Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-09
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

$l26 for each OF the popuihuon.
Louis Napoleon has been denied per
mission to sojourn a short time, IN
Italy. a ~ Now r .N
Because horses are used to relns II
does not follow that they are indifferent
to wet weather.
! We seldom find people ungrateiul, so
long as we are in condition to render
them service.
Dark gloves with the dress suit are
the proper thing at small parties, espe-
cially on verbal invitation.
In Allen county, Indiana, forty-two
couples were neatly and expeditiously
divorced in one day recently.
If your horse loses his breath don't
let him trot for it; he can catch it a
great deal sooner by standing still.
Five feet five inches is said to be the
perfection of height for woman and
five feet eight inches for man.
1t is said that the more clumsy, awk-
ward and ungraceful man is, the
warmer his heart and more sensitive his
feelings.
Shoe-blacks call the cloth and rubber
over-shoes now so generally worn in
winter by the objurgative name OF
spoil trader"
Cablegram, calogram, kalogram, hall
gram, thalasogram and onogram are
names suggested for messages received
by the cable.
There lives in New London, Conn,
a hen which lately laid four eggs in
twelve hours, each egg weighing one
quarter of pound.
The corporation Of the city of Lon
don have been summoned by the Board
Of Inland Revenue for using armorial
bearings without a license.
The dodge Club has been organ
lied in Boston. The qualification for
membership is experience and skill in
lodging creditors.
Swivel Sermons was the name a
young minister Of lazy habits gave to
package of sermons which he could
preach to any text.
A New Yorker was informed just be-
fore his marriage that his bride had
fallen heir to 100000, but he let the
ceremony go on just the same.
An English railway has had a man
fined for jumping from train before it
stopped. The usual trouble is to fnd
such jumper after the train has
stopped
A minister once prayed: Z" o, Lord,
we thank Thee for the goodly number
here tonight, and that Thou art also
here, Notwithstanding the inclemency Of
the weather"
The other day the woman sufiragists
had meeting at the capital, and Mrs
Grant sent a message saying that she
was unavoidably detained, but that her
heart was with them, and she wished
them much success.
Mr.. Walt Whitman is defined by Mr..
Algernon Charles Swineburne as a
strong-winged soul with prophetic lips,
hot with the blood-beats Of song" Mr..
Whitman will be excused if he desires
to go out and kill himself.
Note-writing is an art in itself lady
can have no more delightful accomplish.
ment. Well turned sentences, apty
used, will save many an embarrass-
ment, stave of many social difficulty
and release one from many dilemma.
Plain hair is rapidly becoming the
fashion. How sorry we are for the un-
fortunate girls who have ruined their
front hair by long course of hot iron
and crimping pins We wonder If false
fronts, such as old ladies used to wear,
viii be adopted to hide deficiencies?
In the British museum are number
Of cases bequeathed by Francis Douce,
the well-known literary antiquarian, on
condition that they are not to be opened
until the year 1900. No one is aware Of
their contents, but there are all sorts of
groundless rumors aaoat about them.
A fair-haired, lOye-sick youth present
ed his adored, few days ago, with
pair Of those new-fangled metallic gar
ters. He thought they we're the latest
thing in bracelets, and be only discover
ed his mistake upon requesting her TO
try them on" He does not go there
any more. n
While rather affected young lady
was confding to her admirer how ethe-
real her appetite was, and the sensitive
delieateness Of her organization, the too
matter-of-fact help bawled out, Say
will ye have yer billed pork and beans
now, or wait till yer feller's gomez" The
Teller has been gone ever since.
A curious literary treasure was re-
Gently announced for sale in Paris. 1t
was copy of the Constitution Of the
French Republic of 1894, bound in hui
man skin. The volume is supposed to
have issued from the Meudon tannery,
where, it is asserted, this kind Of leather