Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-20
FACTS NM PANCIES.

a nappy land, far, far away"
Now is the time to preserve your
brandy, by putting peaches into it.
Some people read the eleventh com
mandmeut, DO riot and fear not"
A newspaper man met the czar the
other day and he didn't say Turkey"
once.
The Free Traders are becoming omi.
nously active, ard PrOtectionists need to
beware.
Isn't our Idaho army Of 1872 men a
trias top.heavy With two major generals
to command it2
The cars mess consumes 1000 bottles
OF champagne per month. Lager sta
tistics not given.
A good old man was seen at the Sara.
toga races one day last week reading his
testament between times.
According TO Hader, an authority, q
single female houseAy will produce in
one season 2O,OsO. S29 eggs.
The latest is a seaside corset of water.
proof and whalebone, very high, with
holes to let the water drop out.
Grants anxiety to shake hands with
Garibaldi is natural. The question is.
will Garibsldi give him the shaker
Carlyle is clear.eyed; his color is fresh;
he stoops heavily; his hand shakes a
little, and he telks and laughs heartily.
Milan exchange: The pay train on
the L. and N. road passed here last Sun.
day, leaving a streak of greenbacks and
contentment in its wake,
A woman living in a genteel locality
IN New York city is welded to a negro.
She dyes her skin that she may not too
strongly contrast with her liege lord.
Men best posted say that niaety.nine
women out Of a hundred returning from
Europe smuggle goods Of some sort. The
hundredth one gets her husband 70
smuggle TOR her.
Girls, fasten on to your inebriate &C.
q%uaintances, and try to reform them.
Then they will die and leave you q fine
property. That IS what happened to the
lady who tried to reform 0seeola Cooper
There are no longer any Indians in
Burlington, aud the wild war whoSp of
the forest NO more awakens the echoes of
the irowning hills, but the town is inst
swarming with book agents Grand
f. M so that We don't miss the Indians
SO much a syou would think. -[Hawkeye.
On the evening before DR.. Clubbe
died his physician feeling his pulse with
much gravity, aud observing that it beat
more eveRly than upon his last visit,
said; My dear friend, if you don't al
ready know, or have not a technical
expression for it, l will tell you what il
be ats-it beats the dead march,"
The Count de X, possessing an i'm.
mense fortune, became, smitten with n
yousg girl who had no marriage portion.
Yielding to the solicitations OF his lami.
ly, he tried to cure himself of his incli-
nation. He made several voyages with
a view to forget his idol, but without sue
cess. AT last" he exclaimed, 81 must
marry her if | wish to stop loving her.
During a late thunder storm at An
trim, N. H., some persons who were
driving put their horse and wagon in a
shed, which was soon after struck bv
lightning. On visiting their property
they found the harness stripped from
the horse and torn to shreds; the mount.
ings scattered, yet not melted; the thills
broken and the horse turned facing the
wagon, but uniriured.
Such is the feeling between PhilAdel.
phians and PittSburglars just now that il
may be doubted whether a resident of
Pittsburgh, who should chance T.. de.
cease in Philadelphia at this time, would
be admitted to the obituary columns of
the Ledger. = CouE er,Journal. Yes. he
would be admitted, but nothing would be
allowed in re erence to his climbing
the golden stairs. "-[Phil. Bulletin.
The will of Cardinal de Angels, whose
death at Rome was recently announced.
has been opened. He leaves his fortune.
which amount to 1900, OOOt, to the
priest Pellegrino Fozoni, of Gr~attazzo.
lima, in recompense for services rendered
by the latter when the cardinal was i'm.
prisoned at AnconA. The nephews of
the deceased prelate have only inherited
the fortune left him by his father, that is
to say, about 20, O0Gf.
General James A Walker, the Vir.
GINA Conservative candidate for l~ieuter.
ant governor, was q cadet at the Virginia
Military Institute when "Stonewall"
Jackson was a professor there. One dav
General jackson reproved young Walker.
who tent him a challenge to Eight a duel
General Jackson seriously thought Of
accepting it, but finally concluded not
to do so. Walker VS. court-martisled
and dismissed. During the war be be-
came a colonel under jackson, and at
JaoLeon's ANN reo,o.