Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-15
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Little Lolita is enjoying miserabl
health in Paris.
Rubenstein clasps hands with Americ'
over the native toddy.
A new religious sect in Kentucky IL
called Soul Sleepers."
The male noodles of New York toy
with the absinthe glass to excess.
Bret Harte calls his lecture on the
California pioneers the Argonauts OF
49,
The late DR.. Lebers motto was: No
right without its duties no duties with
out its right.
A Lake Superiorite had sheet of
copper rolled as thin as note paper, and
on it wrote his will.
Lady franklin writes the London
Times that she is not suffering from
want of competency.
Sylvanus Cobb, jr., after some NINETY
odd novels, now expresses great disgust
at blood.and-thunder fiction.
There are two things in this world
that are not safe to triAe with-a wo-
mans opinions and the business end of
wasp
1t is breach of etiquette to beat
policemen with their own clubs, as is
done in New Orleans by ill-bred bur
glars.
The now diet for babies in France is
buttermilk thiekened with rice meal on
which it is said they thrive and grow fat.
Ten tons of obscene literature have
been seized in New York, and the ven
ders thereof have been accorded aresi-
dence in Jail.
A smart Buffalo boy of thirteen lately
stabbed girl, argued his own case in
court, and was sent to jail for. only
twenty-four hours.
A smart young clerk, hearing it stated
BY lecturer that a man is merely a
machine, remarked: "Then suppose an
attorney may be said to be suing ma
chine.
A tender.hearted widower tainted at
the funeral of his third beloved. What
shall we do with him2" asked friend of
his. "Let him alone" said waggish
bystander, hell soon revive"
The Paris Figaro says that Madame
Adelina Patti is worth one million
francs, AID that Christine Nilsson is
still richer, while Pauline Lucca has lost
her whole fortune in consequence of the
extravaganza of her husband, Baron
Won Rhaden, who is an officer in one of
the regiments Of the Prussian Life
Guards.
Scroggs has tried this through with
out change" style of travelling, and
don't like it. He says on long route
nothing is handler than a little loose
change in the pocket, which one likes to
dispense at the dyspepsia shop, while
the engine is watering, or in Turing the
sweet little cherub that sits up aloft on
the back Of the next seat to refrain from
dropping cracker crumbs inside ones
coat collar.
Among other notabilities who will
visit Europe this winter is the Shah Of
Persia. For two thousand three hun
dred and fifty two years no sovereign Of
Persia has voluntarily left that land for
the West. The last who made the jour
ney is said to have been Xerxes, when
he invaded Greece. Now, if the Empe-
ror Of China and the mikado would only
take a fancy for Western trip, the In
terest would be complete.
The Missouri Democrat remarks: Re
ligion ought to be of more concern to
the human race than politics, not to
mention the fact that there is more
thought and culture in the pulpit than
on the rostrum. Occasionally a sermon
is dull, but generally a political speech
is dull; and a dull sermon is better than
a dull speech. We wish all pulpit ora
tors we're Beechers; but anything to beat
Satan"
The dedication Of monument to
Baron Steuben, the other dag, has
brought out a crop Of anecdotes about
the old hero-among the rest this; The
State Of New York had voted him a
township Of land, on which be settled.
It was proposed by some Of his neigh
bors to build a school house, and he
offered a site near bis own dwelling.
Somebody suggested that he might be
annoyed by the pranks Of the boys.
Hagelr' said he, what do care for
that2 want to see the liitle devils
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