Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-29
! FACTS AND FANCIEs.
The Persian famine continues
Labor strikes are on the increase. ~

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Why don't our photographers get up
pictures of Alexis2 rDs .m
A "Tom Scott presidential club Is
forming in Cleveland, Ohio. -.--.5
Mrs. Doctor Walker, tits said, has re-
lapsed into feminine ringlets. M
At Eureka, Illinois, the price of water
is higher than that of whisky nh.'
Greeley says now is the time for far
mers to plant buckwheat cakes
Graham, counsel for the assassin
Stokes, gets $4,000, kill or cure,
"A beautiful Indiana girl eloped
with her father colored coachman. 90
An indignant New FORK woman called
her husband an old custom house fraud.
The breaking Of a wedding ring is a
sign that its owner will soon be widow.
A Western paper says January is
panning out well the nuggets Of crime
The Congregation Of the Fourteen
Holy Helpers is Buffalo institution.
1t will take three hundred millions OF
dollars to run the government this year.
The Kansas Legislature at Topeka
sang an ode to Alexis by way of well
come. st
The executive mansion in Raleigh, n.
c., has been rented for the present year
for $500. .aaa
Virginia Dorcas Sally Samantha Gel
ista Susan Jones is the name of new
Michigan baby. al 7ad zu
A man who has repeatedly tried them
says that all the short cuts to fortune
are horribly oyercrowded.
Three Texans have made arrange
ments for enclosing $4,000 acres of
land in one body for pasturage.
Three hundred thousand children in
Paris do not attend school. No repub-
lie can succeed in that way. ~.
A wretched looking wood-sawyer in
Boston owns real estate, purchased by
his earnings alone, worth $4,000.
In the legislative muddle in Nebraska,
one Of the factions is known as the
'rump house" and the other as the
" salt steal house"
An ingenious New York girl has writ
ten to the grand duke, appealing to him
to give her lover nine hundred dollars,
SO that he may be able to pay his debts
and marry her. 1 fG 5o
There is said to be only one man who
has correct idea of the size of the
United States, and he is the man who, in
ls5O-5!, drove an OK team from Maine
to California.
The following is the latest latest style Of
advertising in Buffalo: If
Mr.. J. W. C. would Ike to borrow money !
to pay another fine for assault, he may
call on jim Smith. sass
The Mobile Register is stirring the
pride of the citizens of that port. Jeru-
salem, Tyre and Sidon, it says were
great commercial cities, and vet had not
a 1.-THE Of the advantages Of Mobile.
A young lady in Elyria, Ohio, who has
received the attentions of a young man
for some time, on being asked what his
business was, replied naiyely: " Oh, he
is a hummer for a dry goods firm in
Pepys wrote in his diary two hundred
years ago: II sent for Cup Of tea Ia
Chinese drink of which / never drank |
before" Last year the British Empire
swallowed an infusion of l6OO09,OO |
pounds of this aromatic herb.
Paris, long known as the gay eapi-
tai" has been very dull thus far this
winter, the theaters offering onlyindifer-
emit attractions, and society showing but
little animation, while the weather has
been unusually cold and dreary.
Wheeling, West Virginia, is astonished
at slab of marble which is described as
being as flexible as piece of India
rubber Of the same dimensions. 1t is
three feet long and two inches thick, and
was taken from the ruins of burned
seminary. iH-a
A Louisville reporter had to wear a
at the Nilsson concert, but
then, to atone for the cur,ailment in this
regard, he got German beer sign
painter to fresco the seat of his panta-
looms, which answered every purpose.
The Nashville Banner Gays: Comp
troller Pennebaker has written a letter
10 the Memphis folks, concerning the
merchants tax, to the effect that they
can 90 on with their rat killing. He'll
meet EN- in the Supreme court, il they
ever get that far.
The Iowa State Register vouches for
the truth ofthe story that little fellow,
while lspiDg his prayers sith his twin
brother at his mother knee, astonished
the household when he came to Give
US this day our daily bread by whis-
pering, Ask for cake, Johnny, ask for
cake"
The Madison Free Press says: THE |
most curious performance Of Tom Null
lens happy family Of animals is the
friendly gambols of pointer-dogs and
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