Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-09
FACTS AND FANCIES.
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Washington has 400 blondes.
A mattar of course--horse-racing.
Many Mormon wives are own sisters
California boasts Of barley five fee
high.
Are grass widows the wives of rowing
blades 2
California wants to coin twenty-cent
pieces.
bellies call great many people to
church.
Nevada has extensive and valuable
borax fields.
Mrs. Joaquin Miller is coming East
to lecture.
Queen Victoria took many vapor baths
at Baden-Baden.
Charleston, South Carolina, is enjoy
ing schuetzenfest.
There's one thing which can always
be found and that's fault
Philadelphia papers call the morgue
in that city dead failure.
One of the '+Innocents at Home -
Mark Twain's baby daughter.
Utah ranks third among the Territories
in the scale of mineral wealth
In India a lac of rupees is wealth
here, lack of dollars is poverty.
The hangmen in Iowa now mourn,
like Othello, that their occupations
gone"
A North Carolina woman was buried
lying in a feather bed, according to her
desire.
Never take off flannel because it looks
like spring. Flannel never looked like
spring.
The importation of arms and ammu-
milton by private persons into Cuba has
been prohibited.
Whether a woman should bemoan
her lot or not depends entirely on its
location and size.
NJ. Jacques Felix, father of the cele-
brated tragedienHe, Rachael, died re-
Gently in Paris, aged rs.
Walt Whitman, the good gray poet,
asks peeuniary aid for brother bard
who is afflicted in mind, body and es-
tate"
A fine young pair of gray seals have
lately been added to the London Zoolog-
ical Society's collection, brought alive
from South Wales.
The man who would be considered
wise, should never give an opinion. until
he has carefully estimated what his
opinion is worth.
The spread of Republican principles
in England has been so rapid of late, as
to cause considerable anxiety among
the government officials.
A number of places in the neighbor-
hood of New York are so infected with
chills and fever that nearly every house
is to rent or uninhabited.
Plant your yards full of flowers. They
are not only pleasing to sight and SIN ell,
bat act as disinfectants, and are much
pleasanter than carbolic acid, etc
The latest dodge of young ladies who
lon't want to "obey" the marriage cere-
noHy is to repeat in indistinct tones and
manner, love, honor and be gay"
Prince de Bibesco has been tried in a
Paris court for wounding Prince de
in duel, and has been
sentenced to fifteen days imprisonment.
In the Lama temples at Cashmere,
India, the prayer-wheels are still in use,
and by operating which the poor de-
,otees fancy that hey sufficiently prop
tiate their god.
The widow Of the late Grand Vizier,
Mehemet Pasha Kibrisli, is about to
publish a work giving an account of her
thirty years in harem" The lady is
English and was once fond of Turkey.
A classically minded shirtmaker emit
les his under garments Ancillary," to
,ontradistinguish them from the com
non run of machine work, having
earned that ANGLIA " in the Latin sig
lifes hand made"
Heinrich Heine's widow is intensely
French. She lately inherited an enor-
nous fortune, aud the first draft she
made upon it was for a million francs,
which she contributed to the patriotic
fund.
The richest sugar planter is said to be
Barros, who has six factories and an in
come of $4,000, 900 per annum. Another
planter, Poey, has plantation, called
Los Scanas, two leagues from Havana,
With seven hundred slaves.
A lady teacher in an Iowa school
made q boy stand up and show how he
kissed the big girls in the woodshed, in
hopes that be would shed tears and
promise to do so no more. All the boys
are leaving the other schools and going
to this lady teacher.
st. Louis continues her bacchanalian
orgies, and her preachers are making