Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Dom Pedro is in Palestine.

Dom Pedro is in Palestine.
Speaker Randall is forty eight.
The Kansas insane asylum Is over
crowded.
1t looks as if Tioe had been bulldozing
the weather.
Cincinnati pool sellers will return their
money to betters.
The old South Churcho Of Boston is now
a historical museum.
The returning boards are generally
made up Of hard knots.
Minnesota supports her inebriate asy-
lum by a saloon tax.
A little green tea water blackens up a
dingy bit Of lace beautifully.
A publisher appropriately adyertises q
Life of Grant IS a gift book,
When our hatred is violent it sinks us
below those we hate -RochefOucauH
A job lot Of Maine islands, ~sixty-two
in all, brought $500 at a late auction,
There is one business that is not over
done in this country, and that is farming.
The artillery organization Of every
European government has become
Krupped.
There are ten thousand paople on the
payroll of the New York city govern
meut.
There is only one thing worse than a
cat on the roof, and tina. is a cat under
the house.
The mystery about MIR, Tupper's
whereabouts has been removed. He is
in Montresl, Canada.
A movement is on foot in South Caro-
lima for the ladies to make a contribution
of one dollar each to purchase a house
for GoVernorelect Hampton.
-Four members of the next House have
three initials, and seven part their names
in the middle. Let us never despair of
the Republic. - Courier Journal.
Wesley Neil, q Minneapolis grocer,
was burned out from cellar to roof on
two successive thanksgiving ewes. He
didn't give thanks mnch either time.
Some Of the New York savings banks
are considering the advisability of re-
ducing the rate Of interest to be paid on
deposits after New Year to four per cent.
One OF the reforms desired by the
farmers of Northern Georgia is the
passage Of a bill BY Congress removing
the restrictions upon the sale Of raw
tobacco.
The latest mania known to man is
alphabeticism. There is a deluded idiot
who, il he had his way, would live in A
house With a B hive, near the G, on tie
banks Of the D.
Lieutenant A. W. W.. Vogdes, u. S,
A., in e~xcayating some she'll mound, at
Tampa, Fla, discovered relics which he
considers prove that the mound builders
were addicted to c%annibalisu,
When a man with a rubber overcost
on comes in out Of the rain and backs
up to the stove to warm himself, every.
body in tho room stops talking politics
and begins to look around for something
to throw.
, About 1900 persons are Studying a
Paris in the Ecole des Beaux Arts tbi:
season. oil this number 4sO are study
8 ing architecture and $50 painting, the
: remainder devoting themselves to sculp
\ ture.
!, The Nawab Of Loharu recently sent q
|, Nepauh pony, only eight inches high tc
the young Maharsjah Of Patiala. ThI
The pony 10 a perfect miniature OF
well.bred horse, and is valued yer,
: highly.
A drain on the land Of a citizsn o
|, North Haven, Conn, recently becam
closed. An investigation showed tina
two hundred and sixiy.one striped snake
had taken winter quarters in it aad hac
caused the trouble.
5 The British Quarterly thinks that BE.
& bert Spencer and his PHILOSOPHER ar
greatly oyernted. II Mr.. Spencer
opinion Of the British Quarterly wer.
. arrived at, It would probably turn out t
be like the English public opinion @
7 Topper, according to TenDyson; 'Etr
! land, sir, does net think Of Mr.. Tuppe
at all"
The way Of tho liquor seller is hard i
= the Green Mountain State. The Vel
mont Legislature has just passed a la
): declaring every ram shop a nuisance
is aud for every conviction the penalty is
q fine Of from twenty to two hundred do
lars, or a fne Of twenty dollars and in
d prisonment a the county jail for not LEI
than Que month nor more than lhr'
montha