Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-14
FACTS AND PASCIEs.

Liz Scntellhlal regatta VIII FUR
nish the Last Rows of Summer.
Young ladies in blue flannel in
Wisconsin swim across half-mile-
wide lakes.
Near the Sandwich Islands the
temperature affects the water for
200 fathoms in depth.
A Boston bank has just got back
a book which it issued to a deposi-
tor ffty-three years ago.
The market reports say that beets
are difficult to find. Not where
they issue railway passes.
Hon. Green Clay Smith, temper
ance, Of Kentucky, will talk anti
cocktails this summer in Connecti-
cut.
The potato bug is good bait for
trout. Three Or four trout turned
loose in a patch will clean out the
pests.
In the bar-room political fights
this year the Republicans seem to
have the eyes and the Democrats
the nose.
Soliloquy by a tippler-The pub
lie always notices you when you
have been drinking, and never
when you are thirsty.
care you lost, my little fellow"
asked a gentleman to a ~four-year-
old on the street the other day.
NO he sobbed in reply, "b-but
m-my mother is"
Mrs. Carr, of Quebec, hanged
herself with her false hair last
week. The c%oroner's verdict was
that the Carr was demolished by a
misplaced switch"
The Philadelphia Ledger is
authority for the statement that
New York elegant8 now bury their
pet dogs in their own family lots in
the cemeteries of that city.
|; Among the Sioux Indians a
) mother-in-law can be thrashed with
u lodge-pole if she looks her son-in-
I law in the face for the first year of
mis- marriage Free Press.
q 0ftentimes a man ransacks the
:. whole house for a pin, and not be-
ing able to find one, drops into a
chair with disgust, and is immedi
ately rewarded for the search.
Inc steel halberd OF John AL
dine, which he brought over with
HIM in the Mayfower, was recently
dug up from the cellar of the house
! which he first occupied in Duxbury.
y An enthusiast who had been to
hear Anna Dickinson lecture wrote
her, saying; With you could be
happy in "A desert" And she wrote
back: "No man win ever have a
chance to desert me"
1t is now considered certain that
is Rastoul and the sixteen Oommun-
I lists with him, who escaped from
New Caledonia last year, pershed
e on the rudely constructed raft with
a. which they put to sea.
+ Agricultural journal: Question
II" VIII the editor please inform
ME how the Hollanders salt cucura-
IS bers?' Answer-"Th most COM
n mon way, as we observed when
-e abroad, is to salt them with salt"
The Cambridge crew breakfast on
ID English wailles before taking their
r morning pull on the Schuylkill.
e. They live in TIE college boat-house,
walk a mile to their meals, and lead
N a jolly life, swimming, sleeping and
r. reading,
pe The StrasSburg Gazette states
rs that the request of Prince Louis
ID Napoleon to be allowed to enter the
se Swiss army has been refused by the
e. Swiss Government, and that the
'e- Russian Government has also re-
fused him permission to serve in
the Russian army.
re
its At a young ladies' seminary,
N during an examination in history,
.er one of the most promising pupils
x was interrogated: " Mary, did Mar
d; tin Luther die q natural death ? y
tn "No," was the reply, she was
a. accommodated by a bull"
Prince Milan has pawned for
476,000 francs his sword of honor,