Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-24

FACTS AND FANClES.

Do fittings render garments muslcall
The kings whose powers are most fire.
quently understanding.
The paths of glory which lead to the
grave--Allopath and homeopath.
A Frenehwoman in Toledo, wife of o
fisherman, speared five hundred pike in
four days. %
Out in Montana the cold has been SO
intense, that whisky had to be sold by
the stick.
Anew Albany policeman shot skunk
believing it to be a panther. He discovs
cred his mistake.
The Los Angeles California; rioters
who killed the Chinese some months
ago, have been acquitted.
1t is fashionable among the visitors to
the baths in Wildbad, Wurtemburg' to
wear thermometer in their hats.
Two young men have applied for ad-
mission to Vassar College. The girls
think it a good joke-and SO do the
boys.
The negro who turns white periodi-
cally is now citizen Of Charleston, s.
C. He has been at it for the last twenty
years.
Bergh proposes that the elongated
heels of the men and brethren shall be
trimmed to prevent cruelty to the cock
reaches. aaA
Settle as much money upon your
wife as you can, for her second hus-
band, poor fellow, may not have six
pence.-Judy.
An ardent believer in leap year down
in Connecticut visits her beloved every
Sunday night, and goes home alone IN
the wee sma' hours.
A Sullivan county, Indiana, temper
ance lecturer has been drunkard twen-
ty-seven years, and has had the delirium
tremens only six times.
A young lady in Philadelphia has be-
come permanently insane from freezing
her forehead. She went cut sleigh
riding, wearing fashionable bonnet
Thetwo hundredth anniversary ofth
birth of Peter the Great, on the Both Of
May next is to be celebrated at Mos
COW By opening an international exhi-
bition.
Archbishop McCloskey an d several
Catholic elergymen are trying to induce
representatives of Irish societies not to
parade on the approaching anniversary
of st. Patrick.
Chamberlain Bradley, of New York,
remarked that man could not whisper
nowadays without being overheard "by
some newspaper cuss who would print
the whisper.
A boy of FIVE summers in New Eng
land, while at his devotions, surprised
the family by praying that he might
have sixty brothers and one hundred
sisters.
The Oldest lecturer on the platform is
probably Jonathan Meredith, Of Balti.
more, aged eighty-eight, who entertains
large audiences with Echoes of the
Past" He has been lawyer all his
life.
What Shall we do with Our Girls,
asks one Of the suffrage shriekers in her
lecture. The Chicago Tribune replies:
" If her girls are likely to resemble their
mother much, she had better drown
them"
If your mother-in-law should take
strychnine, don't give her opium imme-
diately afterward, or else the two drugs
will unite. forming an anomalous and
harmless compound, and her life will be
prolonged.
A French countess seized a philoso-
pher at the supper table and exclaimed
While they are cutting up the fowls
and we have Eve minutes to spare, do
tell me the history Of the world, for I
want to know it so much"
In Japan, as in other Oriental cOun-
tries, young women are considered old
maids at fearfnlly early age. The Far
East, published at Yokaboma, alludes to
an unmarried lady who had reached
the advanced age Of tWenty-threel"
opelika, Ala, has created a new sen
sation by the lesp-year mode Of eating
philopenAs in that place, as reported by
the lOcaleditor Of the Locomotive. The
young lady takes the almond between
har taafh and The vou,o man hifas Il "a.