Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-30
PACTs AND FANCIES.

sunset.
A sAtirist says that modern society
misses two "lost arts '-eonversatlon
aud blushing."
The cost Of reconstructing the Hotel
de Vile, at Paris, will be about SSOOO'-
900, aud the work will be begun atonee'
There is a time for all things. The
time TO leave is when a young lady asks
you what sort of day it is for walking
Ninety.seven proud mothers went oil
mad at a prize baby show held in New
Orleans recently, where ninety-eight
specimens we're exhibited.
A sentimental young man thus feel
ingly expresses himself; Even nature
benevolently guards the rose with thorns.
Does she endow women with pins2
Give man brain and riches, and he
is A king. Give a man brains without
riches, and he is a slave. Give man
riches without brains, and he is fool.
Mrs. Scott, of Omaha, has had five
husbands in seven years, and is now
without one. Sheis subject to spells OF
insanity, and she carries bowie-kniie.
Hawthorne paid a pretty compliment
when he said of Miss Bremen that she
was "a most amiable little woman,
worthy to be maiden aunt of the whole
human race.
Charlotte Cushman has built herself
new house at Newport, Rhode Island,
where she and her friend, Miss Emily |
Stebbins, the sculptress, will rest during |
the summer.
An unreasonable woman in London
wants wine merchant there, named
McO Ostrich, to pay $4,000 for writing 244
love letters to her and then cooling of
in his rhetoric.
An experienced old stager says if you
make love to a widow who has daugh-
ter twenty years younger than herself,
begin by declaring that you thought |
they were sisters.
A lady about to be married was told
that her intended, though good man,
was very eccentric. Vel" she said,
be is unlike other men, he is the
more likely to be good husband. D."
The Pittsburg girl has sent back those
two barges of coal, which her father
gave her for bridal present, and says
she guesses she can make it hot enough
for hubby" without any outside help.
1t is not the thing now to wear the
bridal veil over the face at all. 1t is
twisted about the head in a manner
strongly suggestive of burlesque ac-
.ress about to have her photograph
taken.
A Troy dentist became emotionally
insane while repairing a front tooth for
4 pretty woman and kissed her. She
odd her husband, and he went round
and borrowed $500 Of the dentist on
ong time.
A local paper warns its fair readers
hat the sidewalks of Omaha abound
With holes" holes the size Of lady's
DOT and in another column receunts
hat boy six years old fell into one Of
hem the other day.
Two young girls of Rock county, Wis,
named Ashland and Carpenter, after a
rain attempt to poison themselves, have
committed suicide by drowning, because
heir several lovers had individually and
deserted them.
They tell of one Boston mother whe
Jays of her baby that as it couldn't be
handsome like its papa, it's going to be
rood like it's mamma" This is the first
)aby on record that is not the prettiest
hat ever was-to its mother.
There are experts on all manner of
ubjects in these days of litigation: A
woman testified at Norwich the other
lay, in turkey case, and declared she
,new these turkeys "by their walk, their
and their manner Of roost-
ng."
Postmaster-General Creswell has writ
en- to the Prussian director of posts on
he subject of women in government
ervice. He reports seven hundred wo-
men employed in the postal department,
i've hundred of whom are postmistresses
If local offices.
A young lady living at Eau Claire,
Wis, disappeared the other day, and af-
er three hundred people had searched
or FIVE hours, she was found sitting on
he bank Of the river with her lover,
hands and talking nonsense,
IS if nothing had happened.
A gentleman was warmly eulogizing
he constancy of an absent husband, in
be presence of his loving wife. Yes,
'es," assented she, he writes letters
ull ofthe agony OF affection, but he never
emits me any money" 81 can con-
eive of that, said the other, for l know
lis love TO be unremitting.