Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-15
FACTS AND FANCTEs.

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French academy.
Miss Jennie Warner, Of HiGhga;e, VT,
the latest sleeping beauty, has been pro
nounced insane.
The ladies say they don't care half as
much about whether gold is going to
par or not as whether it is coming TO
ma
Young lady, at the postofiee :" If |
don't get letter by this mail want to
know what he was doing Sunday, that's
ALL"
A new head dress for matrons is called
the Patti. 1t is bit of lace in the shape
Of butterfly, with small rosebud in
the center.
A Boston club is said to have expelled
member recently for admitting, for
the sake of argument only, that /. Lake
Superior might be larger than Jamaica
pond.
It is stated that General Trochu is to
be brought at his own instance before a
special council OF war. General Uhrich,
who had Strasbourg to defend, has
adopted the same course.
A medical journal recommends the
use OF mosquito netting as bandages in
cases where it is desirable to support a
wound and at the same time allow the
free escape Of all discharges
Mr.. Justice Blaekman Of the queens
bench, threatened the gasman a few
days ago with committal for contempt
for so turning on the lights that the
eyes Of the court blinkei in the glare
We regret to see in the Methodist Re-
corder an article headed as follows
" Foreign Travel-By G -" 1t may
be all right. We suppose it is; but it is
fearfulIy suggestive Of profanity
Springfield Republican.
Peter Van Dyke, an old chap who died
in New Hampshire the other day, worth
100000 in cash, requested in his will
that no one should shuttle and shed
crocodile tears at bis funeral but cover
him over, and then hurry home to fight
over his money"
A boy living on the Sugar Hollow
road ate twenty-one buckwheat cakes
one day last week, and so disturbed his
stomach as to cause his death three
lays after. The last words he uttered
we're of modest triumph. He said. 81
dung EN-. - DGHbury NeUs.
The Calcutta Englshman Of October
.lth reports as follows: An American
Mr.. Hamlin, attempted to
ihoot the captain Of the steamship
Meinam while coming up tie river on
he last voyage from Gale. He was
to be suffering from delirium
tremens."
Pat, said a traveller, why did you
make the stone wall around your shanty
SO thick?' why, please your honor, |
hear they have extraordinary high winds
in Ameriky, so ] thought if built it
about as thick as it was high if it blew
over it would be just as high as it was
afore, your honor"
They have got a woman in Toledo, it
is said, who cannot speak without rhym-
ing. 10 all her conversation about the
house, even in her orders to her servant
girls, she uses poetry as the vehicle Of
her orders. The rbyming mania seized
her after a severe fit Of sickness, and now
she cannot get rid Of it.
What is fame, any wGy2 The other
night Mr.. Sumner, having occasion to
attend a social meeting at the Church Of
the Disciples in Boston, took a street
car. and during the ride inquired Of a
gentleman the way to the church. The
man INFORMED him, and then asked Mr..
Sumner ifhe lioed iR Boston.
The Philadelphia Ledger has repu-
tation FOR pristing a good deal Of unique .
" obituary poetry" Lately one Of lis
contemporaries reported that a subseri.
Der wrote the editor Of the Ledger asking
what the policy Of the government
toward Spain should be, whereupon this
response was made:
On little James Too brief career.
The curtain sadly droqs.
she WaltEcd away b. paradire
from eating celery tops +"
The following conversation. reported
by Springfield Mass paper. shows
how hard times may produce economy.
Huilo, jim. where is your overcoata
you look cold. Oh l tboarbt that
Il vas bard times and ! wouldn't GET ,