Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-07-26
FACTS AND FANGIES.


Ladies at New London bathe in patent
bathing dresses which contain corsets,
gloves and shoes. Some ladies look
betterin them than they do in their ordi-
nary costumes.
Said magistrate to an actress: "Your
profession, Mademoiselle2" "Artiste." 1"
Your age2" twenty-five" Usher,
you can now swear the lady to tell the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
tue truth. "
Ma" said an intelligent, thoughtful
boy, Il don't think Solomon was so rich
as they say he was" "Why, my dear,
what could have put that into your
head?" "Why, the Bible says he slept
with his fathers; and / think il he had
been so very rich he would have had a
bed Of bis own" 'l -'
Frozen peaches will be shipped to
Europe this summer in large quantities
A successful experiment was made last
year, and it was demonstrated that fruit
kept frozen during the ocean voyage
thawed out fresh and fine of favor upon
arrival in England, where it was sold at
enormous prices.
Ladies who admire the rich heavy,
stiff black silks which are sold at some
shops at apparently low prices, may be
interested to'know that large portion
Of this richness is composed Of salts Of
iron and astringents with salts Of tin and
cyanides. The silk is merely a thin
skeleton, which supports the adulteration
until the goods are sold.
A lady who had on her upper lip some
thing approaching a mustaehe, lately
called on an officer and his wife, whose
laughing, merry little boy happened to
be present at tthe time, In the course of
conversation, the little fellow inquired
what he must do to get hair on his lip.
why, rub it against papas" was the
reply, "oh, mamma" said he, us that
the way Miss - has got hers2"
Mrs. Mary Abbott, of Smyrna, Del,
has been led a blushing bride to the altar
seven times. She has been Mrs. Viii
liams, Mrs. Truax, Mrs. Farrow, Mrs.
Riggs, Mrs. Wallace, Mrs. Berry, Mrs.
Pratt, and now Mrs. Abbott and has
married widower every time but once,
aud has reared numerous step-children
TOR her husbands, but has never had chill
dren of her own. 1lA- lIae tll
When Vassar College was built and
filed at once by about four hundred in.
habitants, none of them could find one
closet in the whole immense building.
Matthew Vassar was astounded at being
told that the girls wanted closets.
why" he said they can have two
nails in the WALL one for their school
dress, and one for their best dress-and
what do they want more2" But in spite
Of the unreasonebleness Of the demand
the closets had to be built after all.
The annual complaint that goes up
from the watering places Of the scarcity
of eligible young men is bel lg heard this
year. The sentimental girls say that it
is whispered by the forest trees and
Numbered by the waves as they break
on the sandy shores, The dance music
invites to the delicate familiarties Of the
waltz, and the moonlight coaxes to de.
licious interviews between Just us two"
but the male presence is the wanting
element. At Long Branch, for instance,
the condition of affairs has become re-
ally distressiul. A correspondent Of the
Times; writing from there, makes it out
so bad that young unmarried men
would be preferred, but men Of any age
would be accepted"