Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-28
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
The ar.t mama Of life--Bawl,

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A Connecticut young lady's bad spell
! ing led to a $4,000 breach-ef-promis'
suit.
The ladies of Paris, Ky, are forming
an Observation-Disclosures neighbor so
ciety.
A blind woman in Iowa has learned Il
thread cambric needle with her teeth
and tongue.
One of the women in the House of the
Good Shepherd, st. Louis, is carpen.
ter and shoemaker.
A rural farmer has named one hapless
child Ajax lebanon and another Aga
memnon Achilles.
A lady in Sumter county, Ga, who
has been married rs years, has just given
birth to her first child
A very strong Catholic movement
has manifested itself in Turkey Of ell
places in the world
The population of the Republic of
San Salvador according to recent esti-
mates is 100000.
Oyster culture as a scientific pursient
is largely practiced by the French landed
proprietors on the sea coast.
Every regiment in the British army
has a regimental dinner once year in
London-for officers only.
One of the sights of the Island OF
Malta is the ancient palace Of the Grand
Masters of st. John at Medina.
A rumor has gained ground in Eng
land that the international Society is
encouraging the American strikes.
The Boston Post enormously says:
Pittsburg is to have colOred jubilee.
Any other would be impossible. "
Judge Keogh has been again burnt
in efigy in wig and gown-this time be-
fore the windows of the Kildare Club,
Dublin.
Newly-married daughter" How long
does the honeymoon last mama2"
Until you ask your husband for money,
my dear"
Some of the thinnest spring chickens
offered in the market would be a good
substitute for smoked glass in observing
an eclipse.
In contradiction to some rumors
which have been current, the Italian
newspapers announce that the POpe's
health is very good.
An anxious inquirer is informed that
it is customary for the bridegroom TO
kiss the bride frequently before marriage,
and occasionally afterward.
Was Richard III right according to
the rules of the game). after refusing to
" stand back and let the coffin pass, in
ordering it up and playing the king2
Lowell, Mass, has a Young Women's
Christian Association, with member
ship Of six hundred. There are nine
thousand female operatives in the city. |
Savannah colored folks advertise that
at coming entertainment Rebecca
Spauldln, late of Boston, will dance a
jig with glass of water on her head
and one in either hand"
A constable in Ohio lately testified in
court as follows. 81 know nothing of
her but what ] hear the neighbors say;
and, in my opinion, what a woman says
of another is not worthy of belief.
A man named Durgin, at Tunnel City,
was fined fifty dollars for kissing wo-
man against her will, or against her
mouth, or somewhere in that vicinity.
He is working it out in Jail.
A young gentleman recently created
quite a sensation, while reading to cir
Gle Of young ladies poetical effasion
To Beautiful Belle, by pronouncing
the last word in two syllables.
Cooperative " onnibuses have COM
menced to run in London from and TO
the Surrey side Of Westminster Bridge
10 Charing Cross and Oxford street, in
with tramwsy cars
A band, which sereLaded young mar.
RED couple, in one Of our suburban
owns, the other evening, selected a
peculiarly happy and hattering piece
known as The Monkey Married the
Baboon's Sister"
A member of the Wyoming Legisla-
ture, seeking to sustain point of order,
ierked his coat of with Mr.. Speaker,
i some reliable man will hold these
iuds, I'll show him that he is out of
order" The point was sustained.
Dolly Warden has had short and
very ignominious career in London.
q No lady, says the Queen, the ladies'
will hereafter disfgure her
self by wearing one Of these now vulgar
costumes" .-f
An English correspondent writes from
Liverpool, IL have repeatedly noticed
women steering canal-boats in turn with
their husbands. / have seen girls at
work in collieries, aud have seen them
nlorad In arricnltnrnl lnLn.m IL