Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-16
ypFcTAL NOTICE.
FACTS AND FANCIRs.

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Washington is healthy this winter.
An Indiauapolitan eats six meals a
day.
i A Baltimore NJ. d. cures rorns with
eorn-starch. l,s.
writs of attachment-7lov letters. =
4 N. o. Times.
virden, H., farmers make bonhres OF
their deceased hogs. si looa
Madame Felix. sister of Rachel has
returned to the Paris stage.
!. The Cincinnati Commercial calls q.
F. T. peripatetlc gong,
! Joselly, an Italian photographer, has
succeeded in taking submarine views.
The Congregation of the Fourteen
Holy Helpers" is a Buffalo institution.
A Chioagoan, horrible to relate, has
had the smallpox twice within eight
years. EAkE tttaa faa
"His Imp. Highness" is headline
over some Alexis matter in a Chicago
paper. % laar
An Illinois charivari party actually
tore down the house of pewly-marFied
couple. aa
Two large spots can now be sesl on
the sun. Admittance free to those hay-
ing smoked glass. sai
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
Legislature to encourage the cultivation
of forests, H iai
The Boston Transcript Is of opinion
that the New York custom-house is a
den of thieves"
The Italian coral fishery furnishes
employment to 3liG men, and is very
successful and profitable.
James Fisk, jr.. at the time Of his
death, was in his thirty-eighth year. He
was born April lst, 1884.
NJ. Gambetta asserts that he knows of
no greater misfortune for France than
the execution of Rossel.
There is never a man so bad, says a |
celebrated writer, but some woman loves
him and has faith in him.
To prevent his being rejected by an
other woman Michgander yaccinated
himself with q shotgun.
1t is so cold at Salzburg that the gas
is frozen up, and the inhabitants have to
get along with non.explosive.
Nilsson Lucia has had the frightful
effect of setting one of the audience to
writing sonnets about her.
Strict Savannah people betray a
strange idiosing-crasy by Directing to the
term soiree musicale" VA
Chang, the giant, has found young
lady in Australia who has consented to
change her condition. 40 cards.
Mrs. DIR. Walker has allowed her hair
to gather into clustering ringlets, and is
suspected of relapse into femininity.
Three-fourths of all the water Of Lon
don has been pronounced poisonous by
Prot. Frankland of the Royal Institution.
A Nebraskan thought he would under
take to charm snake, but soon resigned
in favor Of professional undertaken.
"This is the Princess birthday" were
the first intelligent words spoken by the
Prince of Wales after his long delirium.
Little boys at Rockford, Ill, break
through the ice and the citizens fish them
out and warm them with bits Of seant-
ling.
They have SO many dogs at Little
Rock, Arkansas, that it is propos ed to
establish extensive tanneries to utilize
the bark.
A Fifth avenue belle boasts having re-
ceived twenty baskets of flowers and
three hundred cards on New Years day,
in New York.
Leap year parties are popular in New
York. The ladies' invite the gentlemen
to dance, and then wait upon them at
the supper-table. to
A town in Iowa has peculiarly inap-
name, being called Cascade,
although the people have to go FIVE
miles for water. ..gr
The bracelet presented by the Grand
Duke to Madame Parepa-Rosa consists II
Of a heavy gold band, studded With !
numerous turquoises and dismouds
Chill and the Argentine Republic are
quarreling as to which of them owns
Patagonia. We always thought Pata-
gonna was not worth quareling about.
New-London and Norwich indignant
ly deny that their harbor ever freezes
up. The public ought TO remember
that they are perpetually in hot water !
there.
Mark Twain promises 10 give every c
conSumptive who is not cured by camp 2
life at Lake Tahoe a funeral which I
will be a comfort to them as long as they 2
live"
William Goodin is anxious about the
fate Of his eyes and nose, which he has
missed since he looked 10 see why fuse
he had put in bottle Of powder burned ]
50 slowly.
A trail has been laid TO the summit Of
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