Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-31
FAOrs AND FANCIrs.

minister regularly every Sunday at a
little church at Brighton, Staten Island.
A man at New London wants to trade
us a mule for our organ. How many
stops has your old mule got?--[La
Crosse San.
all Of the State banks Of Maine, with
the exception Of one. the Eastern bank
Of Bangor. have been exchanged into
national banks.
Boston is reported to De tangling up
its streets in the new wards as badly as
in the older portion Of the city.
There are no return checks issued at
the Vienna theaters, and there is conse-
quently no get up-and-go.out for a.drirk
brigade OF the end of each act.
Barnum gives the skins and skeletons
of rare animals in his collection, thst
have died, to the Smithsonian Institute,
and furnishes the money for preparing
them for the national collection.
At a recent trial of the Edison iele.
phone in Canada a conversation was
readily carried on between operators in
Montreal AID Quebec, the distance being
over one hundred and eighty miles.
Lord Mayor of London receiving Cleo
patra's needle: Pooh, dye think I'm
going to let that thing go hup2 Fill the
scratches with putty and give it a dose
Of red paint and white penciling, ye
know.
Miss Lille Devereaux Blake mads a
temperance speech the other day, in
which she asserted that between 1870 and
1875 forty-two women were killed by
drunken men-most of them kicked to
death.
As one instance Of the manner in
which the people are aeeced, the New
York Times says that four coroners re-
ceive nearly $50, 900 per aunum, for ser:
vices. which would be richly paid at
500, 900.
The Rev. Adirondack - Murray calls
the Boston police force the best almon-
ers of charity, there being, to use his
own pulpit language, too many folks
who don't know anything, fooling around
in this business"
1t has become very common for ladies'
of the Russian nobility in the large cities
Of the empire, to offer their diamonds to
the public treasury, and wear as orna.
ments buttons torn from the uniforms of
slain officers and soldiers.
Sarah Ward, of Luton, England, is one
hundred and five years old, and is in the
possession Of all her faculties. She has
two daughters with her, aged respectively
s%eyenty-eight and sixty-six, and two liv-
ing elsewhere who are still older.
Blondin made q great fortune by lis
rope walking. few years age he went
into the wine trade and lost all bis
money. Now he returns to his old busi-
. ness, and says he has a presentiment
that he will lose his life by a fell.
A lady in general conversation, by in
geniously cooking her dates, was reduc-
ing her age to an astonishing limit. Her
daughter, whose partly French blood had
brought her'a keen wit, interposed with
the remonstrance: At least, leave nine
; months between our ages, mammal
Wife-"W Well, Jones, judging from
! ysur breath, I can't really tell whether
you have been drinking whisky, or
whether you have been swimming in it."
Husband (reproachfully) =" Hannah,
don't you-hic-love me enough to
I, gimme-hic-the benefit of the doubt?"
When a pretty young lady and her
aunt we're knocked down by a stage the
|, other day, some Aashily-drcssed young
men at once rushed forward and helped
them up. II is supposed that they were
gamblers, from the fact that they FIRST
assisted the young lady and then raised
the ante"
How and where prairie dogs in their
villages, far away from rivers, get water.
was not found out until recently, when f.
Mercer, a frontiersmau of experience.
learned By observation that the dogs dig
their own wells. Each village has one
with a concealed opening. He knows of
one 200 feet deep, with a circular path or
staircase leading down to the water.
The Bishop of Hereford, England,
was examining q school class the other
day, and amorg other things asked what
an average was. Several boys pleaded
ignorance, but one at last replied: ut
is what a hen lays on." This answer
puzzled the Bishop not a little, but the
q boy persisted in it, stating that be nad
read it in his little book of facts. He
was then told to bring his little book,
aud on doing SO he pointed triumphantly
; to a paragraph commencing, "The de-
{ nestle hen lays on an average fifty eggs
4 each year.