Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-05
FAUTS ANN FANCIEs.

Mark Twain says: ut is a blessed
thing to live in a land Of plenty, if you
have plenty Of land"
General Franz Sigel intends that two
Of his three sons shall be farmers, and
has bought for them a farm in Maryland.
Tweed says be has not $4,000 left. We
are in the same predicament. But did
he ever get $4,000 ght2-[Norristown
Herald.
Considering that we have had no cir.
Gus this year the profusion of rain in
this vicinity is un~accountable morris.
town Herald.
A Prohibltionist may be described in
general terms as a man who thinks that
every one who disagrees with him must
be drunk Worcester Press.
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton intends
shortly to publish a volume of her po-
ems, to be called by the pretty Teunyso.
nisn name of Swallow Flights"
Mr.. H. St. G Tucker, son of the Hon.
j. Randolph Tucker, Of Virginia, has
just been married to Miss Johnston,
granddaughter of General Albert Sidney
Johnston.
The squaw who talked at the United
States com missioners was Sitting Bulls
motherin.law. She had been in training
for two weeks with a gag in her mouth.
-[Boston Globe.
Those big hotels in Chicago attract
English tourists right away, but when
the said English tourist has paid the bill
he is heard bIawsting these-ah-
blawsted %menageries."
The Rev. Arthur Mursell, of Stock
we'll, London, who is considered to rank
next to Spurgeon in the Baptist pulpit,
is coming to the United States on a six
months lecturing tour.
The Tennessee Historical Socisty has
lately come into possession Of six wooden
chairs which composed part OF the furni-
ture with which Willard Fillmore set up
housekeeping after his marriage.
A Scotch paper relates bow General
Grant lost a thumb and finger at the bat
tie of Michigan. Of course it means
Chandler, who met the surgeon at
that battle and invited him to take three
fingers lCincinnati Commercial.
Stanley has discovered $4,000, 600
hitherto unknown heathens, and every
married man will have to renew the old
struggle to keep his best plug bet out of
the box which the ladies' missionary So
cieiyi is making up.-[Church Journal.
Says the Tampa Ella J Tribune: The
oranges this season are remarkably thin.
skinned and unusually sweet; fruit from
the same trees last year we're thick.skin-
ned and more acrid. 1t seems that drouth
produces the latter, and much rain the
former.
1t is reported that when somebody
asked Mrs. Secretary McCreary if she
had Mrs. B~elknap's carriage, she imme-
answered mo, you won't find
any of that skullduggery about usr'
Whence is this awful word, and what
does it mean?
Edwin Adams felt the first intimation
Of the disease which killed him three
years ago. He had a severe cold in
and went to a physician, who
said to him: IF you don't take care.
Mr.. Adams, that will descend to you
The cold seemed to disappear,
aud the actor forgot it, but its effects re.
manned.
John A. Campbell, who has Just been
nominated as consul to Basic, Swilzer-
and, was an officer gu the staff Of Gen.
5chofeld during the late civil war, and
made governor Of Wyoming Terri.
DRY by President Grant. After two or
hree years service in that capacity he
'esigned, and was appointed third assist
mt Secretary of State under Mr. Fish.
Bad health caused By close %confnemen-
S the eaase Of his leaving the depast'
nent