Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-02
FACTS AND FANCIES.

tedS 70 iOr thO Hi0'
West.
Grand Rapids reporters call their po
lice station the cooler"
More than hundred women are study
ing law in the United States.
Gladstone has created forty peers
since his accession to Office five years
ago.
One long feather, of several differen'
colors, is q distinguished feature in the
new Paris bonnets.
A couple at Woodville, la, have beer
divorced four times, and now contem
plate fifth reunion.
Adelina Patti cleared 1922 roublei
and a diamond and pearl breast-pin al
her recent benefit in Moscow.
Wilkie Collins has been obliged te
abandon his intended trip to the Pacific
coast, as he can not stand long railroad
rides.
A Cincinnati editor says that another
editor there is liar-or rather, that "h'
is prone to impart an unhealthy swelling
to truth.
One of the characters in Sardou'i
lies Marveilleuses" is airily clothed il
a SOAP bubble, trimmed with a sunbeam
= Boston Post
Nilsson says she never intended t.
call the Chicago musical critics donkeys
They didn't make good use of their ears,
Boston Post.
A Norristown youth sent his girl box
of grapes, one afternoon lately, and the
next day a fellow met him on the street
and said: Those grapes we're jolly
good last night; send some up ever
Wednesday evening-thst's my night
you know"
A good brother in Baptist church o.
Mama county, Indiana, while giving hi
experience, not long ago, said
Bretherin, I've been a tryin' this
nigh onto forty year to serve the Lore
and get rich both at onct, and l tell yer
it's mighty hard sleddin'l
A man named James Costello died re
Gently in New York worth 100000 who
was unable to read and write. Pa
thence, industry and natural aptitude
for business had enabled him to acquire
this wealth, although he had never
learned to write his name.
The Rochester Chronicle His re
mark was that if he was bald.hesded-
and heaven knew he had always tried t
behave himself he would appeal for a
new trial, and that failing, would go of
and hang himself, with the object il
view Of beginning it again.
The London Times closes the obituary
of Agassiz thus: In Agassiz the world
lost philosopher and naturalist, whose
name will be remembered along with
those of Button, Cuvier and Humboldt
and Of whom both his native Switzer
land and his adopted America nigh
well be proud"
Fitz Jones referring to his India
experienced" Oh, yes, we have, o
used to have, some terrible affairs on
there-awl" Katy-"O, yes" Fit
Jones'" Pore servant Of mine go
killed there, literally eaten up by {
tiger, and the pore fellow died twenty
four hours afterward" And Fitz Jone
still wonders why Katy laughed.
The fellow who wanted to cross tn,
Mississippi river on the ice at Mnscs
J tine, and, fearing it was too thin, begal
: to crawl over on his hands and knees
, dragging a skiG after him as a life pr,
I. server in case Of accident. felt very sic
. when, Just as he was nearly across an
all tired out, a fellow passed him with
/. sled loaded With pig iron.
A South Bend merchant had ,
! pair Of dressed chickens that had bee
+; on hand so long that they began to )
offensive, 50 be left them out over nigh
for somebody to steal The poultry dis
: appeared, but the merchant was So
prised about noon next day when a
I, honest policeman walked in and depo,
1 tied the odorous property on the counte
remarkiBg: " / thought some mean Gus
might steal EN-, so took EN- in"
One Who had the reputation Of bein
+. great philosopher. az experience
man Of the world, q profound thinke
and an acute observer, With a deep il
sight into human nature, has left o
record the expression Of his 6rn COZ
. victiOn. that no man, however giftei