Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-19
FACTS AND FANCIRs.

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Two Wisconsin women have earned
$4,000 the present season by the care OF
bees bg1iiaI &saa aAifl 10 pa
One-third Of the deacons in Mr..
Beech er's church are women, elected by
the congregation. t sac
A bill cxempting journalists from
jury duty has passed one house OF the
California Legislature. $3.50 sas
During the past eighteen years hity-
four boats have blown up on the Western
rivers, killing 1888 people.
The first case in which colored law
yer appeared as counsel in the Louis
Vile city court was heard last week.
Wendell Phillips is called the Gail
Hamilton of his sex-or the other re-
verse, which is about the same thing. IS
A new Nicarauga Canal Surveying
Expedition is soon TO start, under com
mand of Commodore Crossman, us. N.
Indian mutineers will again be blown
from the mouths of cannon, in spite OF
the Influences of the nineteenth century.
Two women have made application
to Commodore Vanderbilt for the office
of conductor on the New York Central
railroad. il uaaia .rarat
Londen, with population of S,25l 900,
has 1913, $40 paupers; or about one pau
per to every twenty-six of the inhab-
itants. a9e
A young man was converted bap-
TIED and married at St Johns Catholic
church, Albany, in one evening, re-
Gently. aQ u.
The total cost of the ceremonies at
tendant upon the Inauguration OF the
last Lord Mayor of London, amounted
to sl3,l3s. e E.
Cough and Nilsson ran together at
Columbus, Ohio, to the utter discomht-
ure Of the latter, the orator having twice
as large house.
Some one calls attention to the fact
that the usual walking cane, cut from
the grove at Mount Vernon, has not
heen presented to Alexis.
The problem of how to live cheaply
in New York" has been settled; Move to
Chicago, where you can get divorce
from your wife aud children, al
tits very likely that the proverb, THE
good die first" originated with some un-
sophisticated mortal after careful re-
view Of glowing epitaphs.
There are now residing in Rome be-
tween thirty and forty American painters
and sculptors. Some of them have been
living there for thirty years.
The Salt Lake women voted the poly
gamy ticket to mah on the 18th in
slant. They evidently think the frac-
ton Of husband better than none.
Betsy" Shall you be going out this
afternoon, menu" Mistress" think
not, Betsey." Betsey-"' Cos yer can
if yer like, 1 don't want to go out
Colonel Dahlgrens son has written a
biography of his father, in which he
speaks of his having been stricken
down by midnight from the lonely am
bush"
1t must be very gratifying to the spirit
Of James Fisk, jr, to have the papers
state each day in the year that he had
on his person, when killed, 81 900 worth
Of jewelry. .aY & saiaaa
Last year there were FIVE hundred and
eighty-one divers employed in the pearl
fisheries in the Gulf of California, and
the total value of the isheriesamounted
to sss, 100. aAlIathi % y
Much amusement has been caused in
London by wagon belonging to one of
the government officers, bearing on its
side in prominent letters, "Her Maj
estys Stationery Office"
A ferocious dog attacked Fayette
Ind, lover and drove him from
the premises and presence Of his own
est own" The course. of true love is
subject to such ripples.
don't know ov more diiRkult kar-
acter tew Gil, nor more beautiful one
when filled, than the command in the
Holy Bible" Be We as wise as a ser
pent, but az harmless az dove
The form of a monster serpent, three
hundred feet long, has been disinterred
in Scotland near the shores Of Loeb
Fell. 1t is supposed by some antigua
rians to have been used in the rites of
serpent worship.
A bachelor sea captain, who was re-
marking one day that he wanted a good
chief officer, was promptly informed by
a young lady that she had no objeetio.s
to be his first mate. He took the hint
and the lady.
A New England advertiser wants "a
woman who fears the Lord. and weighs
two hundred pounds" The experience
Of most men is that a woman who weighs
two hundred pounds rarely fears the
Lord--or anybody else
Humility IL good thing tew have,
provided a man IL sure he has got the
right kind. Thare never il time in q