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

lasses hogshead.
One of Chicagos leading business
men announces that he is at present
/" gilt-edged pauper"
Mutual admiration-As the season Of
parties approaches boys begin to feel
gallant and gals" buoyant.
A Pittsburg young man took matri-
mony and smallpox at the same time.
The honeymoon wasn't a success.
Mr.. Sangiovanni 0'Dwyer-Phebusl
what name-is an English tenor who
proposes to eclipse Sims Reeves.
A Missouri lady advertises for the per-
SON who is in the habit Of serenading
her to stand nearer the house so that she
oan scald him.
Should the Communists carry out
their ideas concerning aristocracY and
nobility, there would be no titles even to
property.
During the occupation of France, the
German army foraged only two million
five hundred thousand bottles of cham
payne.
The torch Of hymen was not put out
amid the general wreck at Chicago.
Twenty marriage licenses were issued
there last week.
"Dew d Andes, for pocket handker-
chiefs, is the latest novelty in the PERU
merry line. Probably the dispensers of
it think it will do for handles.
Temperance is to be the fashion this
winter, and wines are interdicted at
large entertainments, the substitutes be-
ing coffee and lemonade.
A man at Owosso, Mich, claims to
have unearthed double-headed Indian.
The folks around 0wosso suspect that
the discoverer is trying to put a head on
them.
Lydia Thompson and her troupe are
soon to appear in Chicago, and the
Courier-Journal says the newspapers
there are receiving sealed proposals for
copper-bottom editors.
Among the American song-birds now
testing their throats at Florence, with a
view to opera in this country, are the
Misses Crane, of Boston; Starbird, OF
Portland, and Henne, of Cincinnati.
A gentleman having horse that ran
away and broke his wife neck, a neighbor
sought to buy the animal as means OF
divorce. No, no" said the owner, II
intend to marry again before long my
self.
An exchange says: We are in re-
ceipt of two poems, one on the Throb-
bling Brain, and the other on Bleed
ing Heart. We will wait until we re-
ceive one on the Stomach Ache, and
publish all three together.
A guild of ladies is proposed in Eng
land under the leadership of Miss Har-
rison of Swanage, Dorsetshire, " to pro
mote modesty of dress. to do away with
extravaganza, and substitute the neat
ness and sobnety suitable to Christian
women" 4sa
The liberties of England have been
won by mutual CONCESSIONS. Let the
husband who would acquire the priv
lege of asking friends to dinner without
notice remember this when his wife
hints at new bonnet. The wife
want is the husbands opportunity.
The Detroit Post says: "a young
lady of Chesaning went to the new bath
house, the other day, and the attendant
asked her what temperature she would
have. With an ingenious smile the
sweet child of nature replied. " / don't
care for none, and she was shown to
her ROOM
Rev. Mr.. Voysey, Of England, has ar
ranged service to suit himself, and in
bis new Litany has introduced new
supplication as follows: THAT it may
please Thee to help all literary persons
and the editors of the public press. +"
For Mr.. Voyseys careful attention we
return our sincere thanks.
A little thing in Sabbath school was
asked by her teacher if she always
said her prayers night and morning"
No, miss; / don't" why, Mary
are you not afraid to go to sleep in the
dark without asking God to take care Of
you till morning2r No, miss; ! amt
cause sleep in the middle"
Martha, my DEAR" said a loving
husband TO his spouse, who was several
years his junior, What do you say to
moving to the far west2" ooh, am
delighted with the idea. You recollect
when Mr.. Morgan moved out there he
was as poor as we are. and in three
years he died, leaving his widow worth a
hundred thousand dollars"
Careful investigators have ascertained
that when newly married couple reach
hotel the bridegroom enters in The
register Mr.. So-and-So and wife, bu
when a man for whom years have de
stroyed the novelty Of the situation put
down the names, it is Mr.. and Mrs
SHch Acne.
When Handel once undertook, in q
crowded church. to play the dismissal OF
a very fine organ, the whole cOngrega
ton became 50 entranced with de
light that not an individual stirred. Al
length the usual organist came impa.
tiently forward, and took his seat, say.