Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-18
FACTS AND FANCIES.

counter e'aims-lou wiie's shopping
bills.
Wachtel and Tam6srlik are singing in
London.
Now is the time to sponge on country
relations.
The Turk eats his mutton with eggs
and tomatoes.
In WalIachia a woman attends as tow.
eler at baths.
1t appears that blood is not thicker
than Boyne water.
W. H. Vanderbilt's coupon cutting
amounts to over Sc. 900. 900 a year.
Adam was the first tramp. He began
by stealing apples, and then he lit out.
Cincinnati should build a monument
to it's white whales. A little one would
do.
1t is said that Tom Scott impartially
gave $4,000 to each campaign fund last
year.
Lady Burdett.CO utts has given 9lOCO
to the suffering soldiers of the Turkish
army.
ChicagO's floating hospital for the sick
poor OF that city began operations last
week.
When a a steals flowers from a
Minnesota cemetery they call him a
ghoul.
A movement for the establishment of
hospitals for twell-to do is on foot in
London.
With each glass of soda water aold a
Boston dealer gives his customers a fresh
pond lily.
An Indianapolis woman recently gave
birth to twins united like the celebrated
Siamese, but they did not live.
Mrs. General Eaton, the widow of
General Jackson's secretary Of war, is
quite iLfrm and i'll at Washington.
The National Brewers Association
proposes TO ask congress to prevent the
States iron passing prohibitory liquor
laws.
The Indianapolis Sun says: ben
Harrison no more obstructs Mortop's
way than a china doll the way of an
elephant"
The editorial pulse in Maine beats this
way: The Advertiser lied, and knew
that it lied, and maliciously lied, as we'll
as stupidity lied"
A lady wearing bogus diamond ear.
rings will always take the shady side Of
a street car, as the gems" look better
in a subdued light.
Indianapolis editors have their nightly
slumbers broken by tramping COWS and
tinkling cow-bells. What business have
editors with nightly slumbers2
George Francis Train has received
thirty.six cents from the New York Sun
for an article on peanuts. He may vet
acquire a competence, if he perseveres.
A Baltimore belle, just from Vassar
College, when told by a waiter in a res
taurant hat they had no gooseberries,
exclaimed What has happened to the
goose2' The waiter wilted.
You can't drink SO much brandy with
impunity," said a physician to a equity
patient. Perhaps not with impunity.
but with a little peppermint I
cah do it" was the serene reply.
1t must have been an impressive scene
yesterday, when thu d~og-catchers were
in by the mayor. Their salary
isn't large, to be sure, but in these times
every little elps.-[Cincinnati Adv.
THE Universal Life Fails" was A
startling headline in a late New York
II it had appeared at the time
set by the Adveutists for the end of the
world, it might have scared somebody.
The residence of George Wasbiu eton's
mother, near fredericksburg, Virginia.
is to be sold at auctian. Now, bows, are
you going to stand by and see the grand.
mother of her country SOLD out of house
and homer
Mr. Noun is a candidate for Office in
Washington county, No. He never
makes a speech, for the less cannot con.
tain the greater, and be is only a part of
speech. -[Boston Post, 1t is thus the
great West wins re Noun.
Bob Burdette, the Burlington Ehwk.
eye humorist, says: Il owe rnucb of
my success to the gentlemen Of The press.
who have taken me up ana petted me
without stint" Hurry IN the book.
Robert, and give theU a chance to pet
you some more
This "a Tbs Boston Herald's cold
oleoded way of looking at things: " One
Of the female pedestrians is played out.
She sold her health for just $3.50. Per
haps that is all her life would have been
worth, but if she has got to live, her
health was worth more to her"
Astronomers assert that the moons
speed is increasing. This will be joyful
intelligence to the young man who takes