Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-02
FACTS AND FANCIES.

NO divorces are oota'heu III "aP"n'
A hen-pecked husband thinks that
while to be hornet-stung is bad, "wo-
man tongue" is worse.
The courts in Ohio granted one thou
sand and twenty-six divorces last year.
Maidenhood and widowhood Two
hoods constantly set for the invegle-
ment of mankind.
They have a Young lady at Grand
Rapids SO conscientious that she won
take kiss without returning it.
The wife of the Danbury man who
most strenuously opposes capital pun
ishment chops her own wood.
An Iowa widow, who owns q coal
mine, has had an average of three offers
of marriage per week since last fall.
Oregon ladies put on the pearl powder
SO thickly that the beaus have to get new
dress coats every little while, and they
are getting irritated.
Speaking Of becoming attire, what
thing is most likely to become woman
Why, little girl, of course.
A rise in the price of strichnine is re-
ported in Alabama, as the result of a
recent act of the Legislature, exempting
widows from taxation.
When Cincinnati woman shoots at
her drunken husband and misses him,
the newspapers say, Another bullet
wasted"
Modern young gents abhor what they
call "spoony girls" OF all girls in the
world we look upon them as the most
ladle-like.
An English female witness promptly
defined courtship to be looking at each
other, taking hold Of each others hands,
and all that kind of things" Exactly so.
An Iowa man now languishes in prison
because his wife, to whom he has decided
all his real estate, refused to become
his surety for one thousand dollars bail
in criminal suit.
A scientist, after much investigation
of the subject, has come to the conclu-
sion that the reason why women are so
fond Of ribbons is because the FIRST
woman was made Of arib-bone.
Rev. Henry Morgan told his audience
at the Cooper Institute Why men don't
marry" That is guessing the wrong
conundrum. Itwould puzzle him to tell
why some women do marry the men
they do.
Henry Hill, of Burlington, Iowa, is in
Jail; but he has the sympathy of the
public. His wife made a bed quilt with
GOO pieces in it, and he shot at her, as
he ought to have done.
A Cincinnati man has double pupil
to one eye. so that he can see well in
the dark. He lately saw his mother-iD-
law in time to hang out "a card of small
pox and to lock the door.
There is at least one unhappy man in
Connecticut. His wife, who has been
dumb for twelve years, has just reeoy
cred her speech. Imagine the poor
mans condition when we say she is
making up for lost timel
A teacher al public school recently
asked boy which was the highest dig
nitary Of the church. After looking up
and down, north, south, east and west,
the boy innocenily replied, The
weathercock y
When a Chinese gentleman wants 10
get married, he sends 10 the paisrnal
head Of some family having daughters
for specimens Of the size Of their feet,
with prices attached, and makes his
choice accordingly.
What agonies must that poet have en-
dured who, writing Of bis love, asserted
in his manuscript that be Z kissed her
under the silent stars, and found that
the oompositor had made him declare
that he kicked under the cellar stairs.
An Ohio editor vas rendered insane
while going home one night BY hearing
the following words come from q dark
porch on a shady street. oh. John |
wonder Il that mousiache feels as good
on your lips as il did on miueg