Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-28
FACTS AND FANCiES.

DIR. Decaisne Of Paris protests against
the blood drinking cure as equally ao-
surd and disgusting
Mrs. Maxwell is engrossing clerk, Mrs.
Elliott is postmaster, and Mrs. Qnixon
is paper folder for The Iowa Legislature.
Three pounds of butter is the usual
marriage fee ia Vermont, but agroom IS
occasionally found who will add jug OF
| buttermilk.
Lady Baker, the well.known writer,
has been made Lady Superintendent .ot
the PERMANENT School of Cooking at
kSouth Kensington.
A tract of land in Missouri contain
inc 40 COO acres has been bought for
party Of French emigrants, who are
about to settle there.
Owing to the continued efforts OF the
Paris Society for the Prevention oil
Cruelty to Animals, bull fights have been
| prohibited in France.
Mrs. Maggie Van Colt is making
great Roadway in the REVEALS at baiti'
more. Every available spot in the
church is occupied, and the teryor is
intense.
Ia a woman who shoots q bear quail,
fed TO act as a justice of the peace Z
Mrs. Harriet Smith, in Wisconsin,
tracked and shot the biggest bear OF the
season.
The Ohio courts have decided that
throwing frozen potato at wife head
is sufficient grounds for divorce,
whether she is struck or not. so 1t
struck the court.
An old lady jumped off an Ohio rail
road TO recover her muf, and when they
hacked up and found her, says the local
reporter. deaths clammy fingers had
clutched her throat.
A religious contemporary has discov-
cred the style of the first Introduction
between our first parents. de SAID;
Madam, I'm Adam, to which she re-
Piled, Adam, m madam.
A clergyman proposes the abolition OF
golden. silver, tin, wooden and all other
weddings. and the substitution therefor
Of an anniversary renewal of the fee to
the minister who officiated at the origi'
nal ceremony.
Mark Twain has returne ed from Europe
with additional lucre, though the Eng
lishmen did not appear TO get enthusiasts
10 over him. He did not regulate his
Jokes to their ideas of humor, being IN
sense abroad in this respect.
A fourteen year old Lafayette girl fell
in love with a man at a mask ball, and
the next day attempted death by poison
unon finding out that the object of her
inflammation did not reciprocate her aztec
tons and would have nothing to do with
her.
DR.. A. D. Piper, of Boston, who has
been exploring the Amazon, reports that
the Indians of the region are peace able
and cultivate little farms. Cacao grows
wild and in great abundance. Arrange
ments have been made for settlement
on the Aquiry, in Bolivia.
One of the library servants at Lon
don club, being out of funds, sat down
one night and wrote notes on the club
stamped paper to prominent tradesmen
| about the city, requesting small loans
signing the name Of the treasurer. de
got over ESQ, and, subsequently, ten
years IN jail.
A painting deer, chased by hounds,
come up to a woodman working near the
Umpqua (Oregon) bridge, aud after he
had driven the dogs off the deer re
NAMED with him all day, allowing him
to fondle it, and appearing to feel a
lively sense OF gratitude for. the man 8
interference in its behalf
NJ. Lacbaud who defended Marshal
Bazaine on his trial, has declined to
take any fee, aud the ex Empress Eu-
genie has sent him present as a souve'
mir of the affair. The Queen. Of Spain
has assumed the costs Of the trial, and
has offered to provide for the education
of Bazaine's children.