Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-07
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


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The peach crop in Delaware will be
enormous this year, and the shippers are
puzzled how to get it all to market,
In Germany there are fewer railway
accidents than in any other county
which possesses 9 considerable railway
system.
Whatever else may be said against the
Chinese, nc m a truthfully say that
he ever saw one who parted his hair in The
middle.
The mercury in the thermometers is
try ing to climb over the top of the tubes
for the purpose of getting o breath Of
fresh air.
Grant weighs 1855 of.er dinner. -[Bos
ton Post, State what he weighs before
dinner and we might venture o guess as
to tho extent of his appetite,
A French author says: "When | lost
my wife, every family in the town offered
me another; but when | lost my horse
no one offered 10 make him good"
A party of twenty ight Chinese naval
cadets IRE now on their way to Paris and
London, where they VII pass q course OF
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instruction in the naval academies.
Life is but a fleeing show, existence
here below is brief, but there is nothing
so short in this world as the answer On
old maid gives when asked her age.
The Houston Age offers q years sui.
scription to any member Of the Legisla.
ture who will answer this corundrum
correctly; How many counties are
there in Texas2'
The effect OF anger upon the brain is
to produce first a paralysis and after
ward congestion Of the vessels of that
organ. Many die in one or other OF
these two stages.
1t ID stated that not fewer than eight
Bostonians are missing; but where is
the city which could better spare that
number even Of frs rate eilizens2-.
New York Tribune.
A burlesque funeral over the remains
of a miner, in which clergyman and
mourners were personated, is the most
recent act OF profanity recorded as &C.
curing in the Black Hills.
Some men, dazzled with sudden riches,
imagine themselves born aristocrats, and
it is this kind OF a mar who buys a very
high.priced thermometer, thinking he
will have better weather than his neigh.
Dor.
A sewing wonan has been discovered
ut Raleigh, N. c., who works hard al
making heavy pants at five and two.
thirds cents a day. That is nearly down
TO the hardpan of civilized brutality.
A m%olh-proof barrel ia which clothes
can be safely stored is a late invention.
But this leaves the moth at large. What
is wanted is a barrel in which the moths
can be kept. and thus have the clothes OF
large.
A New York State mar grated some
horse radish for hia wife, and then
aneezed, broke a blood.vessel and died.
Husbands will by and by learn TO sit on
the veranda aud let domestic dGudgely
alone.
There isa town in the northern part
OF Massachusetts where the girls are SO
abundant, and the beaux are so scarce,
that when a visit from q young man ia
expected the road by which he ap.
%proaches is pieketed with females for
several miles, each anxious TO have the
FIRST grapple with him. - Andrews
Bazaar.
Nancouvers Island furnishes q tragic
love story. A savage native courted O
girl belonging to his tribe, and gave hel
blankets, according 10 the custom. Shc
was cool, but gave him to understand
TINT more blankets would be effective
The lover brought them, yet she DO
manded more. He hunted, fshed and
stole from the white s%ettlers until he hat
acquired tho number OF blankets sh,
had mentioned, and brought them to her
: She again advanced the figure. Thei
I he set upon her with a knife and bille'
Q her,