Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Governor Tilden is worth 100000.

The Texans want the State where
Fitzhugh was born to claim him.
St. Augustine, Fla, claims to have
had 1900 more visitors this year than
last.
The well.kno@n St. Gotbard Hospice
entertained l7,ls4 travellers in 1874 and
1875.
Let all the errors you see in others
management suggest correction in your
own.
The income of the Prince Of Wales
from his Duchy of Cornwall last year
amounted to e67,l 4l lis lid.
If an Ohio dentist refuses to leave his
bowling patient to go and be a witness,
the judge fines him FIVE dollars and
costs.
The Democrats of Texas gained at the
late election so, s96 votes, as compared
with 1873, while the Republicans lost
1920.
A supposed poor old woman Of Ban
gor, Maine. has died aud left two quarts
of gold and silver and a number one.
hunared-dollar bills.
A b~ricklayer recently died in London
who was found to have the heaviest brain
on record; it weighed Go ounces TIE
man could neither read nor write.
W. D. Howells, the amateur angel
with a big mustacbe, says that the mis-
sion of the Shakers is to rescue the soas
of pie and daughters Of the %doughnut-
New York Herald.
A substitute for the postal card, that is
being considered by the Pestofice De
partment, is a stamped sheet (about
note-paper size), with gummed edge, to
serve as both paper aud envelope, and to
cost two cents.
In a Kansas divorce suit the other day
a mans nose was offered in evidence to
prove him a drunkard. The evidence
was there, but was not taken by the court.
The party who suggested its introduction
wears one Of his eyes in a sling.
Dummitt's great grove, between Mos
quito lagoon and Indian river, Florida,
. produced nearly 1000, 900 oranges last
year. More than half of them rotted on
the ground, and were used in fatteuing
hogs. This grove was formerly owned
BY General Hardee.
Equestrianism is the most fashionable
amusement in Paris this season, and
there is an especial rage for ponies, for
which great prices are paid. The
o smaller the pom y the better, and there
e is often a ridiculous contrast between
the size Of the animal and its rider.
, A Pittsburg young woman, lately be
- came a resident of the secluded little towr
. opposite Covington, writes back to her
~ friends: "Sinsinnaty is q nice plai
anuf, but tina keep a good many gees,
here, | doant see them in the da time
= but l hear them at mite in aul dreck
IN shuns."
n Sir George Burrows, President of tn.
TX l
Royal College of Physicians, speaking
t: at a conference held in London tht
u.s. other day, said he was not one of thos,
who advocated total abstinence, for h.
II believed that in q climate like Londol
,f the human constitution in many case
~ would not be capable Of bearing what i
D. did unless alcoholic stimulant is resort
a ed to.
I'm less hal ten months my term {
Of office will expire, and shall again be
private citizen. | count the iutervenin
w days with the same pleasure that | uset
p when in the graduating class at We
. Point, to count the days that must pas
he before l would receive my diploma al
ly leave the academy. Alleged reeen
la u%tterance of U. S. G.
ns If there is maudlin sentimentality i
sw Boston as to murderers or person
nd charged with murder, it IS no fault Of tn
~ leading Boston dailies. The great me
Id who do the writing for those journals al
,ss often even violent in their appeals fC
Oh hemp, and they never make disparagir
"a remarks about the twelve numbskul
Ia. composing the average jury.
to ais it becoming to me2' asked she,
she paraded in the costume Of one hu
10 bred years ago, before the man who VI
ed not her lord and master, but is her hi
"; band. Eyes, my dear" said he, meekl
no Don't you wish l could dress this W
ms all the timer she asked. "No, Z
an dear" he answered, but l wish you b
'us lived when that was the style"
nd
on Here is a bit of characteristic ue,
me from a Genoa paper: miss Anna Die
on %inson, who, q year ago, caused The co
'pu ~demnation Of an English colonel
of improper ~gallantries in a railway ca
wishing to profit by the notoriety thI
gained, went to America to lecture, al
Will afterward embracing the dramatic care
ing is about to make her debut in America
There is every reason to beli,ye tn
,inu the following inscription on a graz
stone in the old burying ground at Sou
Dennis, Mass, is an early production
G. W. Childs, A. NJ:
'iue NJ seven sons whom the Lord TO mis- fat