Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-09
FACTS AND FANCPEs.

Five silver dollars used to be a sound
legal tender. Now siek-silVer dollars are
an ILLEGAL tender.
Grace Greenwood gives it as her epin'
ion that the Chinese are not a curse but
q blessing to California.
Which is the better, mating or ere
mating2 St. Paul said that it was "bet'
ter to marry than to burn"
The Arkansas Hot Springs were
burned recently. We've been afraid they
were getting that water too hot.-[Phila.
delphia Bulletin.
Eccentric persons who propose to
make their wills are advised by the New
York World to leave the money direct to
the Bar Association to save trouble.
It is rumorsd that the French govern.
ment intends to confer the Grand Cross
of the Legion of Honor, rendered vacant
by the death of NJ. Theirs, ON the great
national poet, Victor Hugo.
For a stout man, David Davis bounds
over the political fence with astonishing
agility, doesn't he?-New York Com
mercial Advertiser. Au contraire, he is
q person who knows no bounds.
A news item says that an English
traveller in the Holy Land has discovered
Jacobs Well. We are delighted to hear
it. A m has been aAoat for some
time that Jacob was sd.-[Derrick.
They have a man in Philadelphia who
talks BARRIERS to death. If we have ever
said anything against the City of Broth
erly Love we're awful sorry for it, and
take il all ack .-Cihcinnati Break. Tab.
The Ring Of the Fisherman" which
the popes SUCCESSFULLY wear, represents
on a surface of gold a deeply engraven
image of St. Peter in his boat drawing
his nets. It is used to seal all bulls and
official documents Of importance.
"We'l, l swan, Billy" said an old far.
mer to an understood nephew who was
visiting him, when you take off that
ere plug hat and spit two or three times
there amt much left of you, is th'2'-
Cincinnati Break. Tab.
What's your occupation, Bub?'
asked a visitor at the capitol of a bright
boy whom he met in the corridor. The
boy happened to be a page in the house.
IL am running for congress, sir" he re-
plied.-[New York Commercial Adv.
The chaplain Of the Iowa senate has
been makidg himself ridiculous again.
In q prayer the other day he said: 20,
Lord, while we think the President in
sane, we ask you to bless him" The re.
suit was that three resolutions were sent
to the clerks desk relating to the chap.
lain's eccentricities.
In a letter to the New York Sun Mr..
W.. N. Fitzgerald asserts that his brother,
the late P. A. Fitzgerald, wrote the
Dsnites, and that Mckee Rankin gave
Joaquin Miller 5000 to father it. BE
prints a letter from the widow OF P. A.
Fitzgerald corroborating his assertions.
What o vast amount Of effort goes to
waste in this vale of uncertainty To
illustrate; A young lady will bang away
at an old cracked piano for three mortaI
hours, under the impression that she is
discounting 0rpheus, with no better re
suit than to make death fascinating Ia
every ledger in the block. Alas, poor
grill the same amount of vitality other.
wise expended might have chopped hash
enough for q forty.mouth clearinghouse
-[Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
The President has nominated q Mr..
Beard to be collector OF customs at
Boston. Beard is a Wholesale clothier
and should have no trouble in redress,
ing custom.house abuses, and suiting til,
people in his new capacity .-[Norr
Herald. Of course be knows all about
custom work and can sec through job
lots easily. In fact he appears to be
"ready-made' ofice.holder. Mr.. Sim
mons went to Washington and w(h)ined
and Mr.. Hayes went to Boston ant
Beer'd.