Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-27
FACTS AND FANCIES.


A dress reform club is proposed by
the ladies of Reading.
Nothing, it is said, contributes so much
to the music Of, the future as matri-
mony.
An amateur reporter sent in an ac-
count of wreck, in which he stated
that no less than thirteen untOrtunates
bit the dust.
Conundrum--Saida a boy: That chap
yonder is my brother, and this girl is my
sister, yet she is no relation of mine.
Answer; The boy lied.
Notwithstanding the bad effects of ice
on the teeth, a number of New York
philanthropists want to send some
around to the poor this summer.
Even the Boston editors quarrel, in
their refined way. One of them is ac-
cusing another of chattering incohe
rently about our want of individuality.
Elsie Levison, the daughter of the
well.known Nine. Rachel, a young girl
eighteen years old, was found drowned
in the waters Of the Seine few weeks
ago.
Finding it impossible to learn the ris-
ing generation of Pennsylvania any
thing, a McKeesport pedagogue rushed
to the Monongaheia and drowned him
self.
The accomplished statistcian Of the
New York World estimates the exact
weight of lady's wardrobe at eleven
pounds, thirteen ounces and eight drains
She had better drop off the last if she
wants to crusade efectually.
Emily Faithful the English lady who
is one Of the most respected and able of
the advocates of the interests of her sex,
says that in her opinion the intemperate
use of ice water is one of the reasons of
the delicate health of American women
In West Grove, Penn, recently, an
interesting boy Of twelve years tried to
commit suicide by hanging himself. He
said, after having been taken down. If
he was not allowed to live with his grand
mother in Wilmington, he wanted to go
and live with his grandfather in heaven.
A paragraph is circulating to the
effect that Miss Hope Scott, great grand
daughter Of Sir Walter, intends to shut
up Abbotsford, and goes away in disgust
when the travelling season begins. The
fact is that the lady goes to Edinburg in
order that visitors may be enabled to
roam unrestricted over the dsmain. She
wishes them to see Abbotsford, but does
not understand that she ought to be a
part of the exhibition.
A Burlington Board of Trade man got
into trouble by letting his business weigh
too heavily on his mind the other night.
His wife heard him murmur in his sleep,
ELLA, dear Ella, fondly and tenderly,
and as her name is Mehitable, she woke
him with the bald end of the hair brush,
and atked him who2 Il was thinking
of Ella Vator," the wretched man said
calmly, and chuckled off to sleep again.
A Montana man dined in Philadelphia
recently, and describes the event as fol-
lows in a recent letter to a New York
friend: after all that fine dinner they
brought in some glass bowls, with water
and a piece of lemon in each | sup
posed it was lemonade, and as we had
been drinking many kinds of wine, was
glad Of it. for | was thirsty. But when
went to taste it, found it so sour that
asked for sugar. The ladies appeared
to me to be smiling at something, but
scarcely knew what. Atterward / was
told they were finger bowls to rinse ones
fingers in. But, john, nobody washed
their hands after drank my lemsnade.
call that thoughtful; don't your