Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-14
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Wax flowers are used to trim new win
ter bonnets.
Boston sidewalks are beginning to be
slippery with ice.
The dirty mans consolation" While
there's life there's soap.-Atlanta Her
aid.
A Chicago paper recently contained
an appeal to the electors printed in ten
languages.
Dubuque proposes to establish pub
lie park, and negotiations are pending
to secure the ground.
An unknown philanthropist recently
presented seventeen charitable institu-
tons in London with $4,000 each.
Ben Wood won $4,000 on the Ohio
election, and is anxious for another to
come off in the Buckeye State at an
early day.
George Law at forty-fve worked as a
day.laborer on the docks of New York.
He is now worth about $lO,OOO,OOO law
full money.
Constantine Corti, the celebrated
Italian sculptor, is dead. A colossal
statue of Lucifer was one Of his most
admired works.
DR.. Gaudin, OF Paris, taxes our cre-
dulity by asserting that in drop OF
water weighing grain and half there
are as many atoms of oxygen and ny
drogen as it takes grains Of sand to
cover the bottom of the sea.
A happy misquotation by a young
lady, whose gentleman caller staid too
late, caused a speedy goodbye. The
clock struck twelve, and she remarked:
Now is the witching hour of night
when people yawn.
The Lacon Home journal man has
made this nerye-quieting discovery:
" If anybody sees row Of buttons com
ing down street, let him preserve bis
equilibrium and think not of supernatu-
raj agencies. There's a woman behind
them
An Alternative female letter-writer
says that, if she could diyest herself Of
her troubles and pettieoats and be a man
for a twelve-month, she would choose
for that space to occupy the pulpit,
pantaloons and perquisites" Of Henry
Ward Beecher
A girl Of the season comments thus
on Mormonism: How absurd -Four
or FIVE wives TO one man, when the fact
is each woman, in these times, ought to
have four or FIVE husbands. It would
take about that number to support me
decsnily"
The Indians Of Bad river are not such |
a bad lot after all. This year they have
raised 1000 bushels Of oats. 1000 Of corn.
5000 Of potatoes, 1000 Of rutabagas, and
800 tons Of hay. And they have gath
cred 1900 bushels Of cranberries and two
tons Of rice.
First reyeler ION being turned out Of
the Caledonian Club" -" Come aud
take glass at my rooms" Second rev.
ma ah've had mair than
eneuchi" First reveler-" Hootsl TAX
anither, mum Dye no see ye're lettin'
yer judgment get the better o yel
DR.. Adam Smith, a noted English ply
sician. recommends the use Of tea in the
cases: After full meal, when
the system is oppressed; for the corpu-
lent and the old; for hot climates, and
for those who. living there, eat
freely or drink milk or alcohol, and in
cases Of suspended animation.
Pheasant shooting is now in season 10
England, and the woods abound with that
favorite game; but a true Western
hunter, who has been accustomed TO hit
a deer running, or prairie chicken on
the wing, will be disguised to read that
many indolent English sportsmen are in
the habit Of shooting from arm-chairs,
with two or three loaded guns near an
attendant to hand them to him, and sew
eral other attendants to drive the game
past his coign Of vantage
Poor Laura Keene, who used to be 50
light and cheerful on the stage, was
sadly changed before the final dropping
Of the curtain. She was painfully
aware Of her lost beauty, 50 much 50
that one Of her last requests vas that
her funeral should be strictly private,
and that no notice Of her death be sent
70 the newspapers until just before her
funeral, that her theatrical friends :
especially might not know Of her death ]