Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-23
FACTS:AND FANCIES.
Il. WHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor,

If your brain is on fire blow 1t out.
All flowers of speech spring from
tulips.
Mrs. Stanton is still stumping in Mich
igan. ha
A wag calls bigamy Utahlizing the fe-
male sex.
They have another Vaseuez freebooter
in California.
"Rule of Three Live with your
wife, mother and mother-inlaw.
The hydrophobia days are come, the
maddest of the year. Rochester Express.
No men are so oft in the wrong as
those who pretend to be always in the
right.
The police of Reading, Pennsylvania,
have list of ladies who airt on the
streets. 20
Madame Janauschek is at the Kissin-
gen baths, trying the effects of rest and
Kissingen.
"Tom, what in the world put matri-
mony in your head?' well, the fact is,
l was getting short of shirts.
An Irish editor says he can see no
earthly reason why women should not be
allowed to become medical men.
Mr.. Pines house at Huntington, Long
Island, was struck by lightning few
days ago. 1t had two lightning rods.
The site of Fleet prison, where Mr.
Pickwick was confined, is now occupied
by new Congregational church.
The Thakore of Bhownugger, India, a
youth of seventeen, lately espoused four
young ladies of royal blood at one time.
A Kentucky lady has compromised a
breach of promise suit damages laid at
$30,OOO) by accepting S. and new
chignon.
A Liverpool woman, to shield her hus-
band, who was charged with removing
the end of her nose, swore that she bit
it off herself,
The farmers in Illinois are importing
Norman horses. The animals are heav-
lily built, and are specially adapted for
agricultural purposes.
A Connecticut coroner jury naturally
decided that suicide must, to all intents
and purposes, have lost his head when
he neatly severed it from his body.
The latest telegram from the spirit
world is signed David F. Farragut,"
and contains the following pathetic mes
sage: Don't let Winnie Ream bust
me"
There are three classes into which all
the women past seventy that ever knew
were to be divided First, that dear old
soul; second, that old woman; third,
that old WITCH COIeridge.
In Maine, recently, by the advice of
clairvoyant, body was exhumed and
re-buried with the face downward, as
means of staying the ravages of con-
sumption in the corpse's family.
The girls of Vassar College have
moonlight sails on the Hudson, and the
young men of the vicinity are graciously
permitted to stand on the shore of that
noble river and see them 90 BY. No
cards and no hope of any.
It's said the word girl occurs only
twice in the Bible. But this is not evil
dence that there were only two girls in
those days Like the girls of the
present day, they probably called them
selves young ladies"
Authorities differ as to whether the
best time to pick out a wife is during
house.cleaning, or on wash day. 0rdi-
narily, however, man can pretty much
tell what he's coming to by the way she
makes the sdds fly.
A young gentleman Of Terre Haute
remarked to his female companion the
other evening. "Ahl the most beautiful
evening in my recollection. Luna looks
peculiarly beautiful" WAS that her
just went by" quickly asked the young
lady.
A Detroit female, breathing hard and
carrying q large hickory cane, ran down
the street the other morning inquiring if
anybody had seen a small. cross-eyed
man anywhere along here9' Several
persons asked, What's the mattsr2"
But she hurried on, saying, Haven't
time now; l want to get my paws on the
fawning sycophant for just a minutel"