Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-13
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FACTS AND FANCIES.

Jim FISK has gone "heio '"0
bine twineth.
The London Times thinks three men
of-war could capture that city
A wild rabbit ran through the streets
of Paducah the other day, and the whole
town took after it.
The income of Alexis is $4,000 per
annum, with unlimited authority to
check on the old man.
A ladies journal is announced in
London, its contents to consist solely OF
births, deaths and marriages!
Among the Metropolitan millionaires'
a Miss Fanny Draper represents her sex
with the estimated sum of Sl,5OO,OOO.
A Louisville woman who had her
Christmas pies and things stolen,
speaks of them as the lost tarts."
Miss Stebbins has completed bronze
statue for the Central Park fountain of
New York, called 1.-THE Angel of the
Croton.
Oysters having become so dear in
France, snails are used instead, from
so 900 to 10000 being consumed daily
in Paris, at cost of from ten to fifteen
cents dozen.
"How would you like to sit on jury"
asked a gentleman of strong-minded
old maid. "Td as soon sit on hatch
et," said the spinster, with shake of
her bombazine skirt.
The Louisville Ledger on being tele-
rraphed that the Grand Duke danced
with Miss Eliza Brown, of Frankfort,
KY, at the St. Louis ball, cries out en-
Enthusiastically, GLORY enough for old
Kentucky
a veteran colored man Of Mobile was
married lately at the age of eighty-three,
and took occasion to remark during the
ceremony that he had been married
thirteen times already, but never got out
a license before.
A handsome woman in disguise ere
ated a sensation in the Kansas City faro
banks one night recently, playing heavi-
ly and winning a considerable sum. She
maintained her incognito, and curiosity
still consumes the gamblers.
Some one asked Auber whether he
did not regret being single, Not at all;
the custom being to take wife a dozen
years younger than ones self, mine
would be now 10 or so years old. Can
you imagine more useless old coupler
We dislike to say so, but we owe it to
the world to keep it posted. Ladies
should not wear their garters below the
knee. The medical books say SO! 1t is
conducive to good health and shapely
calf to tie the knot above the suppliant
hinge"
We are told that a compositorin the
office of the Carthage Republican has
66s legitimate English words
from the letters forming the words
Prince Alexis. He ought to print
hem in book, and call it Alexicon.-
Louisville Courier Journal.
A hermit, old and gray, has appeared |
in Green county, New York, and ex-
cites attention by his age, Ignorance and
neglect of artificial means of retaining I
personal beauty. He calls himself Mar
in Carr. The papers there, however,
hink that is not his real name, but that
he is Rip Van Wrinkle, and has assumed
he name of Carr to throw the detectives
IF the track.
/ must confess / am so wonderfully |
alarmed with the music of the tongue
hat would by no means discourage it.
III that / aim at is to cure it of several
notes. and in particular Of
hose little Earrings and Discussions
which arise from anger, censoriousness
md gossiping; in short, | would al
Ways have it timed by good nature,
ruth, discretion and sincerity.-Addi-
on.
A diamond breastpin, stolen from
Hiss Lizzie Anderson, of Burke county,
ieorgia, and valued at 800, has been
urned up. twas stolen six years ago.
negro was fined by the Mayor of At
anita. His wife paid it. She said she
lad pawned pin given by her father,
N ex-slave of the lady named The
Iegress did not know its value. The Chief
f Police now has it,
Miss Kate Stanton, a niece Of Mrs.
elizabeth Cady, in her lecture on Whom
o Marry" recently delivered in Boston,
las this to say about love; Everybody
myers on the story Of Cleopatra and
Marc Antony, the worlds prince of
overs. Every woman signs soF an
Antony, not for the pomp and glory Of
lis military career, but for his flaming !
oul Of love. For such a man every
EOman would gladly die il she followed
be FIRST impulses of her soul. and 90
nth him through Plutonian regions for
yer and ever, Of there we're such re-
ions"
TbeBostonTimes has had 1900 answers
o its $1,000 problem, requiring to know :
.ow long it will take a locomotive to run