Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-18
Directors;
FACTS AND FANCIES.

l" A1Ils OH womdn make bare
living by serving as models for painters
and sculptors.
| One Tennessee editor adorned bis
columns with goose for the Green
vile tailors election to the Senate.
Don Carlos seems determined to make
a great hustle in Spain, and that's why
he talks SO much of H1-pania.-New
Orleans Picayune.
The expansion of the immense body
OF ice on Cayuga Lake is upheaving the
stones and soil of the shores 10 an
additional hight of several feet.
Young women who are about TO pc rish
for want of some one to marry sho uld
bear IN mind that woman in Troy has
just sold her husband for two cents.
A fight between a negro boy and a
bear, after which dog will be set upon
the bear" All this in Waco, Texas, for
the contemplate sum of fifty cents.
A Wisconsin man says. at is aston
ishing what effect kind words hive on
boys. True enough. They let the boys
know just what persons can De safely
fooled with.
The editor os the New York CONNER.
cial Advertiser has bought chair which
was once occupied by Daniel Webster
He might be still more ike Daniel by
neglecting to pay for it.
Prince Arthur Of England will 90 up
the Nile shortly, The Queen wishes him
to go ineognito, but if we we're in his place
we'd go in boat, for fear of alligators.
st Louis Republican.
Dry goods clerk--A creature who
makes iaces behind the backs of nine out
OF ten women who come into the store,
and punctuates the fight Of time by
bawling Cash. Brooklyn Argus.
When Baltimore husbs nd gets cold
and careless aud forgets his home his
wife puts up letter "fre,m an old ad.
mirer, asking her to elope and all that,
and the husbands early love returns as
soon as he finds the lettst.
The Texas Legislatu re proposes to
make it penal offense for person TO
walk on a railroad track. If Legisla-
lures go on in this manner there will
soon be no way in which man can
legally make fool Of himself.
a London correspondent who is
usually well informed says the wealthy
classes in England generally choose !
their coachmen and footmen, not on
account OF character, but according to |
SIZE and physical pertec elton.
During a trial the Judge called wit
ness. No one answered, and an elderly
man arose and solemnly said "he was
gone" Where has he gomez" asked
the Judge, in no tender tone. "I don't
know, but he's dead, was the guarded
answer.
A Texas editor, assisted by his com.
positor, says; There is an amount of |
poetical genius in Navarro county equal
to that Of the whole British Kingdom.
If the poet Lauriet could Gull our waste. |
basket he could procure material for |
poem as long as the Atlantic telegraph |
cable.
A short time since a love quarrel
occurred between a man and woman on /
the third floor of house in Paris. Made 1
furious by something the man said to
her, the woman threw open the window |
and jumped out. There was hard wind \
blowing at the time, and this, making q !
balloon Of her skirts, sustained her |
weight so as to lot her gently down into
the deep snow, and sb g called cab and |
drove away.
Astronomer Bartlett, of Battle Creek,
is circulating this bit of gossip about the
big dipper One hundred thousand !
years ago the bright stars which at pres
ent form this familiar constellation we're
arranged in the form OF large cross,
and one hundred thousand years hence
they will assume the appearance Of an
elongated dipp@ diff srent in shape
from the one now seem and stretching
over vide extent OF the celestial
vault,