Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-14
FAUfS AND FANUIES.

England is importing oranges from
Brazil.
An Illinois farmer boy who has tried
it, says: 1T is hard to ride a pig, it's
name is so short"
Men should be careful lest they cause
women to weep, for God counts their
tears" says Talmud.
Nine women have been elected county
So peTiRtendeuts of schools in Illinois at
this years county elections.
Pittsburg journals estimate that the
Indebtedness of the churches Of that city
amount to at least $3.50, 900.
Bob Ingersoll says what made him an
infdel is because Noah took bsdbrEs
into the ark.-[Philadelphia Chronicle.
A man in Louisiana had four wives
leave him. That's the kind Of a return
ing board he is.-lRechester Democrat.
According to the statement Of a New
York teacher OF telegraphy, deaf mutes
make the best and most expert tele-
graphers to be found anywhere.
II is estimated that there are at pres.
ent 400 colleges and universities in the
United States which graduate annually
between 5000 and 1000 students.
The police force of Liverpool ia com.
posed Of 1900 men of an average hight of
. feet 81 inches, and an average service
of nine years and seven months.
Ifyou want TO take the gimp out of a
stuck-up man, mistake him for a street
car conductor by Offering him your fare
when he comes along -[Chicsgo Jour-
nal.
The banks and BANKERS doing bust.
ness at Harrisburg have under consider.
alton the project of refusing deposits of
silver coin in sums greater than Eve
dollars.
There are "a glass factories in Pitts.
burg Penn, with 70 furnaces, 72l pots.
and employing 1870 persons. Al pres.
ent there are SO furnaces Ond AIS pots in
operation.
Ihe highest price ever paid for q thor
oagabFed Searling is 100000; Lord Ions
dale having recently given that sun for
a brother to DOncaster. the Derby win.
ner Of 1875.
The National Fireman's Journal is thu
title Of a new sixteen page weekly paper
published in New York, and devotsd to
the interests Of the fremen and the FIRE
department of this country.
The payment Of the allowances for
armcry rents and Of the annual SUMO
allowed each military organization in
the State of Pennsylvania has Just been
segun by the acknowledgement.
Vermont ONES to the trent with a
horse having seven legs and Eve horns.
a horse fitted up as deliberately as this
ought to De killed and stuffed, and nailed
mp somewhere for a hat rae .-[Galaxy.
The Sheffield (Eoglaud) Telegraph
says that a letter carrier Of that town.
named Charles Sharpe, has bsquea:hed
to religious and charitable purposes up
ward Of $3.50. the result Of his savings.
Reading has just paid $3.50 damages
to the heirs of a woman who, owing to
the neglect Of the city to provide sufi
ciens gas lamps along the Schuy kill
canal, fell into that water course and
was drowned.
a farmer residing near York, Penn.
has kept q record Of the number o..
tramps visiting his premises in quest Of
food. The number from April l, 1877.
to November Is, was 545. or an average
of about l6 per week.
They say that after DR.. Mary Walker
has crossed q muddy street you can't tell
her iooI-iracks from the mems. This
tlckles Mary nearly to death, but she
doesn't enjoy it half sc much as the other
women dO,-[RAWksye.
1t is ssid that at three years old We
love our mothers; at elk our fathers; At
ten our holidays; at sixteen dress; At
twenty our sweethsarts; al twenty-five
our wiVesi at forty o1r children; and al
aixty ourselves -lBoston Globe.
If You dream Of a stuffed oysier.shell
dancing in its she'll to the tune Of Hold
Fort, while a club footed Iadian
looks on aud cbews gun, II is = sign that
1t is going 10 rain when your blonde
cousin gets married. RI il is 6russ..s
cousin you have got to dream somstbiug
else l-lPuck's Dream Book.