Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-07
FACTS AND FANCIES.

A Maine Indian Economically shot his
squaw and buried her under a snow-drit.
Then he made tracks.
The Boston Globe publishes its literary
criticisms IN French, greatly to the re-
lief Of its constant readers.
A soft answer turneth away wrath. but
we lose our patience with people who are
continually asking soft questions.
DR.. Kingsley. a New York dentist,
says that irregular teeth in children are
the result Of cramning at school.
A Galveston young lady has sued a
man for attempting to kiss her against
her will instead Of against her cheek.
The milkmen of San Francisco have
formed a Mutual Aid Association. One
holds the can while the other pumps.
Indianapolis prints more weekly news.
papers than any other town of its size
in the country, but it cant make pig
iron.
There are more dogs than students at
Harvard. Like the Mexicans, our peo-
pie require something for their emotional
nature.
A Massachusetts girl, we are told, stole
a peck of oats for a hustle. We can
scarcely believe the story, however.
Why, for instance, didn't she take a
bushel.
Eugene recently dined with Victoria
at Windsor, and the two passed a happy
hour discussing the virtues of their late
husbands and the particular diseases
that they died Of.
1.-THE silvery music drops from her
~delicately cultured throat like phospho-
rus from the dripping oar says a West
ern critic Of a favorite prima donna.
he was prejudiced-in favor Of the oar.
The fact hat twenty-seven men are
wanted by the San Francisco police for
deserving their wives indicates a change
Of sentiment from the time when the
first white woma was received in Cali
fornia with a procession.
Talking about talking a philosopher
says: Conversation never sits easier
upon US than when we now and then dis
charge ourselves in a symphony of
laughter, which may not improperly be
called the chorus of conversation"
A French Duke had engaged all the
staterooms on a channel boat. A beau
tiful Duchess requested him to turn out
some Of his servants that she might have
a stateroom. The Duke refused. and
the Duchess sat out in the rain through
out the voyage.
Clara Morris says that her husband
let's her do pretty much as she wants to.
This is a delightful situation for a free
spirit like Clara's. We shouldn't wonder
if it would be a good thing for young
ladies always to select husbands from
families in which caution is hereditary.
Love, Gays Swinburne, is more cruel
tina. just. But tits more Maynard and
u~naccountable than either. A young
lady, said to be the most beautiful in
Chicago lady who but one short year
ago took the premium at a prize fair for
lovely women, has just given her heart
and hand to a cross-eyed. pug-nosed,
freckle.faced, bandy.legged, retail hair
merchant Of that city.
Secretary Fish decides that marriages
cannot hereafter be solemnized at the
American legation in Paris. Some per-
son has inferred from this that Mr.. Fish
is opposed to marriages. But it is not
so. The object of his decision is to
check the awful rashness with which
American girls in Paris lasso the be-
wildered scions Of nobility, and to give
them the opportunity to cool off.
A story in the Hartford Times that
Mrs. Frank Moulton had left her hus-
band on account Of his mixing her up
with the scandal, is Indignantly denied
by the New York Times, and evidently
by authority. From which it would APP
pear that the mutual friend is quite sem
sitive when his own domestic affairs are
called into question, however reckless
he may be with regard to the domestic
affairs az others.
A teacher ina Sunday.school in R.
was examining a class Of little boys from
a Scripture catecbism. The first question
was: who stoned Stephen 1.-THE
Jews" Second question: Where did
they stone him?' Beyond the limits
Of the city The third question: Why
did they take him beyond the limits Of
the city," was not in the book, and
proved a poser to the whole class; il
passed from head to foot without an an.
,swer being attempted. At length a little
fellow. who had been scratching his head
all the while, looked up and said
Well, I don't know, unless il vas to gel
a fair fling at him.
Mrs. St. John Eckel. Maria Monks
daughter, gives the following account Of
the successful reformation Of her pug
nose: Zone Of the frst things my sistel
bad said, on seeing me, was, But where
is your pug nose7 1t is gone, ! replied
but ! did not tell her how it had gone.
! will here make The confession TO the
reader. At night l would take a long