Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

mothersin-law.
Miss Anthony threatens to sue the
press Of America generally for libel.
The Supreme Judicial Court of New
Hampshire has new clerk-a girl.
Move up in the horse cars, and give as
many a chance for a seat as possible.
The Empress of Austria is going to
Munich to be made a grandmother this
month.
A Washington barber enticingly ad-
vertises to shave two days growth un-
der the skin"
A Dayton physician undertook to
thrash reporter. two weeks ago. and 8
not out Of bed yet.
Virginia is manufacturing paper from
the reeds which grow so abundantly in
the Dismal Swamp.
A Carolina paper, January I'd, says;
Some ripe old headaches were floating
around loose yesterday.
Mr.. wylie, the British checker cham.
pioa, has accepted challenge to strug-
gle with the draughts of Rutland, Vt.
Nine Adelina Patti.Caux cleared
9,423 roubles and diamond and pearl
breastpin at her recent benefit in Mos.
COW.
One great difference between Byron
and Burns in early youth was that the
one was Harrow boy, and the other q
plowboy.
Germany is to help Italy borrow l0O,'
900, 900 francs. 1t is thought the EN-
pire can raise the money on its watch
on the Rhine.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams is 10 con.
gratulate the people of Weymouth, Mass,
on the 250tL anniversary Of the settle
ment of the town.
The mild weather has caused tbs
presence of several kinds of fish off the
Massachusetts coast, not usually found
there in mid-winter.
A young lady in Halifax bumped her
head on a ceiling while in a state Of ex-
uherance, and is not expected to live.
This is duly sworn to.
The Mayor of Newton, Massachusetts,
has volunteered to assume gratis the
duties of the Chief of Police, and save
the town $500 year.
A heretofore harmless and attractive
Indian maiden in San francisco has
been transformed from a squaw into a
squaler. She is singing in opera.
A woman living near Altoona, Pa,
recently entered stable attached to
the house in which she lived, when a
horse caught her by the nose and bit il
Of.
People talk Of evil deeds bringing
their own penalties even in this world
and yet here is a sewing machine agent
who inherits $4,000, 900 from an uncle in
Scotland
Tennessee babies are peculiar. One
Of them was lately carried half a mile
by gale Of wind and left in the top Of
tree, and it never even let 90 its nurs-
ing bottle.
Cantankerous Indians at Laramie are
made to saw wood. As a rule, they
would rather be boarded six months in a
Jail, at public expense, than to tackle
one cord Of wet pine.
Il is related that a Hayerstraw man
felt so badly about the recent Cuban
outrage that be erected a guilletine in
his poultry yard aud beheaded all his
Spanish fowls. 1t relieved him.
| A La Crosse baggageman broke his
back the other day, while trying "a
sling a big trunk so as to smash Il, and
every man in town who owns a flag has
hoisted it.-DetrOit Free Press.
A dutiful son Of Atlanta set out to
wheel his grandfather's corpse to the
burying ground to save expenses. but a
crowd gathered and argued with him
until he consented to hire hearse.
A traveller, who has done some pret,,
tall climbing in the Alps, relates tia
whenever his mule exhibited an inelina
ton to back over precipice, be jus
got doWp quietly and prepared to let be
do H.
Mrs. Carter H. Harrison gave birth {,
q daughter in HeidelbuTg. on Ne,
Years day, and the fact was cabled {,
her husband 10 Chicago. Mr.. Harrison
felt 50 grateful for this little blessin