Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-22
FACTS N FANCIEs.

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river with ~impunity2 Because be won't
drown as long as his head swims.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has been
engaged to sing al a musical convention
which will soon be held in Worcester,
Mass.
How melancholy the moon must feel
when it has enjoyed the fullness of
prosperity, and gets reduced to its last
quarter.
Louis Napoleon, son of the late En-
peror Of France, called recently upon
the Gear at Ems, by whom be was cor
daily received.
A ~disconsolate girl stood up to her
neck in a pond near Sacramento, for an
hour, deciding whether to drown herself.
Then she concluded to live, and waded
out.
An English lady, visiting the Phila-
delphia Exhibition, saw a "Great Sale
of Domestics" advertised in the news.
paper. Bless my cart" said she, Hi
thought they'd habolished slavery ere,
you know"
A young lady viewing Dom Pedro in
st. Louis the other day remarked, as
she fixed her eyes on the carriage: 1T
isn't exactly Immortality to see an EN-
psror, of course, but it's a glimpse, at
least, Of King Dom come"
A Georgia man, who was under exam
%ination recently to demonstrate his fit
ness for serving upon a Jury in a murder
case, was told by the judge to look upon
the prisoner. He did 50, and said, Eyes,
judge, l think he's guilty. He was ex-
cused from serving,
Since the passage Of the act of the
California Legislature providing for the
punishment Of wife-beaters by public
whipping, wife-beating has largely in
creased throughout the State, and the
police commissioners think of organizing
Sunday raids on the dwellings Of all
Benedicts.
AS q boy in Aroostook county, Me-,
was leading a heller home the other
evening a bear made a dive for her as
they were entering the yard. The heifer
ran, the boy held on to the rope, the
bear chased both, until the neighbors,
hearing the believing of the heifer and
the screams of the boy, came and shot
bruin.
A huge kiln on a government dock in
London is known as the Queens to-
; bacco pipe" and is used to burn con-
demned imported goods. Great quanti-
ties of tobacco, forfeited because unfit
for sale, are there consumed; and vari.
Gus perishable things, upon which the
duties are not paid, are also destroyed.
I Nine hundred spoiled hams and a ship
e load of tea were recently burned.
A clergyman was turned down at a
fashionable spelling bee for spelling
drunkenness with one tn Shortly
!. afterward he returned to his parish and
found himself very coldly received by
his pensioners. He sent for the parish
clerk and asked him what was the cause.
"Well, sir" replied the man, "a report
has come down here that you were turned
out of a great lady's house in London
for drunkenness"
= The Queeu-Dowager Josephine, Of
Sweden, is dead. She was a daughter
" of Eugene Beauharnais, Duke OF Leuch-
y tenberg, by the Princess Augusta, of
Bavaria, was born in 1907, and married
-. in 1928 to Oscar, son Of Bernadotte,
4 King Of Sweden and Norway, afterwards
King himself as Oscar l. She lost her
husband July 8, 1859, and her eldest son,
Charles XIV, September Is, 1872. Her
second son is now King of Sweden, as
Oscar II.
A lively young harpist, named Esme-
!. ralda Oervantes, is likely to be the next
sensation in musical circles. She is
!, little more than fifteen, and was born at
" Barcelona. She played a selo so ex-
quisitely at Vienna on April %, 1878,
that the young Prince Alphonso, now
King of Spain, insisted on seeing her.
II Since then she has received the highest
marks of appreciation from many
crowned heads, and created a perfect
VI Juror wherever she has appeared.
l' The courts in New York have Just
rendered a decision which will have a
tendency to further "bear" the matri-
'l- monial market. Strasburger's wife pur-
. chased goods from A. 7. Stewart's
nr establishment, which we're delivered at
1t, Strasburger's house, who subsequent
be refused to pay for them on the ground
u that he did not order them. But the
Supreme Court has decided that he must
he be held responsible for their payment.
lie This is all very nice for merchants, but
where is the young man who will now
,e. deliberately thrust his neck into the
matrimonial yokef
he In ordinary elopements it is the young
It. lady who has to evade the vigilance of
rs stern parents; but the Indianapolis Sen
Pc tinel tells a story of one where the boot
N If the expression be allowable-was
a, on the other limb. 1t was the cruel