Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-25
FACTS AMI FANCIEs.

"N WV NSSehS III Oau HKau-
cisco last year.
The regatta of the Brooklyn Yacht
Club is fixed for the 18th of Jrne.
Even the barrel hoop will turn when
trod upon, says the Danbury News.
How to make a cat6sh-leave her
alone in a room with an aquarium.
In Sonoms aud Napa counties, Califor.
mia, grapes are being manufactured into
syrup.
The Pandemokium club, composed of
artists, actors, musicians and journalists,
has been organized in San Francisco.
In the bright Lexington of Kentucky
there is no such words as mo, thank
you | never rink.-[Worcester Gazette.
A communication to this paper begins,
u had no idea" etc. The rest of the
communication proves it,-[BuGalo Ex-
press.
The ~hippophagi have invaded Gotham.
The first indication of their presence il
this sign on a Chambers street restaur-
ant: "Rost Beef Horse radish, picked
tongue"
A firm in Fulton, Texas, killed fifteen
thousand beeves in the past season, and
canned two million Of ~two-pound cans Of
beef, beside thousands of cans Of turtle.
tosgues, soups, etc.
a meeting to organize q Society for
the Suppression Of Vice and immortality
was held in Cincinnati last week, at
which Anthony Comstock, Of New York.
was present and made an address. Mr..
Comstock is to organize similar socie.
ties in st. Louis, Chicago, and Cleveland.
An insane man, whe gave his name
as Louis Walssman, Child of America"
entered the Albany, New York, tels-
graph Office last week and paid $40 Al
for a telegram to the Emperor William.
eeuehed in these terms: II am the CON
queror of the world-don't vote for the
pope" An effort to recover the money
was unsuccessful, as the dispatch was
seat by the operator before the return of
Walsaman in charge of a policeman.
An interesting discovery has been
made at Bordentown, New Jersey. There
has been standing on Church street for
nearly one hundred and fifty years a
building which has been used as a resi.
dence, and at one time belonged to the
Carman family. In digging under the
foundation of this structure-laid in 1913
"a stone bottle and plate, resembling
the old stoneware of Peru, shown at The
Centennial Exhibition, was found.
AS they we're taking their oysters the
lady gave a little scream of rapture and
detached from one Of the biyalves that
had fallen to her share, a pearl. IT
wonder" she said, as she examined it
closely, IF it is worth anything. There
does seem to be a flaw in it," Her
lord and master inspects it critically
and returns it with 8 sapient shake of
the head. Bogus, sure" he says, they
couldn't afford to give real pearls with
oysters at twenty-five cents a Dozen"
A small ragged boy entered an oyster
house at Salem, Mass, the other day.
and stepping up to the proprietor, said:
Will you sell me an oyster for a cent?
| want it for my sick mother" What
is the matter with your motherp ?" asked
the man as he proceeded TO gil a a
with the bivslVes, thinking he would help
relieve a case Of suffering. She's got
a black eye was the reply. Then the
b%euevolence rapidly faded from the mind
of the man as he put an oyster in a pa.
per bag.
Postmaster james, of New York, has
issued a circular calling especial atlen.
ton to section 81 Of the laws and regu.
l%atiOnS of the pOStofice department, the
enforcement of which will hereafter be
rigorous. Under its provisions, mer.
%chandise, samples of goods, or printed
matter marked with additional matter,
such as business or trade announce.
mentS, frequently done by of
rubber or metal stamps, will be subject
to l~etter'postage rates, the announce
mentS being held to be in the nature Of q
private communication.