Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-29
FACTS AND FANCIES.


adise for sign painters.
SPECIFY your funeral promoter" is
Chicago bar-room etiquette.
A number of married women are at
tending school in Greenville, Mich.
Tennyson is at work on new poem,
entitled 1.-THE Last Tournament.
A temperance pledge is one of the
features of the Toledo police court
The name Of London street has
been changed to Charles Dickens av-
enue."
The Darwinian theory has greatly in
creased the number of people who are
ashamed of their ancestors.
1t is said of writer who often adopts
the work of others, that he never quite
grasps the use of inverted commas.
Mrs. Woodhulrs vote was refused be-
cause she couldn't produce Demosthe-
mes naturalization papers.
One brand of Cincinnati whisky is
warranted to contain four hundred and
thirty-seven fights to the barrel.
One would suppose by this time that
Louis Napolean had got his eyes open;
butrecent photographs do not indicateit'
There are twenty-three colored men in
the present Legislature of Georgia, six
in the Senate and seventeen in the
House.
A sick man was told that his wife
would probably marry again. All
right" said he, There will be one per
son then to lament my death.
In Utah the Mormons are said to NIT
igate the evils of polygamy by marrying
as many sisters as possible, thus secur-
ing a minimum Of mothers-in-law.
Horace Greeley was omitted from the
Alexis reception on account of the late
ness of the season. 1t was feared he
would advise the Prince to go West.
Miss Cushman says that her present
Lady Macbeth is more complete reali-
cation Of her conception of the charac-
ter than any she has given in former
years.
Mrs. Sarah j. Hale, editress Of Cooley
Ladys Book, is eighty-four years old,
and still labors constantly at the work
which has employed her for the last
forty-four years.
A Savannah paper announces the
presence of " six Apache Indians, with
their peculiar costumes, dances, songs,
etc." 1t is the "etc." that makes the
Apache interesting in his native wilds.
A Terre Haute physician advocates
the use of soft instead of hard water as
beverage, claiming that the lime with
which the latter is impregnated causes
premature gray hair and badness.
The London Hornet has a cartoon
representing DIR. Cumming putting an
extinguisher, on which is inscribed
april /, 1872" on the globe, and
snuffing the world out. The title is,
Cumming going it. ,"
The suggestion of the name of San
ford E. Church as Presidential candi-
date induces the New York Commercial
to say that the situation of the Demo
cracy is indeed sufficiently awful to make
them go to church.
While the Methodists of Worcester,
N. Y, were assembled the other day for
quarterly meeting" some wag turn
ed the key, that had been left in the
door, and the dominic gave out the stan
"a, Ny soul, be on thy guard"
The average lecture audience in New
York is said to be two or three newsboys,
-four policemen, deaf old lady, stran-
ger who does not know where he is, half
a dozen reporters, and the irrepressible
citizen who goes everywhere on principle.
According to Sacramento paper the
wild geese are so numerous along the
line of the California and Oregon rail-
road that snow plows are necessary upon
the engines to keep the track clear.
There is no discount on this statement.
A French authoress says: A kiss
gives more pleasure than anything else
in the world" To this an editor re-
spends THAT writer evidently never
experienced the childish rapture of de-
scendiug the stairs by sliding down the
banisters "
Cotton Mather used to say their, was
gentleman mentioned in the nine
teenth chapter Of Acts to whom he was
, more deeply indebted than almost any
; other person; and that was the town
clerk of Ephesus, whose counsel was 10
! do nothing rashly.
The Washington newspapers do n0i
. relish the census developments. which
show that the District Of Columbia, in
proportion to its population, has iour
times as many lunatics as any other part
of the country, there being one for every
275 Of the population of the District.
The Servian Skouptchina, or National
Assembly, has passed three resolutions.
!. calling upon the Government TO take
steps for the secularization Of the con
vents, the reform of the educational sys-
ten, and the establishment Of school
for each commune Of $50 houses.
According to a return lately published
at St. Petersburg, there are now in the
. Russian Church S7,Tls pOpes, ll,227
deacons, and 6j, 952 ehoristers, etc. The
total sum expended by the Government
in salaries and wages for these persons
is 5.l6s, 1863 roubles (f7OO,OOO).