Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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A correspondent Of Cincinnati paper
was at the Chicago fire, and reports that
" Northward the hell angel strobe to the
emporium of rich produce it was longing
for. sse
Cincinnati has an apparatus for con-
suming her own smoke. Iflshe would
now take another stride and consume
her own whisky, we might point to her
with pride. sia ~ Hsa aaI
The rural portions of Rhode Island
complain that Providence has too much
power in their Legislature. II is COM
plant seldom made in any other State
in the Union. s. Hstt
Underskirts of alternate stripes Of silk
and velvet win be very stylish for walk
ing costumes next season, the front OF
the overskirt being left open to display
the underskirts.
Many fashionable women stand in
great dread of offending their maids,
who, if turned away, may disclose the
secrets Of their toilettes to some rival,
who may profit by it.
We have now the official ciphers by
nationality of the Commune prisoners,
Here they are; Italians, one hundred
and thirty-one; Swiss, twenty-seyen; Rus
slams (2), seventy-three; Germans, forty
two; Poles (natnralized French), two
hundred and twenty-nine; English,
seven; Spanish, Portuguese, and the rest
altogether, fifteen, ta saL r /
The Boston journal remarks that q
young lady with golden tresses tainted
the other night, and an alarmed friend
bathed her forehead with vinegar, and
in the most expeditions manner bathed
all the golden color out of her friend s
front hair" The moral Of which is that
young ladies when they faint should
bar the vinegar"
An absent-minded editor, who is known
to have an account with the bank, goes
from some fifty miles below Toledo to
that city, counting. The other night he
came to climax, and the old man was
interviewed. 80 you want Clara n said
the pater familias. what will you give
herr" Give her" replied the newspaper
man, looking up yacantly, "oh, I'll give
her puff.
Such perfect love as this is seldom
witnessed in this selfish world. II was
developed last summer by a conversa-
ton in dark corner of West Point
hotel piazza. The interlocutors were a
young married couple: Who s tweet7
"Why, 90 tweet." mol oo's tweet. :"
Whose little birdy is your zoos
little birdy.' The remainder could only
be expressed onomatopoetically.
A new fashion Of long-pointed collars
prevails in section Of the oil-regions,
and "all the boys" wear them. A local
chronicler reports that Zone of these
chaps stepped on his collar yesterday,
and tripped himself up, and was only
able to navigate after a friend had un-
buttoned his collar and inverted it,
though he will have to be fed with o
step-ladder and shovel until the fashion
changes a 't
An exchange says: Not long since we
heard sung in church the anthem Rock
of Ages" in which there is saleto the
words, Should my tears" ETC., which
was sung as follows:
"Shoo-hoo hood my hi-te-hears
For-eh-yer her how-hOw,
Shoe hoO-hood my hi-ze heal
No languOr knO-hO,
Thi-his for her SHIN could
Not hot ah ha tO-hone.
Thou how muh-hust sea-haye,
And the-how ah. ha lone;
In my hands no price bring. =,
Simply to the craw-hoss-I-hi cling"
General Quiroga, a Mexican officer,
came near being killed by the Indians.
They cut him of from his ranch. One
Of them charged upon him with his
lancein rest. The General drew his six
shooter. His horse fell and rolled over
him. He was surrounded by twenty In
dams. Luckily a shower Of rain fell
and wet their bow strings so they could
not shoot General Quiroga managed to
to keep them off with his pistol, mount
his horse and effect his escape.
Instead Of waiting for a public meet
ing to be called, Mr.. Joseph W. Allen,
one Of the best men in Nashville, step
ped into the Banner office and left one
hundred dollars for Chicago. Mr. Allen,
in return for his philanthropy, was i'm
mediately telegraphed all over the
country. In one place he appeared as
J. o. S. Wallan, in another as J o. S
W. Allen, in another as J. o. S. Wall
ing, and finally he turned up in Cinein'
matt as J. o. A. Adler.
A Cincinnati paper gives the following
information to its readers: "A lot OF
professional thieves, including those
living here, have agreed on a neat plan
Of beating our people. They propose
to pass themselves on, As often as posi-.
bic, as Chicago sufferers gain access,
for a nights lodging, TO private resi-.
denees, and walk off in the night with
what silyerware, jewelry and clothing
they can secure. Ii is plan that will
work well unless our citizens are careful
to know upon whom to bestow their
churities.
Hon. James Brooks writes thus TO the
New York Express Of a sleeping apart
ment in Japan: We had a whole floor
TO ourselves, and on that floor perhaps a
dozen rooms--all one, though, If the pa.
per screens were removed. Ssoh tene-
ments as these, you see, are not very "a
vorable for private life, or secrecy, OF