Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-19
FACTS n FASClES.

riAgeS are unlucky.
The sparrOWs have driven he dovss
from the city square of Rochester.
Governor Williams, Of Indiana, made
aatbOat trips to New Orleans thirty.ays
years ago.
The Boston Typographical Union has
refused to admit a colored printer to
membership.
Mrs PArtington remarks that few DER.
sons nowadays suffer from suggestions
of the brain"
While a Texas jailer was gone to a
balloon ascension his prisoners all got
out and left the country.
A New York company has established
a tannery at Chattanooga, and roposes
to sxpend $3.50, 900 upon it.
Beecher says he has Welsh blood in
his veins, Perhaps that is why he is
charged With lwnestylwvddhiding.
The Helena Ark World avs the
mud in the sIreetsi is knee-deep to horses,
aud that wagons get stalled every day.
The precocious youth Of Texas who
tried the experiment Of stirring up a
key Of powder with a lighted torch ia
o experimenting with various rene.
dies as cures for burns.
A lady wSo assumes to know how
boys ought to be trained, writes as fol.
lows: "0b, mothsrsl hunt out the soft.
tender, genial side Of your boys nature"
Mothers often do--with au old shoe.>
The helmets of the Washington police
are intended to frighten off unarmed
spectators Of the final count. 1t 10
thought that Mr.. Ferry, while in the act
of b~ulldOziag the vote, will wear one.
The CULTURED Chicago Journal says:
Getting the rebel general Robert Il.
Lee monument is slow work, but its
advocates in Virginia are doing their
beat to get up some sort Of a slab TO
mark the resting-plsce of the talented
traitor"
The wives Of great musical composers
seem to be very unsuccessful. Nine
Ofenbach detests music; Nine Verdi
never goes to the opera; Nine Gounod
is a deyout member Of the church, ADD
thinks her husband did very wrong to
compose anything for the stage.
In a note to his f~avorite newspaper. a
Boston man writes: I'm going to my
office the other morning, l noticed in
front Of a provision store a basket full
of English sparrows. l should estimate
that the basket held about one thousand.
The dealer called them snowbirds."
In Germany, before a married pair
can separate, they have to seek a recon
ciliation through a clergyman, CT some
ley authority, who does all in bis power
to persuade the ~wranglers to keep to-
gether. In this way hundreds Of divorces
are prevented; nor is the mediator ever
roughly handled.
This curious law is in force in Texas
concerning the sale of hides: Every
person who shall purchase any hides Of
cattle shall, at the time of purchasing
the same, obtain from the owner thereof,
or from his legally authorized agent, a
bill Of sale in writing, certified to By the
inspector or by any officer authorized to-
take acknowledgements, which bill os
sale shall recite in full the marks and
brands Of each hide, the weight thereof,
and whether the amt is dry or green.
The Medical Bi.Weekly tells of a
Michigan doctor, who, called in to see
an ailing babe, declared that tha child's
brain was developing too rapidly; that
the substance which should 70 to make
up the teeth was scattering all over the
system and that they THE testh) were
liable to appear on any part of the body.
But he thought that, if he could &c. hia
msdiciae to operate properly, there was
still a chance to gather the scattered
substance and concentrate it s~orsewbere
in the region Of the jaw"
Dallas Texas Herald; Yesterday
evening when the freigat train from the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas arrived,
and a bOx.OAE was opened, five we'll.
dressed t1Rmps were found concealed in
it. Two Of them had gold watches, and
they were all nearly dead with cold.
We learn that this sort of ;hing is getting
10 be q ommon occurrence; hardly a
week passes that some tramp doesn't
step out Of q freight box.car. 4ey
beat their way to Texas and then beat
Texas.
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