Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-14
FACTS n FANCIES.

The man who went to Chicago without
change probably had but one shirt,
That Texas man who started to eat
thirty quails in thirty days succeeded.
In 1875, taking the whole country, one
business man in every sixty-nine failed.
There is one trait of a young gentle
man that is always possessed by the girl
he %loyes-his portrait.
Baltimore is feeding her poor on a big
sc lle. In three weeks about 10000 peo'
pie have been fed at the police stations.
The whale fisheries are looking up. 1t
is reported that more new whale-ships
are to be built for enterprising merchants
Of New Bedford.
London critics say that Irving is a
as Richard III, He should be-
gin with Richard 1 and work up by de-
grees. Boston Post.
10 the matter Of plain speaking, we
are like the soldier, who, IN his first bat.
tie, was afraid to FIRE off his muSkst lest
ne should hurt some body.
Uncle Sam is monarch of millions Of
uusurveyed acres, and is that much bet
ter off than Alexander Selkirk, who was
only monarch of what he surveyed.
josh Billings wants to know who ever
heard a rich mar sing. Why should a
rich mar want to stag when he eau hire
some one to do it for him SO much better2
Reports from the negro Republic Of
Liberia show that the condition Of the
Republic constantly improves, and ex-
ports coffee, sugar and other products
to America,
Thirty persons in Leeds recently at
the wake Of a girl who died Of
fever. Every one of them has
since been sick with the fever, and nine
of them have died.
To 1873 an iciele fell from the building
Of Nancy Towne, in Manchester. N. H.,
upon the head Of Lucy Garland, and
has had to pay S47OS damages
for the arctic mishap.
About one-fourth Of the inhabitants Of
Whitby, England, are supported by the
trade in jet ornaments, the manufacture
of which gives direct employment to
more than 1900 persons,
They tell OF a man who has bought an
island in Lake Erie for the purpose Of
stocking it with black cats and raising
fur. BE expects to make something,
too, out Of the concerts.
A lazy fellow falling a distance Of fifty
feet, and escaping with only q few slight
scratches, a b~ystander remarked that he
was too slow to fall fast enough to hurt
himself"
The arm OF Bsrtholdi's statue OF Liberty
is being erected on a temporary pedestal
in Madison square, New York. When
erected this fragment will be eighteen
feet high. nsf
a Newark woman married a police
man because, as she explained, bel
mother was once robbed Of two dresses
and she thought q policeman was a goot
thing to have about the house.-Newa
CALI l
Five years EACH" is what a Brook
Ign judge lately said to a brace Of young
fellows who snatched a h~aDdkerchie
from the side-pocket Of a Brooklyr
young woman. Flirlations should mol
be carried too far.
Henry Ward Besoher-a minister sol
himself and an interested party-pro
nounoes false and wicked the common
statement that ministers IONS do no
turn out well. The statistics Of New
England, he says, show that for genera
tions the children Of ministers have
turned out better than anybody else's
Bat what do the statistics Of Brooklyn
show on the subject
A pretty lady was walking along OF
the arm Of her husband, whose poetic
soul had been inspired by club whisky
and be was believing in melancholy &C
cents" Nevermorel And his eyes hav,
all the seeming Of . demons that il
dreaming. Lost Leonore-hic-never-
hic-say die, nevermore.p When a po
liceman asked what was the matter thi
lady replied, 20, he's only a littl.
raven"
The number Of Me1icsns in San An
tonic who claim Ia have served unde
Houston and Travis and Colonel John
son ct ale, is about seventy. But Sal
Antonio ia ,eminently healthful and III
whisky is gooland breezss delicious,su
it is barely possible that Mexicaus sal
urated with garlic and red pepper ms
finally evaporate orbe blown away, bu
very certainly they never die In San Al
tonic. Several Of those claiming per
Sions along the Alazan ditch say the
were massacred in the Alamo.
Rev. Alfred Todhunter was married
few days ago in San Francisco. His pul
pose in taking a wife was suggested by tn
discussion Of Toe Il option" and he woul
no longer b, an unmixsd tod.huuter, an
therefore it was that on the day Of hi
marriage be preached from |, Cor. iii, !;