Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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goods trade ne,g
Over one hundred women are post
masters. own
Philadelphia is the greatest pill max
Ing city on the continent
The most successful bone setter in
Italy is said to be a girl eighteen years
old.
It is said the Pope is fond Of billiards
and French novels. SO is the Sultan OF
J Turkey.
Three sisters in Stonington, Conn.,
wore married on New Years day to three
brothers. 90
Dora D'Istria, in her recently written
book, says that "half the American wo-
men are drunkards" n.@
| A young lady tells how to prevent
chappy cheeks. Have nothing to do
with the cheeky chaps.
/ Mark Twain played seyen-up with
a comrade, against whom he had a
grudge, just tc destroy his morals. ]
There were three hundred and FIVE
murders in New York last year, and
only one man hanged for them.
The world uses 25O,OOOOOO pounds of
coffee. China furnishes nearly all the
tea, and Brazil over one-half of the
coffee.
Why does q lady with very wealthy
lovers around her hear more music than
anybody else2 Because she hears seve-
raj millionaire. t.fl
An enterprising Snowman in Liver
pool has been making unsuccessful eff
forts to secure the Tichborne claimant
for public exhibition.
A youthful writer who wanted to know
what magazine would give him the high
est position the quickest, is respectfully
referred to the powder magazine.
An indianapolis newspaper says that
banquet in that city was opened with
prayer by the Rev. Emsley Hamilton,
whisky gauger for the sixteenth dis
trict"
In Connecticut man can lose his
wife, get engaged to another, marry still
another, and be sued for breach of
promise in the brief space of twenty
days.
Victor Hugo is said to be candidate
fer the French Assembly on platform
involving the abolition of everything
that is, and the establishment of every
thing that isn't.
Fisk said, when elected Colonel of the
Ninth Regiment, II never rode on
horseback an hour in my life without
having to take my meals from mantel-
piece for three days afterward."
Miss Rose Hawthorn, the youngest
daughter of the novelist, has recently |
married, and by her change Of name de-
stroyed the proverb. She is now Rose
without Hawthorn.
A young man having late railroad
disaster ia his mind, has broken his en-
gagement with young lady because she
is negligent about her train, and does
not mind her switch.
A lady being asked what was her hus-
bands occupation, said he was engaged
in finishing" 1t was subsequently
ascertained that it was term in the
penitentiary to which she referred.
The world uses 100000, 900 pounds of
tea each year, and 100000 pounds
of coffee. China furnishes nearly all
the tea, and Brazil over one-half Of the
coffee.
The Project Of 0rizaba extracted a
loan Of $4,000 from the citizens by max
ing them stand on one leg all night
They very naturally came down" in
the morning.
Gen. George b. Williams, the Ameri-
can who has been employed by japan
to organize revenue system on the
American basis for that country, sailed
from San Francisco last week.
Here's a comical advertisement: !" To
the Drapery Trade-Wanted a young
man, to be partly outdoor, and partly
behind the counter" What win be the
result when the door slams2
A member of the staff Of the Grand
Duke Alexis, who has listened closely
to the speeches Of welcome made to that
Prince, has come TO the conclusion that
America must be nation Of orators.
Emil Ritterhaus, the most eminent Of
the younger poets of Germany. has
poem on Lake Erie, in which he talks
about the palm trees and alligstors. of
that region.
We learn by a private dispatch from
the plains that there is a great rivalry
among the 5ufaloes for the honor of the
FIRST shot from the Grand Duke. Alexis
is disturbing element everywhere he
goes.
Americas great thinker, Emerson,
says, Life is hardly respectable if it
has no generous task, no duties or atTec-
tons that constitute necessity Of ex-
istng- Every mans task is his life-pre-
server
A gentleman in England who recent
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