Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-27
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Sic transit gloria carpet. Dagger.

A variety of Mushroom that is not Of
a poisonous nature the nursery.
The two Russian grand dukes are now
styled "a pair Of Muscovy ducks"
Jules Verne is fifty years old. Alex
ander Dumas goes him one better.
A magnificent table clock lately
fetched S24l5 at auction in London.
Georgia is sending pine to Holland.
Some Of this pine is knotty, but it's nice.
The ONE of Boston protest against
the men of Boston smoking in the
streets.
Colored visiting cards, tinted in keep
iug with the livery or racing colors, are
the thing in Paris.
Wade Hampton has been invited to
attend the centennial celebration of the
battle Of Bennington, Vt.
The average town never had a correct
idea of purgatory until a musical genius
gata full control of a calliope.
At a grand drunk by a party Of Bava-
riana at Achdorf, tina other day. one man
drank eighteen gallons of beer.
Because her husband did not take tn
religion, a Michigan woman procured a
divorce and married a hired man.
Missouri is going to give Eve cents for
every rat killed in that State. Can Chi
nese cheap labor be at the back Of this?
What can one poor, weak woman with
a club do against a tyrannica husband
who crawls under the bed and refuses to
come out?
Ex-Governor Moses, Of South Carolina.
has returned to the bar, and the New
York Evening Express rises to remark.
20 temporal o Moses!"
An eighty-three pound jaw bone hav.
ing been discovered in Texas, recently,
the finder ~telegraphed East to inquire if
Miss soldene was missing.
Every member of a rural Indiana base
ball nine has been Frustrated by chills
and fever. Why not call them "oui-
nine" and be done with it2
The florists, with shrewdness, will this
year lean to the fashion in colors. and
cultivate the yellow buttercup, the COW.
slip, the jonquil and the primrose.
No matter how inland a town NAV be.
the male inhabitants may catch a full
view Of the breakers" every Sabbath.
They are usually found at the gardens.
A Nashville man answered a Chicago
advertisement" How to win at poker"
and received for his two dollars the fol-
lowing; Hold four aces, or don't
poke"
Some men living in the upper counties
OF Georgia who have never heard OF the
close of the war are still hiding out.
The war referred to is the war on the
whisky ring.
Theodore Thomas is handsome and
looks down modestly as a coy maiden.
and his English is just enough broken
to make him as interesting as a chair
with three legs.
The st. Augustine Hotelin Florida is
the largest hotel in the world. 1t must
be, for a correspondent says that among
the guests are 1.-THE Smiths of New
York. "-[Ciucinnat Enquirer.
DR.. Newman, "ex-chsplain to Presi.
dent Grant" said in his last Sundays
sermon that be would rather stay on
earth than in heaven, if heaven were as
monotonOus as it is pictured.
A disease has shown itself in India
and Ceylon among the leaves Of coffee
plants. It does not actually destroy the
plant, but weakens it, and thus imperils
the crop, It is causing great anxiety.
Simultaneously With the appearances
of Ben Wade in Washington VIC find in
the Western papers an account Of the
escape of The Wild Man E" from one Of
the menageries. Put this ANA that to-
gether.
Don't you wish you were the emperor
OF Germeny2 The other day he received
a Brunswick sausage six feet high, for a
birthday present, and for two whole days
he waa so proud and stuck up over it
that he could scarcely speak to Bis
marck, Nor, Herald.
A distressed night editor, when he saw
the reports Of a Turco,R Russian war, took
down the map glanced calmly over the
field, saw what name of names be
would have to read proof Of this sum
mer, and went out and shot himself dead
in the neck [Hawkeye.
An intelligent Burlington hunting dog
that had a rather busy time last season,
went down to tinshop one day last week
and had his hind legs and back plated
with sheet-iron. And now, when he sees
his master looking at the gun he smiles
and remarks that be is ready to hunt in
front of the best fancy shot in Burling-
ton. -[BurlingtOn Hawkeye.
Winfield Davidson, s~ehool.boy, bye
sixteen, fell violently in love with a
schoolgirl, also sweet sixteen, both, il is