Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-21
as JEFFERSON street.
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


indebtedness hotel bill.
Bridgetis styled The Lady Of Lyin's.
South American horse-cars are two
stories high.
Morlacchi is shaking her gauze IN
Washington.
A physician, it is said, may have a
great stock of patience, and yet be
wanting in practice
Saturday evening is the fashionable
night at ihe theaters, and is also very
popular for calling, in New York.
The happiest company ever assem-
bled in an Indiana hotel was composed |
of thirteen divorced couples.
No people can excel the Americans
in the manly art of setting on bench |
and seeing eighteen men play ball.
An English contemporary says OF
speech recently made by a statesman
there, that it was "ostentatiously sensi-
BILE.
The key to the political situation in
Alabama is the darkey, who Yields the
majority of votes in twenty-three
counties.
How is it possible that every dog
can have his day. as the proverb says,
when there are only three hundred and
sixty-fve days in ayear2
1t is proposed, as good advice, that
when beaux become loose in their
habits, young ladies should give them
the sack.
A Boston paper says many young la
dies are accused Of wearing their en-
gagement rings in their pockets except
when he T" is around.
The new style of wearing the hair is
known by the name of French roll, "
and many ladies try to pretend that they
are French bre(a)d."
The population of Great Britain is
81 ,OOO 900; of France, 81 600; Bel
GUM, 100000; Austria, 36,OOO,OOO;
Prussia, 4O,OOOOOO; Russia, 7O,OOO,OOO.
Some of the large hotels in Paris
agree to give a delicious breakfast, in
GLIDING wine, for the moderate sum OF
sixty-fve cents. This is much better
than they can do here.
There is comfort yet for poor folks.
A Western paper says that: " In this re-
gion the claim to be a millionaire has
become so common, that to be so ranked
is often looked upon as vulgar or dis
honest,
A shameless Cincinnati paper insists
that nothing is so disgusting to the re-
spectacle auditors as to see bony old
maid with concave stomach and a neck
like chicken get up in the suffrage
meeting and preach free love,
A cynical writer says that if woman
knew how much she lost by forever
smiling in mans face she would quit
it altogether. More men are won by
little pretence of quiet sadness than by
the sunniest smiles that were ever seen.
Miss Kane, of Baltimore, set out to
write list of the wrongs of women, but
found so many of them that she was
driven to the conclusion that women
suffer wrong in being born at all.
This disposes Of the whole question in
a nutshell.
Anna Dickinson has pocketed by her
lectures since 1860 the snug little sum
of $sl, 900, and Olive Logan, who has
been only three years in the blowing
business, has raked in $4,000. Those
two old girls are good for another half
century, and half million each.
Karl Marx, the President of the great
International Society Of Europe, is not
dead, at least he has written letter to
Woodruff q Claffin's Weekly within the
last ten days, and says; The news of
my death was concoeted at Paris by the
Avenir Liberal, Bonapsrtist paper.
Unprotected female (awaking old gent,
who is not very well)-0, Mister, would
you find the Captain2 I'm sure we're
in danger. I've been watching that
man at the wheel; he keeps turning it
round first one way and then the other,
and evidently doesn't know his own
mind.
A Chicago correspondent vouches for
the fact that, notwithstanding they we're
walked up at midnight and had to fee
for their lives, Theodore Thomas and
his orchestra saved their instruments,
and Miss Krebbs, the pianist Of the
troupe, made her escape with a single
sheet Of music in her hand.
Among the military officers of the
Commune was a descendant Of Cru
sader who fought by the side of Godfrey
de Bouillon. This young man, whose
name and title are Baron Chaumart de
Valchaumont, was arrested few days
since at Montrouge. The Baron, not
withstanding his aristocratic descent,
was a Communist in sentiment
Josh Billings, in his directions How
to pick out a good boss" says good
bosses are skarse, and good men, that
deal in emmy kind Of bosses, are
skarser An honest man IL the noblest
work Of Cod this Janus saying was
written, in CRATE anguish Of heart by the
late Alexander Pope, just after buying a
good family boss.
The Revolution, having learned tina
pretty lady canvassers for woman news
papers are going about hugging the men
in order TO obtain subscribers, says: " II