Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.

aN1 WV 0APNoANCAl
that she put her'baby in the stove, and
they've had to send her to an asylum.
In wrapping his paper in old bills the
editor Of the Oshkosh Northwestern
gave himself away" painfully. The
Berlin Journal received his druggist
bill-total, Sill. 90; total for whisky,
$lO6.3e; total for drugs, $3.50.
A thief was arrested in England the
other day who admitted his guilt and
asked that sentence be passed as a pro.
lection to himself and the public. For"
said he, ut is a terrible thing that a
fellow like me should be going about"
The late Duke of Wellington, like
General Sherman, did not fancy news
paper people. To an application for
particulars Of a royal visit, the Duke re-
piled: IF. NJ, the Duke OF Wellington,
presents his compliments to Mr.. -,
and begs to say that he does not see
what his house at Stratbgelsaye has to
do with the public press"
Mr.. a. Bronson Alcott was once ex-
pounding has theory of the sin of eating
flesh, and said, "A man who eats pork
becomes a little swinish, does he not
and if he eats mutton be is inclined to
be sheepish." Perhaps So" replied
DR.. James Walker, but | have noticed
that men who live on vegetables are apt
to e-rather-small-potatoes."
Two French savants have presented to
the French Academy of Sciences the
result Of their experiments upon a fame
produced by the mixture Of sulphur Of
carbon and bioxide Of nitrogen. The
light produced by it is so intense as to
quite eclipse the sun. By the help of it
photographers will be able to do their
work at any hour of the day or night
and in any condition Of the atmosphere.
A Yokohama respondent saw Euro
pean ladies, elegantly dressed in full
evening costume, on their way to some
dinner party in a baby cart drawn by
stout coolies whose only clothing was
the tattooing upon their backs and
breech-cloths four inches wide. One
doesn't mind it after q while, but at first
it seems very odd. So it did to see q
naked coolie operating a sewing ma
chine Boston Post.
A Dublin cabman has made his ap.
pearance in a police court for having,
while under the influence Of whisky,
driven his cab, with FIVE m in it,
into the canal. The cold water ap-
pears to have revived a part Of bis
senses, out bis only request to the consta-
bic WHO came to his rescue was: Save
the mare, never mind the women" Two
OF Ike latter ere not expected to survive
the shock and fright.
Mons. Louft, one Of the most promi-
nent editors Of the Paris Steele, disap.
peared about a month ago, and it is now
certain that he committed suicide. He
addressed a letter to his family, who re.
side at Creteil, stating that he was wor-
ried TO death by hard work and had re.
solved TO kill himself. Since then the
most diligent search has failed to afford
any clue to his whereabouts. He was
sixty years old, very stout, and wore
long gray hair and mustaches.
A singular story Of disappointed love
is recorded in Paris. A young man Of
good family, whose name the Figaro
withholds, became violently attached to
a Countess, who refused to receive his
addresses. When all hope was gone the
poor fellow took to drinking and inhaling
ether. This operated 50 powerfully on
his brain that he became insane, and on
the 10th Of December was taken to the
lyry Insane Asylum. While being con.
veyed TO the madhouse the young man
was continually shrieking, take me to
my Contest | want to see my Coun.
tessl"
Near to Colombo, in India, a snake
seeing a parrot IN a cage, had made its
way to a place where it could make an
attack upon the parrot. A child observ.
ing this. and not knowing the danger,
grasped the snake by the tail, while the
snake and the parrot attacked each
other. just then an elder sister, observ.
ing the little one in danger, snatched the
child away, and in SO doing pulled the
snake out Of the cage. At this moment
a dog came up and among them all they
dispatched the snake. The dog, the
snake and the parrot all died from the
effects of the encounter, but neither of
the glrls received any injury.
Paris has had its first bal masque of
the season, and it was as naughty as
usual. One costume worn by an inyen.
tive genius, consisted Of a square box,
which extended from his throat nearly
to his knees, bis legs and arms being
clothed in their every day garb. At the
back OF this box was a door with this
inscription, Do not open" OF course,
everybody who saw him fastened to open
the door, and as within il there was
nothing at all, so far as clothes we're
concerned the effect can be better i'm.
agined than described. OF course his
career was o brief one.-BostoB Post.