Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-15
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

Madame Nilsson-Rouzand will return
to America before the close Of this
year.
Several female students are attending
the medical cliuiques in Paris this win
ter.
The tops Of the Pyramids are to be
converted into lighthouses for the Nile
sailors.
Persons wishing to become proficient
in skating should read Baxter on Back
slidingl fE
Hassan Pasha, son Of the Egyptian
Viceroy, is coming to make a tour of
America.
A well.built woman is probably she OF
the alabaster neck, marble brow, and
arch expression.
Notwithstanding the snow storm all
the trains are going with regularity-ex-
cept George Francis.
San Francisco liquor sellers are not
brought before the bar for keeping be-
hind the bar on Sundays.
Mr.. Boozer, of Lambertyille, N. j.,
made Christmas presents to 1860 chill
dren. They weren't all his.
If the dead do not live after death
why do we hear of the dead march at
tracing the attention of lovers OF music.
The New Orleans Times says that in
their city the political vultures are
"fling their bills in the Circuit Court.
John Smith says nobody ever paid
him much attention until he broke cut
of jail, and then he was much sought
after.
A new paper in Texas starts out with
the announcement that "in religion we
are conservative, and we interd to ad-
here to the cash system"
A lady who was not Shakspearean
scholar, hearing the Merry Wives of
Windsor highly praised, inquired how
many wives Mr.. Windsor had.
A man named Wright was shot for
breach of promise on Monday last at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by young woman
who thought Wright was wrong.
A South Saginaw lady fell into the
river on last Saturday while fishing, and
was rescued by her husband, while in
state of temporary insanity. -7erre
Haute Mail.
A Miami Indian chief named Peter
Cabbage recently died, worth, it is said,
1900 acres Of land The Louisville
Courier-J ournal thinks this rather large
cabbage-patch for an Indian.
An instance of throwing ones self
about was witnessed few evenings ago
at party, in the case of young lady,
who, when asked to sing, first tossed her
head and then pitched her voice.
A physician of Berne, DR.. Ernest
Guisan, announces that arsenic will pre-
vent the development Of hydrophobia in
persons bitten by mad dogs. In suffi-
Gent doses. we can readily believe it.
S. N. Pike, the opera-house builder,
left six millions of dollars to his family,
principally made in the rise of whisky
about the time the tax was placed there
on. He has had much to do with spirits
in his day.
A man married an old maid in Lowell
and took her to his Western home. A
day or so after the marriage he wrote to
her father to send him a medium sized
cotton mill, if he had any What could
the wretch have meant2
A young lady, while walking with a
gentleman, stumbled; and when her
companion, to prevent her falling,
grasped her hand somewhat tightly, she
simpered, "Oh, sir, if it comes to that,
you must ask my par'
That was a very tender-hearted man
who, on being told that his wife, who had
left the house only an hour before, was
drowned, and that her body was found a
mile or so below, said: "She must have
foated down quite lively"
PoETIc.-A young man in town made
his girl present the other day, and on
slip of paper accompanying it he in
dited the poetic sentiment, To my am
to be wife" The girl says what am to be
will be, but she thinks this amn'tto be-
Sturgeon MO- Leader.
The playing Of Polish pianist, Ma
dame Olga Janina, pupil Of DR.. List,
is creating q great sensation in Paris.
She has confined her displays to pieces
by her teacher and by Chopin. Her
mechanism is marvellous, but as regards
her touch and style the critics differ.
A skunk skin opera cloak graced the
dress circle Of TOole's Opera House at
s.. Louis the other night II was worn
by rural belle, who was accompanied
by the male companion that had slain
the fragrant little animals whose hides
were thus sacrificed for his beloved.
The Church Herald says that if the
Archbishop Of Canterbury did his duty
be would not demesn his high Office and
unexpectedly trail his train in the mud
By holding any spisiolary eommuniea.