Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-07
FACTS AND fANCIEs.

and 8 game OF ecarte.
The spring style vaccination is car
dlnal red with o little gore.
A Philadelphia paper spells 6libuster
with a pa "-probably from the force
Of habit.
When a railroad man gets a divorce.
he calls it breaking his coupling from
his esboose,
Lucy Stone thinks the governor Of
Connecticut is worth all the other thirty.
seven governors combined.
A beginner at the business Of being
president Of a New York life insurance
company gets $4,000 q year.
Illinois talks Of putting rp the whip
ping-post for wife.beaters. But what's
to be done with the husband.beaters2
From accounts received from St. Pc.
tersburg the hearts of the Russians went
pity-Patti wei the prima donna's
trouble.
Gee Of the most interesting aud holly.
contested lawsuits in Michigan arose
from the fact that two women claimed
the same waterfall.
1t is said that President Hayes is ne
gotiating tor the purchase of a dwelling
which his grandfather Orchard used 10
live in at Wilmington, Vt.
There is a rumor that Mr.. Tilden is
about to take a trip to Europe. Mr.. Til
den says that it is about t~hirty-one years
since he has taken any rest.
Rain, formerly very rare in low,r
Egypt, has become frequent in Alexau-
dria and Cairo, owing to the extensive
planting Q. the mulberry in that vicin-
ity.
A Portland lawyer has JEFF. Davis
receipt, 10 his own handwriting, for bis
last quarters salary, amountingt to $3.50,
as President Of the Southern Confed.
eracy.
In a late letter Bismarck remarks that
Madame Lucca is as "irreproachable as
myself This declaration is causing q
variety of comments il the European
papers.
An Indiana genius has whitfield q violin
out Of an old maple bed.post, and it is
now worth seventy-ive dollars a month
to live next door to him. All his neigh.
borS have moved away except a deaf and
dumb family.
Mr.. Moody says heaven is as real a
place IS Boston, and be intimates that
it is rather more moral and interesting.
And the average Bostonian buttoned up
his coat aud turned on his heel with i'll.
concealed disgust.
The manufacture Of the wire for the
great cable on the East river bridge is
being pushed forward as rapidly as pcs.
sible. 1t will take about twenty two
months to draw the $500, 900 pounds re-
CURED for the cable.
The venerable Doctor Lovick Pierce,
now in his ninety.third year, is writing a
series OF "reminiscences of the century.
He is the Oldest Methodist minister
living on this continent.
A celebrated cobbler, the Pere Manoz.
has died in his stall in the avenue Mala-
kef, at Paris. He was a Spanish rclu-!
gee, a nobleman with four titles and
twelve Christian names.
Chicago Journal: Mrs. Evangelist Van
Colt is patriotic as well as pious. She
says that when she dies she wants TO be
wrapped up in the American flag. But
we fear Mrs. Msggie's mind will change
when stripes go out Of fashion.
In America it is rot considered quite
right to make a will without charitable
bequests, bat in England nobody ex.
poets a great landlord to leave q six
pence to anybody but his own people,
and as a rule be ful6lls expectations
London Spectator.
About the sickest typographical error
we have seen for some time is a recent
announcement that a certain gentleman
would deliver a lecture ION the small.
pox for the benefit of the poor" The
editor wrote on the sixth prox."-and
the intelligent compositor will accom-