Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-10
FACTS AND FANOIEs.

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Ladies now wear pads in their booti-
kins in order to give their instep proper
aristocratic curve.
Colored thieves in Augusta, Ga, steal
the oil out of the street lamps and trade
it for whisky.
A biographer of Handel states that
when he played the organ silence was
the truest applause"
A Protestant league for the expulsion
Of Jesuits from the Empire is being Or
ganized throughout Germany.
Old shoes are said to be thrown after
newly married people to try to convince
them that they have not been sold.
A Tennessee girl broke an arm on the
eve Of her wedding-day, but went through
the ceremony with her arm in sling.
A wolf recently visited Louisville, and
after surveying the streets and attack
ing one of the citizens, departed unmo-
Tested.
Female highwaymen call on timorous
travellers to stand and deliver on the
lonely roads near Charleston, South
Carolina.
Many of our country exchanges come
to us on the half sheet. The patent
outside business has made them Chicago
sufferers.
An American circus company is now
performing in Constantinople, the first
circus that mas ever visited the domains
of the Sultan.
The tomato is a powerful aperient and
acts on the liver 1t cures chills, d.
arrhea, dyspepsia and Indigestion. So
says recent writer.
On the border of the UNEMPLOYED re-
gion prospectors will not dig for Lode
unless the blossom shows gold or
silver at the rate of 800 per ton.
Concluding of two evils to select the
least, George Pastre, Of Louisville, blew
out his brains the other day to escape
the lingering death of consumption.
Whisky distilled from Canada thistIes
is said to produce penetrating and ex-
hilarating effect, the sensation being
the same as if a jewsharp in full tune
was attached to every nerve.
According to "a report made by the
Italian Minister of Justice, FIVE thousand
young children in Italy are annually
stolen from their parents and sold to
persons in the United States.
Joe Jefferson and family had mar
row escape in Chicago. He lost a por-
ton of his private and nearly all his
professional wardrobe. Mrs. Jefferson
inopportunely increased the population
at the moment, and was doing well.
In Hamilton, Ohio, few days since, |
a fee of twenty-five cents was collected |
from all persons who entered a church |
for the purpose of Witnessing a marriage. |
The money was given to the young couple |
to start them in life
The 0beanske Listy, a Bohemian
weekly paper, is published in ST. Louis,
Mo. The leading article commencing
with Konecne dospela tedy nemeck-
ozidovska celed rakousko,' etc, is
magnificent piece Of word painting.
The New York Evening Post says:
The apparent Indifference of Chicago
lawyers to the total destruction Of the
city records, and their anxiety to re-
place the burned law libraries, looks as
if they thought more of words than
deeds"
A Mrs. Somers, of South Hadley Falls,
Mass, has been committed for trial for
attempting to take the life Of her hus-
band by poisoning his tea and afterward
assaulting him with knife. She is said
to have had several husbands, some of
whom have disappeared mysteriously.
In Girard, when a young couple
enter the connubial state, the bridegroom
employs a detachment of police to hide
in the vicinity of the house, so fearful is
he of tin horns, Ku-Klux and horse
violins." 1t costs more for policemen
than it does for a minister in that sec
ton.
The Helena ark Clarion figured a
few days since in Boston, Mass, as a
wrapper for the murderous furnace
wrench, with which a murderer deprived
Kate Leehan Of life. How the Clarion
came to be 50 used by the murderer is
now being investigated by the police.
A clergyman met bewildered young
man on Chicago avenue while the flames
were licking up the North Side, who
asked in bewilderment, where am ~
On being informed, he said: We'll,
I've been married three weeks; don't
know where my wife is, but il she's
burned it is the Lords will-let her gof'
A German girl named Kathi Rothhass,
residing in Cincinnati, drowned herself
in the Ohio on Wednesday. Oh, God,
do not condemn me, but take me up as
Thy child" were the last words Of a
brief letter, which is all that was left to
bear testimony Of her suicidal intentions.
Unrequited love is said to have induced
the rash act.
The Matilda Fletcher lode, west side
Of Democrat Mountain, Montana, is pro
ducing ore Of more than average quail
ity. The Montana Times says this re-
markable lode will be worked up to its
full capacity this winter, and when the