Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-02
FACTS AND FANCIRs.

mule eighty.one miles in one day.
Women in Florida make from SlS t
$23 week braiding palmetto hats,
woman's glsry is her hair, but It is
good plan to tie ii up when cooking
BY taking revenge, a woman is but
even with her enemy; but in passing
over il size is superior.
A Danbury bride received among hei
wedding gifts a reeeipted bill for eight
dollars for gate hinges from her father
II your wife does abuse you, you have
the pleasant consciousness that she will
not permit any one else to do So
We count seventeen new women lee
turers who are preparing to assist in
turning the world upside down next sea
son.
A young and happy widow in Paris
recently remarked to friend, Il am
now in the honeymoon ofmy widowhood,
Mrs. Livermcre has received an offer
to come West Rumor says she has
been offered the presidency Of the new
female college in Ohio.
A book entitled Lectures to Married
Men has appeared in England. Heaven
save the mark Havn't they their share
already?
The first woman school superintendent
in Illinois is Miss Nettie Sinclair, who
has just been appointed to that position
in Kankakee county.
There is an iron,jawed woman
travelling in Kentucky. Singular as it
may seem, she is not lyceum lecturer.
She dignifes and adorns a circus.
Said woman to physician who was
weighing two grains of calomel for a
child, "Dinna be so mean wi it, it is for
poor, fatherless BARN"
Foot ball, according to the newspa-
pers, is becoming a popular game with
young ladies all over the country. Bos-
ton girls claim to be the most skillful.
The education of girls in this country
is not what it should be. 1t is. too femi-
nine, lacking the robustness which char
acterizes the training of girls in Europe.
Twenty pupils of the Pittsburg Fe-
male College having become converted,
declare their determination to flirt with
none but yeusg divinity students here
after.
Mrs. Anna Peckham, of New Bedford,
Mass, is about to sue the city for $4,000
for the loss of her husband, who died OF
smallpox, contracted while working on
the hospital.
Greeley, COL, comes promptly for
ward with Mrs. WILDER, a slight person,
and formerly school-teacher, who this
season has rugged up a gang-plow, and
prepared and sowed eighteen acres in
wheat.
Miss Clara Barton, of Worcester, the
Florence Nightingale of the late war,
who has been confined to her lodgings in
London and her bed most of the time
since last October, writes that she is ina
proving slowly.
did you ever go to military ball2"
asked lisping maid of an old veteran.
No, my dear" growled the old soldier.
In those days l once had military
ball come to me. And what do you
think it did? 1t took my leg off. "
Emigrants who are undecided as to
where they will settle are requested to
try Georgia. Vacancies are constantly
occurring among the Inhabitants, and
Georgia paper announces that twenty
men are to be hanged in that State
within sixty days.
An Illinois girl having six lovers
offered to marry the one who should
" break up" the most prairie in three
days. The result was that she got
smart husband, and her father found his
new farm ready for planting free Of cost.
A Philadelphia paper claims that
Miss Sadie Craft, aged sixteen, carried
the mails between the station on the
Hempfeld railroad and the Taylorsville
post Office, Washington county. The
distance between the two points is a
mile, and the mails are delivered twice
daily.
There are eight kinds Of kisses men
toned in the Scripture. The kiss of
salutation Il Sam. Xxx, Az; of valedic-
ton ruth i, 81; of reconciliation Oh
Sam. xiv, 33) Of subsection (Ps. ii, l2);
Of appreciation prov. xiv, 26); of
Matt xiv, 49); of affection
(Gen. xxx, l3); of holy charity Il
Thess. V, 26).
The New York Dramatic World says
Mile Belval, a pupil of Madame
Albont, displayed such talent at the en-
given for the Italian fund in
Paris, that Strakosch, who is always on
The lookout for such chances, immedi-
ately offered her lucrative engagement
for several years.
The New York Graphic says: A
mandatory on an extern
i've scale is about to be started at
Vienna, under the auspices Of the Able
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