Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-01
FACTS AND FANCIRs.

Bunyan's monument has been nearly
carried away by the pilgrims who have
visited it.
If Turkey gets smashed by the Russian
bear, the worlds verdict will be "SerVe.
yer right"
The Rochester Democrat says that
the striped stocking still holds its own,
and it's pretty nice thing to do"
Mr.. Valentine Baker, formerly of the
British Tenth Hussars, is at present at
Constantinople, where he is engaged iu
the Bureau Of the War Minister.
Look not upon milk when it is blue
within the cup, when it moveth itself
Alright and you can see the chalk dust
settling to the bottom.-Hapkeye.
General Cortina, the notorious Rio
Grande robber, but recently a prisoner
in the City of Mexico, is again at work
plundering and numbering. on the from
tier.
A phrenologist says the principal
bump on George Washington's head is
adhesiVeness. He allndeS to Georges
head on postage tsmp.-Norr
Herald.
Professor Huxley is again hard at
work at the School of Science, South
Kensington, and has delivered the first
of new series of eighty lectures on
biology.
why didn't you put on clean collar
before you left homer called out an i'm
pertinent young fop to an omnibus
driver. "Cause your mother hadn't
sent home mylwashing,' was the extil-
gushing reply.
A cruel wife, arrsigned in New York
court for beating her husband, declared
that be had made her mad by saying to
her Providence has spared you the ne
cessity Of making any exertions Of your
own to turn up your nose"
A Richmond policeman discovered an
Irishmau down on his krees before
bronze statue of Stonewall Jackson and
received this explanation: He was my
old ginersI, aud l thought as l was past
ing | would stop aud offer a prayer for
him."
Says a New England paper: This is
the grandest, mightiest, most glorious re-
public that ever blessed the world, and
yet, with all its power and learning and
greatness, it can't make an infuriated
woman stop in the middle Of sentence
and listen to an explanation.
An Austrian has taught canary bird
to sing " Home, Sweet Bone" by sus.
pending it before looking glass near a
music-box which performed that melody.
Slpposing the bird in the glass was ma
king the music, the bird finally caught
the notes, and now warbles the whole
tune.
A rock has been discovered in the At.
lautic Ocean in latitude 4S0 Is min
north, longitude 27o 45 min. west, and
ship captains would do well to keep
their eyes open when in that locality.
The discovery was made by the bark
Elmina on the voyage from Philadelphia
to Queenstown,
An elderly darkey was inquiring Of a
policeman if he knew anything of his
son Pete. The policeman replied that
there was a young dsrkey in the lookup
for breaking up prayer.meeting with
an axe handle. Oats him, exclaimed
the overjoyed parent. He told me he
was gwine to muse hisself. Boston
Globe
The Spectator pours balm upon the
ruff I'd soul OF the British farmer by in
forming him tbatit is not the Doryphora
decemlineata, but the Doryphora juncta
that has arrived in England from
America, Not to put too fine point
upon it, tbs not the potato bug, but an
allied species-a sort of high-toned first
cousin, who is above potato diet.
A Paris woman, who ten years ago
was wealthy and bathed in a solid silver
bath tub, is now a helpless paralytc,
covered with rags and consumed by
rage for tobacco. Our wealthy readers
should heed this warning, and never
bathe in a solid silver bath tub A
malachite bath tub lined with gold is
good enough for us.-Norr. Herald
Two French ladies were looking at the
pictures in the Paris Salon. 80 l
hear" said one, "a celebrated painter
has finished a picture for your Yes,
he has graciously consented to paint the
portrait of my husband for my drawing
room.' Indeed" said the first speaker.
well, for a room Ike that, l think |
should hsye chosen q g&yer subject
Rheumatism can be cured by setting
the house on fire under the patient as
wa, demonstrated at the recent burning
Of 9 Conneclicgt restaurant. A maR
who had been conansd to his bed Eve
weeks, unable to get assistance iR an
swe' to his cries, fually jumped out Of
bed and ran down stairs, dressed himself