Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-15
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


Pensacola has a church and three dis
tilleries. .s,fai .ia
Leaning up against mule. That is
how an Alabama negro suicided
Newborn infants, the doctors say, ay-
erage eight pounds in weight this season.
Nose meat is offered for sale at
Halifax, Nova Scotia for ten cents a
pound. t't'" "
What kind of molasses is no molassesf
Why N. o. New 0rleans) molasses' OF
course.
Little fish have proper idea Of bust
ness Not being able to do better they
start on a small scale.
If you wish to keep your enemies from
knowing any harm Of you, don't let your
friends know any
A passenger on one Of the New York
ferry-boats is said to have lately sneezed
himself overheard. siy
The Government of Bavaria has
forbidden state officers to commuHicate
intelligence to the newspapers.
A woman who recently died in Eng
land. had lived for over one hundred
years without single days sickness.
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, bred and edu-
Gated the first woman lawyer ever adj
mitted to the bar in the United States.
The Boston members of Council want
badges and also desire to be constituted
special policemen without pay.
Three frolicing boys severed the tail
of horse at Saratoga, and the Judge
severed their family connections for
year each.
A South Norwalk Conn. } man stole
handsome Bible to gladden. the heart OF
his aged mother Christmas, but becom-
ing impressed with the enormity of the
offense stole another to replace it.
Sir Charles Dilke's Newcastle lecture
on the Cost of the Crown" THAT being
the title which it now bears), has been
revised by its author, and published in
pamphlet form.
1t is reported that the Postmaster
General, with view of SIGNALLING his
career in Office, intends havoring the adj
hesive matter Of postage-stamps with
the various popular extracts-vanilla,
wintergreen, etc.
Women whe cant find work had better
20 to Manila, where $4,000 of their sis
tiers make cigars at seven cents day.
Food can be had for the buying, and full
dress toilets grow on every fg-tree.
President Grant has appointed four
ladies', since he has been in the White
House, to the highest grade of post-of
fees, with salaries of four thousand dol
ars per annum.
Miss Thackeray has been at work for
everal years on novel, which will be
:alled sold Kensingtou," which will
appear simultaneously in the Cornhill
Magazine and Harpers' Magazine.
The last words of the Rev. Alfred
formerly pastor of Christ NJ.
:. Church, Pittsburg, we're: | am
weeping through the gates, washed in
he blood of the Lamb" This is first
lass.
Mr.. John Harper promises to train
Longfellow next season in the North.
lie expects to be at the spring meeting
{ Jerome Park, but will notrun Long
elbow" until the first meeting at Long
'ranch.
An old Dutchman, who some years
20 was elected member of the Cana
ian Legislature, said, in his broken En-
fish style: Yen vent to the lechis-
.ture fought would find dem all Sol
mons dere vas some as pick fools dere
) / vas" 7
A proper vehicle Tipsy customer:
A pint o whisky, please shir." Publ
IN: Yell get nae mair whisky here, 6
cTavish. Haven't | told you in plain
nglish2 Dye want it in Latin or
reek?" Tipsy customer" No, thank
:, shir; want it in bozzle." s.I =
A New Orleans girl, who went to spend
hristmas with a school friend in Massa- .
lusetts, was confronted, on entering the
'awing-room, with painting of her r
If, which sweetly smiled upon her from l
,ove the mantel Her host proved to
I'VE been an officer under Butler.
A Troy New York; divine, while p
aking mis- pastoral round recently, I
He'd to administer a little spiritual 4
I'm to a suffering parishioner. In the 4
,urse Of his stay he learned that the y
ok man had the smallpox, and he alb !, y
pity left of consoling to go home and y
ant his clothes. r.
A California journal informs the q
'rld that FIVE thousand girls are needed p
the country towns OF that State to
place Cinnamon in the kitchen. Those
10 entertain matrimonial expectations
ed not apply, as the market for mar
.geable women is already oyerstocked,
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