Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-04
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

New York fashionable weddings no.
come of an hour after dinner.
Duluth gives fashion an impetus b
issuing birch.bark reception cards.
The Philadelphia Daughters of Ten
perance have SIS, 900 in the treasury.
The ladies of Belfast are said to b
the prettiest and best dressed in Ireland
Gail Hamilton says in her new bool
that woman does not want opportuni
ties, but qualities
New York swells wear giraffe-hid'
boots. They like leather that has som'
''stretch" to it.
The mania for collecting stamps hal
broken out again with renewed viru'
lence in young ladydom.
Spring beds have found their way e
Japan, and Chinese women are almost
persuaded to try and hustle.
All the Eastern young women opposed
Greeley bitterly, because he advised all
the young men to go West.
An elderly gentleman was shocked to
learn that every fashionable young lady
carries a paper to back her.
Massilon, Ohio, has one hundred and
twenty-one widows and two hundred
manageable girls. Young man, go to
Massilon.
A Buffalo Irish woman has started to
walk TO Memphis with four children,
ranging from two and half to eleven
years.
The wife of Jack Grant, Representa-
tive from Polk county, in the Oregon
Legislature, last year shot and trapped
1853 squirrels.
Great efforts are being made to stop
the purchase and sale Of Chinese women
on the Pacific coast. Many pious men
and women are enlisted in the cause.
Some young women are endeavorihg
to start a new community on Lone
Prairie, Ill. tits to be Mormonism, with
the grand principle of that sect reversed.
Westinghouse are anticipating an
unusually brilliant social season, and
there is every reason to believe that
their expectations will be fully realized.
The Titusville Press says: We
have a few ornamental young men in
town who go out between acts to drink
that no lecture committee should be
without"
A Geneva infant is surrounded with
grandeur-four grandparents, six great
grandparents, one double greatgrand-
mother and grand piano comprise
portion OF the inventory.
The Indian women Of the Rocky
Mountains ride their horses man-fashion,
on saddles with such high pommels and
cantles that they are almost buried up
in them.
There is certain establishment on
Sixth avenue, New York, where Beau
Brummel can hire clean shirt. white
tie gloves and dress suit at a moderate
price per night.
An editor says his ancestors have been
in the habit Of living a hundred years.
His opponent responds by saying that
" that was before the introduction Of
capital punishment"
Strain is a ridiculous word. When it
stands for song it means sound. When
it stands for strain it means unsound.
It may have sound sense, but it has
deal of nonsense about it, too.
Variety weddings" have been intro
duced into Rhode Island. They take
the place Of wooden, tin or crystal we'd
dings, the happy couple receiving'a va
riety Of presents instead Of having them
all Of one material.
A lady in Marseilles has sued hair
dresser for two thousand francs dam
ages. He had offered to dye her brown
hair red, and in consequence Of his OPP
erations, it turned violet. She was
obliged to have her head shaved.
The Titusville Press notifies its
readers to send in copies Of Beautiful
Snsw for republication. IL possible,
also send photograph of author, with
five dollar bill to pay postage on return
Of manuscript"
Rita Sangalli is said by French critics
to be at present Europe's queen Of bal
lerinas or danseuses. According to
them she "pirouettes 20 perfection, aud
cher points have not been equalled
since the days oil Cariotta Grisl.
A young woman has poisoned herself
in Vienna, and in a note which she had
left on a table near the bed on which she
lay, she had written: MY last cigar
draws very badly; therefore, / am tired
Of life. Good night"
Several Of the New York church au-
thOrities have refused TO allow their
buildings to be used for weddings here
after, unless cards Of admission to the
church are issued, thus compelling
people to propriety nolens volens.
DIR. W. II. Bleek and his cousin have
had two Bushnen staying in their house
in Cape Town for the last two years, in
order to learn the Bushman language
from them. A dictionary Of II has been