Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
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Oot0 uOhas "eNNA"N 1850
A defence Of yoltaire has been pub
lished. ~
Glergymen and brakemen do the most
coupling.
The woman question par excellence is
the question OF age.
Music is the food Of loye-beef and
mutton that of matrimony.
The Western wits now call bigamy
Utah-lizing the female sex.
Beau Hickman is writing his Rem
iniscences Of Cheeky Life.
NJ, Figures Tomorrow of Death
has won great success in life.
Charles Reade's new tale begins with
an essay on the folly of iight-lacing.
In Chicago lately a man was tried and
convicted of murder in twenty minutes,
On an average, eighty new pieces of
music are published in London every
day.
Professor John Tyndalls latest work
is Contributions to Molecular Phys
les. 90
1t is said that George Sands seventy
novels have paid her an average of slO,-
600 each. Nsa
Platon;c love, like other tonics. is
very exciting. and should be taken no.
meopathically.
The cheap edition of Carlyle's works,
now in course Of publication, is having
a remarkable sale.
In New Hampshire they call elope-
ment suicide. That is not so bad--he
sued and she sighed.
A disconsolate Hoosier explains that
he has just lost his wife :" by death ia
necessary distinction.
Twenty books referring in some man
ner to Shakespeare are every year pub
lished in Great Britain. no y
A wicked quilldriver says Seward s
book Of travels has been written BY a
newspaper Bohemian.
Chicago's spasmodic virtue is just now
aroused for the temporary suppression
of the divorce business.
AID old American lady of eighty has
Just returned TO Paris after having been
on fishing tour to Norway.
Edward EggIeston's story, the I" Hoo
sier Schoolmaster, !" is about as popular
in England as in this country.
Worth, the bankrupt man-milliDer, is
the author of the expression, Zone can
put no style into short dress.
Haunted by the CHASTITY phantom of
a lingering sickness" California
woman shot herself through the heart.
Sons-in-law are remarkably kind in
Turin, Italy. There are over eighty old
women living there, each one century
old.
Lord Lytton' new novel is to be called
Kenelm ChillingIy. his Adventures and
Opinions. The author considers it his
masterpiece. q
The Chicago Post propouhds the
following unanswerable conundrum;
What excuse is there for publishing a
Pittsburg paper2"
The river editor Of the Louisville
Commercial is charged with reporting
the river at stand-still, with one foot
in the Indian shoot"
Not so bsd-to print on wedding
cards, Please adapt your presents to
an income of $500" or other sum, &C
cording to circumstances.
The Philadelphia Press, which is the
leading Grant paper Of Pennsylvania,
admits that the Grant ticket Of that
State was gotten up ia the interest of
thieves and thugs. 9r
The Chicago Posts personal para
graphist has the largest pair Of feet in
Chicago. He came near being lynched
the other day. malignant crowd having
mistaken him for st. Louisian.
English noblemen still cherish the
conviction that Americans are race of
sayages. One Of them on being intro
duced to Clara Louise Kellogg, iRnO-
Gently queried: !" Do you speak En-
glish2"
Emerson's promised volume has been
delayed by the burning Of his house, and
may not appear until Christmas. There
is no end to the alterations he makes in
q proof, and his last touches are frightfnl
for printer to contemplate.
Josephine McCarty, editor Of the
Truth-Teller, thinks that IL the whole
truth about women could be known
every virtnous man in the world would
run bowling to the nearest water and
| drown h;usalf Tn that case how uaanv