Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-20
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FACTS AND FANCIES.


Cough has got over his cough.
Perfumed gloves are. now essence-ua''
Hermann, the prestidigitateur, is dead.
An Indianess choked to death with
crumb
Mock-turtle kissing before company
and fighting afterwards.
A lager beer brewery has been started
at Yokohama, japan.
The hair of six year old girl in De-
troit is turning grey.
The Duluthians are sledging with dogs
Esquimaux fashion.
Ashland, Kentucky, trembles at the
tale of phantom horse.
Portland thinks she had an earthquake.
The spirit of Marshal Ney communeth
with Louisville circles.
One hundred years ago there were but
four newspapers in America.
Waterbury. Connecticut, grinds out a
barrel Of oxeide fnger-rings per diem.
Grumbling papers think it is ruff that
the Elizabethan fashions are coming
around again.
A Maine woman has swallowed two
hundred and seventy bottles of cherry
pectoral, and still lives.
Miss Alice Pillie, an American girl,
has married S6,OOO,sOO and the Marquis
De Chasseloup-Laubat.
Miss Clara Doria, of the Parepa
troupe, is daughter of wellknown
English musician named Barnett
At Charleston, South Carolina, they
send persons to Jail for twenty days FOR
sleeping in church
Joaquin Miller is reported to be writ
ing drama, whereof the scene is to be
laid in California.
John S. Mosby, the guerrilla, has been
appointed and confirmed brigadier gen.
eral of the Maryland militia.
Matthew Arnold, of England, says
that civil service reform is a delusien.
" 1t Grams, but it does not form men,
Olive Logan was very thiniy clad
when married. A lynx-eyed reporter
says she was simply covered with
bushes.
Mierovitch is the latest tenor discov-
cred. He was street mendicant when
Pauline Lucca picked him up, a few
months ago.
The students of Moscow who signed
the address in favor of the liberty OF the
press have been, without exception, ban
ished to Siberia.
Townsend describes Clayton, of Ar
kansas, as a little chicken-cock man,
with fierce mustache and one arm
the Arkansas Warmoth"
Gen. D. E. Sickles father is farmer
after the modern school, and it is said
that the milk from his costly cows is
more expensive than champagne.
Rev. John Mcpherson, Of Dundee,
Scotland, thinks that Burns will have a
long account to answer for at the day OF
Judgment because Of his bacchanalian
songs.
Forty years ago nearly the whole Of
Ohio was dense forest; now, a resolu-
ton is introduced in the Ohio LOgisla-
ture to encourage the cultivation Of
forests.
Nilsson has written in the autograph
book Of an intelligent Cincinnatian:
Cincinnati, relieved of her somber
mantle, will be known as one of the
most beautiful cities in the world.
Ben Halliday is more and more the
golden orb of Oregon. He owns its
railroads, its steamboats,, and even one
of its daily papers, and modestly esti-
mates his property at seven million
dollars.
A Pennsylvania has a wen on the
side of his head so near the size Of his
NOODLE that he frequently puts his hat
on it by mistake and walks with his
body at an angle of forty-fve degrees
A candy-boy, passing through a car,
saluted a cross old gentleman, with
Popcorn, popcorn Hain't got
any teeth" angrily replied the man.
Gum-drOps gum-dropsi" persisted tho
enterprising youth.
Don't invest capital in cats. 4 gem
tleman last night threw a hair brush,
two pairs of boots, pitcher, two costly
paper weights and a glass lamp at two
cats on the roof opposite his window
and failed to hit either Of them.
Paul Morphy, so widely known in
ante-war days as the champion American
chess-player, is announced az having
made an arrangement with prominent
St. Louisan to play game Of chess
blindfolded. 1t is said O,000 will be
the stake played for.
The grand Masonic bodies Of Missis-