Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-25
FACTS n FANCrEs.


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"Yes" a Wisconsin editor says. this is
the grasshopper that win chaw us up."
3 has been noted that of the eight
bishops chosen by she Episcopal church
since October last Eve are under forty
years Of age,
Life is like a roll Of costly material
passing swiftly through our hands, and
We must embrOider cur pattern on it as
it goes. We cannot wait to pick up u
false stitch, or pause too long before we
set another.
A little girlin Milwaukee distinguished
herself the other day by lighting \ ere
with a roll of paper she had seen her
father stuff away in an odd corner Of
his bureau. The roll contained m
thing more than eleven hundred dollars,
A useful and much needed invention
has been patented, q fountain pen, which
by the pressure Of the thumb on a small
ball, projects a stream of ink through
the holder and into the face of the per.
son who is looking over yonr shoulder
while you are writing.
This Office keeps a boy who is paid
fifty dollars a week to do nothing but sit
sn q chair and yell. shut the deorl"
People who come up stairs on business
are thus saved the pain of hearing seven
or eight men yell out in succession
Detroit Fr1 Press.
A delicstely-molded English nobleman
is spoken Of by the Liverpool Post, who
lately made a wager that be would bite
q toad's head off, eat au ounce twist of
tobacco, and follow this up with three
raw potatoes. The bet was the price of
the tobacco and two gallons Of beer,
which be easily won.
The Duke De Broglie having declared
his inability to form a new Ministry,
President MaeMahon has prevailed upon
the present Cabinet. excepting NJ. Cha
baud L%atour, to remain IN Office for the
present aud until their places can be
properly filled.
There is said to be a larger water area
IN Vermont, in proportion to its size,
than any other State in the Union.
There are 1875 acres covered by lakes
and ponds Of fifty acres or more each,
and an effort is to be made to stock them
with black bass, salmon, trout, and white
FISH.
The thermometer ranges from twenty
to forty degrees below zero in Wyoming
Territory. and the snow is deep and
drifted badly. Apprehensions are felt
for the safety Of the party under Captain
Henry, which left Fort Laramie lately
to drive the miners ont of the Black
Hills.
Charles W. Plummer, a Newark, N.
j., society duck, had to pay Miss Grace
L. Plum, a belle Of the same city, for
hugging her on the parlor sofa, kissing
her every time they met and going to
sleep on her shoulder" the neat sum Of
5000; but as this sort Of thing went on
for sixteen months, the bill was not ex.
c%essiye. Nice girl, Miss Plum.
Ladies who read with jealousy and
dismay that Countess Fralof had laces
worth thousands Of dollars per yard will
rejoice TO know that A. T. Stewart testi
fed under oath that be had never seen
laces worth more than two hundred and
fifty dollars per yard, and thai
in his opinion the modern article il
really much more valuable than the
ancient.
A Mrs. Noble, Of New York, is making
US pine and die from sheer envy Of her
toilettes, they are so magnificent. l use
the word advisedly, well knowing its oft
repeated use has nearly worn of its sig
%ni6eance, but imagine me emphasizing
magnificent as only q woman can, and
maybe you will take in what / mean.
you will il you are a woman, but will
mott a man, for men are 30 very stupid
- Washington Letter.
The London papers briefly announc,
that the Mordaunt divorce case is draw
ing near its close. II has been draggin,
through the courts for Yeas, in order Il
shield that model young MAJ the hops
Of the nation, God bless himl" as Mon
sienor sCapel says in bis toasts-th'
Prince Of Wales, who plays the sam,
role in the MordRunt scandal as doe
Henry Ward Beecher in the Brooklyn
drama. Henry always admired tn
British royal family, and Albert EdwarI
has Tor ought TO have) a relish 70
} Plymouth sermons. SO both may sing
Oceans may partus.
But we're still the samel
The Beecher CIreus-Ham Sand