Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-04
SPECIAL NOTICE.
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

FACTS AND FANCIES. i'i
Is it right to cover the naked truth
with falsehood7
To be kissed to death by pretty girl
is capital punishment"
Main street nowadays resembles the
mighty ocean, its so full of heary SMELLS.
Strakosch is called "Strakky" by the
unpoetical editor of the New York Clip
per.
A cook who adyertises for situation
says she has no objections to dressing
children.
At the Arkansas lakes there are five
hunters to one duck, and the duck often
escapes at that.
We notice the disappearance of sew
eral little mustaches since last week.
The cold snap was too much for them.
as it possible, Miss, you don't know
the names of some of your friendsy'
"Oh yes, don't know what my own may
be in year"
In Western New York, preparation
of pork is popularity known as ground
hog" in this region it is termed "sau'
sage"
Our girls say they like above all Other
street wraps, the new garment called the
Galitzin. Our boys say they like better
the gal-its-in-it.
Female influence is evidently getting
uppermost in Arkansas. At county
fair there premium is offered for the
handsomest man exhibited.
The Mormons are just now making
savage love to their first wives. The de
sign is to keep them so contented that
they will refrain from lawsuits.
1t is said that green tarlatan dress
contains arsenic enough to kill man
and yet men do not seem to be afraid
of green tarlatan dresses.
The Chicago Journal considers the de-
struction Of about cart load of "origi-
nal poetry" in its Office as the most
gratifying feature of the fire.
A young lady of Cincinnati advertises
for some gentleman to love her. She
says she will give 5000 to have it done
in "virtuous and gentle manner"
In Hartford it is one of the duties of
the police force to return truants to
school, and during the past two months
they report the return of 45O truants.
A Boston paper (the Post, perhaps, }
remarks that Alexis is letting his bark
drift with the negligence Of delight
among the islands of the lovely sirens.
A Wisconsin girl lately knocked over
her Teller" with the sacred volume,
because he declined to place his hand
thereon, and declaring she was all the
world to him.
A Titusville, Pa, critic says Of the
Lydia Thompson troupe: The Lydian
melodies fell from the lips Of the blondes
like pearls from the mouths of Tusca-
loosa clans"
Robert E. Lee, youngest son of the
late Gen. r. E. Lee, was married at
Rocklands," Orange county, Va, on
the 10th ult., to Miss Charlotte Haxall,
daughter Of Mr., r. Barton Haxall.
A philosopher, who thinks he knows
why thus is SO, says that we're it not for
tight lacing, all civilized countries you'd
be oVerrun with women" He probably
means they'd run to waist.
While a committee OF the citizens of
Houston, Texas, were bathing horse
thief in the river, their hands accidently
slipped and he sank to the bottom. The
sad event is deeply regretted by the
community.
George Alfred Townsend, whose erit-
oisms are at times somewhat pointed,
says Of Philadelphia paper; Which
appears, by its general thinness, 10 use
bean soup for printing ink and to be
edited by an oyster"
The King Of Dahomey attended a
grand feast lately, wearing quantity Of
druggists labels as decorations. This
nearly equals a South Sea monarch,
whose entire costume consisted Of a
postage stamp on his forehead.
Panorama lecturer" This, leddies
and gentilman, is the island Of St. Hell
ena, the place where Napoleon the First
breathed his last. The frigate which we
see in the ofing. rounds the point, 6res
salute, and disappears-Swishl-boOmr
A Wisconsin lady, who has added
twenty to the population Of that State,
has been reading Of people arriving at
perfection through suffering, says: If
suffering makes one perfect, ] am the
most perfect person on Gods foOtstooi.
The New York Express declares that
it does not exaggerate in saying that
New York has thousands Of young men
with good mothers and pure sisters, WHO,
il their lives should be uncovered. could
never look those mothers and sisters la
the face again.
Boarding house keepers in Lowell,
Mass, talk Of raising the price Of board
because the operatives employed in
the factories, since the shortening Of
working hours, have more time for the
midday meal, and consume more food
than formerly.
Hunting Indians is a popular "spart
in Kansas. One Of the papers in urg-
ing the formation Of 9 regiment TO hunt
the "pesky varmints says The ser
vice will last three or four months only,