Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-26
rAcTs AND FANCIES.

Illinois comes to the front with bah.
without any breast bone.
For ladies: A recipe for dressing tn
hair-First buy your hair.
In Wyoming Territory there are NV
times as many men as women.
The iron.founders are casting
about to see how they can raise thei
prices.
| A correspondent wants to know wh'
is this Noah of Ark of whom he hal
heard so much.
Iowa has lost 100000 worth Of beef
the past winter, and is stung to the
heart about it.
The noon prayer-meeting has taken
its westward way, and established itself
at San Francisco.
When the constitution was adopted
there were seventy-6ve postoffices in the
Union; new there are 1880.
Rev. Mr.. Cramer, American minister
to Denmark, has been black-balled at
the Royal Club, Copenhagen.
Iron columns are now generally cast
hollow; but to resist FIRE, we are told,
they should be cast entirely solid.
A blind woman, entirely alone, is
slowly feeling her way to California.
She passed through Kansas City last
week.
The Missouri Democrat says that the
water in that city grows darker and
thicker every day, like man with the
dropsy."
The modern sandwich derives its
name from the English Earl of Sand.
wich, who, it is said, first made it spe-
cialty on his table.
A California town was enlivened the
other day by fight between two taran-
tulas. The combat was short and fierce,
and resulted in the death of both.
Health is as contagious as diseage,
fact that few persons stop to realize.
We imbibe vitality from strong and
healthy associates, beyond doubt.
Tame reduces Dickens novels to this
sentiment: Be good, and love; there is
genuine JOY only in the emotions of the
heart; sensibility is the whole man."
In Switzerland editors who advocate
woman's rights are prosecuted accord
ing to law, and one narrowly escaped
conviction recently in the canton OF
Uri.
The London News, speaking ola poor
man who starved to death, says He did
not rally again, but at four o'clock he
passed from economy into eternity with
out struggle"
An old minister asked woman what
could be dane to induce her husband to
attend church. II don't know" she re-
Piled, unless you put pipe and jug
Of whisky in the pew"
A gentleman in Ellsworth, Me-, made
q bet with his wife that he could undress,
90 to bed, get up, dress and then undress
aud 70 to bed again while she was pre-
pairing to 70 to bed. He won the bet.
A founder of new religion appeared
some time since in Russia. who gives
,ut that he is the Savior, and breaches
and the greatest religious
license The authorities are after him.
Two hunchbacks celebrate d their nup-
iiels in Paris the other day, IN the pres
,nce Of thirty invited guests, also hunch'
packs. At the wedding-ball all the mu-
'iciens we're hRnchbacks-as was every
lancer.
Gibraltar once more surges TO the sur
ace as possible bone of contention.
The Municipalities of Badsjoz and Ter
,el have determined to form an associa-
ion to obtain the restoration Of the rock
o Spain.
Cairo in Egypt, is becoming quite IA
nous for its public amusements, patron
zed by the government. 1. has one
opera, one theater, and three well APP
pointed circus companies, with European
performers.
NJ. Theirs has abandoned-ior the
present, at all events-his prospect of
the government to Paris.
By way of compensation, he will, it is
tated, pass some evenings at the CAPT
al, and hold receptions there.
A Montevidie letter says: Professor
Agassis and several Of his party were
.rrested there by an officer who thought
lie had discovered evil intent, because
hey were filling their pockets with
pieces Of rock. All we're taken to the
,uard-house, but soon released.
The ancient Saxons used to engrave
lpon certain square sticks, about foot
n length, the courses of the moon for
be whole year; such carved sticks they
all al-mon-aght, literally, all-moon-
iced; hence our modern word, almanac.
A rose by any other name would
'mell as sweet" A rose at any other
price than that we had to pay during
Easter week would have smelt as sweet
Three hundred per cent. increase in