Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-12
FACTS mi FANCIES.

The Adirondack Mountains are
all afame with forest fires.
They estimated that the Hoosac
tunnel would cost $3,5OO,0OO, and
of course it cost SIC, 100000.
"Are these eggs poached?' IN
quired a customer of a colored rest
aurant keeper, at an Alabama sta
ton. Yes, sah," replied sambo.
"Dey is-dat is, de chickens wat
laid 'em war;"
Bright green snakes-iust as
pretty as it is possible for any snake
to behave been discovered in the
Blacks Hills. They are about the
size of garter snakes, and are Of a
variety not found elsewhere in the
United States.
It is said that Postmaster Knowl-
ton, of Bridgeport, Conn, at his
own expense, forwards such letters
as he judges to be important which
5 have been dropped into the Office
without the necessary amount of
e stamps in prepayment.
t "This, ladies" said a Centennial
Snowman in the Geological Depart
ment, this is the wild duck a fowl
S of well-known migratious habits"
" Migratious, let's have a look at
b him" screamed an old lady in the
d back part of the crowd.
Two little negro boys in Athens,
n aged respectively ten and twelve,
IS engaged in a discussion which was
J summarily ended by the ten-year-
old. He drew his Barlow blade
t. and killed his opponent as carefully
y as he could for one Of his age and
70 experience.-Savannah News.
d A young gentleman vino move;
in the best society Of San Antonio.
said the other evening to a young
lady, "The foliage is much more
Nv exuberant this year than usual
eyes," she answered thoughtfully
call them imported fruits is cheape
-; than they used to was"
IA. A young girl Of Chrystie stree
was SO Mortified on reading Of
mans dying from the effect Of be
les ing bitten by another man, that sh
~ Immediately had her left ear cautel
lied, and her ''feller'' quit calm.
tho IN a week, saying he saw no fun i
ay counting an iceberg Yor
vas Dispatch,
A man who tried to drown him
qe. self by jumping from an excursio
no steamer in Boston harbor, on Fir
far day, was so fat that he couldn.
sink, and the boat sent for hiI
found him floating like a cork. J
must have been like beginning lii
over again, to find himself a buc
~ once more.
bly, A North Haven Mass. youn
lie woman was refused a school b,
cause eve don't want our schoI
a taught bya girl with a beau" An
10, yet the stupids want the youn
: in ideas taught to shoot. How couI
ind. she do it without a beau? There
llyn an-arrow-mindedness about son
and people that Is astonishing.
A bill passed by the Texas Legi
Five lature authorizing sheriffs to sho
aine any person against whom any O
The Tense is alleged, if he should fail
1874; halt or surrender when called upo
sa'u was vetoed by Governor Cox
! There is no gas about Coke, and
mo-, don't want a lot of sheriffs col
and hitting cold-blooded murders,
Re- Patient to his doctor-"And it
An really true that | shall recover
2sa "Iniallibly," answers the man
the medicine, taking from his pockC
a paper full Of figures. 'Here, 10
gave at the statistics of your case y
All will find hat one per cent. Of Tho
! 'u' attacked with your malady Q
nor'. cured" well" says the sick m
vote in an unsatisfed manner. "Wt
$ are you are the hundredth person W.
, six this disease that ] have had unt
The my care, and the first ninety-ni
iunty ov. I'll Ill