Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-05
FACTS AND FANClEs.

Mrs. Tweed says that William has Just
stepped out to see a man.
Buggins thinks that dynamite is a con.
traction for die any minute.
Tweed's middle name is Marcy, but
the Lord won't have Marcy if the Bible
is true,
Flies cause one-ffth of all the pro.
family in this world. This is the opinion
of a bald.headed man.
English fashion has SO changed of late
that one needn't sit at the dinner-tsble
over an hour aud half.
A bill to establish the whipping post
for wife beaters has been introduced in
the California Legislature.
Why is coal the most contradictory ar
ticle known to commerce2 Because
when purchased it goes to the cellar.
When his colleagues iu the Senate Of
Italy get to blowing, Verdi walks off on
his ear Wind Instrumentation is his
strong point.
A section of what is Supposed to have
been the backbone Of whale has been
found at depth Of fifteen feet at Santa
Rosa, California.
The unfortunate ending of the crooked
whisky" business convinces a cotempo-
rary that it is much better to take
whisky straight"
The Persians have got to be pretty
severe on the Jews Of late owing to the
fact that the latter have been obstreper-
ously asking for their call.loans.
A woman of Pekin, Ill was asked by
her minister if her husband feared the
Lord. She replied; Fear himl Bless
you, he is 80 afeared OF him that he never
goes out of Sunday without taking his
gun along"
Avery large telescope is now in course
OF construction in Dublin, and is intended
for the new observatory at Vienna. The
object-glsss will have an aperture of over
twenty-six inches, and the total length is
to be about thirty-two feet.
New England fish story; "a lamp
recently exploded on the table at the
Bennington House in Bennington, Yer
mont AS the table began to burn, it
cracked a glass globe containing water
and goldfish, which put out the flames
before they we're discovered" l."
The current number of Nature tells of
deluded ben who hatched and reared
peacock. As that mother-hen gazed
upsp the budding tail of her infant off
spring it must have occurred to her, in
moments Of depression and anxiety,
that possibly she had the jim,jams.
The Forest and Stream describes
curious race Of sheep living on an island
in Englishman's Bay, on the coast of
Maine. They are nearly as wild as deer.
Their principal winter food is seaweed,
chiefly dulce; they also eat the branches
Of nearly all the trees which grow on the
island.
Wilkie Collins is said to be the author
Of this valuable hint; No other human
pursuit is SO hostile to the influence Of
the female sex as the pursuit Of athletic
sports. No men are so entirely beyond
the reach of women as the men whose
lives are passed in the cultivation Of
their own physical strength"
One of the rules Of the Wayne county,
Michigan. Medical Society is: mo
member shall give information in regard
to cases, forpublication, to any member
or representative Of the press From
which il is, perhaps, not unjust to infer
thstt the principal business of the society
is to dig about the roots of tomb-stones
o nights'-&, Louis Rep.
The celebrated nickel mines Of Ian
caster county, which have had almost
q monopoly Of the business Of supply.
ing nickel, are to have & rival, q vein Of
nickel having been discovered in New
Caledonia, extending scroas the entire
Island, from east to west. There are
also IN Now Caledonia copper mines Of
great richness. The gold mines, of
which much was expected few years
ago, have SO far yielded insignificant rs.
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