Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-29
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
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Eve is certainly the beginning Of evil.
Buff and gray boots made of linen are
all the rage with Paris ladies.
Theater.goers in London are already
enjoying Christina" pantomime.
The rich mans malady-the dread Of
coming to wants terrible disease.
The rage for old china, and rare cera-
mic fabrics generally, is once more at
its hight.
The fruit canning establishments in
Salem county, New Jersey, are now in
full operation.
Boston has nine hundred offices to let,
and yet more Office buildings are in
course of erection.
A Terra Haute Qnd.) girl makes nine
feet at standing jump. She is to jump
for a wager at the next State Fair.
In Brooklyn no one is admitted into
fashionable society until he has pub
lished statement about somebody or
other.
In Colorado a girl who can't go after
the COWS on bareback poRy without
bride or halter is looked upon with con-
tempt.
An Englishman who emerged from
mine just after an explosion observed
that business was too blarsted lively for
him down there.
A Pittsburg woman was cured OF
speechlessness by the prayers of priest.
Her husband is now proving around
after the priest with a shotgun.
The Reading PENN Eagle is some
what alarmed over the fact that many of
the fair sex in that city are addicted to
the use of opium, belladonua and arsenic.
A little fellow who was worrying over
piece of shad at dinner one day, de-
moralized his mother by asking Nam
ma, where did God find all the bones to
make the first shad Off
A young man in Lowell is in Jail just
because be went home with girl who
didn't want him. "0nly this and moth
ing more" Only think of the result if
all were served in this way.
Some one who would seem to know
says that women are housewives in Ger
many, queens in England, ladies in
France, captives in Italy, slaves in Spain
and coquettes In America.
A Placerville, Cal, clergymen insists
that he saw a red and black snake forty
feet long, and as big around as barrel
of whisky. We have no doubt that he
did, but he unquestionably saw the bar
rel of whisky before he saw the snake.
Forney says the English girls are not
half as pretty as ours, but they have the
/" low, sweet voice" And Forney had
better come home. We need him for the
Centennial, and the low, sweet voice has
played the deuce before now with older
and wiser men than he.
According to that very unreliable au-
thority, the Virginia City Enterprise, a
hardware firm of that city has purchased
an apparatus, formerly used for the
manufacture of chlorine gas, consisting
of strong boiler within boiler. They
intend to use it as a cremation furnace,
and have begun experimenting with
played out Pintes. The furnace so far
has worked to a charm. The ashes are
neatly done up in yeast boxes. Is this
to make sure of the successful rising of
the deceased on the proper occasion2
Some one writes, both gracefully and
forcibly: Il would be glad to see more
parents understand that when they
spend money judiciously to improve and
beautify the house and grounds about it,
they are paying their children prem
ium to stay at home as much as possible
to enjoy it; but when they spend money |
unnecessarily on fine clothing and jewel
~ for their children, they are paying
them a premium to spend their time
from home, that is in those places where
they can attract the most attention and
make the most display"