Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-19
FACTS n FANCIES.


Der about twenty dollars.
Mollie Stark's name wa Elizabeth.
Her husband called her Betty, and on
this point historians have been misled.
A Putnam county (FloridA) alligator
took a calf between its ponderous jaws
and carried it to its den in Dunne lake.
Officer Mcbride. Of the New York po-
lice force. has, during his career as a
policeman, saved thirty persons from
drowning.
1t is announced that a rich vein Of
zinc has been found on a farm about one
mile north of Franklin, Sussex county,
New Jersey.
The site of the famous Boston Coils
scum has been laid out in baseball
grounds for the use Of youthful citizens
of the Hub"
To a man OF a delicate and sensitive
mind, nothing is so truly revolving as
the discovery of an offensive habit in
the woman he respects.
Old Father Time scratches his head
when he thinks of the Battle Of the
Boyne. The centuries can make every
thing take their dust except that.
The Deadwood s~tage-driyer is going to
carry an Internal machine marked treas
ure box. The epitaph for road agents
will be, Didn't know it was loaded"
The St. Louis Republican has found
that a hot day results in three times as
many arrests as a cool day. The police
become irritable and rake in small boys
There is q p~erceptible tendency among
the tramps to wander Nicsicvard These
incessant stories Of ~revictualing have
taken effect at last. -[Commercial Ad
v%ertiser.
Weakness Of whatever nature has ever
a hankering after power; and there is no
weakness which results in greater mort.
f~cations thsn hat which is bred OF
egotism.
A man stepped on a piece of banana
peel on Main street, and promptly sat
down on a pint bottle of yeast in his
coat pocket. He rose Immediately
bridgeport Standard,
a Winconsin constable levied on " the
undivided half" of a gray mule. BE
wasn't particular which end he took, and
it was thirteen days before he opened his
eyes and recognized his wife.
Nothing can be more unfounded than
the notion that a love Of reading, or OF
science, or OF any kind Of knowledge
units a man for his daily occupation, or
makes him disconnected with it.
A Mahomeian writer, speaking OF the
different seets of his religion, says,
=" Sectaries are different, because they
spring from men; but morality is the
same throughout, because it springs from
God"
j.. R. Young, of Norfolk, Va, claims
to be the champion strawberry grower,
having gathered $4,000 quarts from 1876
acres during the season just closed. One
day he had seventeen hundred pickers
at work.
A man diseased in body can have little
JOY OF his wealth, be it ever so much.
A golden crown cannot cure the head
ache, nor a velvet slipper give ease to
the govt, nor a purple robe drive away a
burning fever.
Tasso being told hat be had a fair OPP
portunity of taking advantage Of a very
bitter enemy-"I wish not to plumber
him. said he; " but there are things l
wish to take away from him-not his
honor, his wealth, or his life-but his i'll
will"
A boy eleven years old, living neal
Lancaster, Penn, the other day shot
thirty.one glass balls thrown out OF a
spring trap at distance of thirty yards
This remarkable shooting was not acct
dental, as the same boy supplemented
this feat by hitting thirty wooden balls
out OF thirty-one.
Extravaganza, is one OF the greatest
evils of the present age. 1t is under
mining and overturning the ~loftiest and
best principles that should be attained
and held sacred in society. 1t is anuu.
ally sending thousands of young men
and women to misfortune and ruin
Our ladies are very gay this season
The bobtail coat Of the Seventh seems to
be the model for sacks; the sun umbrella
chained to the side answers for a sword;
broad gold lace stripes adorn the shoal-
ders aud the bosom Altogether the
appearance is glariug and loud .-[New
York Letter.
Take the wise lesson Aspire to the
higher places, and leave those you now
have for other beginners. Aspire, but
remember you shall win them only by
present content, aud by doing faithfully
what yon have now in hand. You
reach them only because you think your
self too good or too big for it, you de-
cline its duties, you will simply demon
strate your unftness for it; the shrink.