Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-16
FACTS AND FANGIRS.

Some dress makers are asking fort.
yards of silk for dress.
Austria has consumed ITO cabine
ministers in 23 years.
A reverend gentleman, aged fourteen
occupies an Iowa pulpit ri
Decatur, ILL.,, has dog that crow
like Q rooster, and cant bark.
"Come and Kiss Me" is the name o.
small Vicksburg steamboat
Fihy-two salt cellars were presented
to recent bride in Philadelphia.
A new kind Of criminal is termed by
the Chicago Post coffeepoticidist."
Tennyson is writing poem on the
subject of the Prince of Wales illness
A sentimental young barber says that
the best of friends must part--their
hair
Chicago is disposing of her corrupt
officials at the rate of one Alderman per
diem.
Miss Parker, of Keene, N. H., has the
audacity to lecture against woman sut-
frage. ~
"Emeute " aud "imbroglio are both
good words for our British fuss.-Phila-
delphia Star
Horror of horrorsl Alexis is to be
compelled to witness base-ballm match
at New Orleans.
A Kentucky couple were married on
the platform of a railway depot. The
bride wore no train.
An Evansville orator "retires With
the grace Of twenty-horse power
thrashing machine.
Fractions persons on the Mobile chain
gang wear spurs and step broad, but
they don't run away.
Some one describes philanthropist
as a man who loves all mankind and
neglects his own family.
SCOT and red paint are the most fash
ionable cosmetics in Alaska, and coal
oil is the fashionable perfume. I
An industrious nosologist has estima-
ted that there are 24O0 disorders incl
dent to the human frame.
Naturalists claim that the crow is one
of the bravest of birds, because he new
er shows the white feather.
Mr.. Trip, live Mormon elder, who
has four wives and talks beautifully, is
delighting Lewiston, Maine, society.
1t is positively asserted that MAORI
ty of our girls would give up the fashion
of wearing false hair if they had some
of their own.
Hair manure" is what young lady
inquired for in one of the Keokuk drug
stores last week, when she wanted bot
tie of hair remover.
An undertakers Office in Indianapolis
bore this cheering inscription
on the front door: Gone for dead
soon"
The Ohio State Journal calls Horace
Greeley an awkward old slommick,
who manages to step into his own buck
ct like blind cow"
Alexis could not go to Missouri with
out being outraged by having a complete
set Of the statutes of that State presented
10 him by State senator there.
The North Carolina Legislature has
passed a law for the protection of mock
ng-bird nests, and is discussing a bill to
prohibit the netting Of birds.
And so you're Mayor of Rhode
Tsland2' asked an enthused Danburian
who was introduced to General Burn
tide. he was undeceiyed.-[Ex.
The very ghost of Margaret Fuller has
more power over the literary circles of
he Hub than the smiles and wiles, roses
md rhymes of any living female.
A weep in willow, sown bi acksident,
hangs over her grave, and on her he'd
Itoue theze words, almost knawed away
ii time, kan be made out, "Sue Dun
lam, aged So"
" 1t IL sad thing tew be skoolmas-
er; no one ever seems tew kno WHARF
hey 90 when you miss them. They just
eem to depart, that's all. ! never knH
,ne tew die, and be buried"
There is a tendency everywhere to
adopt new methods of swelling the NOR
uary reports. illinois young girls are
ust now dying from the effects of chew
ng the wax used in sealing fruit cans.
Cromwells skull is said to be in the
Londoner. whose great
picked it up when, after the
a storm blew it from the
pike on which it was fixed at Westmin-
ter.
The wife of New Jersey milkman who
vas taken with smallpox heroically
lressed herself in his clothes and served
III his customers; but, strange to say, !
Ter thoughtfulness for their convenience
vas met with the blacklist ingratitude.
An exchange says: A year ago Mr..
Gleason of Chicago, lost his leg by the
OF a car-driver, and last
week he lost his remaining leg from the
same cause" 1t is presumed that Mr.. |
Gleason will now have the good sense to
keen ont az the cors and talra II afoot