Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

VA startling Chicago damsel has come
to be known as the red aired terror of
Biler aveRue."
Tourtellotte Iuman, who was 100 years
of age last June, voted at Milford, Mass,
last Tuesday.
Miss Nelson has sold to John s.
Clarke, the comedian, a piece of real
estate in Chicago valued at SIS, 900.
A baby has been born in Michigan
with three arms. Its quarrel must be
just, then.-[New York Commercial.
he nurmured, II am a man of quiet
%tastes;" then went behind the door, took
a flask from his pocket aud tasted some
thing.
Paganini was not above giving music
lessons. lie charged $4OO for each les.
son, and his pupils generally felt flushed
after one sitting.
Tryon B. Jolly is a Canadians namq.
The funny men cant add anything to it,
and have given up in despair. - Boston
Traveller.
Young lady: "0b, l am so glad you
like birds. What kind do o admire
most?" Old gentleman: well, l think
goose, with plenty of stufiug, is about as
nice as any"
A n~eighboring editor explains that
when he advises his readers to Law in
their coal he does not mean that they
are to sleep in it.
Men folks have got to endure the daz.
z.ing effects of those red flannel skirts
again this winter. It's tough, but let
EN- dazzle. Il Berkshire Courier.
Naught now disturbs the calmness of
the autumn nights except the peculiar
thud Of the small boy as he falls from
the tree .-[Rockland Courier.
During his long reign the pope has
founded 100 ~bishoprics. In Europe there
are 595 ~prelaciesi in America, Y; in
Africa, IL; in Asia, 10, and in Austria.
liza, q.
The family of an iuveterate toner.
whose dial was profusely ornamented
with whisky blossoms refusedt TO LONGER
tolerate him, as he had become a regular
rye sore.
The St. Louis Republican says Castor,
the present governor, was defeated by
Rice on Tuesday. Even a Chicago ma
per can come nearer the truth than that.
L Boston Post.
They say the Indian name for an edi.
tor Is Woo'rack.t he.rish.he-ka.haw
1t means "Old man who wears out the
basement of his pantaloons Worces.
ter Press.
Professor-"In one evening counted
twenty'seven meteors sitting on my nj
azza." Class expresses great astonish-
ment at the sociable characters of the
heavenly bodies.
When a clergyman remarked that
there would be a nave in the new church
the society was building, an old ladv
whispered that she "knew the nartv ~
whom be referred"
What is an empire2' asked a y Young
ster OF his mother recently. "a conn.
try governed by an emperor" she re.
piled. "0b, yes, stead of a policeman.
amt t."-[8oston Globe.
Above the a of political strife NAV
be heard the voice of woman mourning
u oil the geraniums in the front ward
have been covered with papers to project
them from the frost,-[Rome Sentinel.
Papa" asked a boy, what is meant
by Paradiae2' Paradise, my son" re.
Piled the father, lis the latter part of the
summer when Your mother goes on a
visit to your grandfather"
Hannibal Hamlin-that is his real
name, aud not o nom de plune-is n
OF the a~traightest aud most thoughtful Of
all the senators. He is known as the
"Pensive Poplar Of the Piseataou;s
LGraphic.
The hOlyoke, (Mass.) Transcriut ia
authority for the statement that a local
farmer, on cutting open q ripe pumpkip
recently. found growing inside Of Il a
vine fully leaved out, and fIlinp nearly
all the interior.
Twenty-three years ago a shin ,saso
with lead sank ia the ocean juss ebreo.,
of Atlantic City, Divers Of The Coos,
Wresking Company are COW engaged n
raising the lead, and are meeting with
great success in thelc work.
The Cincipsati Gazette sugges,s that
by the adoption of a plan for the CON.
struotion of locks and adjustable dams
the government could, at a small ex,
pense, secare for the Ohio river an aver
age depth Of six feet all the year round.
She was dancing the Boston dim
and dipped so low that her respected
motherin-laV interposed with a prots.,
between the sets. You dance verv
gracefully, my dear" she said, 'Cbutn-
aud she paused. YES, I've taken nv
dip,lOv.ma' you mean to say, don't you"
Hartford Couraut.