Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-22
FACTS AND FANCIES.

The Solid NORTH" is what stops the
arctic expeditions.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is wintering at
Pau, on the borders Of Spain.
Main has three hundred and fifty Re-
form clubs, With 5 5000 members.
Dom Pedro is stirring up the hotel
clerks of Jerusalem before daylight.
Cairo is superseding Nice and Mentoxe
as a winter resort for wealthy English
people.
It is strange, bat nevertheless true,
that -four is cheaper on an average in
England than in America,
Bob Ingersoll is reported to be salts
fed that Hayes is elected. he is salts.
fed also that there is no God.
The object Of the formation of dentist
associations is to make all the members
pull together and charge alike.
Wagner says nice things OF the Ameri.
cans, and it is certain hat if he wasn't a
Hollander he wouldn't be a F~renchman.
Cremation is much cheaper thausburisl
by the ordinary process. According to
Colonel 0icott it only costs 81 50 per
head.
Smith t. Van Buren,. the only sur
viving son of ex President Van Buren,,
died at P~OUghkeepsie a few days ago,
aged sixty years.
The historian Bancroft is trying to get
up a testimonial fund for Wade Hamp-
ton in Washington, to buy another house
in South Carolina.
Mr. John Rose, the Englishmau who
was recently captured by the Italian
brigards, has been released after paying
lOO,0 600 francs as ransom.
Leenan and Dunn fought a duel With
shot guns in the streets Of Wheelock,
Texas, on the sixth, and exchanged two
shots each. Dunn was killed.
Ladies, the best way to bsautify the
hand is to put a quarter in it and then
shake hands with some suffering fellow
creature. Easton Free Press.
M, Huxley says that the plsiosaurusi il
especially distinguished by its powerful
Jaw, but it is due to the community to
state that this assertion was made before
be was married.
Baysrd Taylor says ut is a yither
ing commentary upon our modern cos.
tune that no sculptor has dared, or ever
will dare, to model a statue wearing 6
s~tove.pipe hat
JOB was g man who digested q consid
cradle quantity of misery, bnt be neVel
knew the utter vanity and yekatlon 0
spirit that comes from a continuous
wrestle with the election returns.
Said a young doctor to a lady patient
"You must take exercise for your health
my dear" "AlI right" che said; "Tl
jump at the 6rst Offer They we're mar
ried about six months afterward.
British butchers are as mad as hornetr
over the arrival Of American beef, bu
still their customers continue to rs@ark
Hill take hanother steak hof tina
Hamericsn hox."-DstrOit Free Press
A dispatck fSom Ngpster says tba
Bishop Brinckman aad Dr. Giest hayi
been sentenced to imprisonment--tbe
former for q year and the latter for two
years-nominally for withholding public
documents and embezalement. Theil
real oEeuse was . d~isobedience OF the
ecclesiastical lavS. Two priesls vert
also sentenced to short terms of Imprls
Oament.
A travelling chiropodist was recently
committed for trial foe obtsiRing moueJ
by false preisnc0s, from an undergrad
uate Of Trinity College, Cambridge, En
gland. The defendant pretended to hav,
extracted something Ike City corus frou
the prosecutors feet, but Il was shosr
that no corns had been extracted, ant
that what had been exhibited as the re
suit Of the operation we're dummy
cOrOs."