Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-01
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

How to handle red-hot iron--walt unt'i
it cools. hrres
Bows can never hope by eating dates
to turn out almanacs. ~ ~ ~
A cotemporary announces DEAN !
:" by Indians in Arizona raasd
Weston, the pedestrian, is trying 70
get a divorce from his wife. stou
Natural roses are only five dollars
each at New Orleans church fairs.
An Indiana family was poisoned by
eating peaches out of old tin cans
The latest thing in the way OF specu-
lation is a corner for Irritation
"Billiard seances is what the Nasn'
vile Banner man calls the Dion eAhi-
billions. ae 4D .i.
Already, says the Boston Traveller
Stokes is being talked of as a lecturer Z.
for next season. ''iA 4,.a
The New Orleans Picayune says Joe
Jefferson's Rip Van Wrinkle is losing It's
hold on tho public. vi daail
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says that
I'VE must soon have, by law, compulsory
education in this country. 1hHai .
An Indianapolis paper praises con-
cert singer for her rich apparel, ana is
sorry it can't say more for her.
The fellow who delivered an IND
promptu ode to Alexis, is working nign'
and day in the preparation of anotAer.
There is girl in New Haven who Sh has s
been engaged to a member Of every class
that has been graduated at Yale SINCE
1867. iqn
A cynical bachelor says that the earl
lest impression received by the feminine
soul is of her ultimate destiny as some
body's wife, so
James Steele Mackaye, an actor, now
playing in New York, is said to be the
most accomplished love-maker on the
stage. GE.1 1
e. Burton, Esq, gentleman who has
Just completed term Of serUtpde IA
the Wisconsin State prison, has entered
the lecture field.
When fresh water fish get into salt
water they swim near the surface and
the converse of thisis noticeable in re-
gard to marine fishes.
Lager beer is the drink preferred by
Prince Bismarck. At his soiree little
casks of lager beer from Vienna are
never missing. 10
A very precocious London boy is &C
cused of having commenced as q bur
glar at the age Of three, and being q
garroter at ten. ftatsdr
Mr.. Kellogg, of Wisconsin, is in danger
Of becoming confirmed tobacco chewer,
he having used it without cessation iOr
eighty-three years.
Over three hundred buffaloes, killed
by Alexis, have been cut up by enter
prising butchers at St. Joseph, and Gus
toners demand more.
A year ago Mr.. Gleason, Of Chicago
lost a leg through the carelessness of a
and last week he lost the
other leg in the same manner.
A minister once prayed: " o Lord, we
thank Thee for the goodly number here
tonight, and that Thou art here, notwith-
standing the inclemency Of the weather.
Donzelli, the celebrated tenor, is hale
and hearty at the age Of eighty-twO. He
is living near Bologna. A great many
poor singers are living on it in this
country lu
A couple Of drunken vagabonds got
into the gutter, and after founderlng
some time one of them mumbled, l
say, let's 90 to another house; this hotel
leaks" '''a f." 94-e'''',
We are to have another shock Of sur
prise over the human nature Of Washing
ton. 1t is now disclosed that the Father
of his Country was in the habit OF buy
ing lottery tickets.
Mr.. Maglove, Of Paterson, n. j., who
was panied to learn that his wife had
deserted him, was rendered inconsolable
when be found that she had also taken
$3.50 Of his money with her.
To be thin is the last fashionable fem
mine ambition. scrawny necks are all
the rage, and young ladies whom nature
has not thus blessed, paint their rounded
shoulders with sepia wrinkles---M +.
Mail.
The Japanese minister has engaged q
suite of forty rooms, at one Of the Wash
ington hotels, for the japanese embassy
and its Eve princesses, who are on their
way there.
Cleveland oil refneries in the winter
run their refuse oil under the ice in the
harbor. The PlAindesler plhcidly re
marks that is Why the water tastes 50
badly now.
Same sixteen or eighteen persons are