Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Pipchbaek,s back pay is $1,000.

cut on.
The motto Of the watering.place girls
is to Let no single man escape"
Hes apolished gentleman" said she,
gazing fondly at the bald head which
showeth her handiwork.
The whole CT Bayard Tayler's Centen'
NAL ode was published on the 9th of July
by the LondoI Times among its cable
dispatches.
A private dispatch from Tampa, Fla,
that yellow fever exists in
Havana in a more malignant form than
for many years past.
A newsboy says of the new star-span'
gled ha~ndkerchiefs; IF any man aims
a blow at the American flag, spot him on
the snoot.' &c Graphic.
When the idler enters the sanctum
of a busy editor, and the editor says,
"Glad to see you're back" what does he
mean2-BOston Globe.
Some statistician announces that more
people have been killed by accidents on
the Fourth Of July than we're killed in
the revolutionary war.
Alphonse Karr, the French novelist,
has a flower and vegetable garden at
Nice, from which he realizes more per
annum than from his pen.
Oae Of the proudest moments Of a fat
mans life is when he can eat buckwheat
cakes without getting molasseS on his
shirt ront.-BrOoklyn Argus.
1t is said that the Turks are carrying
about cart loads Of women's and girls
heads in the district OF Bazardjik, in
order to terrily the inhabitants.
Prot. Paolo Mantegazza has just pub
lished a kind Of anthropologicsl romance
at Florence, entitled I'll Dio Ignite"
which is said to be making a great sen
sation.
Wisconsin is for Hayes, but not en-
Enthusiastically. At the ratification meet
ing at Mineral Point the crowd was
composed exclusively Of the mau who
raRg the bell.
There are women about as good-lool5
ing as the rough side Of a horseradish-
crater, who read with glasses and cal
with porcelain teeth, and yet airt.-
Rochester Union
An editor, quoting DR.. Halls advice
4 to "eat regularly, not over three times
. day, and nothing between meals" adds
d "Tramps will do we'll to cut this out anC
put it in their blank books"
A sensible writer advises those wh,
d would enjoy good eating to keep good
n natured, for, says he, an angry mai
1 cannot tell whether he is eating boilet
If cabbage or stewed umbrellas"
While a Vermont clergyman was IN
N der the influence Of a dentists ether b
in swallowed one of his teeth. Two weeH
" later his left lung began to bleed, and
c%oughed up his missing tooth.
7 Richard James, 8 London (0nt.) n
~ gro, famous as a "buttist," accidental
al lodged a bullet in his head while foolin
}, with a revolver, the other day, and tn
= surgeon found it Aattened against th
III skull.
Come, Terry Don't want to burr
u you into any foolish brush with the Ii
:. juns, because sage brush is the thing fc
- the plains. But that Bull beef must
jerked. Give US deeds, and no idl
., common-Terry.- Er.
This country hasn't always been di
honest. "In 1907, while Lewis and ClaI
were crossing the Rocky Mountains,
lei number of Indians followed them (,
IN several days in order to restore SON
o articles that they had lost"
e, Democrats North and South may
Z" we'll understand hat every black man
:" the South is to be protected in all b
~ rights as an American citizen. The R
~ publican party accepts that issue.-T
- ledo Blade. And will Immediately pr
y coed to put up another freedman's ban
=, Walt Whitman's little nephew al
=. namesake was buried at Camden, Il
- other day, with no religious services a
"A surrounded only by flowers and lit
81. children. A little girl looked curious
10 at the spectacle Of death, and then
ri quiringly in the old mans face, ~.
ala don't know what it il, do you, my dear
~ said he, adding, I'VE don't, either"
rb. Miss Phoebe CozzanS, the bewitehi
ell attorney at law to whom Mr.. Waters
no gave the floor at the St. Louis conv'
ton by vigorously flooring all raisers
Of " piuts" Of order, has avowed her
der termination to go for Uncle Sam Tild,
err Cant you kinder preciprocaie las M
.ty Darlington would say, Uncle Samu
bv going for" herP-KentUcky N
Era.
Ohi
be Dust from other worlds than on
The color of the sky is said to
n a due the transmission Of rays of liz
through a cloud of dust which C
lects above the earth. Profess
,.n Nordenskiold examined the sn,
tho which covered the icebergs as
E0 north as eighty degrees, and fou.