Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-21
FACTS AND FaNCIEs.


Victor Hugo proposes to marry again
The Oregon State fair exhibits
winged calf.
Louisiana il scouraged by the worst
drouth since 1860
The Queen of Holland is on her wsy
to pay visit to England.
P's and Q's is the womanish title of
Miss Yoanges next novel
The Indians in Iowa have d,vindled
down to forty eight persons.
Of forty steamboats, navigating the
red river, thirteen are named the Era"
Five hundred coolies, of the West In
dies, are returning TO China with &c.
COO savings.
A Disguised Kansas pioneer says that
Barnum's mummy is "nothin' but u
jerked Injun."
Metropolitan drus. eakers get ninety
dollars for putting together a much
trimmed street Costume
Kansas seances have developed the
fact that the spirit lives after death, and
gradually loses its intellect.
The Milanese have presented Verdi a
baton in the shape of a sceptre. They
wish him TO rule over all their com
posers.
"England's Liver" would be good
title for sequel to Farjeon's 'London's
Heart and there might be little
more life in it.
The Christian Register says that one
of the greatest mysteries relating to
Henry Ward Beecher is his inability to
speak well to children.
Iron gravestones are much used in
Texas and have given great satisfaction
to all who have tried them. They will
last man life time.
"Tennyson never smokes pipe the
second time" We never smoke pipe
the first time-and there is where we
are one ahead of Tennyson.
Kansas claims to be up with, Egypt in
her seven years of abundance, but it
isn't probable that abe has stored up for
seven years of famine to follow.
An Albany grandmother of seventy
lately eloped with young man whose
father she had tried to capture in years
agone. She evidently likes the family.
There is no greater mistake in social
life than indulgingiin over-familiariiy.
Intercourse even between intimate
friends, should have some dignity about
1t.
There are nearly one hundred women
serving on school committees in the
State of Massachusetts. Several other
States are following the example Of Mas
sachusetts.
A student who has been Afflicted with
sermon one hour and a half long,
grumblingly says that these professors
study SO much about eternity that they
have no conception of time.
An euterprising prisoner in the Erie,
New York, jail, with nothing but his
hands, and they shackled, tore down the
wall Of his cell, burrowed under the jail
fence and is new safe in Canada.
A house in Burlington, N. j., erected
over a century ago, and occupied in TIC
by William Franklin, the last royal gov
ernor of that State, is being taken down
to give place to new and more impos-
ing structure.
A man got up at night in Iowa City
and thrashed his wife till he woke up the
whole house, aud then made her and |
everybody else believe he had been
asleep all tie time and didn't know what |
be had been about
Among the ancients, when persons
we're newly-msrred, they put a yoke
upon their neeks, or chains upon their
arms, to show that they were to be one.
closely united, and pulling equally to-
gether in all the concerns Of life.
Paris has about two thousand artists,
onefourth Of whom are said to be occu-
pied in manufacturing spurious pictures.
These are signed with well-known names,
and then sent over to America and sold
as genuine pictures.
A letter bearing the following address
was lately received at the St. Louis post
Office: "This letter is to be delivered to
the policeman Of the Fourth Ward. do
not know the man or bic name. City Of
St. Louis, beg pardon."
Buffalo hides are to be utilized by be-
ing turned into leather. and several bales
of them have just been sent to England.
Still, on the plains where he once was
plainly seen playing. now the buffalo
t hides, and not many Of them can be
taken.
Such is life. smith-By the bye,
Jones, where's your brother Iom2 Amt
seen him lately. Jones-Toml Not
: heard, eh2 Dead buried him yester-
, day. Smith-GOd bless my soul
. Buried yesterday Well, he had
doocid fine day for it.
Tommy was found in most perilous
situation on the housetop, aud having
been secured alive and whole by ginger
!, bread stratagem and sugar-plum persua-