Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-01-23
FACTS AND FANCIES.

IN feminine circles.
Each side in the Beecher trial is pro.
vided with great quantities of flowers, as
if to keep up the impression that every.
thing is still done sub rosa.
A man named 0. X. Howard has
been committed fer trial in.New York en-
a number of charges of swindling rail.
roads by obtaining passes on forged let.
tiers.
Western savagery keeps up the cock
fights at Indianapolis and the dog shows
of Detroit. 1t was to one of these
places that Kalakaua so ~innocently tele-
graphed an order fora real old-fashioned
canni5al dinner.
There is a man in the Ohio peniten.
tiary who is held for forgery. When he
lett his home in Germany his father gave
him $4,000, and on his fathers death
he received 100000 more. There is
nothing like giving a boy a good start.
Montreal isn't in the United States,
out she has a le%tter-carrier who stole six
dollars from a letter and used the money
to insure himself in one of the compa.
MES that guarantee the hopesty of their
poliey-holders in responsible positions.
A Philadelphia mai says that when
his wife gets up in the morning with a
jerk, and ~neglecting to do up her hair,
goes silently about her work, she is
ms~terializing a domestic row which be-
fore night will shake the house to its
foundations.
Since the Civil Marriage law went in.
to force in Germany, in October, less
than one-fourth Of the Protestant men
and women married in Berlin have had
a religious ceremony performed. The
new law makes the civil marriage a
necessity, and places it before the
Church service.
The Oregon Statesman says: 1.-THE
most heroic feat witnessed at the fire in
Salem was performed by Dan Murphy,
who picked mp a two hundred and fifty
pound anvil and carried it from Kelly
shop to the middle of the street, with
the remark that be was bound to a v
something. The anvil. was saved"
1t is reported that a man went home
at about 3 O'Clock Wednesday morning,
and using his umbrella for a billiard.cue
smote his sleeping wife in the short rib,
crying POOL" and sunk into a sweet
slumber. He has since explained to his
wife that women can have no idea how
the cares of business will sometime
affect a mans brain.
In the Bank Of France they have got
a brickfor which they paid 1000 francs
in specie. 1t was taken from the ruins
Of a burned house, and the image and
figures Of a note for 1000 francs are
burned on the s~lrface, transferred BY
the heat from a real note. This brick
the bank redeemed on presentation, az
if it we're the note itself.
The Brooklyn Argus is making an un.
necessary fuss over the CHASTITY bunglinp
that took place at the hanging of Jarvis.
AS long as the execution Of the laws il
left to ignorance and ineficiency, nc
hanging will be done properly. Let the
editor Of the Argus or some equally
brainy person step up to the scaffold al
the next Brooklyn hemp matinee and
show the honest masses how the Law
should be enforced.
mo, madam, said an affable Chicago
landlord, who was showing a possible
tenant over his house on Robey street
II cannot say that as yet the street il
drained. But, then, do but reflect fol
a moment upon the advantages the
situation offers. Your children can
skate all day long on the cutters; it's al
convenient as q skating.rink, doesn';
cost you a penny, and then they are IN
der your eyes all the time.
Thanks to the Scientific American,
man is no longer expected to kiss al
uninteresting baby. By keeping con
stantly about him a copy Of the Ameri
can, and reading 10 the dotiug parent:
whom be visits the little article which
says that kissing babies communicate
diptheris, he gets rid Of a disagreeabl,
job which, avoided in any other way
would make him the life long enemy o
every parent Of his acquaintance.
In the year 1874 there we're importe,
into the cities Of New York and Boston
l53,OS2 baskets Of champagne, or 1886,
g84 bottles, in fact considerably les
than a bottle and d half apiece for eacl
Of US for one year. If there we're onl.
5000 who take a bottle a day this woIl'
consume nearly all the imported cham
payne. But certainly 5000 bottles ada.
cannot cover the consumption 10 thes,
two cities and in the country they sup
ply. Where, then, does the rest com.