Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-20
FACTS AND FIANCIEs.

Inc Minister OF lnF lllteriof 'iio iN01A'
Alexis sayings now give way to Alexis
earrings oeQ
Christmas evergreens are beginning to
appear in market. G aR srs
OF the seventy-four United States SEN
ators, fifty are lawyers.
The slave trade still continues among
the Polynesian Islands. ior
James Stephens, he-Fenian ex-Head
Center, is in New York
DR.. Helmbold, the Buchu man, has
taken his family and gone to Europeif
An exchange says: The compositors
in San Francisco embrace many ladies',
The bane of Montreal mans life is
Miss Balm, who sues him for breach Of
promise.
A ladies league for Defence against
the imposition of servants" is in con-
temptation.
Upward of fourteen thousand "heathen
Chinee are hunting for gold in Aus
tralia. T W ttrtf'
A Rochester girl declares she never
will vote. Go TO the nasty polls and ruin
my clothes? The ideal ama.
In Chicago, it is becoming popular to
get vaccinated with virus from Mrs.
0Leary's COW. 1 aaa ~
A man with scolding wife says that
he has less fears Of the jaws of death
than the jaws of lifesn %
Alfred Tennyson is to write one Of his
poems for the holiday number of Bon
ner's Dexter-Ledger. 500
Every man has his weak side; and 1T
is very often the case this weak side is
the best part of the man. HH.
The latest styles of parasol for winter
use folds up like fan, and can be car
ried in muff or in the pocket
An unexpected crisis is upon the coun-
try. For the first time in sixteen years
there is not Washburn in Congress.
The difference between bouquet of
flowers and the bouquet Of wine, is that
one makes a nosegay, and the other
gay nose.
Nilsson is reported to have expressed
a very poor opinion of American men.
1t is evident she hasn't given them fair
trial.
La Pont des Sonpirs,' by Offenbach,
which opera is entirely new to America.
succeeds La Grand Duchesse in New
York.
1t is difficult to understand why some
people concern themselves about their
lungs, when their lungs take air of
themselves.
An English surgeon-dentist has re-
Gently used an electro-magnet success
fully in driving the plugging instrument
in filling teeth.
1t is proposed by many ladies in New
York city to give no wine to their callers
on New Years day, but instead, hot
beef tea and soup.
The thieves of Pittsburg are requested
by a newspaper of that city to carry
lanters SO that the police will be better
able to find them. ....-.. Is.
One of the inmates Of the Genesee
New York. county poor-house, is one
hundred and two years old, aud claims
to have chewed tobacco ninety-three
years. oia ug e 2
James Russell Lowell has invented
what he calls a new beatitude, which is,
Blessed are they who have nothing to
say and who cannot be persuaded TO say
It" 'oan
Says an Irishman, writing home from
Chicago "Shoor, there are no people
at all in the most dinsely populated dis
tries, and the sidewalks is in the middle
Of the sthreet" "
At citizens reform meeting in New
Orleans last week, Colonel George W.
Carter stated the subject for elaboration
as follows: In 1868 we had a city
debt; now the debt has us. -
Sir Charles Dixie is not far wrong in
declaiming against the cost Of royalty
in ExgIand. Royalty does cost too
much over there. But, then, it doesn't
cost as much as loyalty does over here.
Considerable excitement was caused
in Bridgeport, Conn, school the other
day by the explosion of pistol in the
pocket of one Of the scholars who was
quietly studying his lesson.
A French chemist recommends grind
ing tea like coffee before pouring hot
water upon it. He asserts that by this
! process it will be made TO yield nearly
double the amount OF exhilarating quail
tiles
The verable and gifted David Paul
Brown is preparing an exhaustive vindi-
cation of Shakespeare for the Historical
Society, against the new attempt to dec
crate Lord Bacon with his immortal
laurels.
In case the Grand Duke cannot visit
the oil regions, the Titusville Herald
proposes to send on tank Of crude oil
and sprinkle the contents arOuud him,
so that he can get an idea Of how those
regions smell.
The Boston Post complains Of the
present style Of young ladies bows as
being mildly melancholy and giving
the impression that she had just lost her
dearest friend, or dropped ice-cream on
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