Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-27
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

just now.
A new statue of Voltaireis to be erect
ed in Paris.
MONDAY weddings, English fashion
are now in order.
The days and nights will be equal OF
the 18th of March.
A good foundation for murder trial
A woman at the bottom of it.
In California the Chinese are said tC
be orgasizing camp meetings.
A Long Islanders head was blown of
by the explosion of beer barrel.
Musical and reading receptions are
becoming fashionable in New York.
Acting Mayor Cochrane, of New York
omits the obey" in marrying folks.
The prettiest American lady now in
Paris is said to hail from Savannah, Ga
Not all the girls are in for woman''
rights, but the majority are in for mar
riage rites
Garrison says that the woman ques
ton was an "all-embracing" one. Who
said it wasn't?
The English Channel Tunnel company
has been registered as legal corpora
ton in England.
There are one hundred miles of ice on
the Hudson river averaging ten inches
in thickness.
Houston, Texas, whisky is strongly
recommended by the local papers as a
means of suicide.
A society for the prevention Of swear
ing has been organized in st. Anthony s
church, New York.
Note for Darwin: In time the null
berry tree becomes a silk gown--and a
silk gown becomes woman.
Oregon is endeavoring to entice i'm
migration by announcing the discovery
Of magnesia mountain.
A Western paper announced the birth
of a pair of triplets. The other papers
want to know if there were six.
Austria is to have worlds fair, its
first and it is intended that it shall be
the greatest the world has ever seen.
1t is said that a woman's breeding can
always be told by her hand, and her tenn
per by her mouth, but all signs fail with
some women
1t is the complaint of the eminent DR..
Brown that he toasted Miss Smith through
tho the entire season al Saratoga without
making her Brown.
The currency" editor of the Provi-
dence Herald claims copyright on the
following: Moral-Never trespass on
another Mansfield"
A month at home, and then a wedding
tour, is to be the rule hereafter. This
certainly is the most sensible bridal ar
rangement yet agreed upon.
Bachelors take noticel Statistics say
married men live the longest. Succumb
to the delicate leap year advances of the
ladies and live long and be happy.
A policeman in Worcester, Mass, has
been suspended from duty for kissing
pretty girl he was going home within
his official capacity.
The force of the revolutionists in Mex
leo is said to consist of 200 generals, 800
colonies, 1000 captains, GOO subordinate
officers and $50 private soldiers.
CONSERVATION prevails in rural Con-
necticut, as the foxes are in the habit of
spending their evenings counting the fat
hens of the worthy farmers.
Benjamin Disraeli says that authors
are generally deficient in conversational
power, and that able conversationalists
are rarely found to be able writer's.
Five sisters, named Lukens, the cid
est but sixteen, living at Binston's sta
ton, Pa, publish wee paper called
Little Things, and they print it as well
as edit it.
Certain physicians Of La Sale have
organized vaccination ring, and got
up corner on the virus market They
obtained possession of all the vaccine
matter and charge heavily for it.
A number of unmarried ladies have
dubbed together and agreed that each
one is to make proposal Of marriage to
some young man of her choice during
the year, and assemble TO relate their
experiments and the results on the last
night Of the year.
A little girl having noticed that after
her mothers toilet there was invariably |
a sprinkling Of powder on the carpet,
observed, on seeing the snow the other
See, mamma, the angels hava
been using the poHdre de ris Z"
A worthy Massachusetts, deacon re-
Gently resigned his Office for the reason,
as he stated, that the members Of the
church had shown a want Of confidence
IL him by voting against him when
candidate for the Legislature last fall.
Sheep in Colorado have long heeees
in which the mud and dust Of the sum
mer accumulate. Then seeds Of grass
are waited into them by the wind. When
the rains Of winter fall, the grass sprouts,