Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-19
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


Cincinnati's Exposition buildings
cover eight acres.
ia termagant wife cuts her nails every
Monday, it is lucky-for her husband.
Mrs. Clark runs newspaper at Sac
ramento wifi the taking name of The
Winning Way.
Gettysburg did a fine business this
season in dealing with the visitors to the
battle-ground.
Every woman may be in the wrong
until she cries--but then she is in the
right Immediately.
The White Mountains presented a
magnificent sight last week in their new
dress of spotless snow.
DR.. Holmes says that crying widows
marry first. There is nothing like wet
weather for transplanting.
French and English physicians almost
universally prescribe free use of lemon
juice to effect cure forthe rheumatism.
A Boston grocer was lately remon-
strated with by the S. F. 7. P. o. C. 7.
A. for keeping his cheese under a close
cover.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria
offers a prize Of one hundred forms to
anybody who saves human life in Aus
tria or Hungary.
In 1851 man YVES prosecuted in Lon
don for selling coffee, just then intro
duced, as "a nuisance and prejudice to
the neighborhood."
A block of pure marble from LeghorD,
weighing twenty-one and half tons,
was landed at Boston the other day on
its way to Cincinnati.
In Paris the ladies are wearing high |
combs, from which depends bit of lace
or a spray of flowers. The style is
somewhat Spanish, but very effective.
The New York Herald's editor is re-
ported to have stated that the search for
Livingstone has cost that establishment
$50, 600, and the expenses are not all in
yet.
A Japanese scholar in one Of the New
Haven schools having been insulted by
a schoolmate recently, sent q note to
one of the instructors requesting per-
mission to kill the offender.
The homeward rush from summer re-
sorts received forcible illustration in
New York the other day, when more
than 10000 passengers and 5000 sepa-
rate pieces of baggage were broughtinto
one depot alone.
A one-armed Irishman, at Salem, Mas
having got into trouble with
his wife, applied for divorce recently,
md claimed that he was free from her
IN the ground that the hand which he ,
lad given her in marriage was now gone.
Houdon's statue of Washington, re-
emily taken down from its ancient posi-
ion in the centre Of the rotunda of the I
Virginia capital building, at Richmond, t
las been boxed up and placed in one
orner, there to await the action of the ,
ieneral Assembly. t
II is dangerous to offer peddlers Of
tatuary in plaster of Paris any amount !
Dr. their wares. In Wheeling lately one l
f these peripatetic vendors Of spotless c
GODS asked twelve dollars for a lot Of
is pieces, and was offered fifty cents for
aem all. Take EN- along" was the i
eply. Z
The total number of paupers in Lon !
on Exclusive of lunatics in asylums t
nd vagrants), on the last day Of the a
lird week in August, was 0l,743,
gainst lls,673 in the corresponding '
eek of last year. There was a de- a
rease in every district, most notably in c
lie east, where the numbers were 1918, !
5 against 23,545 last year. Q
A mechanic employed in carriage 2
lop at Grand Rapids, Mich, tele- t
raphed to friend few days since as o
blows: Come right away good job" Z
hieh, under the skillful manipulation
the operator, read, when delivered:
Come right away; good God" The re- il
eiver of the dispatch, fearing that his L
lend had met with some terrible acct =
ent, FASTENED to that city as soon as !
ossible, in no enviable state of mind, b
nd was very agreeably disappointed on
earning the mistake.
A nice old lady of sixty summers,
no had just been married for the first \
me, caused some merriment in the r,
Ieriden depot, the other day, by her a
nxiety to have everybody rejoice with u
er. On meeting friend, she said in 9
bud tone, evidently intended to be
card by all in the room, 81 am mar
led, and am taking my weddin' toter, p
nd these are my weddin' clothes, and Ct
hats my husband s-comin'" and the n
ID fellow seemed to be as delighted as =
is wife.
] did not mention in my last the death A
+ General Leopold del Re, a faithful =,
srvant Of Francis II. He was an ad- N