Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-02
FACTS AND FAScIEs.

FACTS AND FAMILIES.
The great playbill-shakspeare.
The californiaus are eating new pOta'
toes.
Kid gloves have now got up to eighteen
buttons.
Mrs. Livermore says she wants girls to
dress loosely,
A Christian milk reform company
started in New York.
indianapolis has q newspaper firm with
a woman as silent partner.
The O'Leary cows tail fetches twenty
five cents an inch in New York.
Upon an editors monument-see no.
tice in another column.
The treasurer Of Bremen county, Iowa,
wants burglar to open his safe.
Mrs. Nobuchadnezer is reputed to
have been grass widow. = Philadelphia
Star.
Knoxville, Tenn, has female tax
collector, who is highly successful in her
vocation.
A miser's first rule in arithmetic is
addition, but his heirs generally begin
with division.
A Boston man has culled from the
newspapers forty-three parodies on the
Heather Chinee" FL
How is it possible that mankind will
take advice, when they will not so much
as take wArning2-iSlcf.
Clouds are the vail behind which the
face of day coquettishly hides itself, to
enhance its beauty.-Richter.
St. Louis claims to have citizen who
never drank water" but it carefully
abstains from stating what he does drink.
Atlanta parents have unanimously re-
solved that all attentions paid to their
manageable young ladies must cease at
ten pm.
A New York paper corrects the gen.
eral impression that B. Franklin is rep
resented in his statue in the act of lead
ing an orchestra.
Hans Breitmann's announcement:
dat any man who gifes me his fote-
Votever his boledicks Pc
Shall always be regartet :,
Ash bolidigal friendt by me-"
When the King of Cambodia travels
he is accompanied with his faithful Phisr-
Maj, whose duty it is to decapitate all
who contradict his master.
Nashville has musical prodigy, who
plays on the piano one tune with his
right hand, another with his left, and
whistles third in perfect time.
Benedict, admiring his brides Grecian
bend, says that the phrase walking
Spanish is more applicable to her pam
nier than to Hispania.-[N. Y. World. |
How man feels when freezing" has
had quite a run. 1t is said to be, by all |
odds, the most agreeable sensation ever
Suicides should make a |
note of it.
The inspector of police for the Bengal
government reports that of 939 cases of
snake bites, in which ammonia was adj
ministered by the police, TO2 are said to
have recovered.
A man working on farm, near Gibson,
H., was presented by young lady with
\ fine plated bosom shirt, made with an
open back. BE wore it hind-side before
or year before he found out how it
worked.
A Titusville paper has been taught
utter lesson. 1t attacked Mr. Il. Butcher
'woope, Pittsburg lawyer, whereupon
dr. Swoope sent to it for publication an
card which occupied a col
INN and half
Woodcock and Fuller, walking togeth-
r, saw an owl, and the latter said:
That bird is very like a Woodceck"
Mistaken" said the other, for it's
fuller in the head, Fuller in the eyes,
nd Fuller all over.
Capoul, the recently imported tenor,
J in fashion. He has a woman dead in
owe with him, following him around and
tending all his performances. He has
psf no diamonds. as he has not yet ar
ived at that stage Of the game.
A few days since the marshal at Mil
Taukee received telegram directing
i'm to arrest a girl with a green dress
n. He followed his too general in
tructions by arresting twenty-five of
hem, and then did not get the right one.
Guarano is the new substitute for tea
nd coffee. II consists Of the seeds Of a
rec known to botanists as the Paulina
orbits, which is very abundant. Our
eaders will please not confound guarano
nth guano.-Ind. EUe. Jour.
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