Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-21
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


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WATERFOWL, N. j., has purchased a
secondhand hearse, to convey prisoners
to the lookup.
The fashionable beverage at Long
Branch is known as sea slider. 1t is
made with sugar and bitters.
The Grown Prince of Prussia and his
family have gone to Wyck, on the Island
of Fohr, for the sea bathing,
An afIectionate husband in Franklin,
Pennsylvania, recently cowhided a mer-
chant for not delivering to his wife the
full number of yards of calico she had
paid for.
Indianapolis produces some deter
mined women. One recently threw her
chignon out of the car window, while
returning from a picnic, because it made
her head ache.
In North Carolina recently, colored
boy who went out in field to hoe, was
afterwards found there dead, with a rat
tlesnake coiled about him, and still bit
ing his lifeless body.
A pair of robins were found to have
built their nest and raised a brood OF
Young ones under the hat which Con-
necticut farmer had placed on q scare
crow in his strawberry patch.
A lady at Pottsville fell asleep in
church one evening recently, and was
not discovered until five o'clock the fol-
lowing morning, when she awoke and
her cries attracted attention.
A young lady at Terre Haute, who had
long been deprived OF speech, is said to
have been put in a high swing at pic
mic, which so frightened her that the
shock restored her speech.
The British Royal Humane Society
recently awarded their bronze medal to
an old gentleman in England, eighty
two years of age, who courageously
plunged into the sea to rescue drown
ing child.
A Hartford lady is said to have got
all ready to hang herself twice in one
day, recently, and was both times inter
rupted by callers. The second time she
concluded to indefinitely postpone vol
untAry suspension.
One of the oldest inmates of the
Hotel des Invalides, at Paris, Antoine
Farroux, died recently at the age OF
eighty.fve. By his decease the number
of resident invalids from the Grande
Armee is reduced to fifteen.
Wilson, the celebrated vocalist, was
upset in his carriage near Edinburg. A
Scotch paper, after recording the acci-
dent, said: ave are happy to state
that he was able to appear on the fol-
lowing evening in three pieces. "
1t is said that owing to there being so
many Americans in Europe, at almost
all the English churches and chapels on
the Continent the usual prayer for the
Queen is Immediately followed by one
for the President of the United States.
An electrical apparatus, to be placed
in the holds Of ships for the purpose of
giving warning in case of leakage, has
been devised. On the entrance of water
a current is established, and eommu-
nication is thus set in operation, which
gives notice to the officers on deck.
The costume of young lady now a
days is q curious mixture of styles. The
arrangement Of the hair is Greek, the
ruff is Elizabethan, the jacket probably
Louis Quatorze; the fan represents the
Trianon epoch, and the jewelry is proba-
bly, Moorish or Etruscan.
A practical test Of the development
Of the Turkish stage and of its popu-
larity, is that benefit at the Quedik
Pasha Theater realized eI7OS for the
new Turkish college, which has been
founded to supply the western public
school system with provision for
boarders.
General Cluseret has applied to the
Belgian Government for a safe-conduct
to enable him to come to settle private
affairs in that country, but the Govern
ment has refused to accede to the re-
quest, as if it found him in Belgian ter
ritory it would be under the necessity Of
handing him over to France.
A girl seventeen years old was arrested
in Buffalo last Monday, charged with
three separate attempts to burn her en-
ployer's house. After denying the crime
for some time she at last made full
saying that she only did it
" to have a little fun with the folks, as
she knew they we're badly scared.
The Baltimore reporters are consid-
crate beings-very. They wouldn't
wound the sensibilities even of friend
less cur. So they put in the obituary
notices during dog-days, bitten by an
alleged mad dog" which cannot laeerate
the feelings Of the most sensitive purp
laboring under temporary alteration.
II brevity is the soul Of wit, then will
Captain Shaw, Chief of the London
Fire Brigade, become famous one Of
these days. This is a description Of the