Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-12
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


for the Christmas number of the Graphic.
Louis Napoleon is reported to have
received $40, 900 interest onUnited States
bonds in May.
Anna Perkins, beautiful blonde, has
been appointed liquor agent of Dalton,
New Hampshire.
Ladies with square-cut bodiees will
hereafter be excluded from Queen Vic
torias drawing-rooms.
Strauss speaks German only, but his
accomplished lady is linguist, speaking
several languages.
G. F. Train says he can control 1000
600 Irish votes. Put him up as candi-
date for lunatic asylum, and he can.
For every six months that Alabama
convicts work we'll and faithfully upon
Alabama railroads their term of i'm
prisonment is reduced one month.
Japanese paste is the last pretty thing,
ladies. Your cheeks are charmingly
pretty green when you first apply it, but
it soon changes to lovely sea-shell pink.
They have organized Christian milk
society in New York, and now every
body wants to know wherein Christian
milk differs from other milk. Smiggles
says it refers to sermons.
A gentleman and son meeting hg-
ure wrapped in a sheet Wednesday eye-
ming at Sag Harbor, Long Island, on
their way homeward, gave chase to find
the ghost female lunatic.
In an article on a recent fair in that
city, the editor of Macon paper says a
brother editer took valuable premium,
but an unkind policeman made him put
it right back where he took it from.
A Fort Warren, New York, man, who
disappeared from his home twenty-seven
years ago, returned week ago, having
in the meantime wandered nearly over
the habitable globe as a tramp printer.
New York society papers speak con-
stantly of " our West End. Where, in
the name of common sense and topo-
graphy, is the west end of a narrow is
land that runs north and south?
The sunny side of mining specula-
tons is shown in the payment, in one
day, Of over half million dollars, for
the month of April, by six San Fran
cisco companies.
A Kansas paper says there is now no
longer any doubt Of the existence of gold
in Greenwood county in that State.
Jumps have been found at different
points on the Verdigris, the largest of
which was valHed by jeweler at twenty
one dollars.
Few persons are aware that there IS
society of the Mormons in Paris, who
conform to the social and spiritual hab-
its of Salt Lake City. 1t was only
through the statistics of different reli-
gions, recently published by the Minister
of Justice, that this fact became known.
A Cleveland woman, not long ago,
modestly requested her husband to go
to the dressmaker and tell her tn at she
1.-THE wife) had changed her mind and
would have the watered silk made up in
stead Of the poplin, and that if she
thinks it would look better with ten bias
hounces without putting and box plated
below the equator, which should be
gathered in hemstitched gudgeons up
and down the seams, with gusset
stitch between, she can make it up that
way, instead of Auting the bobinette in
sertion and piecing out witty point APP
plique, as | suggested yesterday"
A woman has been found in Mercer
county, Pa, courageous enough to risk
her life rather than give up her money
on the demand Of robbers. She was
found alone in a house by two ruffians,
and though choked till she was insensi-
BILE, refused to tell where the money was
She was finally rescued, and both her
money and her life we're saved, and gave
her reason for not giving the desired in
formation that she might as well be
dead as alive without the money.
DR.. Greeley, when a young man,
worked in a printing Office in Yesey
street. He was passing through Nassau
street one day, on the way to his daily
labor, shutting along with his usual
shambling gait when he attracted the
attention of an old woman, evidently a
visitor from the rural districts. She
stopped watching his movements as he
passed by, and turning to bystander,
said: What a pity" What is a
Pity" why, that a young man like
that should be drunk SO early in the
morning"
At an agricultural fair recently held
at Oxford, Delaware, one Of the most
amusing parts Of the programme was the
potato match. Four bushels Of potatoes
were placed along the trotting course, in
four lines of bushel each, and about a
foot apart on the ground. The four con-
testants each had a wheelbarrow, aud at
the word Go" commenced picking mp
| the notatoes and denositinp them in he