Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Nine Keller was one of the princi-
pal workmeu at the Swiss National
Meeting ct Zurich.
The Iowa girls turn out in torchlight
procession, and fill the midnight air
with shrill shrieks for their fayorite can
didates.
There is one happy man in Indiana.
His wife has talked herself into tongue
paralysis, and can only give him fits
with her eyes.
The ladies in Europe are wearing
wide-brimmed hats, la Pompadour,
caught up on one side with ostrich fea-
Their Accomplishments.
Mrs. Clark, who edits newspaper at
Sacramento, goes for Train for Presi-
dent, and excitedly exclaims: Never
mind platforms. We want mani"
A Terre Haute woman's pet puppy
swallowed diamond ring on her finger
while she was feeding him, and the AMI
NAL had to be cut up for its recovery.
The editor of daily paper in Madi-
son, Indiana, has been serenaded at
night by party of young women because
he has stood up for women's rights
against all corners.
A Jerseyman from one of the mos
quito districts is said to have applied
for patent for cast-iron counterpanes,
the metal being hardened by a new
process so as to be almost insect proof.
Josephine McCarty, editor of the
Truth Teller, thinks that if the whole
truth about women could be known
every yirtuous man in the world would
run bowling to the nearest water and
drown himself.
A lady, who says that her opinion is
based upon a close observance, says that
men, as rule, regard their wives as
angels for just two months-namely'
month before marrying her and
month after burying her.
Mrs. Stanton says the willingness OF
some women to wait for their rights
is as ridiculous as was the prayer OF
little woman in the Chicago fire; U
Father, give me patience TO wait Tor a
cup of tea until the fire is out!
Mrs. DIR. Clair R. De Everse Spettigue,
of Boston, spoke in Wallingford, W.,
recently on Love and Marriage. y The
lecture was set ten minutes earlier than
the usual hour in order TO give the gen.
tleman who introduced the doctor plenty
of time TO call of her name.
The importations of single Boston
house show FIVE thousand dozen Of brown
gloves. Pale blush lavender, pearl and
chamois buff will be worn with dressy
carriage toilettes, while still fainter
tints and immaculate white kids appear
for full evening dress.
This odd advertisement is from an
English paper: Ny husband is out on
q strike. He prefers that to work. DE
amt any use to me. / must work TO
keep the children and self. His ten
shillings goes in beer. I'll swap my
husband while he's on a strike for a sew
ing-machine.
The father OF Dorabella recently found
that little girls chubby little handsfull
of the blossoms of beautiful rose tree
on which be bestowed great care. Ny
dear" said he, didn't / tell you not to
pick one of those flowers without leaveY
Yes, papa" said Dorabella, " but all
these had leaves.
There is a jolly old Russian at one OF
the New England watering places whose
fondness for the sea and everything con-
nectod with It is eccentric TO the verge
Of mania. He drinks two or three gal
Ions, it is said, Of sea water daily, eats
seaweed by the handful, and bathes four
or FIVE times day.
1t is reported that the younger Ben
nett has given orders for magnificent
monument for his father, iatended to be
the finest in Greenwood The price is
unlimited, but it is estimated that it will
cost not less than two hundred and Fifty
thousand dollars The shaft is to be Of
white marble deliberately sculptured
with symbolic figures representing the
profession Of journalism. The inscrip-
ton will be simply James Gordon
Bennett" with age and date, aud
Founder of the New York Herald"
The great rope-walker, Blondin. whose
feats at Niagara some years since will
be remembered, appeared at the Syden-
hem Crystal Palace the ether day, walk
ing rope FIVE hundred feet long and
eighty feet from the ground, clad in a
heavy armor Although a high wind
was blowing, he was daring enough to
walk the rope blindfelded, aiterward in
a sack, then with his agent on his shoul
ders, Gaping the whole by cooking an
omelette poised on the middle Of the
rope.
: A correspondent writes from Sara
/ toEa; There are pretty girls here
: There goes one now. There is won
derous witchery about her. With
beautiful figure, loneliness of motion
. elastic step, a mixture of archness, free
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