Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-11
FACTS AND FANCIES.

and three legs is the latest North Caro-
lima curiosity.
Indiana death notice: 1.-THE cadaver
of the late Willis Mitchell, of Evansville,
contains dozen eggs, big cucumber,
and quart Of whisky"
Parents should not neglect to vaccin.
ate their children till too late. Ex-Gov.
John B. Weller, of Louisiana, died last
week Of smallpox, aged seventy years.
A girl in Portland, Me-, terrified by
the threat Of a habitually brutal mother
to whip her, ran and jumped out of a
second story window, receiving fatal in
juries.
The managers of theatsrs in Germany
have in convention resolved not to en-
gage actors or actresses for special lines
of characters, but to make them agree
to play whatever parts are assigned to
them.
The technical name Of hanks, ap-
piled to skeins of worsted yarn or other
thread, it is supposed, was derived from
one Hankemus de Brabant, Flemish
weaver, dyer, or fuller, who settled in
York, England, in 1871.
A Canadian girl offers to match her
self against any man in the Dominion
at driving a reaping-machine. She often
drives the reaper all day, and at night
entertains the work hands with music on
the organ, accompanied by her voice.
Says the Topeka Blade: Miss Lillian
D. Lockwood runs a paper in Jewell
county. Several girls nereaway are in
the newspaper business, and with lit
tie more promptness would succeed
well; but their papers are always be-
hind"
The Prince of Wales has ordered a
number of the best English rifles to take
with him to India. 1t is unnecessary to
explain that they are to be presents for
the Indian chiefs. Albert Edward does
not need rifles to fight the tiger. He has
money enough to do it with.
The Mabaska county Iowa. Republi
cans sent female delegate to represent
them in q county convention the other
day, but she was refused seat by vote
of 36 to II, it being considered doubtful
whether the party would consider itself
bound by acts Of delegates who were
non.voters.
& St. Paul mother recently took her
ffteen-year-old daughter to party as a
special favor-not that she intended the
child should come out" for some time
yet. That parent was rather astonished
to find that the little girl knew nearly
every society man about town, undel
stood the figures of the German and
could talk like a magpie.
The story goes that a young Englisf
actor named Walter Hastings volunteer
ed to suffer ten years imprisonment fol
100000, offered him by lord. He wen
in at 25, and came out looking like 60
but he got his money. If the story should
happen to be true the world will be glat
that such dangerous madman was un
der restraint for that time.
The Davenport (Ia.) Gazette, of recen
date, says that two women have beer
travelling through that State selling cor
sets at unusually low prices. Indeed,
adds that journal, their anxiety to give
ladies a perfect fit and the insignificant
reward they asked for their services, ex
cited suspicion. Now not lady in lows
will admit that she has bought corsets il
six months, while the two peddlers have
resumed male attire and occupy dis
NAL cell in Jail,
A Philadelphia milliners apprentice
went to visit her mother in the country
last Sunday, and when that worthy mat
ron beheld her child she exclaimed
/ " Isabel Marie Stephens, what on airth
do you mean coming out in broad day
light with your gown all kajummuxed
I up in heap behind ye, and all bount
up in that way in front Of yea Ant
haint ye got no stockings all of ont
color, that ye haf to wear them zebra
colored things2 Thought ye was goin
to be a milliner. Sh'd think ye'd mar
ried a barber, and was plsyin' up sign
board for him. Did ever think one 0
! my girls would come TO thisl"