Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-11
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

is making soft soap.
Chicago now talks of the great fire as
1.-THE recent heated term.
Twelve Swiss guides have lost their
lives on the Alps this year.
Eugene Rothschild, a son of the
Baron, will visit Washington this win
ter.
Mrs. Scott Siddons is on profes-
sional tour Of the chief theaters in Ire
land.
A New York hotel keeps pew in a
fashionable church for the use of its
guests.
Daniel Webster was long accustomed
to read Robinson Crusoe' once
through annually.
Countess Benedtti, wife of the French
Minister to Prussia, was once Greek
slave at Alexandria.
The weather in Vermont last week
was the coolest experienced there for the
past thirty-two years.
A contemporary, in the course of a
description of Alexis, says he is 1.-THE
noble son of grandsire.
A ghost that for several weeks has
been haunting house in Kentucky was
caught recently, and proved to be big
rattlesnake.
The new theater now building in Rome
with the title of King Emanuel will have
a glass roof, enabling the manager to
give both day and evening performances.
An English paper states that Mr..
Gladstone is the real ruler in England.
The Queen is simply his autograph--his
amanuensis for signing State papers"
The New York Evening Mail says that
many persons VINO loll back in their
handsome CARRIAGES on Fifth avenue
look as cross and solemn as if they we're
riding to their own funeral.
An American--of course it is an
American-has started boat on the
sea of Galilee, and the steam-whistle
and engine-gong are henceforth to do
violence to its echoes.
An exchange thinks the execution of
Rossel, by Theirs, and the murder of
the medical students at Havana shows
Z" the wild beast that still turks in the
bosom of the Latin race"
Boys should not try to swallow five
cent pieces. They can put them to
better use. A little boy in Troy tried to
deposit one in his stomach the other
day, and now he hes under the "beauti-
ful snow"
Women have never forgiven Lady
Mary WORTHY Montague for saying: THE
only satisfaction have in being a wo-
man is, that shall not be compelled to
marry ore of my own sex" Her sin is
objectionable.
The Deseret News, in contradicting
the assertions of quotation, says:
The first of these sentences is entirely |
false, and the two others are more So
How the two others could be more
than totally false it would puzzle a
Mormon to tell.
F. G. Perry, of Norwich, N. Y, has
Just been fitted with patent wax-nose,
which can hardly be distinguished from
q 6rst-cIass natural one Mr.. Perry |
wears also glass eye, a wig and full
set of false teeth, and can hardly be said
to be self-made man.
AT a recent trial in London new pro-
fession was developed. A witness al
legged that he was an early caller" and
that he supported himself by calling peo-
pie in the morning. His business hours
were from one am. till FIVE, and his first
customers were bakers.
There is a report in London that a
marriage between the daughter of Mr..
Gladstone and German gentleman who
was the tutor Of the Princess Louise, has
been arranged, and that the Queen had
much to do in making up this match.
The religious statistics of Cincinnati |
are summarized as follows: American
Evangelical Protestant church members,
10000; Foreign Evangelists, $4,000;
American Unevangelieal church mem
bers, 10000; Roman Catholics, $1,000; |
Foreign Rationalists, 10000.
A current paragraph asserts that many
years ago Horace Greeley wrote to a fe-
male contributor, requesting her to alb
stain from further poetry. a council Of /
friends inspected the letter, and finally |
pronounced it an offer Of marriage. /
Hence Mrs. Greeley and the junior /
Greeleys.
The Portsmouth Times is awful Only |
hear it. Madame Cataeazy, who takes /
first rank as belle and pretty woman
in Washington society, is a beauty only |
in the evening. By daylight and ia /
morning toilette she is little, dumpy, 4
waddling woman, decidedly passe, but /
kind-mannered and agreeable"
Pittsburg papers are rejoicing over
an invention to rid that smoky city Of I
its greatest nuisance. A man has in.
vented a small iron apparatus which. at
tached to stoves and ranges, consumes
all the smoke and gas As no SCOT is
made, it will be impossible also for
chimneys to catch FIRE.
Local item in the Chicago Post: Our
lynx-eyed assistants report this morn
ing that l743 people slipped down
yesterday on the perfdious sidewalks. Z
OF these ll40 were men, 4Os women,