Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-16
FACTS AND FANCIES.

sure is 10 swallow goOd uose Vi hlIro
glycerine and then try to jump. II
saves funeral expenses.
The Spanish Republican army is now
said to number two hundred thousand
men, fully armed and equipped. Vigor-
GUS operations are expected soon.
Clara Morris has already begun to
mention Mr.. Harriott as her old man,
meaning to say, as affectionately as
possible, that he is the old Harriott.
There is not lawyer in the Delaware
Legislature, and consequently it was
moved to discontinue the practice of
opening the daily sessions with prayer
Smallpox appears to be greatly on
the increase in New York. Twenty
persons are down with the disease at the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum on Sixteenth
street.
Mr.. William Walter Phelps has taken
for his winter residence in Washington
floor of General Buffers former house,
the latter being about to remove to his
Gloucester granite palace on Capitol
Hill.
The average age at which Frenchmen
marry is thirty one in Paris and thirty in
the rest of France. The average age at
which French women marry is twenty
six in Paris and twenty-five in the rest OF
France.
A williamsburg, New York, man
awoke his wife the other night, and, in
startled tone of voice, informed her that
he had swallowed dose of strychnine.
"Well, you fool" said she, lie still, or
it may come up"
Mile Roussell, the actress, who has
created great sensation at the Theater
des Arts, in Paris, was at one time an
orange seller on the boulevards. Orange
selling is the royal road to favor. Nell
Gwynne wasan orange girl.
Barry Sullivan, the famous English
tragedian, will commence an engage
ment at Booths Theater on the 3lst OF
August 1875. 1t is announced that Mr..
Bateman will produce Mr.. Irving, whose
Hamlet " is now the talk of London, at
the Lyceum, on the same date.
SIS it true that since the introduction
of lady operators on your lines, there
isn't so much vulgar talking over the
wires2 asked female suffragist Of
Western Union official. "Yes, ma'am,"
he answered, but the conversation
makes up in length what it lacks in
breadth. -
Mr.. HenryIR. Mygatt, of Oxford, New
York, has quart bottle of old Madeira
wine in his possession which was put up
and Theoretically sealed by Robert Nor
ris. of Revolutionary Treasury fame, in
TIA. He will have ii on exhibition at
the Centennial Exhibition at Philadel-
phia in 1876.
They had queer shooting match in
New York week ago, in which every
one of the contestants was blindfolded
and shot at target, which by mechan-
ical arrangement made a continuous
sound. This remarkable blindfolded
contest is calculated to remind one ouly
of the Congressional debates upon the
finances. Louis Republican.
The St. Louis Globe notices that the
westward bound trains are crowded with
nice young men, who part their hair in
the middle and carry Russia leather
bags. They have heard that
Mr.. Sharon, who gave his daughter a
wedding present, has an
other in reserve, and they are going
West to grow up with the country.
An agent of the Massachusetts, Board |
Of Health is travelling on the railroads Of
that State testing the air in the cars,
more particularly in the smoking cars.
He carries pair Of bellows and small
vial, partly filed with fluid, into which
he air is forced with the bellows, and
subsequently it is analysed and the inn
purities separated.
A Michigan court has decided that
woman with two husbands cannot be
guilty Of bigamy If she marries her first
husband before abe is eighteen years Of
age. The decision has caused consider
able CONSERVATION among those affec-
donate husbands in the State who
thought they we're hurrying up their