Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-02
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

IhalbergS muslcaA mhnusStiP'o
to be sold at auction.
A young lady who thought she could
make her voice clear by str aiming It,
made a great mistake.
An English Lord is shooting prairie
dogs in Kansas, under the impression
that they are grizzly bears.
1t is said that iron is good tonic for
debilitated young ladies. That may be
So but ironing is better one.
Forty.pouud wild turkeys, with boards
foot long are the fosmidable game
that sportsmen bag in Georgia.
A sarcastic Iowa editor says that Ole
Bull has come for his seventeenth an
nual farewell tour in that State.
One of the London newspapers an
nounces that Mr.. Charles Dickens, ir.,
will sail for the United States next
spring.
Mum Wung, Western Chinee, thinks
that Josh" sent the fire TO Boston to
cook the tea that was thrown into the
bay.
A Patch street boy has noble heart.
He gets ten cents for swallowing YER
mifuge, and spends the money for con
fectionery.-Er.
Apples can be purchased for four
cents bushel in some parts Of Illinois,
and several editors have purchased half
a bushel for winter use.
The young lady students at Chambers
burg Pennsylvania, kindly sent forty
hoop-skirts that were out of style to. the
sufferers by the Boston fire.
A company has been formed in Aus
tria to insure marriage. The unfortu-
nate policy-holder receives certain sum
as soon as he takes wife.
4 Kentuckian has by practical expert
ment settled long-vexed question, and
announces that it takes just five shots
to kill lightning rod man.
The married ladies of Hannibal, Mo-,
have formed Come Home Husband
Club" 1t is about four feet long and
has brush on the end Of it.
The house formerly occupied by M.
Catacazy, in Washington, is open for
boarders of propriety. Its late tenant
went considerably beyond the borders Of
propriety.
There is not in either England, Ire
land sr Scotland such thing as a sleep
ing-car, nor, in fact, anywhere in En-
rope, save ia Russia, where the railroads
are modelled after ours.
The water which is pumped on the
line of the Macon and New Brunswick
railroad, in Georgia, is so impregnated
with oil that it cannot be used in loco
motive boilers.
A young man who proposed TO hand
some but heartless creature, the other
evening, says her answer suggested a
very popular poem-the Beautifurs No.
-Norrist0pn Herald.
A boy who blows the organ in o conn
try church in Western Massachusetts,
lately got intoxicated on the sacramental
wine stored in closet near his loft, and
could not come to time on the closing
hymn.
The Duchess de Persigny, wife Of the
deceased favorite of Napoleon III, and
daughter Of the equally famous Prince de
Moskowa, is going to be married again
to French advocate who is only com
moner.
Mile Mar.lla, young woman appa-
rently about twenty years Of age, is now
performing at Liverpool circus, where,
suspended by her legs irem the trapeze,
she holds man by her teeth, twisting
him around as if he we're joint on a
spit.
According to a correspondent Of the
Florence Malone, the notion Of erect.
ing Geneva into separate bishopric
had its origin at the Court Of Rome,
He adds that the Vatican was very ial
from anticipating the resistance which
the project has since met at the hand
Of the Cantonal authorities.
A aysheet under the title Of Ava.
with the House Of Peers" {" Veg mi
dem HerrenhGusi"D, which is attribu
ted TO Karl Blind, has been widely cir
culated in Northern Germany. The nd
vanced Liberals. as well as the Demo
cratic propaganda, are very active, VI
are informed, in the present cons:itu