Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-24
SPECIAL NOTICE.
MCPHERSON IN .ST.: MARKET.I
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

81 .I| T.
Eighteen daily papers are now printed
at Rome. 1 a tlas % Arat p.
The winter of Adams discomfort
came directly after his fall, s SOD.
"orphan elixir" is an oil-religion sy-
nonym for nitro-glycerine. sIsai;.i
Silver coin is legal tender in Eng
land for only forty shillings.
A Wisconsin church voted q girl
a gold watch for being so pretty.
Punch says that free-thinkers and
free-drinkers constitute two large classes
Of society. rolalasl
That paragraph about the four eclipses
in 1872, is still able to travel the rounds
of the press. . /" A.t~
Governor Washburne, in bis inaugural
message, goes back on the woman
women .nahEH.i,ri bro nliaff pt' sns'
Cincinnati has score Of females in
a brass band, and the toot ensemble is
said to be very fine. Ell 's'.a Il sf'sf
The Ohio State senate has authorized
school boards to establish rules to secure
the vaccination of pupils. cH' 3
Susan B. Anthony says that more than
forty-fye THOUSAND people have heard
her lecture on the Z Social Evil blt
The California Legislature has passed
bill striking out the words white"
and male" from the attorney act.
Politics is becoming thoroughly diff
fused among the masses. Every man
that rings door-bell is wire-puller.
Gordius was small farmer in the
country Of Phrygia in Asia. he invent
ed the Gordian knot for Alexander who
cut it. ol % 4t- 20 s1i6toL so h'a' H'
The highest rate Of interest that we
pay is for borrowed trouble. Things
that are always going to happen never
do happen. ,hpo bas tsae-
An Indiana Judge divorced a lady and
married her to another man before the
divorce was entered ON record, all in fif-
teen minutes. So" 10y
Does it not frequently happen that it
is our vices which quit us, when we Hat
ter ourselves with the belief that il is we
who quit them2 az
Since ladies have taken to using news
papers for bustles, publishers complain
that their fair subscribers are more in
arrear than before. AyiaSA
At a women's right meeting recently
held in Hagerstown, Md, the committee
provided the invited gentlemen guests
with feminine escorts.
At church weddings this season it is
the fashion to reserve the entire middle
aisle for the invited guests only who
come in full dress. .rrs 4i
An Ohian has offered $4,000 for the
privilege of advertising on the backs of
postage stamps. His name would soon
be on every tongue.
A man cannot long reflect on q single
subject without coloring his mind there
with. Like the silkworm, the silk they
yield is colored by the food they feed on.
The New York Observer says that in
the Biblia Sacra published by Plautin at
Antwerp in 1888 it is stated that Califcr-
MIA is the Ophis or ophir Of Solomon.
A man requested his wife in ball
room to hold the baby of another mans
wife while he danced with the baby s
mother-but she didn't hold it. Some
wives are so disobedient.
A Kentucky church has sent two lady
missionaries to the Fejee Islands. This
is very considsrate. No doubt the can
nibals will prefer this sort to the tough
old gentlemen usually thrust upon that
market.
A recent letter from Florence says of
Jenny Lind: Her exeestion was fault |
less, and much clesrness and sweetness
remain to testify to what her voice has
been" slsggo3 aa-u ]
Alexander Dumas, the elder, died with !
only one gold piece in his pocket. His
ION ia a millionaire. and his daughter is |