Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-10
FACTS AND FAECIEs.
Mrs. Eve iaausura.sd an f,.hlon..

Au apple woman says her b1siness is
at a stand still.
In very bad ecmpanJ-rhe man who
gets beside himself.
Three Cinnamon have Just been na.u-
rallied at Cincinnati
People tap less old wine aud more old
shoes this year than last.
Red Cloud politely inquired after the
health of his Great Mother.
Stupid English legislation has hurt
India more than the drouths.
1t is safe to say there viii. be no bran
dy in administration mince pies this
winter.
The life Of a Brooklyn policeman is
valued as low as SlS and as high as
$4,000.
People on Jersey fats, opposite the
slaughter-house, are going to get up a
smelling match.
Mrs. Hen appears among the members
Of the Minnesota Methodist Convention.
She's a lay delegate.
The Philadelphia Bulletin afirms that
a woman can pack more articles into a
trunk than a man can into a one horse
wagon.
Studying at his meals and eating alone
killed Leverrier. -[EScbsnge. Glad to
have something explanatory on that
subject,
The Turks are particular about one
thing-they want a battle to stop at IL
O'Clock, noon, that they may get dinner
as usual.
The champion fat man of North Caro-
lima is Captain James F. Jones. He is
six feet one inch, and kicks the beam at
CAT pounds.
California hop growers are employing
boys and girls as pickers in the place of
Chinese, and report that the experiment
is a success.
There are over 5000 saints ia the good
Russians's cslandar, and yet St.. Vitus
often comes along and dances him up
another name.
James B Homer, the oldest resident
of Hartford, Conn, has lived in his pres
ent house ninety four years. What a
sweet, sweet old Homer he must be-.
Fifteen thousand dollars is the figure a
San Francisco damsel of sixty five wants
from a gay boy Of seventy, who she says
promised to marry her aud now declines.
Lydia Thompson says she can't be
held responsible for spinal injuries in
Hicted on outside females who try to put
their toes iu their mouth and be as smart
as her professionals.
Sitting Bull informed the correspond
ent Of a Canadian journal that he was
crying because he had lost a string of
ffty'six white peoples scalps. Neverthe.
less, the government wants to feed him.
Chief Justice Waite is said to make
the wheels Of justice in the Supreme
Court run a third faster than any of his
predecessors = Exchange. Then he's
the right Wait for the wagon of justice.
When the government had those sixty
two plaster casts Of Indian faces taken.
it imagined that General Howard would
kill the last red man in about ten DAYS.
1t imagined so without consulting the
Indians.
"Ill go back to St. Petersburg either
dead or victorious" said the car. Wbv
didn't he have some style about him and
say: Bulgaria shall be preserved or
Maria AlexandroVna Nicolaievitch will
De a widow some day"2-[B Boston Post.
The owner Of the piano factory which
was burned the other day being now
pretty we'll down, the newspapers are
improving the opportunity to give him
the kicks which they ought to have given
him during his prosperity. n
Gazette.
A young convert who wrote for spirit.
ual advice to Mrs. Van Colt was consid-
erably astonished to receive the following
directions for his way Of life: "Sew the
to the belt; fasten three plaits.
downward, ami finish all the
with hens or faciugs."