Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-06
FACTS AND FANCIRS.

A "goose ordinance indignation meet
ing" is about to come Of al Indianapolis.
Two secretaries write out the vagaries
Of Gladstone and bSsk in his greatness
while they work.
Mr.. MotrisSey is a politician, - accord
ing to the directory of the New York
General Assembly.
The VickSburg Herald suggests that
Pinchback take up the pillow and hoe, or
return to cabin pursuits on some Missis-
sippi steamboat.
At recent dinner iu the mountains
given to Don Carlos, the principal toast,
viva King Charles VII" was drunk
standing. The king himself was drunk
sitting = Graphic
A German woman in Allen & Roots
addition recently missed her hogs, aud
tracing them to one Of the pork-houses,
proved property by calling them as one
calls dog,-iedidRd EewS,
Wabash College forbids gambling
among the students, and the boys plain.
lively inquire how they can ever be sp,
pointed minister to England without q
knowledge Of poker, ~ Detroit Free
Press.
In Somerville, Mass, 200 boys assem-.
Bile at a time to stone the railroad trains,
and the police have to freinto the young
mob. 1t may be supposed that these
immature miscresnts are orphans, but
they are not.
This iswhst enrages the Boston Globe:
The world is fall of gush The news
papers. magazines and books overrun
with it. The grandest themes are daily
smeared with the ebullitions Of Aabby
sentimentalism." :"
But, Catholic or anti-CAtholic, it is
plain enough that no candidate can
stand before the country who is not as
straight as rsmrod on the subject of
crooked whisky" sagely observed the
New York Herald.
A Vermont genius is trying to manu-
facture false hair from Eastwood. Il is
to be hoped he wills1cceed. 1t will be-
more pleasant for fellow to gaze from
his pillow in the morning upon the
switch hanging over the back of chair
and wonder what tree it came from than.
to speculate upon what dead woman it.
was once attached to.--St Leuis Re-
publican.
A Cincinnati man offers Eve dollars.
reward for lost cat. AS long ss men.
refuse to allow their feline pets to hold
concerts at home, and throw bootjacks
at every strange cat that comes around
the household cat will invariably wander
off in search of news and society. A
man must make his home attractive to
puss, or be will have to buya dog for
pet,
The man who would not steal pin,
and yet would walk OF with a silk UNI
brella belonging TO another person, lacks
consistency. .-[New York Mail Per
haps 50, perhaps not. he may be a lee
turer on the Importance of protecting
the human frame from tho ins!emency
Of an outrageous climates caprices, and,
rather than stultify himself, consistently
seizes the first umbrella within reach.
The late holidays were in numerous
localities the worst that have been expe.
rienced for many years. The large and
growing idiot element made more than
It's usual noise, and the sales Of villain
GUS heather inventions for the etorture Of
blameless, inofisasive Christians were
very large. The fool-killer, though leay-
ing much undOne, got in some very good
work, and is. Oh the whole entitled 10
SEINE praise
At the last discussion held at The Lit
ersry Union Of Bspgslore, Hindostan q
Brahmiu pupdit who paid the society a
visit, stated, while contracting the past
and the present state Of civilization in
India, that there is clock in the Time
yeiiy district which was constructed by
natives four thousand years ago, snd
that it ID moved BY large Jumps ot
arsenic. He further stated that It is yet
keeping time, being kept IN repair BY
| the descendants Of ne msksro o5ii' y =