Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-21
FACTS n FANCIES.

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The Hanlon Brothers will revisit
America next year.
Hold the Fort aud other Moody and
hymns are set as dancing music.
Mrs. Eliza q. Esdaille, the last surviv-
ing daughter of the poet Shelley, died
last month.
Ruskin takes the trouble to advise
English girls to wear plain dresses made
by themselves.
Father Hyaeinthe and his wife have
recently been the guests of Dean Stan
ley, in London.
There are men so naturally retieent
when sober that nothing but a corkscrew
will draw them oat.
A German surgeon has discovered
hat the cheek bones Of the Japanese
are double in many cases.
a modern essayist defines gossip to
be the putting of two and two together
and making FIVE Of them.
Niagara Falls has been recommended
by Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, as a
place of religious pilgrimage.
st. Louis takes a home. made census
soon, and well. wishers of the city should
not fail to attend her fair on the big day.
A teetotsler's arguments are pretty
sure to be sound, for he is certain to
make use OF nothing which will not hold
water.
1t isn't too late for some of our col
le1es to make Sitting Bell an LII. D.
yet. DR.. S. Bull, the distinguished taxi
dermist, etc, would sound we'll.
Il is said by close observers that the
Sioux at the front Of the cigar shops
have been seen within the last week tC
wipe the perspiration from their brows
Ferry kept Evarts' Grafton from blow
ing away at Philadelphia, and was re
warded next day by finding himself re
ferred to in the papers as an animated
paper. weight"
When Custer came in sight of the In
dian village OF 1000 red skins, he swunl
his hat and shouted, Hurrsh, Custer
luck; the biggest Indian village on tn
American continent"
Bobby's opinion as to his new sister
"Now l suppose | shall have to be yer,
good, because we have got this baby, TO
mother won't want her to be naughty
and she will be if | am"
A speaker at a stump meeting GU
West declared that be knew no East, n,
West, no North, no South. Then" sal,
a by stander, you ought to go to schoo
and learn your geography"
A girl was killed lea Danville, Vir
ginia, the other morning while milkini
a COW. If girls would only learn to pla,
the piano and make worsted dogs sucl
accidents would never happen.
At a Georgia female seminary a mall
professor is announced as instructor iii
the arts Of the household aud kitchen
in millinery aud dressmaking, and in tn
arts of printing and telegraphy."
There are about l62 driving parks il
the United States. The value of thi
property held by these associations i
estimated at So, 900, 900, and that of th
horses entered in a single year, a
$l5, 100000.
Boston ladies train their parrots to sa
"Goodb by; good-by, all" aud keep then
in the parlor when they have callers
The hint always takes like the whiz @
AN alarm clock at the head Of = domei
{ tics bed Graphic.
A tailor of melancholy Temperament
was observed recently sitting cross-legge
, on the Canada shore, gazing iutently a
the Horseshoe Fall, with its thick clou
of spray. A reporter stole up unol
served and heard him mutter; What
place to sponge a coatP'
A blacksmith 10 Rome, vino had beef
missing property, hid detectives in hi
house, and they captured the thief,
= neighbours son. The father walked u
to the unsuspecting blacksmith, WHO Wa
smoking a pipe in his doorway, buried
knife in his breast and fled. An Office
y pursued the assassin, but was killed, q
we'll as a second officer, who went to hi
aid. The murderer was then shot.