Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-21
FACTS AND FANcIEs.

scarce in The South.
Young Americas, the infant violinIst,
died recently in Boston.
A Piitsburg peanut vender has twelve
thousand dollars in bank.
The wooden toothpick has almost en-
tirely displaced the sharpeued match
To get a glass of water at boarding
house-scnd up for a third cup Of tea,
Colonel Forney declines the awful
honor of being made Mayor Of Phila-
delphia.
For once fashion and the doctors
agree in prescribing thick-soled boots
for ladies.
( Beecher gets So 80 minute when he
lectures. This is most as satisfactory
as preaching.
The manager Of the " Brooklyn Matri-
monial Agency advertises for fresh
stock Of dumb women.
a.,.l.sss.e.. /" What Is nnthino22
Boy; 1t is when a man asks you to
hold his horse, aud jast says, Thank
you.
The public debt Of the United States
is only about sixty thousand times
greater ahan it was in 1925, less than
forty years ago.
A Boston ahip-builder says thar Noah ;
ark WASH much Of a ship after all, be
ing little better THAI a barn with the
crev;ees caulled up.
Chicago boasts Of having tde heaviest
cattle dealers IN the world. One man
bought 1871 ,497 head last year, and paid
therefor $l3, 1901 a.
1t is said that never since the war has
the theatrical business in New York
evoked so little interest Or proved so
improbable as this season.
An indianapolis policeman arrested
three fashionabis young ladies IN mems
attire at a masquerade, and never said a
word to some fellows in crinoline.
There are four British families at
present with rival claimants to baronet-
cies = namely, the Fredericks, the
Paynes, the Yanes and the Tichbornes.
Old Curmndgeon, who has always
hated the small boy, expresses his graft
deation at the mildness of the winter
lie expects much from the thinness of
the ice this year.
Miss Milwaukee II. Smith, the first
white child born in the village OF Mil
yankee, has succeeded in getting mar.
ried at last, after carrying that name
nearly forty years.
Umbrellas for the fashionable young
women Of the period are Of navy blue
serge silk, with ivory handles cut in the
form Of cross. They are not orna.
mented in any way with silver or gold,
and for that reason are very genteel and
nice looking"
An Iowa City dog jumped into a well
forty feet deep, the other day, and just
about as he was gone a rope was let
down to him which he seized in his teeth
and held on till he was drawn up. lie
was rolled in blankets, dosed with hot
whisky, and in a short time wac as lively
as ever.
A wIetched cynic writes: A bright
little FIVE yearold was looking through
picture book the other night, when she
suddenly paused. gazed eagerly into her
mothers face, and while there shone in
her eyes the light Of wisdom beyond
her Years, said-lblamed il we haven't
forgotten what she saidl.
Whenever the Emperor William is re-
ported seriously i'll, immense crowds col
ieet in front Of the palace 10 Berlin, and
await intelligence Of his death or recov-
cry. Oitentimes they are uuruly and
keep up a dismal groaning and moansag,
until the police and soldiers clear them
away This sort Of thing must cheer an
invalid
A Cornell student has got himself
pillOried by fOolishly stealing part Of one
q Buckles latest chapters and passing
Il of as his own in q prize essay. To
be sure, he won the Woodford medal
worth 500, but with Il he achieved the
equiyocal distinction Of being a fraud Of
the FIRST vater.-K J. Nal.
The Deirei, Free Press. having re.
ported the suicide Of Mrs. Rebecoa Hard
ing Davis. the wellknoEn novelist. By
falling into = cistern, the Chicago Times
says that her story. now pubii.hi=- In