Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-18
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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in London, at cost Of 1000.
II man marries a ballet-daneer will
his children have step-mother2
The household troops Of the King of
the Hawaiian Islands, mutinied on the
9TH ult.
The'San Diego World alludes politely
to Los Angeles wines as stomach dis
temperizing slops.
The wife of New York clergyman
receives all the marriage fees paid her
husband as her allowance for pin money
Commanding officers of British naval
vessels are no longer permitted to per-
form the marriage ceremony on board
their vessels.
The bats are said to be SO thick at
Yorktown, Va, that during service the
minister has to dodge about in the pull
pit to avoid them.
A man at Dallas, Texas, succeeded in
getting a whole apple into his mouth,
but it had TO be cut to pieces before it
could be got out.
A New Jersey woman dreamed of be-
ing surrounded by snakes, aud struck
out so hard that she dislocated her
wrist against the wall
Ia a breach OF promise case at Fort
Wayne, the lover was convicted Of
writing mi hart beets oanly for the,
my darling hiney."
a little Chicago girl who went through
the tunnel under the river exclaimed on
returning home, "Oh, ma we went over
the river under it.
"Salts of demoniac" was recently
called for in country store in western
Massachusetts. The apothecary filled
the bill with a pint of New England
rum.
A company has been formed in Eng
land with capital of 100000 to be
raised in 100000 shares of Is. each for
the purpose of having historical pic
ture of the Tichborne trial painted.
A Western editor met a well-educated
farmer recently and informed him that
he would like to have something from
his pen. The farmer sent him pig and
charged him 50 IS for it.
Near Sessa Aurunea, in the province
of Gaeta. Italy, a rich landholder was
carried of by band Of brigands, twelve
in number, in the middle of September,
and was not released until he had paid
them 1000 francs.
We have heard Of men travelling on
their muscle and on their shape, but
from the fact that there has been a scull
race on the Harlem river, we conclude
that they are now trying 10 travel on
their head
Doctor said man to Abernethy,
" my daughter had fit, and continued
for half an hour without sense or khowl-
edge "Oh," replied the doctor,
never mind that ma ny people con-
tinue SO all their lives.
A PeAin (Illinois) woman was asked
by the preacher if her husband feared
the Lord. She replied. Fear HIM
Why, bless you, he is so feared Of Him
that he never goes out on Sundays with
out taking bis gun along"
An internal revenue storekeeper Of the
Fourth District Of Kentucky has been
dismissed for using an Official stamp on
private letter. Yet we have not heard
Of anything being done to find out how
official stamps got on campaign dOcu.
ments this fall.
The proprietor Of a young ladies' acad-
envy in Illinois has utterly ruined his
business by causing to be inserted in a
large number Of papers a picture Of the
building, with two girls standing on the
balcony with last years hats on their
heads.
A mournful story is told By a Maine
editor: The winds Of autumn will soon
whistle shrillyi the goose flies south
ward; the air speaks q saow and ice:
everything beiokens that Dc O. igw weeks
more the fab seasoa will have ended. and
che circuses and snake shows viii be no
morei'
s. gentleman cab-driyer, Mr.. Sackville
Guynne. bias recently died ia Liver
IpooL ue was the son Of Col Gwynns,
aud vas conuec.el with an old Car
maihsu-h.se amiiy Orirg to family
quarrel De- r1lalias,ir sxilei himself
come nn. since and became g. revnIa-