Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-12
FACTS AND F2NCIEs.

What used TO be called La DeHc RranSo
is now called Vale Of THEIRS nod
Another 'alias for the gentle non-ex-
plosiye is Sunlight Fluid" asi
! The youngest mother chronicled in
history is a Boston girl, aged eight.
i IA disguised youth in Nashville adver-
tised his girl as a liar because she broke
the engagement. eoaicase slffN b VI
II An experienced chap says, when you
can't think of what your wife told you.
to bring home, get hairpins, ~ sii4g
Every wooden leg which supplies the
place of limb lost in battle, is said to
be stump speech against war. no -
When Jonah fellow-passengers pitch
ed him overheard, they evidently regard
ed him as neither prophet nor loss. I.
A "girl died recently at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, who had been in ser
vice in one family sixty-nine years. =
A new style of glove for ladies is made
of opossum skin; it is very soft and .du-
rable, and can be worn in full dfess.css
A Philadelphia girl is the happy pos
SCISSOR of dozen ormore diamond rings,
the fruits Of as many engagements
A too hopeful newspaper heads a
column of paragraphs about women,
"The Silenced Sex This is certainly
premature.
A Baltimore girl has broken her en-
gagement because her lover couldn't at
ford to give her diamond pledge Of be-
trothal. aaIr .n..a
Governor Gratz Brown, of Missouri,
has written a letter full Of sympathy to
father of triplets, and promises to
bring his case before the Legislature for
reward. ....suias
A st. Louis woman over six feet in
height recently married man who rs
but four feet nine When she wishes
to kiss him she has to stand him on
chair. 4 eog ~
The Terre Haute Express is authority
for the assertion that the prettiest wo-
man in Indiana is named Riley. So she
is. and her fathers name was Rizup
William. ~"
The Cincinnati Enquirer, in pen
picture of Olive Logan on the streets,
tells Of I" her shrill treble rising above
the noisy talk of pedestrians and the
clatter of vehicles
The Womans Protective Association
Of Marshalltown, ILL.,, is the name of an
organization devoted 10 putting down
the reprehensible practice Of kissing
good night between the tive sexes.
Lancaster, Mass, contains in its
pOorhouse an old woman known as
Aunt Gates, who distinctly remem-
berS seeing her father taking down his
gam to fight the red-coAts at Bunker
Hill. 49,
A woman raised 10 the third power Of
widOwhood has the photographs Of her
three departed lords in group, with
Yigneite of herself in the center, and
underneath is the inscription, The
Lord viii provide. =
A young lady in a Massachusetts
town has taken up dentistry for living.
All the gentlemen patronize her. One
young man has become hopelessly in
fatuated with her, consequently he
hasn't tooth in his head. l9
A bill for the abolition Of capital pun
ishment has been introduced in the
British House Of Commons. There has
existed in London for several years past
a society having for its object this
change 10 the criminal laws.
Forrest played Hamlet in Rochester
the other night. One Of the papers
thinks he is. little old for the char
acter.p What's forty or fifty years one
way or the other in character like
Hamlet, we would like to know?
Car stops; smiling young lady enters;
every seat full An old man rises at the
other end. 80, don't rise, said the
lovely girl. II can just as we'll stand.
wi.
81 don't care whether you sit or stand,
he replied, II am going to get out,
/ A Mrs. Margaret II. Garner, Of Spring
field, Illinois. gave her hand and heart
lately to Mr.. Olive, making the seventh
husband the lady has thus garnered to
herself. Seven is lucky number
which is good thing for the husband
The largest and heaviest woman in
Paris died recently. Her weight was
Eve hundred and fourteen pounds. She
, was named Genlot, and nlS4s appeared
at national fete as the Goddess Of Lib
cry, at which time her figure was quite
slim.
Set pitcher Of water in room. and
in Il few hours it will have absorbed all
the respired gases in the room, the air
of which will become purer. but the
t water perfectly filthy Tbe colder The
q water is the greater the capacity 20 %.