Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-30
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

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Mr.. Froude is going to entertain En-
glish audiences with lecture on Amer
lea.
London Punch defines a woman AS a
creature endowed with selfOrnamental
instinct"
OF 744 convicts in the Tennessee pen
itentiary, last year, CSC were of no trade
or profession.
Mr.. Cresus lives in Jersey City, aud
is now worth about seventy-five cents,
aside from his dog.
A miserable English charwoman has
secured judgment against the Earl OF
Wiuchelsea for debt.
Au obliging ghost in Rowley, Mass,
employs its leisure hours in shoveling
snow of the sidewalks.
A woman in Birmingham, England,
was lately fined S2Oe for giving a good
character to bad servant.
Plus TX. has witnessed the death Of
one hundred Cardinals during his pom
tifcate Of quarter of a century.
A Connecticut man is going to see the
transit Of Venus, even If it is cloudy, I'M
less his balloon or Venus goes back on
him.
By an objectionable mistake, De-
troit barber the other day dyed a Gus
TONER'S hair an ugly notified green. The
customers language was emphatic.
A colored man at Lafayette, Indiana,
has been sent to the penitentiary for
marrying a white woman, and the con-
stitutionality of the sentence is to be
tested
A row occurred in Pittsburg court
room recently with a result such as
would have gratifed the most ardent,
Frank NEEDLE, the Judge, kicking a
lawyer out of doors.
A questionable compliment is paid by
a modern critic to a modern poet. He
is in the habit of writing as though in
deceney we're an essential of art, and
blasphemy an essential of philosophy.
A Milwaukee lady had several huE-
dred dollars worth of point lace clipped
off her clothing by an adroit thief while
she was at church singing Strip me OF
the robe of pride; clothe me in humility.
The editor of the Toledo Blade is try
ing to mould public opinion SO as to
accommodate his pocket-book, by stating
that the time will soon come when men
will wear one garment, as did the people
Of old.
1t is proyerbial that some people will
quarrel with mere natural means Of sub
sistence, which is proved by the fact that
Illinois legislators are continually pass
ing laws for the determination Of Canada
thistles.
A cable dispatch from Paris assures
us that the mails from Madrid have
crossed the frontier to-day" We rejoice
to hear it. We were little apprehen-
sive that they wouldn't cross until to-
morrow.
The Nebraska Legislature proposes to
enact that no roulette table nor faro
bank be kept below the second floor of
any house, This is doubtless to prevent
gamblers from leading the innocent to
abasement.
A Cincinnati gentleman who inter
viewed the editor Of paper in that city
the other day, and closed the conversa-
ton by abruptly smashing in the edito-
rial hat, has paid s25 and costs for the
indiscretion.
Katy, aged three years, was trying TO
think of pleasant surprise for her faith
err on his birthday. At last she cried
" 1 know, mammal know" What.
my dear2' ." Buy me little sister with
out saying anything to papa"
Saint William Clayton, one of the real
original Mormon disciples and an init
mate associate Of Joe Smith, is discon-
ISOLATE over the elopement Of another
wife, the third who has run away from
his household within q comparatively
short period.
There was a society wedding in Wash
ington the other day, where the groom
wore black kids. welded the bride with |
a diamond ring, and only took the chew
of tobacco out Of lis mouth when be
attempted to kiss the minister, as he
supposed be must
A Scranton man went home, the other |
evening and found his house locked up, !
aud after Infinite trouble managed to /
gain an entraRce through back window, !
and then discovered on the parlor table |
a note from his wife. reading: II have
gone out you viii find the doork on |
one side Of the doorstep"
The Mayor Of Boston deserves the |
thanks Of all executives from the Presi- /
dent down TO eonstables. He has hit /
upon q plan to cure offee-seeking. Arm |