Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-16
FACTS AND rANcTEs.

A goose saved Louisville child from
drowning.
Wood carpets are finding favor in
New York.
Chicago now dates from B. F--pe'
fore the FIRE. mt'A
Maggie Mitchells first salary was hive
dollars week.
Mr.. Roberts, Of Georgia, is cutting his
fourth set of teeth. rsa
The principal feature of every mys-
terry" Nobody nose.
Should auld acquaintance be forgotY
Not if they have money.
Though Dickens liked dogs and chill
dren, he had no ear for music.
Muggins says eternal liberty is the
price of vigilance, and dear at that.
Miss Dolly Warden was locked up in
the calaboose at Attica the other day
for drunkenness.
The New York Star calls the pianist
S. B. Mills monumental bangist OF the
nineteenth century"
An Indiana man has instituted pro-
ceedings to restrain his wife from sitting
up q tombstone over the grave of her
first husband.
A Fair Haven, Conn.,, girl was struck
by locomotive and rendered insensible.
On looming Il" her first words we're,
Where's my dog|
Miss Nellie Grant has been presented
to Queen Victoria. 1t was not done by
the President, her father He never
gives anything away.
Wisconsin papers complain of man
who was mean enough to elope with the
only school teacher in Green Bay, thus
shutting up the school. lfsa
A Yale student became insane while
rowing. Harvard thinks the disease has
been general among Yale boatmen dur
ing the last few years. 4s
The English papers have ceased de-
riding the Tichborne claimant, and adj
NIT that his case is rising almost to its
former dignity and interest"
A Texas savant predicted heavy
frost on the 26th of April, since which
date his neighbors have made IT so warm
for him that he has fed the State.
The signing of register, which has
taken the place of the passport system
in France, is complained of by travellers
as being more irksome than the old GUS
tom.
Somebody is responsible for the asser-
ton that Queen Victoria has en- Ameri-
can young lady as waiting-maid. She is
Bostonian and general favorite, we
are told.
Some. enterprizing citizens OF New
York have had beautiful gardens laid
out on the roofs of their houses, where
they are able to raise the choicest
flowers.
Miss Stevens, a beautiful blonde
preacher, is creating a profound reli-
gious sensation in Georgia. She makes
all the masculines feel like embracing
her-doctrines.
In Berlin the lovers Of the fine arts are
in ecstacies over the discovery Of very
fine painting Of Titan, "The Betrothal
of st. Catharine." 1t is in the posses
sion of wealthy Jew.
The Danbury News says; How any
unprejudiced man can look upon the
present sized penny cake of maple sugar
and claim that the world is growing bet
ter, passes our comprehension.
A Tilted youth of Pulaski, Kentucky,
occupied himself during the first week
Of his former sweetheart's honeymoon
by throwing stones through her win
dows. Finally he succeeded in throwing
her into commissions, and departed a
happy man.
An English lady asked Miss Catherine
NJ. Sedgwick, while abroad, whether
they had any fine old trees in America,
and then, catching herself, added, " Oh,
beg pardoni forgot at the moment
that your country was so lately settled
Do oaks really then grow in flower
potsY
A Buffalo clergyman, the Rev. Wilcott
Colkins, preached on moving day.
His text was from Second Samuel,
seventh chapter and tenth verse: |
will appoint a place for my people, Is
rael, and plant them that they may
dwell in a place Of their own, and move
no more"
A San Francisco woman has been ar
rested for attempting to erase from the
tombstone of her child that portion Of
the child's name which it took frtm her
first (divorced) husband. Her design
was to substitute the name of her pres
ent husband. The divorced husband
caused her arrest.
A contemporary tells this funny anec
dote: Wake up, here, and pay for
your lodging" said the deacon, as he
Rudged a sleepy stranger with the con
tribution box. We were there, and w