked by the judge if he
had any incumbrance on his farm. "Oh,
yes" said he, my wife"
To the Princess Beatrice was unani.
mously accorded the distinction of hav.
ing contributed the ugliest piece of work
at the Centennial Exposition.
airs. Henrietta Paine Westbrook has
learned that the average New York
farmer wears out two and a half wives,
taking them separately, n al a time.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton attempts TO
deprive America of the honor of having
invented the rocking chair. He saws it
was first made and used in Lancashire.
The Chinese are the most silent of all
the races of mankind, and account for
this taciturnity on the ground that they
never mind anybody's business but their
own.
In the many matrimonial reunions ia
Paris among la mode elegante recently
toilets have not been a little remarked
which combined with dark silks q mix
ture of cashmere or plain China crepe.
A clergyman in Northern indiana
assembled the pulpit the other Sunday
and said: mo man can serve the
Lord while he has the jumping tooth.
ache. ! therefore dismiss the congrega-
ton"
Miss Constance 0'Brian, a member Of
the new English Shakespeare society, ia
the author of an interesting and pleasant
article on "Shakspesre's Young Men,"
published in the last number Of the West
minister Review.
When you zee a man with a red nose
and q general air of crackers and cheese
mount the stand as a temperance lee
turer, don't it make you feel that, after
all, the world is hollow aud dolls ara
stuffed with sawdust.
The Smith sisters have won their suit
against the Glastonbury Conn select.
men for damages for the sale Of their
land for non-pnyment Of a town tax Of
SAG, and have been awarded S. and
costs, the damage being merely nominal.
Some boys created greet Excitement
at Rochester, New York, the other day.
by stufiIg a pair Of striped stockings
and arranging them 80 as to Goat down
the Genesse river with the feet upward.
as IT a human body was drifting along
with the head downward. A grOAs
crowd gathered to rescue the supposed
body, and after much effort tLe stockings
we're ished out aud the deception be-
came apparent,