Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-25
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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"Christian gymnAsls give moral en-
tertainments in Chicago.
A colored lady of Georgia is the happ!
mother Of forty-nine children.
Troy prohibits wooden corniees OF
buildings within its fire limits,
) A thirty.twoyear-old woman in Con
uecticut has three grandchildren,
A convict at Elmyra dug his way ou
of Jail with a tablespoon last week
Madame Lucca has declared her inten
ton to become citizen of the United
States.
The Rhode Island Medical Society has
determined to admit women to full mem
bership.
Missouri and Kansas are this year
planting unusually large quantities Of
tobacco,
! Farmers in the vicinity of Norfolk
Va, are talking of devoting their lands
to cotton.
Pennsylvania woman challenges any
man in her county to a wrestling match
for the championship,
The approaching 18th of June will be
the two.hundredth anniversary of the
discovery of the Mississippi.
Miss Fanny Smith, of Columbus, Ohio,
| is singing her way into the hearts OF
German music-lovers in Berlin.
According to a recent London letter,
Queen Victoria shuns society more than
ever, and is growing very gray and feeble,
A Minnesota paper is advertising for a
woman to act as foreman. She must be
pretty and full of tears, SO as to prevent
strikes.
Three ladies have been chosen on the
board of directors of the Massachusetts
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
The women Of St. Louis are moving in
force to have none but women physicians
appointed to the social evil hospital in
that city.
Kansas agriculturists are planting
y
large tracts with castor-oil beans, as an
antidote to the immense importatioRs Of
Ohio whisky.
When a woman gets a letter she car
ries it in her hand, but couple pounds
OF sausage she manages to squeeze into
her pocket Danbury Nees.
A woman in Watson, Michigan, fear
ing that she would not survive her hus-
band, took full dose of the latest pat
ent medicine, and thus died
The following notice was recently
found posted on the doors of the Arkan-
sas Senate chamber: Job work exc
cuted with economy and dispatch"
Mr.. Cheney, of Chicago, will take
heart of grace on learning that the Irish
Episcopal Synod intends to promulgate
rubric against the doctrine Of baptismal
regeneration.
A sensitive Indianapolitan, aged eigh-
teen, on being reprimanded at the break
fast table for goisg to party in Lent,
retired and blew his false teeth out
through the crown Of his hat.
Although the formal opening of the
Vienna Exhibition will take place on
the lst of May, the rotunda only will be
completed, and visitors need not attend
before June LIST.
The new Prussian army bill fixed
twelve years as the term of service,
three with the colors, four in the reserve
and five in the landwehr
A Terre Haute lady teaches in the
public schools during the day-instructs
class in telegrsphy in the evening, and
then spends an hour and a half each
night in literary composition.
The Women's Centennial Association
of Philadelphia is to be made national.
The principal Office will be in Philadel-
phia, with branch offices in each Of the
several States and Territories.
The lectures to ladies at Brighton,
England, is a decided success. Prof.
Steeley has a class Of over three huA-
bred for his history course on the
. Reign Of George the Third"
The ladies of the Women's Foreign
Missionary Society Of Philadelphia have
raised ten thousand dollars to buy Wood
stock-a home and school for Missiona-
ries children in Northern India.
There is great excitement just now
among the young married people in
Georgia, because big price has been Of
fered for the finest baby to be exhibited
at the State Agricultural Fair next
June.
The saddest case on REGARD is that Of
the want of Bible at the Inauguration
Of Missouri Governor. The ceremony
was detained until a messenger was sent
over to the penitentiary to procure a
copy.
A Baltimore woman has obtained a
verdict Of $4,000 damares against her