Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.


The Georgia constitutional convention
will consist of 1876 members.
Delicate question in q restaurant:
Amt your eggs a leetle too ripe2"
Senator Hamlin is known in Maine "a
a Jealous and very successful gardener.
a printer invariably gets ont Of sorts
when be reaches the bottom of his esse.
Blaine has been chairman Of the Maine
Republican State committee eighteen
years.
The Turk is a laggard. Fight like a
Monteuegrin" will be henceforth their
maxim.
The redoubtable Tice has arranged for
ffty-four thunder storms for Iowa this
summer.
The f%avOrite flower for wedding bon.
nets-Marry-gold IN Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
Toe Jews seem to have adopted the
motto, War to the knife, and the knife
to the Hilton"
Fig culture ia Florida, which has been
greatly neglected since the war, ia now
attracting the attention Of capitalists.
Aimee says she is worth $3.50, 600, and
in three years more expects to be worth
S4OO, 600, when she will marry and retire.
In my country when a woman com.
mences to speak you may hear a pin
drop."-[Juiia Warde Howe in Europe.
Whatever may be said of women's
right 10 vote aud legislate, their right to
bare arms is proAounced to be unuues-
tionable.
Bret Harto has written a poem on a
little boy sleeping. A poet never looks
to see where he is sitting once the afl ltus
comes upon him,
Quebec has offered $4,000 in ten an.
nual installments to the first beet sugar
factory that may be established there, in
accordance with published regulations.
Greece has lOl journals and periodi-
cal publications, or one for each l4.4s4
inhabitants. The number of political
jonrnalO is 50, of which Sc appear at
Athens.
After a boy is tired out hoeing pota-
toes nothing seems to rest him more
than to dig over a few square rods of
green sward in search of bait,-TRome
Sentinel.
Mr., Crystal of the Black Hills was re.
Gently robbed of his watch. If the
watch had lost its crystal there wouldn't
have been anything strange about it
Boston Post.
When a man gets on the down hill
road of misfortune about the only conso-
lation left him seems to be to kick any
other mar who happens to be going down
still faster, -[Rome Sentinel.
We understand that every night before
he retires General Grant sits on tor OF
the Tower and washes bis feet in The
English channel. This is grand. This
is sublime. Pert. mag. Too splen. to
be poss. -[Hawkeye.
Senior Bafore Banovides has been com.
missioned by the Mexican government
to make a special and minute study IN
the border, and report the measures
deemed expedient for putting a stDp to
the raids and disorders.
The Chicago Tribune of Tuesday TINS
gives credit to an eminent citizen of S..
Louis; Yesterdays storm lot eonsid-
erably ahead Of Old Probabilities.
though Mr.. Tics, the St. Louis meteorol.
o0'St appears to have kept up to it."
It is no small matter to run for office
in upper Georgia in hot weather. It. is
said that one Of the candidates for the
convention in the Thirty. first district.
hoed twenty acres of cotton for his con.
stltuents while canvsssing the district.
A gentleman in St. Paul, Minnesota.
has invented a machine for slaughtering
grasshoppers, aud the first one, a two
horse machine, is just completed. 1t is
Of simple construction, durable, and the
inventor maintains that it will be very
effective.
NJ, Rubeustein carried away to Russia
$4,000 or $4,000 as the fruit of the Lon
don season, His last performance at
St James Hall produced e625, the larg-
cat amount ever received there during a
representation by a single artist Mr.,
Dickens entertainments not excepted.
An interesting addition has been made
TO the mammalian fauna OF the United
States ia the discovery by Dr.. James C.
Merrill, United States Army, at Browne.
vile, Texas, Of a specimen of the Coat
muudi. The precise species has not
been identified, but 1t is doubtless one Of
several found in Mexico and Central
America. This animal is about the size
of the racceou, and is closely related 10
it, but is distinguished by a much longer
and more slender nose. The specimen
has been sent TO the geological Gardens
Of Philadelphia, with instructions To-