Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-23
FACTS AND PANcIEs.

Victoria. t4ate
American wines are fashionable wit
the officers of Victor Emmanuefs house
hold.
Charles Reade makes war on Ugh
lacing and pearl powders in his ne'
novel. W.
Alice Wellington, Boston's comm
poetess, is a teacher in the girls higl
schools.
Nilsson is now returning to Amerie'
in every personal column in our ex
change list.
London Punch defines a woman as a
creature endowed with self.ornamenta
instinct"
Thousands Of young women practice
at the bar in England. They are known
as bar maids.
A woman in Birmingham, England
was lately fined 5000 for giving a good
character to bad servant.
The Emperor Francis Joseph OF
Austris, finds pleasure in collecting
skulls Of remarkable criminals. n.
Sevepty.fve members of the Eeumen-
ical Council have died since it was
opened in Rome, in December, 1869.
A new kind of suspender is adver-
tised, which the patentee asserts will
"impart tranquility to the mind
An exchange says that "the poet
Bryants step is as light as ever But
his paper is the " heaviest in the land
All Sin is making himself obnoxious
again BY taking the ceAters ofgold coins
out and filling the vacancy with baser
metals.
An Iowa school teacher, woman, has
been discharged for forcing big boy to
show her how he kissed the girls in the
wood-house.
The Empress Eugene wanted ocul-
tivate Louis music1l talent, but the
Emperor said, lone troubadour King is
enough for Europe.
A Teire Haute lady squandered forty
two dollars on telegram to her hus-
band in Europe, informing him of an
additional responsibility.
The Shakers, in their new organ, pat
their deaths under the head of Har-
vested" When they are buried, they
probably call it Planted"
A Detroit woman gives all the empty
bottles and WORKOUT hoop-skirts about
the house to the poor, and wonders how
big her bank account is above.
Mrs. Darlington, Noticing the death OF
Mr.. Ryan, the well known inventor, is
extremely anxious to know if he is the
same person who invented kyan pepper.
The Rev. Dewitt Talmadge's elo-
quence portrays things not eomprehen-
sible to common mortals, such as "foun-
tains climbing the ladders Of the sun"
A man of noble birth is said to be
commonly one whose remote ancestor
did something and his intermediate pre-
decessors for many centuries nothing at
all.
Moyerbeer befriended Lucca, and she
had finger in getting up the heroine of
"L'Africane," and was the first expo
nent of the part in Berlin. Lucca is a
heroine.
Mrs. Elizabeth K. Churchill Of Provi'
denee, Rhode Island, is now "stumping
Massachusetts in behalf of the total
prohibition cause, generally cheered
by fair audiences.
A Marseilles merchant has found
some old tapestries that hung in Nine.
DeSevigne's chamber. They depict the
loves of Anthony and Cleopatra and
Eneas and Dido.
The good people Of Kenduskeag, Me,
recently refused to have meeting to
hear Mrs. NJ. W. Campbell lecture in
favor of woman suffrage, believing the
whole thing " free love in disguise.
The Independent brings DR.. Watt TO
the point in favor Of baptismd pants.
1t finds an Endorsement Of them in bis
well-known version Of the forty-second
Psalms" pants for the cooling water
brooksl"
The French Count that married the
belle of Hsverhill, Massachusetts,, who
nursed him through the smallpox, has
quite recovered, and will soon be strong
enough to wave the napkin, strop the
razor, and cry Next"
The latest feminine justification Of
homicide is in New Orleans, where Mrs.
and Miss Ingraham are excused for
shooting one John Kaiser in the open
street, on the ground that he had com.
mitted breach Of etiquette"
Lexington, Kentucky, through its
tears at the loss Of ian old and highly
esteemed citizen, prominent in literary
circles" informs US that he further
merits desthless fame as the pstentee
" Of the celebrated B. mustard.
An engagement was broken of by
young man about town for the following
cogent reason: You know a cigar
case is fearful nuisance, and ! always
carry my cigars loose in my wsistcoat
pocket The necessary amount Of affec-
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