Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-02
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

"Odorless India rubber" is announced.
Slavery is to be abolished in Siam af-
ter New. Year.
The Marquis Of Lorne has taken to
writing poetry.
A question that needs answering-The
Labor Question.
A Cincinnatian married the divorced
wife of his own son.
What is stronger than council OF
temp A potent-eight.
Mrs. joaquin Miller is about to under
take the publication of her poems. 3
1t is said to be curious, but true, that
most people sleep hardest on soft beds.
A Washington monster has made a
collection of ninety-eight cats, no two
alike.
Iowa comes to the front with bale OF
cotton of as good Quality as any in the
South.
Count Sehouvalof, aid-de-camp to
Alexis, is said to be dangerously hand
some Russian.
An Evansville schoolboy defined a
lady to be "a growed-up girl, who doesn't
cass nor swear"
The sleepers in Western congrega-
ton were aroused by the sleepers in the
church giving way.
Is it not remarkable that Revenue Of
fcer Krzyzanowski should be suspected
of having bad name|
A vigorous Georgia mule jumped from
two-story window to the ground with
out the slightest injury.
An illiterate Gentle, after wrestling
with the word "polygamy" for a while,
pronounced it "polywogamy."
Mr.. Darwin will be rejoiced to learn
that New-Zealand monkey was discov-
cred nursing human infant.
Agapius Houcharenke publishes the
Alaska Herald, and subscribers take the
paper to see how the editor spells his
name.
The courage of an Indian bride and
groom gave out on the threshold of
the church, and the ceremony didn't
come of.
An ingenus Kentucky prisoner set
fire to the jail, and leisurely slipped
away while the population we're engaged
in subduing the flames.
The London Public Opinion gives a
report that j. A. Proud and Wilkie Col
Inns contemplate visiting the United
States in the capacity of public lee
turers.
There is specter at Portsmouth, Va,
which throws itself across the track at
night as train approaches, but pru-
IDENTIFY gets out Of the way again.
II there are six hundred and sixty
six thousand grains in a bushel of wheat
and somebody says there are-how
many drains are there in quart of old
rye2
A young convert down in Maine
demonstrated the force of habit by re-
marking in conference meeting that
some of the proceedings we're not "ae-
cording to Hoyle."
Prince Alexis telegraphed from New
York to his maternal ancestor as fol-
lows: Entire ct reception. Cordiale
magnifque. Parade de la melice. Tout
la vile en- fete.
1t will be matter OF profound graft
fication to the Woodruff class Of females
to know that it lacks only thirty days Of
leap year" Let them prepare to spear
their affinities.
In the Atlanta Theater the men wear
their hats and smoke in the parquette,
while the gallery boys hang their feet
over the balustrade and pelt the dress
circle with peanut-shells.
Swearing is to be prohibited among
the naval officers under Prof Agassiz,
who are to engage in taking the deep sea
soundings. The Government does not
intend TO have the survey mere cursory
affair.
Gross and vulgar minds will always
pay higher respect to wealth than to
talent; for wealth, although it be far
less efficient source Of power than tai
ent, happens to be far more ineligible.
A wife in Davenport, Iowa, who
wouldn't endure her drunken and abu-
sive husband any longer, took advan'
tage OF his absence one day and sold
out their household goods and disap-
peared with the proceeds.
! A Nashville negro had made all his
arrangements TO marry Miss Emma,
when the mother of Miss Annie nv
minded him Of promise to her daugb-
ter, and by the judicious introduction Of
a constable and magistrate persuaded
him to fulfill it,
Napoleon Owen, one Of the returned
vhalemen, states that the Esquimaux
did not inform them Of the danger until
II was clear that the vessels were locked
in. The natives seemed to know little
more than the whalemen about the
danger.
NJ. sarcey, a well-knOwn Partisan
journalist, has been prohibited by the
French Government from giving lee
ture upon the tragedy Of Polyeucte in
the Gate Theater, Paris, on the ground
that il would disturb the public mind.
The new Mrs. Home IS descendant
Of princely house, petite brunette,
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