Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-24
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Burriel, the Santiago butcher, even
eats with his knife.
Miss Cary's decollete dress in Aida,
reveals her shapely form.
Milk baths for the complexion are five
dollars each in New York.
Carriers are more elegantly termed
shank bands by Illinois bellies.
England's foreign commerce this year
doesn't come up to her ideas.
Gents legs, encased in muddy boots,
are worn crosswise in the cars.
A memorial service was held at Havre
for the victims of the Vile du Havre.
Garibaldi is improving in health, but
he still has to use crutches in walking.
There are over $4,000 idiots in the
country who are acknowledged as such.
Dolmenico, a new lion.tamer, is so
quoting as to be quite the rage himself
in Paris.
Mrs. Thompson, daughter of the poet
Burns, died recently in Scotland, aged
eighty-fcur.
Bazaine is comfortably content. Not
so bad as he expected, and he always
knew it wouldn't be.
Queens University, Ireland, has de-
cided by majority Of one vote not to
admit female students.
Some students recently labelled a fe-
male seminary in Akron, Ohio, " Do
nestle Sewing Machines.
Mrs Stanton can't understand why
the rolls of the knights of Pythias
shouldn't admit dame on.
The Rev. Newman Hall is adding to
his church tower two hundred feet
high, to the glory of Abraham Lincoln.
" Changers, l will sell you collins
cheaper than any other man in the city, "
is what a Council Bluffs man advertises.
Her Face Was Her Fortune has
just been issued. 1t will speedily be
followed by His Cheek Was What
Made Him.
Professor Montague Bernard is re-
ported to have announced his intention
Of resigning the chair of international
law at Oxford
The Princess Massulsky dora
d'Istria) has asked the British press to
let her book down gently. Perhaps they
mayn't take it up.
Sundry members of the Randolph
family intimate Mr.. Parton has drawn
largely on imagination for his facts in
his Life of Jefferson"
A young lady in Illinois recently be.
came so much embarrassed by pro-
posal from her lover, that, in her agita-
ton, she swallowed a needle.
A wife in Chillicothe, Ohio, has de-
manded a divorce upon the specification
that upon one occasion her brutal hus-
band put her to soak in the rain water
barrel.
The Duke Of Edinbsrg has to play
second fiddle TO his elder brother some
times, but he came out first violin at the
Amateur Orchestral Society in Edinburg
the other day.
The editor Of the Duluth Herald is
genu.re in spite Of hard times. He
says " We shall jerk a living out of this
city during the coming winter, or we are
much mistaken"
Says the Detroit Fress Press; Mr..
Bdsban is getting to be bore with his
old pneumatic tube, aud il we all rake
a combined effort we can squelch him
before January.
One Of the propositions which are TO
be submitted to the Georgia Constitu-
tional Convention is a revival Of i'm
prisonment for debt. Progress takes
backward jumps down there.
a French musical journal complains
that France has no national anthem in /
which an Frenchmen can loin, whereat /
Punch remarks that the great Handel |
composed one which they might consist /
emily adopt, viz Their land brought
forth frogs.
Our lighthouse system is more extern
sive than any in the world, the lights
and beacons extending more Than 10. 900 /
miles along coast and shore. We have
52l lighthouses. IS powerful signals
operated By engines driven By steam or
bot ar 36i day or unliehied bescons,