Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Snow fifteen feet deep is still reporte
from Mount Washington.
One day last week 95l persons sale
from New York for Europe.
A woman at Milwaukee recently CAV
birth TO three boys and one girl
A brother Of Charles Dickens is
juryman in the Tichborne case.
Young walwOrth is good looking, an'
/ tue New York ladies call him brave
dear boy"
A genius has Invented shirt collar Z
which braces are attached for holding NJ
the trousers.
Chicago is Mortified with the discovery
that Gilmore is Milwaukeean, when al
home with his relatives.
A New York pOstofice clerk who
can wear diamond pin is looked upon
as having neglected business.
A young wife at st. Paul, Minnesota
recently eloped with another man within
two months after her marriage.
Fall River apothecaries are notified by
the Massachusetts, constables that they
mustn't sell soda water on Sunday.
The gainesville (Ohio) Telegraph re-
ports clouds of potato bugs" flying in
westerly direction over that vicinity.
A touchy Wisconsin man has stopped
his subscription to the local newspaper
Just because the editor eloped with his
wife.
At Tyrone, Pa, recently, a mule, by
lucky kick, disabled thief who was
trying to steal horse out of some
stable.
A smart girl at Eaton Rapids, Mich.
it is said, can set enough type in day
to keep two compSsitors in corrections
for a month.
The people of Lafayette, Ind, ap-
prove of early marriages. One took
place there, recently, at six o'clock in
the morning.
A German paper says that American
girls make themselves conspicuous at
the Vienna Exposition by their good
sized braids. "
Mr.. Leigh Smith, wealthy English
explorer has fitted out an expedition at
his own expense, and started for the
Polar cemetery.
A newly landed Englishman rode sixty
miles on locomotive to watch how the
eow.catcher operated, but it did not
catch a COW after all.
Young Walwerth spent the afternoon
before he went from Saratoga to New
York to shoot his father, in gathering
white lilies, which he presented to his
mother.
An ingenious poulterer has taken the
hint from the Iowa cyclone, and invented
a powerful bellows, from which he blows
the feathers off chickens instead Of pick
ing them.
The Prussian veteran, General Won
Moltke, who is almost as bald as Aescby-
lus or julius Caesar, is much annoyed
by applications from Teuton ladies for
locks Of his hair
An Iowa church meant to be patriotic
in having its steeple painted with stars
and stripes" but the practical result is
that strangers are continually led thither
to seek an easy shave"
To drive away ants: If they are mar
ried, borrow some money of their hus-
bands If they are single, let them take
care of the baby for the afternoon, while
your wife goes to a matinee.
A drunken fellow got kicked out of
saloon in Battle Creek, Michigan, on
circus day" and took his revenge by
mounting a dry goods box and deliver
ing a temperance lecture to a large
crowd.
A domestic help at Sedalia, Missouri,
quite upset the peace of a quiet
household, besides losing a good place
herself, by straining some crab apple
jelly through an eighteen dollar lace
veil.
An exchange says: when you see
a bareheaded man following a COW
through the front gate, and filling the
air with garden implements and pro-
family, you may know that his cabbage
plants have been set out
The Chicago Inter.0cean, describing
the children's day at the Jubilee, speaks
of the " whispers of fifteen thousand chill
dren's mouths and the patter and shuttle
of fifteen thousand children's feet" It
is not added that the band played Go
it We cripples.' The comment is prompt
ed that the writer whenever he opens his
mouth puts only one Of his feet in it.
DIR. James, Of the Sanitary Bureau Of
New York, has published letter on the
subject of cholera disinfectants. He
says: at is now generally, if not uni
versally, admitted that the germs Of
cholera poison exist in the DELEGATIONS
from persons having what is known as
the premonitory diarrhea, an ailm ent
so light as not to excite the alarm Of the
patient"