Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-19
FACTS AND FANCIES.


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The deaths in New York during No
vember averaged sixty day.
A cooking club" has been organic ed
at Flint, Mich, by some young ladies
The shipment of iron snd lumber to
San Francisco is very heavy this year.
The way the Centennial buildings W ere
knocked down, the other day, don't
imply that they were not well built.
Y ou've heard Browns mari led
again2" mol Has he2 Stupid nssl
He cidn't deserve to lose his first wife"
Punch
There are 325 students at Vassar this
year, considerable falling of, but it
gives the girls more room to trail their
skirts.
Some one, remarks California;, who
believes that "brevity is the soul of wit, :"
writes; Don't eat stale Q.cumbers.
They'll W up"
Balzaghis colossal equestrian statue
Of Napoleon III. has just been cast. 1t
is to be set up in one of the public
squares of Milan.
1t is easier for camel to 20 through
the eye of q needle than for rich man
to enter into yestry and come out with
a whole pocketbook,
An English court has just decided that
railway company is bound to supply a
frst-class carriage, free from tobacco
smoke, If a passenger demands it,
Pa, )" inquired aa uptown boy, what
is sageY A sage, my son" replied
the father gloomily, "a sage is n man
whone marries. Noraoich Bulletin.
The mule cannot part its hair be
hind, J." said Mr.. Tupper, leaning his head
a little TO one side and squirting, know.
ingly, aud hence the inferiority of the
mule to man,
A belsted citizen, from whom a police.
man was trying to rescue lamp.post q
few mornings ago, violently resisted the
endeayor, exclaiming, "Lemme lone
I'm (hic) bold'n the fortl'
Two Cinnamon applied for naturalizA
ton papers in San Bernardino county
Cal but they we're refused on the grounC
that they we're not sufficiently acquainted
With the Eoglish language.
Senator Norwood, of Georgia, is th,
most inveterate puuster in Washington
BIZ dint Of steady industry, temper anct
and perseverance be may become
newspaper paragrapher some day ,-BoS
ton Post
General Mckenzie, with ouly guns
pistols and sabres, and without a bras
band, has just killed 200 Cheyennes
We may, therefore, say that he laid lov
the poor Indian, whose untooted mind
etc Graphic.
A drain on the lend Of a citizen @
a North Haven, Conn, recently becam
closed An investigation showed tha
q two hundred aud sixty.one striped snake
n had taken winter quarters in it aud ha
= caused the roBble.
A London correspondent Gays this
}. Mr.. Gladstone wrote bis last paRpbl'
/, in three days, and that his share Of th
Il profits was GlO,OOO; also that the pr
!, prietors Of the Contemporary Revie
g paid him $50 guineas fer his reyiew
d ScAu,l, book on Turkestan
q O1sil who have ever rece yod a silv'
medal for saying human liIe, Eudox
Charreton, aged seven, is probably Il
:. youngest. On October 2lst, she vi
pasturing some sheep near Trsmolie,
France, when her little FIVE year old cot
pauiOu, who was washing her apron fro
board over deep tank, tipped ov
and fell lead foremost ipto the waite
Instead Of running away for hslp 81
crying, the brave little girl quick
=, = rigbted the board, caught her drownir
IN companion by the heels and sgogeeded
e. rnscnirg ber She than Rtri1ped MIS-