Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Red-eye-not the upple, Dut tne y
ment-is ravaging Texas cattle, INK
A Cincinnati Judge decides that join
ing the Shakers is cause for divorce.
A Carolina colored legislator says al
his comrades are "counterfeits. " 'a'.
A Texan chased a sand-hill crane
seven miles, fancying it to be an ostrich
But after all, married life IL full a.
certain as the dry goods bizness 3D.
ings. III mla tiiito4 -oi $3.50 ARA
Curious fact-the only Blackmans II
the Louisiana State senate is WHIT
III The police of New York city propos'
a testimonial TO the memory of Jame'
Fisk, jr. j. t,n aeo hma
A Connecticut man cures the tooth
ache by binding aroasted onion on his
right wrist. n. x1s YN f.d 9b4d /
II appears that Helen Josephine Mans
field formerly trod the stage under thf
name of Emily Thorne. aot.;ss /
Muscovy ducks are whetting their bills
and smoothing their feathers in view Of
the advent Of the grand duke. l5l
A Southern paper speaks of the
.
death Of several citizens from throat
disease, superinduced by razors," 81
Some one who has investigated the
matter says that the people of the South
are $500, 900 better off than they were
at the close of the war, asin siq a.fl
England, in re- establishing the whip
ping-po does honor to the great State
of Delaware, which is one of the United
States. sT ni $3.50 t9-4 .rof ~
Logansport, Ind, is said to have q
new style of gas metre, which registers
the gas consumed in dollars and cents
instead of feet.
Sensational correspondents for Chit
cago and other papers are circulating
tales impeaching the fidelity Of the Mis-
sissippi river to st. Louisaii
1t is not true that doctor on the
Tichborne jury has complained that if
he is kept away from his patients much
longer they will all get well.
Mrs. Sophie Davenport, mother Of
Mrs. Lander, and herself well-known
actress, died in Washington Tuesday.
She was native of England. iiIs W |
1t has been said that the ofiice-holderS
vino leave washington permanently are
hose who are sent to the penitentiary.
None resign or decline voluntarily. lai /
Colonel Poe, Of Warsaw, Ind, has I'M
lis possession the butt end Of the gun
With which his grandfather, Adam Poe,
lilled the Indian Big Foot, in 1892. IA
Formerly all Wisconsin babies of the
male persuasion we're named Horace
ireeley; now the honor is about equally
livided between the philosopher and
Alexis.
. A new English edition of the prayer
,ook changes by typographical error
he verse in Psalms, a Thou hast broken
ny bonds" into Thou hast broken my
zones. aen1. .s.s 8uas
The King of Dahomey received the
Italian scientific commission with his
orm decorated profusely with yariegated
Iruggists' labels taken from European
Medicine bottles it
Mrs. Mary c. Rea carries the honor Of
eing the first woman in this country
rho has made pre.emption purchase
{ one hundred and sixty acres in public
and in Montana,
A Milwaukee woman brought to the
on the charge Of drum
en- and violent conduct proceeded to
xtract from her chignon the required
mount aud bailed herself out.
The young ladies of Alexandria, Va,
re said TO be conspicuous for their
eauty, their extravagant taste for dress
nd display, and their insane ideas re-
arding family names and pedigree.
Amarantha =" Reginald. why dost
hey apply to the youthful Alexis the
ERIN your highness ?" Reginald
WEAKLY, l cawn't say. It is highly
that he is thus called because
e's SO dem tall ," i.ss eas rlIrtt .-r
A Lafayette young man gave woman
us note for $500 as balm for wounded
lonor, and afterwsrd married her for the
'urpOse Of getting possession Of the
tote. He destroyed the document and
disappeared. |
The Messoula (Montsna) Pioneer, fori
December 3, was printed on hsIfsheet
( wrapping paper. The edition con
umed all that was left in town, and the
ditor announced that the next issue
Tould be printed on guuny bags, unless
stopped showing.
The Oldest pieces Of Wroughtiron now
.nown are probably the sickle and blade
ound by Belzeni under the base Of
phynK in Ksrnack, the blade found BY
,OlOnel Yyse embedded IN the masonry
f the great pyramid, and the portion Of
erOss-cut saw exhumed at Nimrod By
ir. Layard, al Of which are nov in the
British museum.
In q trial before the mayor Of Okolopa.
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