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

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II turns out that Busch didn't kiss
Missions lips--but only her fur cape
The small preachers of Indianapolis
and Cincinnati are again after shak-
speare. 'eHNN + II N
"A Connecticut man is dead from hay
ing carried watch key in his lungs four
years. As
Madame George Sands only daughter
is to be Mrs Riccoti Garibaldi, in the
spring. a-,s9 n
Professor Huxley, the wisest man In
England, is said to be tending TO con-
servatism. 4sa a.' a.sa 1i -
"a paper published at Louisville Is
the whitening style Of the Cincinnati En-
auirer when it ignores. uio
An Indianapolis paper speaks OF the
herculean efforts Of the police to sup
press gambling in that city. p ''n
The next Governor Of Indiana may
be GodIove orth, but If so, God help
Indiana. - Courier-Jourfldl ta
Grant pinched Warmoth and the Lou
isiana anti-Grants. Warmoth and the
ants Grants now Pinchback. 9i
There is rumor that General Sehenek
will be knighted in England, with the
title of Duke of Two Pairs.
Bellows stigmatizes Beecher as "a
monophysite of the Antiochian school,
and Beecher threatens Bellows with a
libel suit. r. fl $50 ra hg
According to the Enquirer, Cincinnati
ia exercised about n missing link.
Has somebody broke into her sausage
faetory2 gct 9di 90 roo saA 'is
j. Fisk, jr., has beer heard to express
his firm conviction that the present
course of Mansfield is quite out OF wo-
mans 6eld.lc aF q. '--
The suicide Of George Ely, an En-
elish pedestrian, is chronicled. What a
pity Western walker don't follow his
examplel
Henry Ward Beecher, in a recent ser.
mon, spoke Of the time when he resided
in the sneaking, little village" ofLaw-
renceburg, Indiana.
Miss Addie h. BaIlou has brought suit
against the Terre Haute Gazette for
$40, 900 worth of character that she lost
coming down on the boat.
A Virginia negro was detected in the
act of cooking black cat, as he said
ito give him luck at cards and save him
from dem dar dredful Ku-Kluxers."
The Rev. Father Damon, of Chicago
has succeeded in converting Mike Co
burn. a brother Of Joe Coburn. Mike
himself was once a notorious pugilist-
A North Memphis ballad singer knock
ed down the piano accompanies with a
chair, and Immediately explained to the
audience that the hound was ont OF
tune. eaa 9r
An eminent physician says that a
good coat of gum arabic mucilage, ap-
Piled to corns every night, will in e short
time cause the pests to take their final
departure.
The Count de Chambord is chlldless,
SO that the legitimate heir to the French
throne is the Count de Montemolin, son
of the late Don Carlos, pretender to the
Spanish throne.
A tough hog was recently marketed in
Belfast, Me-, the pork having a rind an
inch thick. After assaulting the hide
several times with an ak, the purchaser
returned him as being understandable.
Pictures Of Maggie Mitchell, the ac-
tress, have made their appearance with
line over the top which reads-much
to the modification of her husband
"who, somehow, no one fails to love"
A gentleman was introduced to a
young lady recently, aud addressed her
as follows: Where do you live when
you are at homer To which she
promptly replied, When ! am at home
| live there. "
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is at Chicago,
living in the same house with her only
son, Robert, and bis wife. A gentle
man, who csnyersed with her few days
ago, says she is in excellent health, but
overwhelmed with grief at the loss Of
her son Thaddeus.
Teznyson has quit the Isle Of Wight
in disgust, and removed TO a secluded
spot in North Wales. He is tired Of
being haunted by literary lionhunters,
not the least persistent ard annoying OF
whom are American travellers, seeking a
FOOLS paradise p in foreign lands.
San Francisco does not think Clara
Louise kellogg worth $3.50 a night in ad
vance. and the Pacific manager cant
raise the $4,000 TO keep his contract
and bring her there. SO says be TO KEEL
logg, Come for 5000, and trust to
Providence for the rest Says Kellogg
over the wires, You bet | won't"
General Clusseret, the leader Of the
French Communists and the man vhS
, borrowed Trains shirts, has arrived ia
New York, and seeks bis friend Georg'
in order TO recite in his presence the FOL
lowing lines:
ITO George I owe some obligation,
But George unheppily thought fit
To publish Il 10 all this nation;
So George an ! are more than quit"
For hundreds OF years the following