Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


Laara Keene's maiden name was
Lee. She was twice married.
New York is thirty-six million dollars
better of fer her oyster business.
Twenty six weddings day in Phila-
delphia are among the numerous signs
of approaching winter.
New Orleans is preparing to cele'
brate the next Mardi-Gras festival
mockery with more than usual magnif'
cence.
One female clerk in the Treasury De-
partment can count nine thousand notes
in an hour, and has counted four thou
sand in twenty minutes.
A Nebraska man who went into 8
neighbours house and stabbed him thirty.
six times, was acquitted on the plea Of
selfdefense.
Brignoli is singing in the outdoor
theaters in Italy. His wife, Miss Isa-
bella Mccullough, is living with her rel
atives in South Carolina.
The rice crop turns out badly in some
places this fall. George Rice, of Ben
ton Harbor. Mich, has run of with
$40, 900 and another mans wife.
Alphonse used to call his adorable
Angelina his turtle-dove. He row drops
the dove" and calls her turtle, be-
cause she wears such huge shell on her
belt.
A minister having remarked there
would be a nave in the new edihce the
society was erecting" an old lady said
she knew the person to whom he re-
ferred.
Madam Anna Bishop, who has been
roaming around the world for genera
ton more or less, is engaged in organ
ing an English opera troupe in San
Francisco for a new expedition. Few
Bishops have travelled over so large a
diocese.
The immense door-plstes worn By the
ladies on their belts might be utilized
By engraving thereon the wearer's name,
age, residence, fortune or expectations,
and stating whether heart free or en-
gagged. 1t would save some gentlemen
the trouble Of making inquiries.
The wives Of the successful csndi-
dates for Parliament at the late special
elections in Dover and Bath, England,
greatly helped the results by driving
through the streets dressed in gaudy
colors, inviting the voters to ride with
them, and exhorting everybody to 20 to
the polls and vote for their men.
A Boston merchant, who became in
sane day or two ago, barricaded him
self in his store after putting out
placard stating that he was within,
armed with a revolver and ready TO de-
fend his castle. He filed small orders
through the opening Of the door, but
would not allow even his partner to
enter
A Western paper tells the story Of
country woman who made her first
attempt to get in the courthouse yard
through the patent back action gate.
She opened the gate, went through, as
she supposed and shut herself out on
the same side seven times; then, ejacu-
lating "Merciful sakesl" climbed over
the fence.
Not single case Of drowning was
reported from Long Branch this year.
This is little curious; there certainly
were a good many people there who
we're half seas over, aud now and then
one foundered in a sea Of troubles, and
drowned his cares. II not himself. The
gentleman who individually touched bot
tom. may have come up again. but. If
so, the fact has not yet been reported.
A discovery has just been made in the
excavations at Pompeii Of another skel.
etOn, apparently that Of q man about
fly years Of age. The cast formed in
the ashes was admirable, and is in fact
much more exact than those hitherto
found. The suppositioH is that the de-
ceased was 10, and that his strength fail
ing Lim ia his flight, he iay doFn. resting
he cheek on his leit hand, such being
tie position in which be vas found
A young woman OF Suffer Greek,
California, has been engaged for several
months 10 a young man, and had re-
ceived a ring from him. Having heard
that be bad said be- intended 10 marry
her out OF spite only. she offered 10 re-
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