Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

white Washington"
Button-hooks are worn by the sweet
females OF Vassar college, TO draw up
bologna sausages from the ground to the
third stery window.
Miss Virginia Cunningham, Of Shelby
vile, Tennessee. was badly burned last
week, her dress catching fire as she
kneeled to say her prayers.
A clergyman at Des Moines was lit
tie annoyed the other day to find that
some one bad taken the Bible away and
left a copy Of dick Turpin" on the
pulpit.
"No hoop skirts are now seen in the
streets Of Paris" says correspondent,
from which we infer that the questiona-
BILE habit of raised dresses on the street
crossings has ceased.
A farmers wife in Dakota thought
lessly used bundle of old letters to
stuff up the cracks in their cabin, and
the farmer is now in search Of the writer
Of them with a shot gun.
A GeergiA woman is credited with
having raised large family, although
not out Of her teens. 1t was her mother
in.law's family, and she did it with key
of gunpowder planted in the cellar.
The Constitutional Convention of
Pennsylvania is giving itself wholly to
the discussion of the female ballot. One
fellow compromised the case with her by
saying that, in spite Of her erring intel
lect, woman instincts were always right.
From a sheet in the Modoc country:
There are not less than $4,000 head OF
cattle and 10000 head of sheep in the
Link river, Lost river and Clear Lake
country, which are now running at large,
a prey to Indians and coyotes, it being
unsafe TO look after or herd them"
A merchants daughter at Columbus,
Ohio, kicked of young mans hat the
other day because be sat down in her
parlor with that article of wearing gear
upon his head. She used her foot in
stead Of her hand. because she happened
to be carrying AN armful Of books, and
was too indignant to postpone punish
ment
A man who says he hasn't attended
church for twenty years boasts that he
can remember perfectly the preachers
text on the last occasion Of visit to
the sanctuary. And this is the way be
remembered it, when asked what it was,
at is easier for camel to enter cir
Gus than for a man to eat 8 package Of
needles"
A man in Berea, Ohio, thought he
would milk his COW with mittens on, one
cold morning last week, but hardly had
the tactical fluid commenced to 6zzle in
the pail, when the COW handed him one
on the right ear with Ler hind foot, and
the next moment he was soaring like an
angel through the barnyard sky, crowned
with badly battered tin milk-pan.
Recently proofsheet Of the list of
members of the Michigan House of Rep |
resentatives was given out, on which
corrections were to be made if any errors
we're discovered Soon after, the COM
piler Of the Mammal received the follow
ing note from one Of the single men:
= In proofsbeet OF Manual in House,
see you say l am married. Please cor
rect, or send the woman around and
oblige"
Two young princes, the sons Of Arch !
duke Charles of Austria, had a warm
dispute in the presence Of no less per-
son than that Of the august Emperor
himself. Greatly excited, one said to
the other: You are the greatest ass
in Vienna" Highly offended at quar-
rel in his presence, the Emperor inter
rupted them, saying, with indignation,
a" Come, come, young gentlemen, you
forget that am present."
A New York auctioneer, who has been
severely tried by the uncertain whims of
lady customers, says: "Tbe presence Of
those who attend merely to see the fun is
but the lady who bids a GER
tain article Of cloth up to nine cents
yard, and when it is knocked down to
her decides to take one yard, be regards
as blot on the civilization Of the nine
teenth century"
A San Francisco man who ehewed gum
suspected his Chinese servant Of pilfer-
ing the bits that he left in his desk, and
neatly baited a trap for the Celestial
thief by leaving some soft candies in the
same place, having filed each bit Of
sweetness with cayenne pepper. The
Chinaman spent half an hour in close
communion with the Water-faucet, and
pieces Of gum are quite safe in that Office
now.
The Chinese Fsn-ROur Times Ten.
A Detroit commercial traveller was in
Chicago day or two ago in answer 10
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