Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-15
FACTS AND FASCIES.
K. wHITMORg,
Publisher and Proprietor:

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red paddle.wheels.
An enterprising Richmond woman is
a dealer in ice during the summer, and
in winter she deals in coal
Germany has decided to abandon
silver as the standard Of value in her
financial system and substitute gold.
The Empress Eugenie lately asked
MacMshon if she might pass
twenty.four hours incognita in Paris,
and the Marshal said mo"
Josephine's favorite residence. Nal
maison, which Napoleon III. purchased
and restored, will shortly be put mp again
under the auctioneer hammer.
The Prince Of Wales regards the trip
to India in the light Of big spree.
Rome, Athens and Alexshdria in Egypt
are to be his way stations for refresh
meuts
A man in Denver admires the pull.
back" His wife hasn't kicked him
since it cane in fashion, excepting when
she was in her night dress, and then she
had her shoes off.
A certain New York dry goods mer'
chant, in want Of boy, lately displayed
the following suggestive notice: boy
wanted, that has fully rested himself auC
is not too intellectual" "
Those who 20 forth into the woods
aud country lanes for the purpose o
gathering the brilliant hued leaves tha
are shoWered by the fall breeSes now
term it "autumnal leaf parties"
The Supreme Court of Vermont has
just held that person travelling on the
s lbbath cannot maintain an action
az sinst the town for any damage he
may suffer through defects in the
highways.
A subterranean room, Of considerable
size, with bath full of fresh water issu
ing from a spring, and supposed to hav'
beer used as baptistery, has been dis
covered in street in London. 1t il
built Of Roman bricks,
Bismarck is nearly bald, having oul.
three hairs on the top Of his head. HI
consoles himself with that paragraph
now going ths grand rounds OF thu
American press to the effect that bald
headed men are no fools.
Warts may be removed. says a cele
brated physician, by rubbing them nigh
and morning with a.moistened piece o
muriate of ammonia. They soften ant
dwindle away, leaving no such marks a'
follow their dispersion with lunar caustic
The largest rejecting telescope at th
Paris Observatory is completed, although
it will not be brought into use for two o
three months. The equilibrium of tn
tube is perfect, and it can be directed
with the UTMOST facility on any part o
the heavens, although it weighs about sii
tons.
Sam Graham, a St, Louis negr
minstrel, committed suicide few day
ago. That evening his chair in the ROY
Of performers was left empty and drapet
in black, the songs we're all melanchol
in character and no jokes were cracked
which must have made the entertain
ment very cheerful.
At territorial hanging, the victim
who had been literally supplied wit
whisky prior to fulfilling his engagement
With the sheriff, was asked at the las
moment IL he would have anything
'Just drop" hp replied. BE got il
1t was about six feet and broke bis neck
he took drop to much.
The term grass widow" is said to b
q corruption Of grace widow "Grac
widow" is the term applied to one wh
beeomess widow by grace or favor, an
mot by the death Of Der husband, an
originated iu the early ages Of Europea
civilization, when divorces we're granite
but seldom and wholly by the Catholi
church. When such decree was granite
10 woman The Papal rescript state
IrViduca de ws,iS,' which, intsrprete'
lis widow Of grace In the Law Of u
Frsocb il would read, 'vsuve de grace
or = grace widow "yeuvo" being tran
lated az widow.