Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-09

of sylph.like forms gliding gracefully
over the ice, and proudly exclaims,
"Them's all mine"
Cannes is crowded and America is
strongly represented. They have been
having balls and entertainments OF one
kind and another ever since Christmas,
and now talk of holding a fair in aid Of
the poor Of Paris.
AS near as can be ascertained, about
twenty women are making all the fuss
throughout the United States about wo-
mans rights, dress reform, and kindred
social topics. This is a remarkable
illustration of woman's power.
Emperor Williams grandchildren go
regularly to Sunday-school and put their
little mite into the box for poor mission
aries in Africa in furs and overshoes (by
reason of poverty in August, just like
any other little Dutch children.
Here you've been and bought an
Ulster overcoat, Charley, when the win
ter's most over; and you're all the time
whining at me because I'm not economi-
CAL" Ssh, dear'st, don't you see | can
pawn everything else but my boots, and
nobody'll notice it,"
Minnie Sherman is happy at last. The
President has approved a joint reso-
luton of Congress authorizing Thomas
W. Fitch, Engineer of the United States
navy, to accept a gift for his wife from
the Khedive of Egypt, and this resolu-
ton, it is understood, means that the
diamonds car be passed out of the
cu%'tom-honse free of duty.
Two girls attending a seminary in
Illinois set two cocks fighting in their
room last Sunday. Bets on the result
ran high, aud At the conclusion of the
contest the winning maiden was better"
by a gold watch, a pair of silk stockings,
a French corset, two rolls of false hair,
a patent hustle and a beautiful book.
mark with Christ Our Guide worked
on it in colored silk.
A Brazilian lady is creating a great
sensation in Paris. She has n yellow
carriage, and the wheel hubs are of solid
gold. The servants connected with the
turnout number four--two in the box
and two in the rumble. The harness is
gold.tipped, and the horses are thorough
breds. The establishment reminds New
Workers OF Singers famous house coach
conspicuous here about ten yearsIago.
Would you please give a boy, who
broke his leg the other day, q few pea
nuts2" inquired a small chap of a Mich
igan avenue grocer. Now. boy, you
are lying to me" said the grocer, looking
him in the eye. II don't believe you
know any boy who has broken his leg.
Come, now, do your mo, l don't, but
| know a boy whose sister fell down and
Jared her teeth outl" He got a few
peauuts.-Detroit Free Press.
After the committee at the Ohio State
Agricultural fair had given the first
premium for poultry to "a Hungarian
chicken of the Slavi-Magyar breed the
fact was developed that the disgrOceful
fowl was merely an ordinary chicken
with a broken back, a false tail and q
rufle Of turkey feathers glued around
its neck with mucilage. The committee
say they knew it all the time, but they
wanted to see how far the man would
carry the fraud.
A young lady Of Albany, Oregon, was
getting ready to attend church on a
recent Sunday evening. As she was
arranging an urmful of jute about her
head, the stuff caught FIRE from a candle
and was soon in a flame. She tried to
pull the burning bunch of her head, but
her efforts we're futile, as she had fastened
it with about three dozen hairpins. HeI
screams brought to her relief another
lady, who smothered the flames with q
wooden garment. Had not help been
close at hand she would probably have
been burned to death.
At Danville a Miss S. j. Anderson is
prosecuting a Captain Blackburn fol
breach of promise and seduction, she
alleging that for about ten years he has
been her lover and afianced, she repos
ing so much confidence in him that she
has intrusted him with her money (sev
eral thousand dollars), and has been tC
him a wife in every sense the word i'm
plies" until recently, when Blackburn
married another. The defendant il
wealthy, and Miss Anderson wants
heavy damages assessed against him.
The trial is now progressing,