Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-29
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Three men are to be hanged in Visalia,
California, shortly.
Municbs leading banker is woman
Miss Adele Spitzider.
Terre Haute pronounces Mrs. Bowers
superior to Jsnauschek.
The Missouri end Pacific road has fin
ishsd its branch from Kirkwood to Caron.
dalet.
The St. Louis bridge and tunnel will
be eompleted by the middle OF next
summer.
Disasters continue on the English
coast. Eighteen deaths were reported
Saturday
The Harvard College fund has reached
$4,000, and the relief fund for Boston
100000.
Most men like to see themselves in
print. Ladies' like 10 see themselves in
silks and velvets.
President Theirs favors the creation
of the second chamber tsenate) Of the
French Legislature.
Nine miles of the stoekade across the
island of Cuba is finished. 1t will be
sixty miles long
Since the adjournment Of Congress the
President has made one hundred and
eighty.se appointments.
O'Leary, one Of the Fenian leaders at
Hyde Park, London, recently, announces
his intention Of migrating TO America.
A young lady in St. Louis is reported
to be an heiress OF $1,000 900 power,
which sum was left her by her lover, a
young man in the Spanish army.
The little poetess who starts out,
There is a wall within my heart, has
excited the disgust Of her big boor of a
father, who threatens to whale it out Of
her.
A jealous ghost is making trouble for
q Maine woman and her second husband.
The phantom is thought TO be the shade
Of her first victim.
The two Kaisers-William and Fran
els Joseph-are to meet again toward
the end of this month; but this time the
Gar is not invited
The Chicago Times asks, How can
We escape fre2' The New York Com
mercial answers, The gospel offers you
every encouragement"
Fifty years ago President Theirs knew
what it was to be an amusement critic
and imagine that the eyes Of the entire
audience were upon him.
A San Francisco dressmaker who
made dress too small was sued by her
patron and made to pay forty dollars,
the price of the dress.
Two Of the heightened legal gentle
men Of San Francisco were the princi-
pals in a recent rough-and-tumble fight
in United States court in that city.
Father Hyacinthe has appeared again,
this time as lie-nailer. He clinches
two current misstatcments in regard to
himself, aud goes quietly on his way.
A Boston genius has invented self
registering omnibus. The vehicles are
TO register the number Of passengers
carried and the distance travelled by
each.
A great cloud, snowy white and shaped
exactly like balloon, has been hover
ing over Santa Barbara, California,
much 10 the astonishment Of the Santa
Barbariaus.
Walter, a Eve year old, was surprised At
breakfast by the presence ola diIninutive
egg, served for his special deleetation.
Mamma, said he, 81 think the ehickea
was learning to lay"
The bones Of Governors, Judges OF
the Supreme Court and United States
Senators repose in the neglected GENE,
terry at RutlaRd Vermont. You may
say "Let them repose," but the local
newspaper says It's a disgrace"
The Heather Chinee figures prOmi
nently in the San FranciseO police re
ports. All Lee mas just been 6eld TO an
swer for stealing six pullets, and Al
Wsh and All Wet have been fined fo
peddling vegetables without license.
The Mayor Of cyuthiana, Ky, loves u
be stirring about, and as the duties Of hi
Office are not onerOus, be avoids haVinl
she time hang heavy on his hands b.
manufacturing and selling whisky, rails
ing tobacco on his farm adjoining thu
Gown, and With specializing in apples ant
potatoes.