Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-28
FINANCE COMMITTEE:
FACTS AND FANCEEs.

Very, very blonde hair is now called
the light fantastic tow
Presents says gentle, quaint and
genial Ella, "endear absents.
Speaking of SaIvini, the Chicago
Times remarks: Tom is promising
actor
A semi.idot has thrown $500 in flow
ers to New York actress the past
month.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn has re-
sumed work on his series Of articles on
Junins
The Dutch are slowly occupying
Aeheen, though desperately resisted by
the natives
The New Orleans Times says that tax
alton in that city is simply intolerable
uncomfortable, insufferable.
Omaha calls her saloon keepers
" Presidents Of sample rooms, and the
beer vendors rather like it.
Mr.. Tennyson is one of the promo
tiers of new Shakspearian society
which is projected in London.
A Kansas farmer is so thorough a
granger that be travels long distances in
his wagon rather than patronize the rail
roads.
The platform of TIE COMMUNISTS
Every man who saves money must be
made to divide with every man who saves
none.
The French troops swore they never
would wear the German spiked helmet,
and now the idea of introducing it into
the French army has been abandoned.
A wealthy Buffalo lady of sixty has
just married her own widowed son-in-
law, and the children Of the two families
are now puzzled to settle their relation
ship
In Des Moines recently masked
party waited on the lady president of
relief society and left with her hand
some sum for distribution among the
poor.
A Terre Haute dry goods clerk is said
to be so slim and his head so sharp, that
he slipped rubber tip over his poll and
attended recent masquerade ball as
lead pencil.
The Detroit Free Press says that if
you fire shotgun in any direction in
this county you will hit poet, to which
the Ohio State Journal replies: We
want shotgun"
A great grandson Of Benedict Arnold
died at Great Mossington, England, on
November q, at the age of eighteen.
He was the eldest son Of the Rev. Ed
ward Gladwin and Lady Chariot Arnold.
A New York journal has discovered
new industry in that city, the professors
OF which itterms Gle filers." It seems
that there are dozen or two persons in
the city who save all the papers that
come into their possession.
A lady at our National capital learns
from the best authority" that Wash
ington, father Of bis country, wore false
teeth, and the compression of the lips,
represented in his portraits, is the result
of an effort to keep them in place.
Portland, Ne, up to this time, has en-.
joyed sleighing since the November
snow. The annual announcement of
streets in which coasting is permitted is
officially published, and the pastime is
prohibited in other streets by ordinance.
The Italian Government has adopted
measures to stop the kidnapping Of chill
dren for street musicians in this and
other countries. and asks the aid OF
municipal authorities in this country to
compel the psdrones to return the chill.
dren 10 their homes in Italy.
A good many Cincinuaiians are sen.
sitive on the point Of Horticulture since
they we're interviewed by a young man
who, after exhibiting delicately per.
fumed plant which be called the Arctic
morning glory. sold them neat packages
Of turnip seed.
The advocates Of commission to de.
wise plans for preventing collisions at
sea say that al the maritime nations
vii unite to make 3 law governing this
matter. Tie steamship owners will not
act together in the matter, as they are
too much disposed to racing.
The house in which The grea, joaquin
Muller nsed to live At Shasta, Caliiornia,
is 10 be sold BY auction. II we could
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