Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-15
FACTS AND rANcfEs.
widow picnics are held in Ohio.

whisky.
: Chicago prohibits quack medicine
: posters.
) The sun spots have assumed an unu
sual phase. ssseae "ls
In all Missouri there are not one thou
sand Indians.
bamboo ventilating huts" are thu
latest --~
The ladies of Usage, Ia., have a home
husband club.
The Home Journal does not approve
of Long Branch.
i Slight 6re-anything under S2O'OO'
loss nowadays. Hat
Bridal parties are deserting Niagars
for Saratoga Springs.
Croquct is one of the fashionable DIS
sipations at Rye Beach.
! If You would sleep well take a sponge
bath before going to bed.
The hot spell has been worth thOus-
ands to paper-collar men.
The Japanese paper undershirts look
like demoralized fish nets.
Dean Stanley proposes to overcome
Catholicism with Catholicity.
A number of soldiers belonging 10 the
garrison at Union, S. c., have deserted.
Visiting cards, to be stylish, should
not be large, and as plain as possible.
Men armed with nets entrap unwary
dogs in the streets of Lynchburg, Va.
There are about 10000 Cashmere
goats in California, from one-quarter to
full blood.
The most dangerous hattery is that
which exhales from the presence of in
feriors.
The most encouraging accounts are
given of the cotton and corn crops IN
South Carolina,
"Ohl How l wish ] was in Green
land" is the name of the latest popular
song.
White flannel suits are the correct
things for gentlemen to wear at the sea-
side.
A trip to California is by many deem
ed superior in attractions to voyage to
Europe.
In Charlotte, North Carolina, live
four men whose aggregate weight is
lll5 pounds.
General Hazen maintains that every
Apache eating government rations is a
murderer Of white men.
Long Branch has a Central Park,
which isn't much Of park. andIis not in
the slightest degree central
A gentleman at Albany, Louisiana,
has invented a type-setting machine
which does the work Of four men.
There are eleven times as many young
men in the little town of Ashville, in
Alabama, as there are young ladies.
When you're past ninety years of age
you'll be on the free list Of the Detroit
ferry-boats-a thing worth living for.
Recently at Cayuga lake, New York,
single seine drawing resulted in a
catch" of twenty-seven bushels of bull |
heads.
There is a lady fifty years old in Win
ton, N. c., who never heard or saw fid- |
die until few days ago. She is nei-
Their blind nor deaf
King Solomon beat Gilmore by more
than one hundred and fifty thousand
musicians at his grand jubilee, but Gil |
more beat the King in the size Of his
temple.
Frances Rose Maginley, the biggest,
blondest and the handsomest of New
York Free-lovers, addressed the Inter
national Society of San Francisco, on
the 10Th.
The difference between a Christian
and a cannibal was described by coed
little Sunday-sehool boy as follows, Zone
enjoys himself and tother enjoys other
people"
Olive Logan devotes herself in her
last book TO the pleasant task of prov
ing that Writ Skies is really good
man. She has abundant scope for her
in this work.
A returned Australian found the
baby he left q miss of five summers.
One day he offended her, and she fret
fully exclaimed. wish you had never
married into our family"
Mrs. Laura DeForce Gordon being in
effably disguised at Cincinnati and out
disappointed at Philadelphia,
is now going for Baltimore with all "de
force" she possesses. 1851
Mr.. Carlyle, according to a London
was offered a thousand
pounds to write a description of the
Derby Day, with his name appended,
for country paper.
Singles says that in his boyhood be
used to sing with some spirit, 81 want
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