Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-06-12
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Inc nome clrcle-Walking around
with the baby at night.
A four year old girl performs on the
tight rope in Milwaukee.
Daniel Webster's private library will
be sold at auction in Boston.
A big tree 4sO feet long, was recently
found in Victoria, Australia.
A national convention of brewers is
to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The late fire in Peshawur, Indie, is said
to have rendered $4,000 people home
less.
Italy is said to be rapidly taking a
front place in the matter of female
education.
A new plan to supply Liverpool. Eng
land, with water, is estimated to cost
about Sl2,l0 ,00o.
The Japanese are shrewdly intelligent.
Two million dollars will be expended in
their portion of the centennial exposi-
ton.
The loudest singer in the Moody and
sankey London meetings has proven to
have been a regular pickpocket, plying
his trade.
Gustave Dore is said to look thin and
over-worked, having been very hard at
his labor Of late. He is meditating new
and grand enterprises.
Phil Sheridan is going to take his
bride out upon the plains for a wedding
tour. he means 10 begin married life
with plenty Of room to move around in.
Venice has a woman's paper entitled
LA Donna" Its editor is a young wo-
man Of twenty three, very clever, and
who is said to be entirely self-educated.
Lemons in California are said to weigh
fourteen ounces, which sets a contempt
rary wondering how much whisky is
needed to make a punch out of one of
them.
The Hillsboro (0.) crusaders, who
have had a long suit for damages on
haad, have been assessed by the last
jury ouly FIVE dollars, but the costs
amouut 10 $1,000.
XII himl kill himl' shouted a crowd
in Virginia City, as they gathered around
a hotel. What for2" enquired a stran-
ger. Hes got on alligator bco.s and q
velvet coat. Mash imp
In the hymn-book Of the United Pres
byterian Church in Great Britain, in
Montsomery's Hail to the Lords
Amounted the phrase, che mountain
dew was changed to the heavenly
dew" mountain dew in Scotland, sig
niiying a glass of whisky
The late Jesse D. Bright LETT ell of his
property to his wife, with power to dis
pose oft as she chooses, with the excep
ton Of $4,000 to each Ct his two daugh-
tsrs and his son. He is said to have
owned valuable property in Western
Maryland, Indiana aud Louisville.
Literary women in Nevada are not
ashamed to go outside of their profess
sion for the sake Of money-making.
Misses Clapp and Babcock, principals of
the Sierra Seminary, have taken a con.
tract to furnish iron fencing for Capitol
square, at Carson, fer s., 500 in gold.
Mr. Cowden Clarke, the English author,
speaks Of a gentleman who lately, in ma
king a return OF bis income to the tax
commissioners, wrote on the paper: For
the last three years my income has been
somewhat under ESQ; in future it will
be more preoarious, as the mai is dead
Of whom l borrowed the money"
A Davenport paper says Of a little gi,l
recently tarred and feathered by the la.
dies Of Wilton, Iowa: THE girl came to
Davenport, and had her head cleansed in
a barber shop. She had a wealth of hair,
which fell nearly to her waist. Il was
so matted with tar-genuine North Caro-.
lima tar-that the barber had to cut it
close to her head. He picked feathers
from the hair that remained, and spent
over an hour in getting the tar out Of il"
The way to WOO. Wealthy widow Gin
answer to warm VOWS of undying love
and admiration - Then you really
think me beautiful, Mr.. O'Dowd can
didly, howr' Mr.. O'DOSd-"Beautiful2
Indeed you are. Not, perhaps, in that
cut and dried, regular aud inspired fash
lon, that passes for beauty with the yu,-
gar herd; but, OF yosr face has a subtitle
charm-a-a an ineffable sonething-a
"a a certain "je ma say kwaw," you
know, which is far more rare and more
precious than what the ignorant world
calls beauty r'-PuRch