Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-16
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Redingotes will continue IN fashion
during the fall.
Father Tom Burke is actively engage,
in lscturing in Ireland.
A honeymoon car" is now run on tn
Pacific Railway for the purpose Of brida
parties.
A Brooklyn widow has brought a sui
for breach Of promise against the estat'
of deceased lever.
A store in the Bowery, New York, ha
on exhibition the original and genuin,
scalping knife used by Boston Charley
in the Modoc War.
The Tuttle family held reunion al
New Haven last week, at which ovei
one thousand members were present.
The original futile came to this coun-
try in 1895.
The Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama,
has issued a proclamation forbidding
all residents Of Pensacola to stop within
the limits of Montgomery. Yellow
fever prevails at Pensacola.
A young lady in Gloucester is charged
with keeping light burning in the par
lor until very late on Sunday night in
order to harrow the sensitive feelings OF
an envious neighbor into the belief that
she, has got beau.
A woman called at the City Hall, New
York, on the Sd instant, to inform the
Mayor that the destruction of the world
would possibly take place in two years,
eight months and six days.
A small boy in Huntingdon county,
recently split some coal oil on his arm,
and supposing he could burn it off, as
he had seen oil burned off a board with
out injury, applied match. 1t is
thought if he reeovers, his arms will be
permanently disabled.
A Womsns' Dress Reform Associa-
ton has been organized in Des Moines,
Iowa. Its platform advocates moderate
ly-short-walking dresses for the street,
looser and wider corsets, warmly.clothed
extremities, the discarding Of super hous
fnery in church costumes, and skirts
suspended from the shoulder.
W. Page Mccarthy, who killed John
B. Mordecai in a duel near Richmond,
Va, in May last, lies now in a critical
condition from the effects Of the wound
he received at the time. The ball has
not been found, and any movement OF
his body gives him great pain. His
recovery is decidedly doubtful.
That honesty is the best policy"
may be exempi6ed by the following
little incident: A man at Belmont, No,
sold to a mill owner a saw log, which
proved to be hollow. As he sold it for
sound log he voluntarily went and gave
back the price, and, hauling it to his own
yard, chopped it up for frewood. In
this operation be found ten s. gold
pieces which somebody had secreted in
it,
A woman in Zurich recently had her
cat killed by an official. In revenge she
caught about fifty mice, inclosed them
in box and sent them to the offender,
who, suspecting nothing, opened the
package, and was Mortified to see the
vermin jump out and run all over his
place. There was a note in the box,
saying, You have killed my cat; have
therefore the honor to sezd you my
mice"
The German Government, il is stated
following the example Of other foreign
powers, will next year erect in Washing
ton an elegant building for the occu-
pauey Of its diplomatic representatives.
Plans have been prepared at Berlin, and
the building. it is believed, will be erected
on the present site Of the German lsga-
ton Offices, as the premises are large
aud conveniently located.
A Freuchman never iorgets to be Do
lite, After the physicians had exam
iued Henri Rochefort and uronounc.a
him able to bear transportation in aecor.
dance with his sentence, be bowed ST.
lently' and, although the physicians bad
consigned him 10 virtud death, said. as
be len the room: Gentlemen. / do not
know whether shall have the honor Of
seeing you again. ALLOW ne to sAlui,
you"