Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

ChSO 4a
When the married couples at the sea
side resorts enter the diniug-room is
good time to see the tied coming in.
Prince Arthur is going to contribui
to one of the London magazines serie
of articles on certain customs in thu
army. taa
A lady in Wyoming complains that
Notwithstanding the female suffrage law
hundreds Of her sex in that Territory re
fuse to vote unless coaxed by cookbook
ing men.
The high and narrow military heeli
for ladies' boots are no longer fashiona
BILE in Paris, but are being replaced by
heels about half the hight of the ole
ones. Eisau
The town of Port of Spain, in the
island of Trinidad is one Of the finest
in the West Indies. 1t was built mainly
of stone after the destruction of the old
town by FIRE in 1908.
Two of the young girls who recently
took certificates at the London Univer'
sity, in connection with the Cambridge
local examinations, were daughters OF
the Earl Of Portsmouth.
One of the features Of street life in
New York at present is a little Italian
bow who draws remarkably spirited and
well executed pictures on the sidewalks
with colored crayons. 81
A boy eight scars old, in one of our
public schools, having been told that a
reptile "is an animal that creeps,' on
being asked to name one, on examina-
tioR day, promptly replied. "a baby.
Two men and q woman attacked a
lady in the surf at Cape May a few days
ago, and attempted to steal her rings,
but her outeries attracted attention from
the shore, aud the miscreants made of.
They do business with dispatch in
Texas. A man in certain neighbor-
hood, who had lost valuable mare, re-
ceived the following by telegraph:
Mare here. Come get her. Thief
hung"
The editor Of the Sabine Pass Texas
Beacon is continually mistaken for Dan
iel Webster, and meets with an ovation
every time he appears among his sub
scribers. he basely encourages the de-
fusion by Juggling around a mammoth
dictionary.
A minister said he once preached a
very peculiar sermon-soothiDg, stirring,
and satisfying. 1t was so soothing that
half the congregation went to sleep, so
stirring that the remainder left before he
had finished, and so satisfying that none
of them ever came to hear him again.
The British East India Company,
/ looking to the extension Of the cotton
culture in their territory have projected
ten thousand miles of narrow gauge rail-
way in India. In addition to this, they
are changing some of their broad gauge
lines to narrow gauge, in order to reduce
the cost of transportation on cotton.
A beggar once accosted DIR. Johnson
at period when that matchless Bohe-
mian was in a condition Of great wretch
edness and impecuniosity, with pite-
GUS request for the price of a three
penny loaf Of bread" "You might as
we'll ask me to square the circle, replied
the surly old literary phenomenon, and
passed on.
Cuckoo is thoughtful young woman
of an analytical turn Of mind She re-
Gently evolved the following from her
inner consciousness: "The majority Of
women care but little about suffrage.
If the back TO our car-seats could only
be followed out so as to admit of their
bustles tapping over, the ballot might go
TO thunder for all they care.
If you are regular physician and adj
vertise your business, like a man of
sense, in the newspapers, you will be ex-
PEELED from the medical fraternity. But
you can come it over this fogyish law by
going out of town for week and an
nouncing the fact in paid print, giving
Herewith your street and number. Thus
did half a dozen shrewd NJ. D.'s in yes
terday's papers. Chicago Times.
A New Orleans mother was recently
questioning her little girl in geography,
as follows; who went first through
the Straits Of MagellanY" Daisy quickly
answered: Magellan with his squad
! ROM" What do You understand by
his squadron, Daisy2" The question
was not in the book, but Daisy was ready
for the emergency. "0b, / know; it's
one Of those women that amt quite
white"
A Texan tells this story Of lost oppor-
tunities: Now, you see" said be,
land was cheap enough at one time in
Texas. have seen the day when l
could have bought a square league Of
land, covered with fine grass and timber,
for pair Of boots" Aud why didn't
you buy it2' asked his companion.
Didn't have the boots, said the Texan.