Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-19
FACTS n FANCtEs.

An Iowa school mistress was dis.
charged because she stood on her head
to amuse the children.
Tue New Hampshire papers have a
rumor that President Hayes and wife
will visit the White mountains next
summer.
The Russian candidate for the throne
of BULGARIA. is the Prince of Battenbsrg.
We suppose his wife is the Princess of
Cottonbattenberg.
Nearly three hundred members OF the
British parliament are either active or
retired members Of the army aud navy.
Their voice is still for war.
The latest style of kids is the twenty.
seven. button gloves, which are Joined
back of the ears and serve to keep the
hair from tickling the neck.
One man said to another in an srgu.
meut: Its no use talking; you cant
make twice three seven" 81 a com
within one of it." was the ~resolute an
swer.
John N. Dixon. Of Adams county,
Iowa, is having 100 lanterns of peculiar
construction made to hang in his orchard
during the time of bloom to catch the
moths and insacts
Henry Ward Bescher is going to Cali.
foruia next summer. He will step at
Salt Lake City to see the Mormons and
electiOneer to fud out his chances as
Brigham YOung's successor.
DE committee decide dat de swoArd
has de most pints and de best bsckin',
an dat de pen is de most beneficial, an
dat de whola ting is about a stan'-of."-
decision Of a colored debate.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson. the comedian,
has shipped three elegant pictures to
Europe-one for the French salon, an
other for the academy in London, and
the third for the French gallery in Pail
Mall, London.
Lord Beaconsisld is quoted as having
said lately: II have the queen on my
side; l have parliament with me; | have
the people of England behind me. fl
we're ten years younger | would remake
the map of Europe"
1t tries the metal in q mar to lick a
quarters worth of postage stamps while
a pretty postmistress contemplates him
through the delivery window. Unless
he has the backbone Of a Ce iar he will
wilt before the third envelope is stamped.
The girls Of our day are very badly
educated" SAID one of the members of
committee on education to the Bishop
of Gloucester. THAT cannot be de-
MED, retorted his lordship. However,
there is n consolation, the boys will
never find it out"
A devout woman took her baby to
church. The voice of the preacher
awaksd the child into screams. DO
not 60" said the minister, the baby
does not disturb me- THAT may be-"
said the mother, still retreatiug, but
you disturb the baby"
Sixty quarts Of strawberries, the first
shipment this year, were sent north from
Charleston, s. G., last Saturday. Re.
frigerator cars nowrun between that city
and the principal Eastern cities. About
200 acres have been planted this year
against $50 last year.
ut is an i'll wind that blows nobody
any good" and the late food in Cslifor.
MIA demonstrates again the truth Of the
old adage. Over 10000 acres of land
hitherto unproductivs have been covered
with the alluvial deposit of about two
feet in thickness. This makes the very
best grain land in the world.
The intelligent compositor who quoted
the Rev. Talmage as saying " An honest
man is the nobbiest work Of God" now
lies stiff aud stark IN the DIRK church.
yard mold, and the daisies are growing
all around, all around, and TIE daisies
are growing all around.-[New York
Independent.
To the committee of a prominent
school Of art, Mr.. Ruskin wrote lately
from Oxford: Nothing can advance art
in any district of this accursed, machine
and devil.driven England, until .she
changes her mind in many things, and
my time for talking is past. l lecture
here, but only on the art of the past"
The resident Of Washington Territory
having heard that another man had set
tied in the western part of the Territory,
Immediately applied for admission into
the Union as a State, and has promised
to elect the other man to the legislature,
If the other man will pledge himself to
vote for him for United States senator
lHawkeye.
From Calcutta it is learned that dur.
ing the recsnt famine in India not less
than 100000 people died Of actual
starvation. The amount spent by tho
government in relief work and in camp
charity was about $50, OOO,O CO, and the
contributions, chiefly from England and
Australia, amounted to 3d. 500 900. The
famine is considered at an end, as the