Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Dancing is good for dyspepsia

Greenlands dogs won URN" ''eNsS''
Trichnia has appeared in New Jersey
The fashionable gloves have eight
buttons i7ei 'slN'' ''''Hp ~ y f ~,
Galveston has shark.skin tannery
and makes shagreen. '''.- .aaisil,,5 ~.
The order of deaconesses is growing
in the English Church, otI
sApropos of smallpox, the Chicago
Post talks of expostulating.
Females are eligible to Office under
the civil service reform. b.
| A short cut to demonstrating a
temperance paper, qa .lul 20,
A New Jersey family of six wer'
poisoned by eating canned rhsbarb, sla.
Swiss ribbon makers have thirteen
thousand different colOFs, and namt
for each. @ ..-ssgv ~ sol Fo'9l
More than two-thirds Of the convictl
in the Tennessee penitentiary are ne
groes. 80
A Detroit wedding was postponed
by an affidavit handed in by discarded
lover. fFRhm afYaaTsf
Don Piatt 10 writing a book, soon tc
be issued by subscription publisher a
Hartford, Connecticut. III,
IA St. Louis paper announces that the
Duke Alexis has an arm disabled by
pump-handle calisthenics." sr
The Earl of Rosslyn has been elected
Grand Master Of the Free Masons o.
Scotland. stdJo t,r ~ osatsfttos
The Philadelphia Star thinks this il
the time to buys cheap linen buster for
spring, fa 6rs,
Through Behring Straits is the route
Frehch explorer will take when he visits
the North Pole.
The District of Columbia owes $780,
100000. That territory evidently has
progressive Legislature.
A Pennsylvania boy recently caught
a rabbit with FIVE legs, the foot on the
oddIleg resembling the hoof Of horse.
A Pahlivoo pundit has figured out the
velocity Of meteor and says it is only
thirty-seven miles an hour. Too thin.
Disraeli is writing a sequel to Lo,
there. 1t will be called See here.
Helen Josephine Mansfield viii not
lecture this winter. She is likely to 60
into mourning. .a lI GA
There are 202 princes and priucesses
in Europe, with several newly set up
royal familiesto hear from. (
In A. D. 1851 the Falls of Niagara
will be worn away-so Agassiz says.
The hotels there charge this up as an
extra. f-s ,.e.r
Mr.. Plat, the new librarian to the
House Of Representatives, has published
several volumes of Plattitudes in the
shape of poetry. .sa ul u sale
North Carolina towns have the tourn.
ament mania badly. A tournament
consists in yanking ring off a posi-
with hoop pole. az ioi
Twenty women physicians dose, bleed
and purge Berlin. They run almost ex-
elusiveiy to homeopathy or ecleesicism,
which shows liberalism. .Hi,
+ Darwin proelsimS that he is a free
religionist." A profsne contemporary
once remarked that free religion was
an indiscriminate and miscellaneous
scramble hellwards, IL
The critics think that George Elliott s
last novel, Middlemaroh. gives eyi-
dence Of : something strained and far
fetched, threatening 10 degenerate into
mannerism. :"
A Nebraska married man, who eloped
with young girl, was pursued, knocked
down, beaten and retaken by his indig-
nant wife. He has gone out Of the
elopement business F liai
The late Joseph elliott, the pen-ma-
ker, of Birmingham, commenced the
manufacture of pens in 1922. and intro
duced great improvement in the steel
pen, making it of thinner aud moro
elastic steel, and Of higher finish and
temper. Nr. elliott was immensely
rich. sA . p-a ....itfi 1'i
At the Lydia Thompson performance
in st. Louis, Saturday night, the Grand
Duke manifested great deal Of pleas
ure at the play, and particularly ap-
plauded the dancing. he did not leave
until late hour, and returned to his
hotel in comparative peace, not more
than six thousand people being in whit
ing. fa $500.
The Franklin Ky Patriot says;
Young Wade Feps into The basement Of
the Baptist Church, 90 Christmas night,
to get some chairs to carry abage, and
Unexpectedly found young Osborne
dressed Is Santa Claus, ready at the
proper tine to go eboye aud distribute
the presents TO the anxious children.
Wade, becoming frightened At the
strange appearance of the childssn's
frIead, s..sssssskk Santa over the head with
slate, cutting an ugly cash over the
eye. llsi
Mrs. Cady Stanton, in Eeceui latter