Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-24
FACTS mi FANCIEs.

An oVercOat Is tne next pest tnink u
q farm.
Pixies Peak has been climed by 6ts
visitors this season.
The rectiier's soliloquy-" With al
thy vaults, l love thee, STILL"
The Kentucky papers say the tobacco
crop is all cured" 1t wasn't a very
sick crop, though.
Forty-one red-headed girls 20 to one
school in New York. Prediction; Forty.
one bald-headed men in the near future.
The editors of four London news
papers to whom Hood sent his Song Of
the Shirt didn't wear any, and couldn'i
appreciate it.
Capt. Fred Merryman, of Port Huron,
Mich, has the most valuable collection
of coins in the west. II numbers Is, 600
pieces.
Mrs. Squsems, Of Smithville, who is
married to a minister, Gays that her hus-
band did intend to start a revival in his
church, but upon reflection concluded
that the business was getting overdone
and common, and so gave up the idea.
The woman-suffragists of New Haven
are wrestling with the question, Who is
the superauous womau2" OF course we
can't tell, but we know a number Of
family men in town, each Of whom thinks
he has married her.-Norpich Bulletin.
Mrs. Scott,Siddons, at one of her read.
ingsin " heightened" Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, the other evening, openly re-
buked her audience because they APP
plauded her humorous and %ponsensical
selections, but made no demonstrations
when she read from Shakespeare. Per-
hsps it was because she read nonsense
better than she did Shakespeare.
It's about as we'll for American grand
juries on the Rio Graude frontiers to
ding indictments at the Greasers and
raiders across the river, as it would be
for our troops to give the rsscals a vol
ley of paper bullets. To catch and hang
q half dozen or so a month would be
worth more to the Texan cattle drovers
than all the legal processes in Christen-
dom.
Two sisters live in Florence, Italy, who
never pass a beggar without giving him
something, saying at the same time:
" Instead of blessing me pray a little for
the soul Of my dearly loved brother, who
is in ~purgatory," and there is not a street
where the sisters, ever dressed in the
deepest Grape, are not followed by loving,
devoted eyes from the many to whom
they have. made this touching appeal.
1t is reported that 0fenbaeh, the COM
poser, is to visit the United States next
year. He is said to be a delicate, pen.
sive, refned-looking gentleman. with a
decidedly Jewish physiogn6my, long,
carefully-cultivated side-whiskers, and a
general air of melancholysand ill-health.
His retirement from the management of
the GAiete Theater wss due to the sue
cessiye failures of LA Haine" and
"Gsnevieve de Brabant," which cost him
together over 1920, 900. This was too
much, even for his ardent nature, and
long purse.
A Detroiter had his hair cut the other
day, and after the barber had finished,
the head was the worst looking job ever
turned out in Detroit. The man was
hopping mad as he looked into the glass
and rOared out: Why, you blamed
fool, you don't know anything about
hair.cutting!" Oats so, boss" said
the owner of the shop, coming forward.
II told him to take your head to learn
on, but it don't pear to me dat he'll ever
make much Of a barberl'-Detroit Free
Press.
In q recent lecture the Rev.. Robert
Collyer told the following anecdote:
He was at a children's party one Christ
mas eve, and, seeing a little boy sitting
in one corner, and not dancing, he ap.
preached him and asked why be did not
join the others and dance "Tm not
dsntbing," said the boy solemnly, be
cauthe | don't think danthing it'll the
great end Of life." Nov, you know"
added Mr.. Collyer, "if that was my boy
| should think he was meant for a minis-
ter, but l should be sorry for the church
that had to take him."