Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-21
FACTS AND FANCRs.

Illinois ladies hunt rabbits on snow
shoes. a,
All gipsies are to be expelled from
Italy.
Bjournsen, the author, has embraced
Methodism.
British engineers are at work on a rail-
way in China.
Seven thousand women belong to the
Belgian International.
Female teachers in California are car
ried off by matrimony.
If the world is round, how on earth
can it come to an end1
Miss Priscilla Meyers, Of Kansas City,
wants a national cat convention.
Smallpox is responsible for one out
of every eight deaths in St. Louis. ll
Nearly all the officers Of Victor Eman-
uels household have American wives
A Springfield girl of seven is an hon
orary member of the FIRE department.
The Vienna Exposition will have a
special department for "woman's work.
1t is said the Digger Indians are never
known to smile, They are grave Diggers.
A 2.4O mare in Troy, N. Y, won't
pass saloon without her pailfnl of
lager.
Consequent upon a change of the
Seine, the inundation in France is sub
siding.
1t is reported that General Braxton
Bragg is to become resident of Dallas
Texas.
The cabinet ladies do not furnish
strong drink at their receptions this
year. :
i Peoria has hermit who boards him
self in a packing-box of 26O feet cubic
capacity.
A hymeneal paper called the Matri-
monial News was started in Chicago on
the LIST inst
The thimble is said to be an article of
feminine jewelry which has almost gone
out of fashion. A
A Washington man works the destruc-
ton of concert-giving cats by buttering
the shingles.
A lady is preparing to occupy the pull
pit in one of the orthodox churches OF
Salt Lake City.
A Chicago editor speaks Of Paul Nor,
ply as "the inventor of morphine and
other medicines"
The Swiss Canton Vaud proposes to
tax every parlor organ twenty francs
and every piano 40.
The latest applicant for a divorce in
England is a grandson Of Lord Byron.
Blood will tell. F"
Eggs are six cents a dozen in Colum-
bus, Ga, and the inhabitants reyel on
egg nog and custard.
There are eighty-two thousand post
offices in the United States Five hun
bred are kept by women.
jew Fannie" turbulent character
of San Francisco, has paid the city one
thousand dollars in small fines.
Mr.. Edwin Norris, the learned author
of the Cuneiform Assyrian dictionary. 81
dead, in London, at the age Of II.
A British zoologist throws cold watei
on the hydropathie system by stating
that whales are peculiarly subject 4
rheumatism.
The order Of Isabella the Catholic has
been conferred on prominent Israelite
NJ. Caro-, who is the representative o.
Spain at Frankfort.
A rural critic in Pennsylvania says o.
Carlotta Patti 1T is said she SUSTAIN
clearly the tone Of E, an octave abOv'
the highest soprano line
It's reported that the Duke of Neck
lenburg-Schwerin has absolutely refuse,
to ALLOW his daughter to marry the Rus
sian Grand Duke Vladimir.
The latest love of bonnet is Gale,
the Clarissa Harlowe;" a singularly in
appropriate title when women wear thei
thar high as at present.
Mrs. Elizabeth X. Churchill. Of Previ
denee, r. L, is now Stamping Massa
chusetts IN behalf Of the total prohibi
ton" cause, generally eheered by fai
audiences.
Pilkins, thinking that an exhibition o
conjugal affection might increase II,
quality Of his dinner. called his VIII
nay sweetest" She merely asked bin
I Who The others we're.