Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.


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Doesn't this country need a few more
holidays2
Arizona whisky is nine inches thick
and gaining.
The ghost of General Scott has been
seen in Washington.
Baltimore claims to have the queen Of
thieves, but the right bower is what tells.
James Parton thinks David Crockett
was strictly honest, but an awful wicked
man.
The new Turkish constitution saw 4
good deal and means nothing. The
Turks will still be Turks.
Brazil, emulous of success in the field
OF commerce, subsidies no less than
twenty eight steamship lines.
Somebody thought he saw General Dix
clsrkilg in a Boston tobacco stere, but
1t turns out that he is still in New York.
A French resident of New York is
making a guillotine and will have it on
exhibition when the next hanging comes
off.
One of the ~Spragues fell down on a
mill-pond and Jared the whole State of
Rhode Island the other day. Light man,
too.
They are so strict with students at the
London University that only two jani-
tors have been shot at during the past
year.
The hard times have sent q great many
eightpags papers into the dim past and
gone, and folio seems to be the coming
man.
The average carrier-boy is to-day de-
batting whether he will buy a house with
a mansard roof or buy out a street rail.
road.
Racine, Wisconsin, has sold her old
courthouse at auction for $50. The
young man whS bought it now wants
thirty or forty girls to court.
Suspicious looking drop letters should
not be taken from the postofiee during
the next two weeks. This is the season
when books are balanced.
The Russians have over 5000 t~orpedoes
in the Black Sea, and if invading vessels
will be kind enough to run over them
Russia will bo much obliged.
Tom Miles, of Missouri, has stolen as
many as twenty.eight horses in one
night, but his average work is TO get
away with three. OF course he claims
the championship.
New York is arresting those chaps
who have grown rich by giving straw.
bail for criminals. 1t was nice in the
city to wait until the offenders got rich
enough to make o stout defense.
At q meeting of the Grand Ledge cf
English Free Masons, the other day, the
Prince Of Wales was nominated as Most
Worshipful Grand Master Of English
Free Masons for the ensuing gear.
A Tennessee girl took her solemn
word hat she'd either take the freckles
of her face or take herself out of the
world. The freckles stuck. All the
nsighbors say she was a girl Of grit.
Although the science Of telegraphy is
Jet in its infaHcy, this thought has no
consolation to the husband who receives
a message from his wife in a far.of city,
saying, Lost money telegraph me-
fifty dollars"
Will Mr.. Talmage make some COM
ments on the remarkable fact that in
twelve years there have been three hun
dred and twenty churches aud only ten
theatsrS burned in this country2-Roch.
ester Chronicle.
A sad example Of tho fatal nature Of
diptheria has just occurred in Paris. A
whole family, consisting of father and
mother and two children, were attacked
with it, and carried of in a short time.
DR.. Regnault, who attended them, caught
the mslady, and in spite Of the care Of
one Of his colleagues, DR.. Biset, died
also in twsnty-four hours. DR.. Biset
was then attacked in bis turn, and be
expired.