Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-19
FACTS n FANCIEs.

PS soeloDiea are I'll tue
rage in Wisconsin.
An EHglishman is travelling by bye
Gle frou BOlogue to Vienna.
People who don't pay their taxes are
not allowed to vote in Georgia.
The cartoons are extremely sicily
since the Indiana election. They are
not funny a bit.
Matilda Hindman, of Kentucky, is
making woman-suffrage speeches in
Massachusetts,.
we are all c%Olonels now" says tie
Atlanta Constitution, there are no
plain. citizem left in the State"
Rogers is modelling a new statue
Washing the Baby" But what the
baby really wants is curds and wiley.
Russia recently gave extensive orders
for rifles at Liege in France, and fer
cannon at Krupp's factory in Germany.
A California Indian went away from
home with the svowed intention of get
ting a new wife. His old wife tbereupon
killed herself and four children.
This is the time of year for a man to
look along the midnight shelf and won
der which bottle holds the whisky and
which the kstchup.-N. Y. Herald.
0ae of the Prussian proviucis! aer-
ernments HAD prohibited pigeon shooting
matches, on the ground that they come
under the definition of cruelty to animals.
Little Mary Newton might be married
forty times and not do a more c. table
piece of blowing up than that IL Hell
Gate the other day.-BridgepOrt Stan.
dard.
The city of AK, France, is preparing
tc celebrate its two thousandtb aDniver-
sary. A statue of the Roman General
Marius, conqueror of the Cimbro.Teu.
tons, 10 to be erected.
The Chicago Times notes that Q
working Of the Atlantic cable eontint5 Is
to be interrupted by the names of SER
Wan vns and generals becoming clog
ged in tle instruments at either end"
a correspondent Of the London Times
warns the British public of the danger
Of a potato bug invasion, saying that he
saw " creeping across the deck Of a
steamer in which lie recently left Liver.
pool.
Many a young lady suffering from
blighted affection and a resolution to die
at once, has been jerked from the brink
; of the grave by reading the announce
ment of a fall opening.-Brooklyn
e Argus.
T%wenty-nine thousand dollars have
been received from q Virginia City
8 New gambling saloon in one year in
n the way Of license. The money is col
!, lected monthly, and gambling is not re.
. stricted at all.
The first time Jerrold saw a celebrated
song writer, the latter said to him
d " Youngster, have you sufficient conf
dence 10 me to lend me a guinea2'
oh, yes" said Jerrold, i've all the
confidence, but l haven't the guinea"
Mr.. Moody 10 said to have poured out
o a perfect torrent of gospel enthusiasm
in C~hichago on Sunday. That city car
" stand a steady ~equinoctial Of true holi
lie ness for six months without filling it
d, c%isterns or making its streets ~impassably
= moral anywhere.
of We have $500. 900 farmers, | 10000
u trades people, 2,7OO,O 0 mechanics
100000 professional men, $4,000 eler
Of gymen, 10000 lawyers, l28, S22 teachers
to $1,000 doctors, 2OOO actors, GlOO jour
ir %nalists, 100000 laborers and 975 OOC
Us domestic servants.
te George ~Saintsbury says hat Georg
Eliot has onee more illustrated the i'm
"a mutable law that no perfect novel can b
. written in designed Illustration Of
in theory, whether moral or immoral, an.
-
that art, like Atticus and the Turk, wi
y bear no rival near the throne.
ID Mrs. Resant, the English secularis
NJ lecturer, was mobbed at Hoyland, bu
le finally escaped uniniured, though on
a. foot hit her. An attempt to oyettur
en- her carriage after she got out Of the ha
al failed through the skill Of her drive
a. The plucky young woman is going bac
to renew the fight, which has advertise
d. her very thoroughly.
British Consul Green, reporting on II
NJ. trade Of the Brazilian provinces Of Par
and Amazonas, states that the crop
"a India rubber, which was little over 9NC
tons in 1861, has been steadily increa ID
ever since, and reached GIGS tons in Il
'a year 1875. There are vast rubber yiel
ing districts which have never yet bee
Of touched. The increase in 1875 Was lie
on than usual, owing to an exceptional
co. long rainy season and much sickness.
led A Mourning Reform Association
of has been formed in London, and is 70
idly gaining in numbers and %popularit
M under a special impetus given by Il
the clergy. The members are asked 10 su
gia scribe to declaration that the prese