Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


Liverpool scents Fenianism.
Calcutta is getting street railways.
Olive Logan has money enough to
retire.
The young empress of China is not Of
royal blood.
Detroit is going to try to raise her own
eranberries.
Dublin bellies carry "blackthorn
walking sticks.
Hartford weather has organized icicles
forty feet long.
Stump is the name Of a wooden-leg
maker in London.
Philadelphia gave both Lucca and
Kellogg sore throats.
Hansen Of Vienna is at the head OF
European architects.
All the Southern papers still stick to
the "Mr. aud Esq"
A, San Francisco firm advert'ses for
skulls Of deceased Indians.
The Amsterdam diamond mills are
owned exclusively by Jews.
Altogether six plots for the assassi'
nation of Napoleon were made.
At last the Wesleys are to have a mon
ument in Westminster Abbey.
Encouraging to the wicked; Sulphur
springs are frozen in Kentucky.
Female teachers receive as large sala-
ries as male teachers in California.
Queen victoria's signature is beauti-
fully formed, with each letter clearly cut.
Waves forty feet high dashed over the
quays at Naples during recent hurri-
cane.
The popular morning costume in
Macon is simply an overcoat and corn
plaster.
G. H. Robertson, the deposed minister,
is employed as a writer on the Louisville
Commercial.
If your wife has Mysteries shake her.
An English physician says that it is a
certain cure.
Wolves are getting the Lions share"
of Wisconsin mutton, just because there
are no lions there.
Froude will discharge his artillery at
Wendell Phillips at long range after his
return to England.
Thackeray says that critic is Solo
mon that sits in judgment before us and
chops up our children.
The French clergy in the Provinces
are opposed to the practice OF their
female parishioners selling their hair.
Vallejo, Cal, claims possession of the
embalmed body of an emperor vino
ruled China 5000 years ago.
Bergh denies that he sleeps in stall
and drinks from trough, or that he
combs his hair with currycomb.
Beranger was a printers compositor'
entirely selftaught, and he began to
publish when only sixteen years old.
The population of France has de.
creased s66, 1886 since 1866. This falling
off is attributable mainly to the war.
English papers predict that Americans
won't use the postal cards more than a
month before they will become disguised.
That antique humbug, Santa Anna,
has been heard of once more. He Is
expected at Vera Cruz-where from is
not stated.
Lucca twists up her own hair in musk
scented tissue paper, and battles her
throat in a mug of lager each night be-
fore retiring.
"Sire, your Majesty Napoleon w."
is the way the Bonapartists address the
young Prince who was baptised in fire
some months since.
Aa Look was taken to San Francisco
prison because he threw vitriol on the
garnants of Choy Choy, who would not
listen to his love song.
A bust of Sonora Peralta, the Mexi-
can prima donna, was recently placed
with much ceremony in the National
Theater in the city of Mexico.
4 Chicago paper says that it is won
derful how quick the blind beggars Of
that city can tell the difference between
ten cents and quarter.
Preparations are on foot to celebrate
the fifth centenniversary Of Boccaeio' s
death by the erection Of q monument to
him at Cestaldo, where he died in 1875.
Leinweber, of Uder, German pastor,
has been condemned by a criminal
court to six months imprisonment for
preaching political sermons from the
pulpit.
In the portico Of one Of the fashionable
chapels in Paris fine infant was left in
basket. A note stated that the little
stranger was a Bonapartist, but threw
itself on the republic.
. Miss Adelaide Nelson, the English
tragedienne, was born in ls49 at Sara
!. gossa, Spain, Of Spanish father and
7 English mother, and is therefore a Span
b. ish lady. Nelson is the mothers name