Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-11
FACTS AND FANCIES.


The Alaska Indians are getting unrul.
and lately captured steamer.
Trust a man who goes cheerfully t
his work and whistles while he is at 1t.
Few ladies are so modest as to be un
willing to sit in the lap of ease and lux
ury.
The love of glory can only create a
hero; the contempt of it creates wise
man.
Teach your children to help them
selves-but not to what doesn't belong to
them.
Our virtue does not consist in being
without passion, but in having command
over it,
A bill providing for female suffrage
has been introduced in the house of del
egates Of Oregon.
One of the best remedies for the ills OF
life is to have so much noble occupation
as to forget them.
Thirty thousand dollars have been
raised in Cincinnati for the industrial
exposition there next year.
Milan keeps pace with civilization. A
clerk in the postofiice there has de-
camped with 100000 francs.
A meteor as large as mans head,
and carrying tail two hundred feet
long, has been Kissing within hearing Of
the Michiganders.
Budd Doble, owner Of Goldsmith Maid
and Lacy, paid $500 for the drawing of
the palace car containing the two from
Omaha to Ogden.
o. Dalrymple, Minnesota wheat
farmer, harvested 49, 900 bushels of wheat
this year, the average being twenty-five
Bushels per acre.
Brigham Young has taken his deem
NAL census of his children, and reports
6fty-elght, with no returns from outlying
counties.
Madame Casentop, of Lyons, France,
has forty-three cats, eighteen of which
took first premiums at the London cat
show last year
When Miss Wade notified ex-Mayor
Kalbheisch, of Brooklyn, that she in
tended to sue him for breach of promise,
the only reply she received was, Wade
inr'
Julia Meyers, of St. Louis, was mar
ried to her first husband eight years ago,
and recently followed her fourth to the
grave. She buried each one-no divorces.
The Courier-Journal is hard on Susan
when it says: We shall never know
the age of Niagara Falls, because Su-
san B. Anthony is the only person now
living who was alive when the Falls were
built, and she has forgotten the date
The two ladies who have recently been
admitted to the bar of Utah are not
Mormons. They advertise their willing
ness to advocate the cause Of all Nor
mon women who wish to escape from
the VOWS that have made them the frac,
tional owner Of a man.
Recently a girl in Madison, Wis, sud
denly lost her reason while in apparently
good health, and with it her knowledge
of the English language. AT the same
time she miraculously acquired com
mand of the German, though she haC
never learned it or lived where it had
been spoken.
The woman women of Baltimore hay,
entered upon a sharp fight for thei
rights They have formed an associ
alton, the object Of which is TO test il
all the courts their right to vote, an
then if they are beaten to begin all owe
again and so keep 1t up until they ge
Justice or kill the judges.
A singular law has just been declare
by the japanese government, to tn,
effect that no landholder in the empir
shall, under pain Of death, sell or mort
gage real estate to foreigner Tn
reason, probably, is to keep outsid
barbarians from gaining fooihold o.
Japanese territory.
A New York editor thinks, from tn
manner in which skirts are made ]
that city, there ought to be an inspe,
ton of sewing. he says be vent to th
expense Of new shirt the other da
and says he found himself, when b
awoke in the morning crawling out b
tween two Of the shortest stitches.
Cisterne de Courtisas -licomtesse 4
Saint Mars, died recently in Paris at a
advanced age. She was native Of ths
city, and once held a distinguished plae
in society. She married young, fuaere
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