Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-23
FACTS AND FASCIEs.
Tie President siOes bass oy note.

sray.
Practical joking is penal ofrsnse in
France.
Five New York banker. committed
suicide last year.
Tho organ-griuder's life is filed with
the most turn realities.
Give the hens a rest" says a coun.
try exchange. just so; a sort Of inter.
sgg-num.
A Tilden paper obi scta to the inaupu.
raj because lit is a sort Of recitation of
notices"
Mrs. john Hefuer, of Reading, Penn.
has Just become the mother of her forty
ffth child.
Whits-winged peace has unpacked her
VaIiss and concluded to remain with us
a while longer.
onsnbach's name means open
brook, and perhaps he has a right to
bsbOle over what he sees.
Miss Abbott will not sing in tights be.
cause of the attenuatad condition of her
her voice, and che might catch cold.
Father Hyacinthe's proposed lectures
in Paris have been abandoned, permis.
sion to treat religious subjects having
been refused.
Ritualistic hostess-"Are you going to
church with US this evening, msior?'
The major" Thanks, mol / was at tho
morning perfOrmancel"-[Punch.
The man who recently went over
Niagara, hired a guide to show him the
best newsstand it is the only case of
cheating a Niagara guide on record.
The leap year has passed, and that
reminds US that its ablamed sight easier
to ask questions than to answer them.
especially if you are good looking and
amt married.
San Francisco has some thirty or more
milliouaires. One Of these Peter Dopo.
hue, or Uncle Peter" as he is called,
owns a railroad rinety miles in length.
He builtit with his own money, and has
not a penny of stock Or bonds out.
Cardinal Antonelli left. only four
nieceS and four nephews. If we had
known he was so short of relatives, we
might just as well as not have volun-
teeFed 10 act as nephew, Gnd thus give
these news the vote they lack to break
the tie.
Mr.. Gallon holds that the numerical
proportion of giants in each generation
rs the same, and that taking a hundred
OF the tallest men Of any generation they
will present just the same varieties of
stature as the hundred tallest men of the
preceding one.
There's a queer case of twins reported
at Ackley, Iowa. While one Of these
twins was BORN on the 18th of December.
1876, the other postponed his appear-
auce until the LIST Of February, 1877. 1t
is bona 6de case, and the doctors of
the town are insane over it.
1t was a refreshing variation from the
general run of speeches at temperance
meetings when g man got up in Pitts
burg the other day and remarked:
" Ladies and gentlemen, to bring my
HoSe to this state Of blooming perfection
has cost me at the least $40, OOO."
On the 25th Of February (his seventy.
fifth birthday Victor Hugo published
TWO additional volumes of his greatest
poem, THE Legend Of the Ages" say.
ing in his preface: "The rest Of the
legend will be printed at an early date,
unless the end of the author arrives be.
fore that Of the book"
We are acquiring a Partisan morbid.
ness. The theatrical wardrobe of the
late actor, John Dyott, was sold at auc-
ton in New York last week, and aplong
other curiosities disposed of was the
play-bill which Abraham Lincoln held
in his hand on the night of his assassina.
ton. 1t was sold for SAL 10.
A commercial exchange says: " Hogs
are dull" We never thought hogs were
very sharp. When one breaks into
a cabbage patch you may chase it four
teen hundred times around the lot. and
it will try to crawl through every three-
inch crack in the fence without once see.
ing the hole it made to get iu.-[Norris.
town Herald.
1t was a gentlemanly young man who
remarked wonderingly how a young lady
could make herself ridiculous By yield
ing to the absurd vagaries Of fashion.
Then the wind caught him by the new
style Of shirt collar on which his hat
rested, and he vas obliged to clasp both
around a tslegraph-pole in order to keep
from being waited over a n~eighboring
roof,
Jennie June says that Mile Aimee
a look more wickedness than any
other woman could talk, and seems to
DO the very incarnation of attractive Sin.
No one could ever thihk Of her os having
once been a baby and held in a mother q
lap, or heard lullabies from a mothers