Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-14
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Five.dollar milk baths, and children
starving for nourishmentl
Duluth has a very superior skating
rink $4,000 square miles in extent.
The coming tailor will incorporate a
square of sandpaper in smokers pants
Danbury Neps.
Preachers are apt to think more OF the
Endorsement of their congregations than
of the Lords approval.
A Newburyport mother and her ten
children weigh, together, ton. The
baby tips the scales at $50.
A Virgnian paid $1,000 for mad
stone the other day, and is now anx-
iously looking for dogs to run mad.
English war ships and steamers will
not sail from port on Friday, but the
mail lines to America are obliged to.
Pirekinze, of the Cincinnati Times, s
authority for the statement that Love in
cottage often leads to war in Ashantee.
The London Morning Post refuses to
puff Mark Twain without pay, and says
he is only second fiddle to Artemus
Ward.
An ex.chaplain is going to write
History of the Work of Grace in the
Army Of Tennessee" 1t is likely to be
an easy JOB.
Nearly all the Paris correspondents
of the American press think Marshal
Bazaine has been made the scapegoat
Of France.
Small children, dressed entirely in
white fur, with blue ribbon trimmings,
are conspicuous features of New York
promeuades.
Kate Field says she never gives away
her opinions. she is always paid for
them. She is very lucky, considering
the opinions,
The man with two hearts lately died
in Scotland after living forty years and
demonstrating to the poor that he had
no heart at all.
Agassiz used to claim that it was just
as proper to say pint of milch" as
to say mich COW" and the old man
had a level head.
A fee of $50 in gold gladdened the
heart of the dominic who made the
hearts of Secretary Belknap and Mrs.
Bowers to beat as one.
Louis Kossuth, revolutionary Gov
ernor of Hungary in ls49, and now old
and poor, gives lessons in German,
English and Hungarian in Turin
The New York police have been pro-
hibited from dead-heading their way
into theaters, and they don't talk about
Shakespeare as much as they used to.
An army paper regrets the peaceable
settlement of the Spanish controversy,
because a war would have tested the
merits of wooden vessels against iron
clads."
Miss Therese Meyer, the lady who has
received a medal at the Exposition Of
Vienna for superior skill in handling
the sewing-machine, is young Jewess
Of Columbus, Ohio.
The New York Graphic proposes to
treat the idiot as an art subject"
is, publish portraits, biographical
sketches Of the lie. ing idiots Of every
township in the country" Photographs
of idiots are.solicited.
A letter from Yazoo City, Miss, to
the St. Louis Republican gives the fol-
lowing tombstone inscription found in
the cemetery near that place:
Here lies inferred. Priscilla Bird.
Who sang On earth till sixty-two,
Now up on high, above the sky,
No doubt she sings like sixty. toe.
A French author describes Mile
Nilsson as follows: Animated snow,
with golden hair, and with two polar
stars under her wide brow; she has the
grace Of the reed, the charm Of the
heather, and Of a beam-a scrawny
beam Of the North's pale sun"
A lady who offers to furnish ".some
storys to Michigan paper, says in
postscript; az. b. can send you sum
PONIES TO- some real pretty verses. if you
desire, that writ myself. for / can writ
PONIES as well as storys." The editor is
mean enough to decline on the ground
OF poverty superinduced by the panic.
A German farmer in Wisconsin hav-
ing missed some grain from his barn,
set a fox trap 50 as TO catch the arm Of
any one who should asfeunuf "a o,.r a..