Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-03
FACTS n FAyCIES.

Ane potato pug viii soon give Europe
enough to quarrel about.
Judge Hilton thinks that the trade
Jew" like the trade dollar, ought to be
exported.
We suppose that Russia has to pass
the Danube because it is impossible to
take it up.
The daughter Of Archbishop Whately
has a school of four hundred boys and
girls in Cairo, Egypt.
Boston people sprinkle red pepper on
their fried beans, and pass them of for
strawberry shortcake.
Dr.. McCosh has gone to Europe, but
the scattered Princeton students still use
his name to swear by.
Swlnburne is to publish some more
deliciously delectable poems. He should
wait until the dog days are done with.
baltimore has begun to build her new
hospital, and hopes soon to be able to
entertain strangers in a hospitable
manner.
a Kentuckian living in Nelson county
has found a crock of gold" Probably
one of Davy C~rockett's deposits in the
sand bank.
We are told hat the daughter Of Julia
Ward Howe cuts a figure 10 London so.
clety' but are not told whether the figure
is a 0 or number l.
Two women have been appointed pho.
nographers to the Supreme Court of
Maine, and are highly commended by
both bench and bar.
An Ottawa tailor advertises that Last
week he had eight out of seventeen suit.
left on his hands through the inability Of
the customers TO pay, and he invites the
merchant tailors of the city to call and
see the names Of the deliuquents.
mo young girl has cause to envy the
Princess Beatrice, Of England" writes
the London correspondent of the Nav
York Times. She is dressed as a dowdy.
and obliged to be a companion of the
queen in her very humdrum existence.
10 this nights masquerade" quoth
Dick, by pleasure I'm beckoned. and
think twill be a pleasant trick to 20 as
Charles the Second" Tom felt for rem.
artee athirst, and thus to Richard said:
You'd better 90 as Charles the First, "a
that requires no head"
When the head Of a family comes homs
at a Shockingly late hour, deposits his
weary self on the top of the piano, and.
while gently tinkling the keys with his
major toe, murnur something about
the annoyance of a squeaking bed, it is
entirely safe to draw conclusions.
First Lady Asparagus will soon be
as vulgar as broad beans, and then we
shan't be able to include it in the menu.
It's quite too shameful to make Il 40
quite too ~vulgarly commonly cheap"
Second Lady" My dear, it's quite no
too quite awfully terribly fearfully quite
too so q1ite shockingly awful to 20 quite
too much as contemplate. London
Fun.
The term dime has never entered into
general use, and does not deserve to-.
springfield Republican. Young man.
we're you never in Kentucky, and did
you never learn from your arithmetic the
table of Federal money! Now, repeat.
and remember: Ten mills make n
cent. Ten cents make one dime" Would
you repudiate the dime, as we'll as the
dollar, Of the daddies2
No person has said anything vet about
making diamonds a standard, and vet
they have more Of the good qualities
claimed for gold, by the non.metsllists.
than that metal has. They are scarcer.
easier to corner and generally accepted
as valuable, all over the world. When II
comes to difficulty of counterfeiting. thew
leave the precious metal clear out Of
sight Toledo Blade.
Duke de San Ceaario, Naples, com.
mitted suicide recently. This note was
found in his pocket carlo MarulIi.
Duke de San Cesario, to the Duchess. his
wife. Killed himself the 18th of Nav.
1871 The corpse fund, he desires to
be carried straiEhtwAy TO the cemetery.
and to be buried without any religious
ceremony in the pottersfeld." His fam
lily were at the opera when they heard Of
his death. The cause of the suicide IA
unknown.
The Egyptian ladies as a rule are not
as good looking as Cleopatra, but travel.
ers and oonnoisseurs Of taste, who were
ON the Nile last winter. report that there
are many handsome ones among the
modern lot. The fairest of the fair. in
point of beauty, if not of complexion,
are the Copts Of Cairo. Their tint is thu
darkest prevalent, but the best artists
proclaim them to be admirably put to.
gether in form and features. The Esvn.
tlans are not much blacker than the
Italians.
oh, why was born2' said be, why
did they vank ma hv III. ~.