Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-27
FACTS AND FANcIEs-
Corn is knee high in Texas.

way.
Queen Augusta is the best educated
woman in Europe.
Cautious burglars--those who indulge
in safe " robberies.
The prices Of ice next summer will
be on the sliding scale.
OF the seventy-four United States
senators, fifty are lawyers.
An astute exchange says; Young la
dies had better be fast asleep than fast
awake.
A lazy philanthropist thinks the only
reform for labor is to abolish the thing
Nothing so rapidly relieves lunatic
of his insanity" as a fair acquittal by
a jury of his peers.
The flood which visited California this
winter saturated the soil clear down to
the stratum of perpetual moisture.
An exchange says that the dearest
spot on earth /" has at last been located.
1t is the store that does not advertise.
To be alone with the girl to whom he
is not engaged is mans delight; to be
alone with the man to whom she is en-
gagged is womans.
A man died suddenly from intemper-
ance, and Western jury found that
deceased came to his death by drink
ing between drinks"
The book committee have resolved to
rebuild the Southern Methodist Publish
ing House at Nashville, large portion
of which has just been destroyed by fire.
An Iowa farmer found that the chinch-
bug ate his wheat So he got lot OF
cartridges. They ate up the chinch-bugs
by way of an appetizer, and then topped
off with the wheat.
Mansfield is better looking than ever.
She is somewhat thinner, and colorless
as marble. Time nor trouble has yet
succeeded in putting line on Der per-
feet face.
A society for the prevention of cruelty
to children, in the shape Of exposure
from the bare arms, shoulders and legs
which the vanity Of mothers delights in,
is soon to be established in Boston.
AT a Methodist levee in Lancaster,
New Hampshire, the other day, there
was an old folks choir in which one of
the singers wore a dress two hundred
years old, made from four yards of silk.
F. A writer in the London Saturday Re-
view says: moi one man in ten, and
not one woman in hundred, tells the
truth and the whole truth in assigning
reasons for the most trivial transac-
TONS"
1t is the fashion to give two dinner
parties on two successive evenings, so
that the entrees, fruit and desserts left
over from the first may do for the second
-as the old proverb tells us Economy
knows no laws"
The New York World says: An Hi
nois woman who has shaved until re-
Gently since she was sixteen years old,
has been induced by the progress of wo-
mans rights to let her moustache and
grow"
Mr.. L. NJ. Oviatt has been removed |
from his position as librarian of the
Cleveland public library, and Miss Mary
B. Merriam appointed in his stead, at
salary of $1,000 reduction of $1,000.
Miss Merriam was originally brought
from Lowell, Massachusetts,, to catalogue
the books.
An exchange, describing fashionable
party, speaks of gallant who whispered
to lady land took her apart" and I'M
CALAMITY adds that 7" it is not a very diff
cult feat to take lady apart these times,
but then there is very little left Of her
"
The new Bible revision, now proceed
ing in England under body of clergy
men, principally of the Church of Eng
land, is to have the cooperation of
American devines of different churches,
under the lead of DR.. Philip Schaff, the
church historian.
A young physician in st. Catharines,
Canada, offers to visit the two thousand
families of that place one year, charg-
ing each family only FIVE dollars year.
This arrangement would bring him ten
thousand dollars a year, but 1t would be
hard on the other doctors.
NJ. Collas calls attention to commu-
published in Les Mondes, Feb
ruary 3, 1870, in which he assumed that
the Cape of Good Hope was on the bor-
der of diamond field extending toward
the Z. NE. Ten months later the news
reached Europe o. the discovery of the
rich mines in that region.
The Japan Times says that in the in
Lerior Of Japan, even where few Euro
peans have been, there are shops ex-
clusively for the sale of European goods.
Soaps, perfumes, clocks, colored en-
cravings, and beer are in general de-
mand, and some shops deal solely in
tables and chairs of the European
fashion.
In ls47, Henry Ward Beecher, then
pastor of the Second Presbyterian