Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.

our ChEIlcl piSOO"o VI
good breed, we're lately sold in London
for 1915.
A minister says: Don't peddle out
this sermon to other people, but take it
yourself"
A three line advertisement, 4O5 times
repeated, recently appeared in the Loa-
don Times.
East Tennessee is doing large bust
ness in shipping opossums North for
culinary purposes.
San Francisco is considering the FEAST
biity of introducing the prismoidal one
rail railway in her streets.
Mrs; Mary H. Burnham, formerly Mrs.
C. X. Fox, has left the stage, and will
lecture on '"That Sort of Thing in
Boston.
An Abingdon (Va.l man has a section
cut from a tree on his farm bearing the
inscription: I'D. Boon killed bar on
this tree l773."
Brooklyn girls don't break with their
alliances as usual owing to a growing re-
luctance to part with their diamond en-
gagement rings.
Baltimore complains of lack of ho-
tel accommodations, and contemplates
the immediate erection of several first
class caravansaries.
Among the Injuries of new hotel in
San Francisco will be band of twenty
performers who are TO be regularly at
tached to the house.
Seven members of the new Congress
answer to the name Williams, unless
death calls the roll between this and the
4th of March, 1875.
The making of dolls shoes has grown
within the past six or eight years into a
business of sufficient Importance to oc-
cupy several manufactures.
1t is reported that the people of Mil
ton, N. H., are so much discouraged by
their losses by the recent fire, that there
is probability of the town not being
rebuilt.
By order Of the German Crown Prin-
cess the female clerks and telegraphers
employed by the German government
were directed to set aside all extrava-
gance in dress and toilets.
Some of the leading theaters in Ger
many propose to put stop to the sys-
tenn of recalls and OF throwing bouquets
and wreaths on the stage during the pro-
gress of an opera or play.
The Indians of Harrison river. British
Columbia, have built large Roman
Catholic church. The plans were pre-
pared by the priest and all the rest of
the work was done by the aborigines.
One of the indirect advantages of an
animated political canvass is instanced
in the case of candidates wife who
bases her application for divorce upon
the accounts of her husbands private
character published in the opposition
papers.
When you meet with men who do not
scruple to make use of woman's name
in reckless and unprincipled manner,
shun them. They are the very worst
members of the community-men lost to
every sense of honor, every feeling of
humanity.
An old tax warrant, just discovered,
sets forth that Joseph Bonaparte was
taxed in 1921 $3.50 for 1000 acres of
land, by Nathan Satterthwaite, then as
SCISSOR of Bordentown, N. j. The asses
sor is still living, and says he stuck it
on little, as Bony was rich and could
stand il"
Auburn, Maine, has shoemaker who
takes contracts to shoe and boot y
people at stated annual price, ranging
from SIS to S35, according to the size of
the foot and the gait of the wearer. AT
the end of the year the customer brings
in all his old boots and shoes and gets
credit on the next year for wear left in
them.
Seine one has been comparing a carte
de jour of the Restaurant Very, Of
Paris, dated 1903, with those of the
present day, and finds that while meat,
game and fish cost now double or
treble what they did at the beginning Of
the century, wines have scarcely moved
in price, except the choicest varieties
which are very much higher.
A clergyman recommends submersion
instead Of cremation. He says that
funeral steamers might be used to carry
the bodies out at sea, and they might be
sunk beyond the reach of dissertation
while they could do no possible harm to
the living. Il might perhaps be difficult
for some of the Western people always
to find an available ocean handy in
which to throw their deceased friends.
1t is in this underhanded way that an
Arizona paper seeks to disparage the
taste Of the average American woman
Last Saturday young Indian, one o
the fanciest-dressed Of bis tribe, came tc
town with the wages Of a weeks work in
his pocket and sought out the diaeren
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