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

works in operation, and will ask Con
gress to establish a United States min
there.
An ungallant Spanish Sancho says
AT eighteen marry your daughter b
her superior; at twenty to her equal
but at thirty to anybody who will hav
her"
The Maharajah Scindhia is erecting
new palace at Gwalior, after the mode
of the Government House in Calcutta
He has 5000 men engaged upon tn
building.
A New York paper says that Hartz
the magician, will pass his empty han'
through the air and show it full of sill
yer. He ought to teach that trick t.
the Secretary of the Treasury.
tits an ominous coincidence that Lor
raine, which gave birth to the great Mar
shall Ney, who was executed for alleged
treason, is also the birthplace Of Marsha
Bazaine, now undergoing trial for the
same crime,
An Indiana editor attempted to write
notice of a concert in his town, which
he did not attend by looking over the
programme. His paper came out will
glowing notice Of the singing of 1.-THE
gifted young vocalist, Ann Dante"
A Nevada paper says: 1.-THE many
friends of Bill Thompson will regret to
hear that he was hashed up by cata
mount the other day on Nixon's hill
while lying in wait to shoot a China
man. This was always a world of dis
appointment.
The trustees of town in Iowa, il
order to exterminate the rats which are
making frightful havoc in the village
offer bounty Of two cents to every DO!
who, like Othello, shall "a round IN
vanished tail deliver to the author
tiles.
Robert Carr, of Laconia, New Hamp
shire, aged sixty'6ve years, married re
Gently, but his new spouse would not
for some unknown reason, accompany
him home. He went home alone anC
hanged himself quietly in his wood-shed
Thus poor Carr ran off the track anC
left behind his tender-spouse.
Maine seems ambitious of emulating
the fame of Indiana as State for faeilt
divorces. Marriage firms are suspend
ing and going into dissolution with a
panic celebrity. In Cumberland county
eighty divorce cases are pending, and in
York county twenty-five separations have
just been granted.
That was most outisndish trick which
a party of young women in the interior
Of Indiana played at recent wedding in
rigging themselves up in hats, rounda-
bouts, vests aud breaches. Their moth
ers should have told them that no woman
has a right to wear breeches until she is
married
A Richmond woman has brought suit
against Two saloon.keepers of that city
for $4,000 damages each, for selling liquor
TO her husband and causing him to waste
the means to which his family we're emit,
tied. The suit is exciting great interest,
as it will test the strength Of the new
liquor law.
Count de Villain, OF Belgium, married
Miss Gordon, Of Cleveland, Ohio, in the
cathedral of that city on the 5th instant.
The ceremony was performed by Arch
bishop McCiosksy, Of Louisville. The
altar was decorated with aoEers at a
cost Of $4,000, and the bride receives a
dowery Of half million.
A constant husband in Milan, Italy,
lately besleged a statue OF Madonna
with petitions for the healing Of his
wife They we're ineffective, for the wo-
man died, and the angered man, now
become a skeptie, thrashed the stone
Madonna until a strolling gendsrme
arrested him and relieved the sufferisg
statue.
The Duke Of Meiningen has married
an actress, FrauleIn Ellen Franz, and
his relatives have dropped him until be
shall have discarded her Don't do il,
Dukel Stick to Fraulein in spite Of
relatives or antecedents either. Frau
lein may be 9 little Wild. but she is
probably a better woman than one-half
Of the damsels Of noble rank.
The noble editor Of the Kokomo In
diana) Tribune has adapted his terms
to the pressure. he takes rabbits.
squirrels, ducks, etc, on subscriptions