Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-15
FACTS AND PANOIRs.

in order.
Full dress for an Apache bride is an
oystershell necklace.
Compulsory edueAtion-forced to learn
a trade in the penitentiary.
Grass and flowers and clear skies are
skipping around this way.
Ohio means to tack some amendments
10 its constitution this summer.
Billings says "All snakes travel on
the under side Of themselves.
An Indianapolis hen thinks two eggs
a day something to crow about.
Large numbers Of Alsatians are arriV-
ing in this country by every steamer.
The police OF New Haven are no
longer to be permitted to carry umbrellas.
A man in Chicago announces himself
as the Methodist candidate for constA-
Bile"
A number Of Mormons are on their
way from Utah to Arizona, without any
wives.
An Illinois schoolmisiress lately died,
leaving fortune of seventy thousand
dollars.
Searsport, Maine. has girl thirteen
years old who weighs two hundred and
twenty pounds.
1t is said that 10000 pilgrims have
visited the birthplace of Mohammed. at
Mecca, this year.
New York theater goers have been re-
quested not to bring their dogs with
them any more.
For red-stripsd vest a California
youth transferred his betrothOd to
rival, and all are happy.
Not finding Indiana pensioners
amenable to reason, clergyman there
has been trying the effect of sermon in
rhyme.
Dry goods men paradoxically remark
that Manchester calicoes have decreased
in value because of their increase Of
"size."
You often hear of man being in
advance of his age" but you never
heard of woman being in the same
predicament.
Clergymen Of various den nominations
who engage in revival services at Gales
burg, ILL.,, manage to dwell together in
alphabetical order.
A rich young Cleveland girl, for whom
prudent parents had already selected a
wealthy catch" bluffed them all and
married Hans, the hired man.
A Minnesota man can't get license
to marry his step-brother's daughter, the
County Clerk insisting that it's case Of
niece sutton ulra crepidam.
London has forty six regular theaters,
and one now in course Of erection. This
is exclusive of muic halls, concert rooms
and entertainment galleries, which num-
Der over one hundred.
Anew York female who read that the
Hoosac tunnel cost 5000 per yard, said
she would have dress pattern off from
that piece, if the old man did not lay up |
a cent for the next two years.
The Greek and Latin churches in
Bethlehem, Palestine, are quarreling
over the orthodoxy of Latin inscrip-
ton on a tapestry hanging recently |
placed in the choir of the church.
Nashvilles oldest inbabitant is much
interested in Bryant's Homer" be-
cause, as he says, although he didn't
know Ajax personally, he was very well
acquainted with A. jackson, and voted
for him for President.
A Caucasian maiden of sweet seven
teen eloped from her family at Raleigh,
N. c., last week, with colored Loths-
rio Of extra nigritude, and, although |
her friends can't Raleigh her
out of her infatuation.
The pastor of church in Newark,
N. j., refused to proceed with the SER
vices at funeral until the Odd Fellows
regalia was removed from the coffin.
The lodges feeling insulted, took away
the regalia and retired from the church.
Out of l24,7l2 drunkards in England,
81, 2l7 are in the north--a proportion of
ten and four-ffths to 1000 population.
London, with its six and half per 1000,
is nowhere. After all, great cities are
not so drunk as they are painted.
"That duck, sir, is real canvas
back" said Jones landlord at dinner.
Canvas-all-through l should think"
muttered Jones as he laid down his knife
in despair, after trying for the third
time to saw through section Of the an
cient fowl.
A Peoria man, whose daughter insist
ed on going out evenings rather oftener
than he with his old fosy notions thought
advisable, put a gentle opiate in her
tea, and when slumbers chain had
bound her, shaved her head as smooth
as billiard ball. She will now tarry at
home till her hair be grown.
Tive New England women are making
money as inventors with delightful ra-
pidity. One invented a machine for
making paper bags With a satchel bot