Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-21
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

VIC lluNSi ~ W.
"My wife and l" have got through
with their Christian Union.
Blind Tom now sees his way clear to
pecuniary independence.
Good name for a District Attorney;
Swoope. He lives in Pennsylvania.
Kaiser William doesn't care much for
the ravages of fire, unless it is his own
setting
The New York bellies are thinking
how Mrs. Alexandrovitch " would look
on paper.
The Louisville papers are suffering
from terrible outbreak of lunacy. Train
has been among EN-.
Apparently the only thing now left for
Boss Tweed is to steal away. He
has taken everything else.
To cure a cough, an English woman
gave her infant strip of peoples. Kea-
bles was the coroners name.
That was an enterprising man who.
started paper-mill in Georgia, when he
heard that A. H. Stephens was to write
for newspaper.
The New York Sun denominGtes the
suicide of the young GAINESVILLE (Ohio)
lawyer at the death-bed of his wife
case of morbid selflove."
Mr.. jackson, of New York, was killed
recently by fragment from stove.
His heirs ought to learn from this the
Importance of keeping out of the way
of cast iron.
Our President is not considered par
excellence literary gentleman, yet he
will read more sermons in those Seneca
stones before the next election than
Shakespeare ever dreamed Of.
If some newspaper would get up list
of the presents Grant has received since
President, he would make bigger hit
than the fellow who followed him around
and measured the distance travelled by
him.
In the East there are not lesssthan
two hundred thousand enterprising but
impecunious young gentlemen, who can
not pay board and washing bills, be-
cause their mothers were burned out
in Chicago
In recent conversation Grant said
Boutwell, is Puritanical and cold
blooded. he is not a strong man. Be
sides he is a tea-drinker, and damn a
tea-drinker anyhow Grant has more
faith in whisky.
Mark Twain is described as a slenderly
built man, between thirty-6ye and forty
years of age, with keen eye and regu-
lar features, set off to good advantage
by "a heavy black mustache and an
abundance of hair
The first edition of Mr.. Bryants
poems was printed in 1921, just fifty
years before the appearance of the last
and still the veteran poet pays attention
to the muses., and is at work on the fourth
volume of his translation of Homer.
Tiffany & Co, of New York, have a
necklace of pearls which was purchased
from the ex-Empress of the French by
an agent sent to Chiselhnrst for the pur-
pose. The price asked is $4,000 |
That's an ancient dodge-very ancient
Moses Williams, of Dubuque, went
into the bulrushes last June to fish, and
Just because he hasn't been heard of
since, some people are hasty enough to
think something has happened to him.
They will try to find him in the spring |
Anna Dickinson says in one of her
lectures that If man is rich in Amer
lea, he is SO by the divine right of
brains" II is a sad and devastating
fact that rich men Of America not only
own most Of the money, but are rapidly |
aecumulating ell the brains.
Mrs. Algernon Sheridan, daughter Of
ex-Minister to England Motley, who was
married the 18th of last February, gave
birth to daughter on the 10th Of last
month. If Anna Dickinson had done
as well she might with propriety address
herself To the labor question.
That meateyed, emaeiated libel |
upon masculinity, who wears a coon
skin overeoat, and dubs himself Co
manche Bill, +" is food for the Louisville
reporters at this writing. They are do
ing him as one who has noble cause"
and an eye that speaks the do Or die "
If a man wants TO kill Indians he ought
TO stay where they are
1t is notorious fact that the purchas-
able politicians par excellence, 10 the
last New York Legislature, were Repu5-
licaus: and it has leaked out that Boss
Tweed kept book in which he entered
the sums paid to these fellows, which he
intends 10 publish when he ENDS that the
game is really up with him.
The New Orleans Times, in comment
ing on the writing OF the wretched old
word coiner, Stephen Perlandrews. says:
When a man tells a gaping public that
the ahsoluioid and abstraetoid elemen-
tismus Of being echoes or reappears by
analogy within the relatoid and oonere-
told elaboFismus, we can Only marvel
and say with 'Solon Single, Jess 50,
Judge jess SOL To dispute It would
be worse than death itself"