Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-14
ACTS AND FANCIEs.


Paris is said to be regaining its former
gayety.
The White Hattie White Coat-the
White House.
The straw hats and linen duster crops
are coming on finely
Bismarck is again i'll; his physicians
insist on perfect rest. io
A Little Rock editor calls his oppo-
nent "a brindle swindle. espa
A system of storm signals is to be es-
tablished in the West Indies.
There are but three steamboats, on all
the nayigable rivers of Mexico.
Many female editors are regularly EN-
ployed upon the press of Paris. ia
There is in Clay county, Ind, family
with twelve pairs of twins and one odd
one.
In Boston they call profanity demon
strative vocalization," and strictly pro-
hibit it.
An English locomotive was lately run,
experimentally, seventy-seven miles in
one hour.
The three gauges of modern railroads
the narrow gauge, the broad gauge and
the mortgage.
Singles says, and we believe him,
that his idea of grain elevator is real
lied in rye whisky.
A contemporary calls the lurking ba-
mana skin on the sidewalk a tropical
incentive to profanity.
The general synod of the Irish Church
has resolved to expunge the Apoerypha
from the table of lessons.
The occupants of the Knox county,
Ind, Jail, left short time since with
out saying adieu to the jailer.
They don't want to hear Anna Dick
inson's We, the People" in Washing
ton. She gave them Joan Of Are.
Evansville, Indiana, burglars have no
more idea of the eternal fitness of
things than to operate on commercial
colleges.
An English paper states that there
are altogether two hundred and two
princes and princesses of royal blood in
Europe to-day.
A reward Of several thousand dollars
is offered for a woman who does not own
a Dolly Warden, does not want one, and
never uses the phrase. oY gk
His Majesty of Denmark is reported
% have offered prize of $1,000 for the
best history of the United States since
he close of the civil war.
A New York florist is preparing him
self for future ofice-holding by con-
'tructing large pot Of ''forget-me-notsY
for presentation to President Grant.
Poor Carlotta is getting worse. Her
mental and physical condition are alike
hopeless, and it is expected that her
sad and troubled life will speedily end.
Madame Rachel, the London enam-
;ller, who professed to make people
beautiful forever" having served out
Ter term of Imprisonment, has been set
It liberty.
The royal family of England costs the
,eople to support over e70O,OOO per an
lum, or the sum of $3,50O,OOO 1t is
paying pretty dear for the sort of WINS
lie they get.
The New York Mail states that flesh
oIored stockings are all the go, and
hat old style garters have been super
eded by stocking suspenders. The
iail is supposed to know.
A Western paper thus heads an arti-
lie, "Sad scene in Soda Shop. A
reputation nearly Blasted by d Sarsa-
'arilla SINGERS Smartness. After
hat we could not read the article.
A citizen of Gosport, Ind, the other
light, mistook his wife's yeast bottle for
lis favorite brown jug, and took long
'ull and strong pull " therefrom. He
) now regarded as a rising man.
Certain highly imaginative persons
earring the name of Drake, are making
ducks and brakes Of a sup
'osed inheritance of f25,OO0,00O ster-
ing from Sir Francis Of that name.
1t is stated that there are in the
United States 26l soldiers who lost both
yes, lis who lost both legs, II who lost
10Th feet 5 who lost both hands, 30 who
ost both arms, and r6 who lost an arm
.ndia leg.
French milliners call Dolly Vardens
Watteau" costumes, after the famous
french painter Of the time of Louis
XIV, who represented in his pictures
aides skirts drawn up as in the modern
ashton.
There is a very strenuous effort being
made under government patronage, in
France, TO promote the cause Of temper
lnee. Light wines have Of late been
by strong liquors with the
French tipplers.