Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-23
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

of sale.
Child-like children are said to be an
extinct race.
Cruikshank is about to appear in an
autobiography.
Mans superiority over woman con
sists chiefly in his thinking SO. So
Baltimore claims the largest bakery
on the west side of the Atlantic ocean
Boucicault is reported as thinking Of
dramatizing the Tichborne case.
A rigid censorship of press kilograms
has been ordered in France.
Matilda Heron's benefit in New York
on Wednesday afternoon yielded S4SsO.
General Beauregard is writing notes
ON Pollard's book, about the Lost
Cause"
There is a cat in New York that fol
lows its owners carriage in the streets
like a regular coach dog.
The New York newspaper reporters
are doing their best to dissippate Fisk 5
reputed large fortune.
Mrs. Corbett is said to be the most
beautiful and Mrs. Carpenter the clever
est of the senators ladies'.
The American colonization society
has sent out 1888 eolored colonists to
Liberia since the war.
A foreign musical critic says; Good
musicians execute their music; the bad
ones murder it,
A.man in London has been arrested
for capturing little children and stealing
their clothes from them
A celebrated physician recommends
open air and cold water as the best cos
metics for the complexion.
A Leavenworth divorce case is styled
"Jelly VS.. jelly" and the local paper
says that family jars did it,"
The vines on enc acre Of land in Gads-
den county, Alabama, have yielded one
thousand gallons of wine this season.
The London Times recently warned
the Spanish government that the loss OF
Cuba was only question of time,
A South Carolina prisoner deliberately
arose and fed from the court room while
the judge was delivering his sentence.
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson, of Norway,
has a poem in the Atlantic Monthly
about a maidenly ford who lay dream
ing.
Several of the leading European pow
ers are engaged in a combined move
ment to suppress the International
Society.
The present Earl of. Chesterfield can
not be found, and the bulk of the late
Earrs property goes to his sister the
Countess of Carnavon.
Theodore Parker once said he wished
that ministers and lecturers would be a
little more generous Of thought and
more stingy Of words.
A Chicago sufferer who made New
Years calls in Milwaukee had his cards
artifcially smoked to remind his hosts
of the great fire.
The Germans insist upon it that their
country was attacked last year without
provocation, but they VIGOROUSLY de-
Tended themselves.
The Boston Journal says Society
for the Protection of Children with bare
legs, from the cruelty Of mothers, is soon
to be established in Boston.
Mrs. Joaquin Miller, in attempting to
lecture in Oregon city, was so frequently
interrupted by crowd Of roughs that
she abruptly left the hall.
A serious and singular railway acci-
dent was caused in England by the en-
gineer and fireman both going to sleep
at their posts while the train was in mo-
ton.
The supply of India rubber is said to
be inexhaustible. Each tree can be
tapped for twenty successive years, and
yields on an average three teaspoonfuls
a day.
Those who travel in Western trains
nowadays, and desire to secure a com
Portable seat to themselves, make prac-
tice Of announcing that they have the
smallpox.
The Washington correspondents have
had hard time Of it recently in getting
up wars with Spain and Russia, but un-
fortunately appear to have failed in both
tasks.
The Temperance party will be the first
in the field this year, with their eandi-
date for President They hold their
nominating convention in Columbus,
Ohio, February %.
Among the modern improvements we
have introduced into japan is kerosene.
Its advance in civilization was satisfac-
torily proved by big FIRE at Yokohama,
which burned up 400 houses.
The correct present for a gentleman
to make to the lady Of his choice on his
wedding day is house in a good neigh
borhOod, furnished, and silver service,
provided his pocketbook viii permit.