Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-05
DirectOrs,
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

OF the 22l, ,O42 teachers in this country
l27,7l9 are women.
1t is hinied that dictionary publish ers
started this spelling furore.
The sexton in Beecher's church has
$500 a year. and his assistant half as
much.
The champion female speller of Indi-
annapolis carried off bolt of muslin at
tho last match.
Why is Hymen represented with
torch2 To throw light upon those little
imperfections love is blind to.
Not being accustomed to water, the
people Of Newton, o., extingaished their
recent conaagration with cider.
A new social philosopher Gays the art
Of flirting is in its infancy 1t will be a
sad day when the thing is grown up.
Whittle and Bliss, revivalists are ma
king strenuous efforts to convert Chicago.
Mr.. Bliss FIRST name is Everlasting but
the Chicago youth calls him old Eternal
Happiness
Mrs Siddons read at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
under difficulties The food invaded the
basement of the hall, extinguished the
fires and the gas, and the audience lis
tened to her in the dark.
1t was a careful housewife in Altoona
Penn, who put an SIS order and $40
greenback into the drawer Of the coffee
mill for safe keeping. So the next morn
ing the family enjoyed a $2S cup of
coffee.
The medical editor of the Boston
Times says the best way to cure rheuma-
tism is to drive it from the legs to the
arms, down the arms to the hands,
thence crowd it into one finger aud have
that cut Off
A Missouri exchange informs US that
the steamboat Vicksburg, which was
sunk near Chester, lays we'll" When
the young steamboats, are batohed out
they will take to the water as naturally
ae young ducks
The Mclean county Progress says
One day last week young girl, whose
parents reside in this county, swallowed
forty percussion caps. She really de
served spanking, but her mother re
trained for fear Of an explosion. eau
tious mother that.
John Henry says that when your four
year-old attaches spring clothes pin tC
the nose of your one yearold, and stands
back critically examining the expression
and listening to the music he has evoked
a parents heart dilates with pride at The
precocity Of his offspring,
Falkland township, in Pitt county, N
c., has a record in some respects. Since
the war there has been no case Of assault
and battery, nor any case of larceny il
which any white man of the township
was involved, no case in which a white
man voted the Radical ticket, and not
case of bankruptcy in the township.
Alexandria (Va.) Gazette: An elder
ly lady residing in the upper part of the
city, having been advised by friend o
the beneficial effects of vapor baths, ex
temporized one last night, but says she
will never take another. She filed q
saucer with whisky, in which she put
boneset and sassafras, and placing il
upon the floor put a cane-bottom chaii
over it, and taking her seat, had hersel
and the whole apparatus completely
enveloped in a large blanket, An at
tendant then lifted a corner of th,
blanket and applied a match to tn,
whisky, when, instead of the gentle
shooting vapor that was expected t,
arise, there was an explosion, accom-
panied by a loud report, and the bathe
was suddenly blown off her seat, and I,
distant corner Of the room,