Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-28
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Mr.. Bayard Taylor is writing a novel
Cora PEARLS effects are to be sold al
auction in Paris. M Dh rFs p
Louisianas Legislatures are still 81
Kelloggersheads.
Jim Mace is doing gladiatorisl statues
in London show.
Relapsing fever has again appeared al
an epidemic in London.
Autograph letters of Henry Clay sell
for fifty cents in Indiana.
There is talk of removing the trees
from Inter den Linden" at Berlin.
President Theirs has been made O
daimio of the Japanese order of Tehet'
Queen Victoria is expected to open
the next session of Parliament in person.
The Virginia darkies generally de-
cline to lower themselves by working fol
hire.
Twenty thousand persons have emf
grated from Georgia in the past two
years.
The incoms of the Oneida community
for two years foots up $4,000 over ex
penses. W 143a0 n n ara14.
List refuses to help the project Of
raising a monument to Beethoven IL
Vienna. l7t 'at-
Blondin, the lunatic who crossed Nj
agara on tight-rope, is performing II
London.
Bayard Taylor is leeturing in German
to the people Of Gotha on American
literature.
The Lord Mayor of London sat down
to 4 Christmas dinner with l86 relatives,
all wealthy.
The DanburY News says that Winnie
Ream is engaged on a model for a new
autograph for Mr., Spinner. aH
Porcupines servediin wine sauce have
become Roman delicacy. The pin
feathers are removed before eating.
An individual claiming to be the sol
Of Mrs. Sigourney, the poetess, has beer
convicted of petty larceny in Boston. %
The Vaccination Committee Of the
Boston Health Board has issued circu
lar requesting the cow.operation Of the
public. 1f'sui
Croton, Vermont, is preparing for thu
immediate end Of the world, led by an
elderly shoemaker, who insists that thu
last day is at hand.
Editing newspaper is very much like
raking the fre-every one thinks be
can perform the operation better thar
the man who holds the poker.
Where is the after-dinner speech
maker who having to propose the toas
of the evening, does not regret that i
has not been placed in ADLER hands2
Good husbands in Iowa get tipsy al
often as possible in order to increase
the pin-money which their wives maxi
in the shape Of damages from bar-keep
ers.
The General Assembly Of Virginia has
passed an act appropriating $40, 900 tc
provide artificial limbs for citizens o.
the commonwealth who lost their limb
during the war"
Ottawa trappers complain that the
ickleness Of ladies' fashions has gone
fur to ruin them, South sea seal nov
having the stamp Of gentility, whil'
mink is left TO the kitchen mink.
A lady In Fort Wayne has cards Out
for her silver, crystal and tin weddings,
which occur on the same day. He
FIRST two husbands divorced have re
csived invitations, bat perverssly declin'
attending.
ANashyille washerwomsn. finding in
q lot Of dirty clothes a new-fashioned
shirt opening at the back, sewed it up
cut open the bosom and sewed on but
tons, to the intense disgust Of her Gus
toner.
The Chinese have an spborism very
similar to our " Nan proposes, but God
disposes." Il is. Jen sehvo. soo-trel
soo-trei Tien sehvo, Wei-iaul vei-jaur'
Man says, sol sol Heaven says, no
nor