Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

Froude was called home by domestic
affection.
Carlotta Patti will not sing again ate
this season.
Edwin Booth is not success as Dor
Caesar de Bazan.
Colonel Susan B. still pines in her lit
tie cell, and refuses to give bail.
Thirty tons of English walnuts were
raised in Los Angeles, lest season.
$50 dark, and yet SO light, as the
man said when he looked at his ton OF
coal.
Boston ministers refuse to wear white
neck ties because they are worn by hotel
walters.
Three young men skated one hundred
and twenty-five miles ON the upper Mis-
sissippi
A Missouri wife is seeking her truant
husband with shotgun and certificate
of insanity.
A son-in-law of Isabella Of Spain was
recently fined for neglecting summons
to do jury duty in Rome.
The lady who is followed by a train of
admirers need not be astonished at re-
marks on the hustle behind her.
At seetarian convention in New
York one of the members said, ave
want more hi FIRE in our religion"
Vallejo, California, claims possession
of the embalmed body of an Emperor
who ruled China three thousand years
ago.
The Yale College students have spent
over ten thousand dollars within the
last two months for pictures of them
selves.
1t is rumored that Rosa Bonheur is
coming to America to make original
sketches of the buffalo, the mustang, and
the coyote.
The Rev. Herr Leineweber, German
clergyman, has been sentenced to six
months Imprisonment for preaching po-
litical sermons.
J. DeCordova is lecturing on "The
First Baby" The first baby is enough
to make man lecture, sometimes. And
so is the seventh.
1t was the opinion Of an Illinois young.
ster. expressed in q composition, that
an OK does not taste as good as an
oyster, but it runs faster"
Young lady (who is tired of his COM
pany)-" You amt a bit nervous, are
you, Mr.. Peet2 All my gentlemen &C
quintances start when it strikes twelve
Somebody, who writes more truthfully
than POLITICALLY, says: IAN angel without
money is not thought SO much of nova
days as a devil with bag full of gum
cas-.
What a host of learned women there
would be if all those of the sex who
sometimes look blue" had any preten-
sions to be considered literary char
acters.
An unselfsh suicide at Atchison,
Kan, Irving Gumar by name, left the
autographs injunction, Don't make
any fuss over me, but chuck me into
hole.
Milkmen in Liverpool arc fined 92
every time they are caught adding water
to their milk. Such a measure in this
country would speedily extinguish the
national debt.
Beware Of ladies in green velvet
dresses. An Indiana lady with one Of
these garments kissed a little boy and
he died. 1t would probably work the
same way on large ones.
Illinois has produced another beauti-
ful blonde clergywoman in the person of
Rev. Miss Jennie Tracy, aged sweet six
teen, who is turning the hearts and heads
of sinners in the town Of Elgin.
Wedding cards in Denver consist of
the jack Of diamonds and the queen Of
hearts, with the contracting parties
names thereon. II the brides mother is
living, the ten Of clubs is inclosed.
A lady stopped a newsboy on Main
street yesterday, and after opening one
Of his papers to get correct idea Of the
dimensions thereof, she took half
dozen copies. Bustle, Of course.
An Eastern Virginia farmer recently
plOwed up the remains Of an ancient
mariner" encased in birch-bark coffin,
which had been protected from decay by
q thick coating Of coal tar. Some silver
coins Of the time Of Queen Anne were
found upon the body.
Lyme, Conn., offers an eligible match
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