Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-14
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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The learned New York Post thinks
the unicorn is called the unicorn because
Of his unique horn.
The Grand Duke, when helped to some
turkey, said. All, bless me. Yes, that's
the dish my father is always laundering
after"
The New York Tribune has the hardi-
hood to pronounce the Boston girl with
eight feet of hair the greatest heiress in
America.
The female-rights furore is even ex-
tending to the hens. Every poultry
yard in the country is preparing TO
throw off the yolk.
General Count Kamelincki, Who died
recently in Paris, at the age OF eighty
six, was one of the most illusrious mem
bers of the Polish emigration of 1881.
Thirty Confederate Orphans are
giving concerts throughout the South.
Twenty-Five of them are girls. They sang
last week in Richmond, Va, and are
said to have done very we'll
In compliance with the exigeneies OF
the times, and to supply a want long
felt, journal called the Public Opinion
has been started by a conGdng iunatic
in Lafayette.
The latest individual who has voted
for all the Presidents has appeared in
New York, and is one hundred and thir-
teen years old, an additional quahhca-
ton being that he saws wood vigorously.
Among the new ventures in Journal
ism this winter is The Week, a hand
some weekly Published in New York,
and devoted TO resume Of the leading
editorials Of the press throughout the
country.
A well-known and mnch-traveled re-
porter recently went to sleep in church
and electrified the gentleman who took
up the collection, by saying drowsily'
That's all right; ! have free pass to
Havre-de- Grace
The writer's on the New York Tribune
have been instructed to eliminate from
their manuscripts the word lie" wher-
ever il occurs. They are allowed to
substitute "a calumny as preposterous
as it is reckless and malignant"
The Boston Post tells us that evening
weddings are now the style in Eng
land" They ought to be everywhere.
We should think that people who are
married in the morning must become
dreadfully sleepy long before night
The old Manassas battlefield was sold
a few days since for eight dollars an
acre. When the war commenced 1t was
under high state Of improvement, and
the dwelling-house upon it was one OF
the finest in that section of the State.
In New York, several complaints have
been made before police justices recently
against persons who keep parrots, on the
ground that the birds are public nuis-
ances, and that it is the duty Of the mu-
nicipal government to suppress them.
In speaking of dupes, Henry Ward
Beecher says: These scoundrel i'm
posters may be divided into three classes
Those who solicit the passions, those
who touch the avarice, and those who
trade upon the sickness Of their fellows.
In provincial town of France this
epitaph mag be read: Here sleeps Hor-
tense B., regretted by her mother and
aer father. N. Bit is advisedly her
mother is placed before heT father be
cause mothers ia always very much
greater than fathers grief"
The secret Russian sect called the
white Doves whose rites are of the
most revolving character, has over SO0,'
600 members. Any person who is con
victed of belonging to it is sent for life
to the most remote penal settlement il
Siberia. -a WI
The Turf, Field and Farm thus closes
an article on the national game: Blu
that, judging from the season OF 1871
the game Of base ball as a national field
sport is on a slow decline, is admitted
by all except the few whose persona
interest il is that an impression to the
contrary should exist. "
The tickets Of invitation Of the new
French Court runs: The President OF
the French Republic and Nine Thier'
beg Mons. N. or n to be good enough
to come dine with them on such day
at eight o'clock pm" On the enyel
ope is printed; "Republique Franchise
Precedence de la Republique.'
Alta recent trialin London new pro
fession was developed. A witness al
| legged that be was an early caller, ant
that he supported himself by calling
people in the morning. his business
hours were from one q. N. 70 FIVE, and ms
first customers we're bakers. TenDyson
might enlist his services in behalf Of the
May Queenl
The young cadet at West Point who
was the subject of hazing which caused
the expulsion of two cadets, was one
Devine, appointed by Representative
Orr, Of Iowa. Deyine would not haze
worth a cent. and resisted all attempts
to humiliate him. He wrote out charges
sent them to his father, who turned them
over to the Congressman Of his District
and they were soon before the Secretary
of War.
Han agricultural paper says that hens
fed in the winter with chopped and
boiled nettle leaves, or with seed, and
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