Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-01
FACTS AND PANCIES.
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Publisher and proprietor.


NespolitaRs ill-use their horses.
Senator Beck is ffty.four and Scotch.
Ysllsndghom's grave has no head.
stone.
Girls in India marry at the age OF ten
or twelve.
America produces 100000 paper col
lars day.
Venetians eat fried cutie fish with
lemon juice.
The German working classes are fast
moving toward socialism.
Austria keeps Russia and Germany
apart on the Eastern question.
Donna LhlAlia CULLEN is l4o. and has
gone to San Jose for her health.
Miss Betsy Carr, a New Hampshire
deaf mute, mas reached her l05th year,
The Boston Ice Company has not cut a
foot Of ice yer. Too much ethereal
mildnessa .o,
There is less gambling aud drinking
among Congressmen this year than for
several years before.
Italian fishermen in San Franciseo are
leaguing with Greeks aud Portuguese
against the Chinese firhermen. A
Bismarck has his weaknesses, too An
absurd Michigan girl recently aAtterd
him into parting with his autograph.
Mrs. NJ. A. N. Pollard, vile of the
Confederate historian, is in California,
and proposes soon to give readings
there.
Since the barsroomsin Islip, l. |, were
abolished It's inhsbitspts have been able
to keep their teet and give $4,000 year
to the church. DtL'l
The elevator that carries United States
Senators up 10 the Senate chamber is
said to have been made for the conven-
ience OF senators Morton and BorwnloW
A report OF an Illinois hanging says
The sheriff did not Visb to conduct the
execution, as he was Grains cousin, but
Grain insisted that no one else should
hang him."
The sit-down questios is Sgitatipg the
whole country. The ST.. Louis store girls
insist upon reclining on lounges snd
reading novels while the customers are
examining goods.
A long aud romantic story published
in the Michigan papers may be thus con.
densed: Beautiful daughter of Michi.
gan banker; married agains. her fathers
will; beer girl in 3 Lafayette CONCERT
hall.
A Chinaman in California, whose life
was insured for q large amount, was
seriously burt by falling from wagon.
There was 'soWe.donbt Of his ever getting
better, and at length ope Of his friends
wrote totheinsurance company. Charley
halt dead like hal; money.
The PersseO Of Bombay, during the
receptions that took place while the
IonBee Of Wales was thegs. sppeard in
the tuii.drcsS pight-gowns which for GEN.
turies hey have been in the habit Of
wearing on state aad festiye occasions.
1t is time that they reform their habits.
Remarks Of Ah 0eau, of China, in
which he explains to the court that forty
dollars is too contemplate Q sum Tor
three Cinnamon to steal "Tise men
rob forty dollah, one man get thirtecu
dollah thirty -tlee cents, what good lat do
in San Queutin7 no 90 fore Judge
Booker for one bundled dolIsh / 60
San Quentin, what one bundled dollSh1
Que man rob, get tlee, four tousand
dollab, lat velly good"
A publication entitled Secrets OF the
SGuctum" attempts to explain why some
editors drink stimulating liquor This
secret is that brain work" is so exhaus.
tive that strong stimulsn,s become
necessary. AS the best newspaper work
is done by men who are either abstemious
Or temperate, aud who do not recognize
any such necessity, nothing could be
more absurd than this authors expRns-