Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Hindoo women own toOO,OuVOVV worn
of ornaments. They must have jewelry
even II they wear nothing else.
A peg in a Milwaukee mans boo
caused his death in few hours las
week. We cannot be too careful in mat
tiers pertaining 70 our soles.
Jenny" said Scotch minister stoop
ing from his pulpit, shave you pin
about ye2" Yes, minister" "Ther
stick il into that sleeping brute by your
side"
A scientific friend. who has been read
ing with great patience an exhaustive
treatise ON the velocity of light, says
that he now knows how il is that his gas
bill runs up so rapidly.
The society formed by the girls OF the
San Francisco high school for the sup
preston of slang has been disbanded'
The secretary says it played itself
ont and gave itself away"
A daughter is almost always right
when she endeavors to initiate her
mother but It is doubtful whether the
mother is equally right when at Ger
tain period Of life she tries all she can
TO initiate her daughter.
A Graphic poet has a poemlet in a
recent issue Of that publication entitled
R" Babbling of Green Fields" We had
heretofore supposed that the little brooks
and streams monopolized the "bab'
bling business, but il green fields can
babble let EN- bah.
Il is said OF a Pittsburg bookstore
clerk, who is given to brown studies and
seven.up, that the other day, during one
of these spells Of fascinating fancies, q
lady called and asked if they had
"plain cards. He nodded, handed her
a deck of star-backs, saying abstract
edly,. cut"
The Washington Star insists that it is
an international duty to stretch rope
across Niagara river several miles above
the falls, in order to sift out the sanguine
persons who gambol near the rapids in
their light canoe, and get inadvertently
upset. But we're this safeguard adopted,
the favorite boating place would be below
the rope.
A Detroit paper tells that lady pas
senger on Michigan avenue car tainted
away, and after camphor failed to restore
her to her senses man opened his knife
and cut her leather belt, which parted
with loud snap, when the lady opened
her eyes. The belt was drawn so tight
that the man could scarcely work the
knife blade under it.
The French Academy has three va
cancies to FIJI, and is in serious guam
dairy over the multitude of candidates
for literary fame. There are Messieur
Michelet, Louis Blanc, About (who has
been rejected before), Tame, Renan,
Simon, Quinet, Weiss, Erckmann-Cha-
triau, Dumas, fills, Flaubert, Sardou,
Laboulaye, and host of lesser notables
of the pen.
A young Partisan girl has discovered
a new mode of suicide, which is mate
rial illustration Of the metempsychosis
She threw herself in the bears den of
the Geological Garden, and before the
guardian of the ferocious beasts could
interfere she was torn to pieces by Mar
tin, who was delighted to avenge his
brothers who were eaten by the starving
Parisans during the Persian siege.
Here we are now within quarter
of mile of land" was the joyful an
made by the captain of an
ocean steamer to his grumbling passen-
gers. Where2 Which way is it2"
were the eager EXPLANATIONS which fol-
lowed. Anywhere down below there"
said the captain, pointing toward the
bottom Of the sea. "The lead gives us
Just two hundred and twenty fathoms Of
water, and the land comes slap up
against the brine"
A Jolly green /" Vermonter aboard
Of lake steamer, the other day, got be-
wildered among the huge mirrors of the
saloon, and, seeing an individual in one
Of them carrying off carpet-bag suspi-
ciously like his own, he hurried mp to
the mirror, exclaiming, " See here, sir,
guess you have got my baggage. The
clerk asked him what he was about. He
replied, in a mystifed manner: That
man has got my baggage and gone in
there" An explanation delighted him.