Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-04
FACTS AND FANCIES.
b. WHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor

Spinoza is to have a statue at Amster-
dam.
Can ladies With enamelled faces be
said to belong to polished society,"
A widow who has just died in Rome
left a quarter of amilliou dollars in cash
to the Popa.
A woman will carry a Rew bonnet If it
is as big as ahsystaok. but half-pound
Of cheese must be delivered BY tho clerk.
Shoes with far around thu anklstops
are the latest agony among the ladies',
They are called Polish, bit that doesn't
signify anything alarming.
What with stocking dsrners, knitting
aud sewing machines, apple parers,
washers aud wrinRers, woman, as a ne
cessity, is fading from the earth
When walking With a gentleman, a
lady should take his right arm. bat in q
crowded thoroughfare you may with pro-
priety seize him by the coat-collar.
Dresden is a good place for young
men who want TO marry. A girl there
doesn't besitste 70 assure her lover that
she can get along with but one pair Of
stockings year.
Whether woman be handsome or
not. observed Bion, reputed one of the
seven seges docs not signify If they
are ugly, they turn ones etomach; If
they are lovely they turn ehe's head
A h,NYdenish Vermont girl recently
killed a woH. and now she wears the tail
on her bonnet. How much more pious
she would be il she bad gone to Sunday
school and winked at the librarian.
$50 ysu wouldn't take me to be
twentyH' said rich heiress to an Insh
gentleman while dancing the polka.
What would you take me for, then2P
For better or worse" replied the sou Of
the Emerald Isle,
"A breach OF promise case, on trial for
several days at Goshen, Orange county,
New YORK, has Terminated in a verdict
for the plaintiff Miss Fannie z. Decker,
Of Unionville, fer $4,000. The defend
ant was John P. Blston, and the suit was
for sle,pOe..
Atlanta Costitution: When man ia
too lazy to work aud too eowardly to steal.
he sits in lager beer saloon, frowns om-
inously at the free lunch eounter and
remarks TO his brother 10 exile, The
country's going to the dogs.
The real sherry district occupies a very
small spot in the southwest corner Of
Spain, lying for the most part between
the Gusdalqsiver and the GualsIette.
The small triangle 10 which the choicest
wines are produced is scarcely more than
twenty miles broad at its base
Pound sociables.' where everybody
cent poand Of something OF other, we're
recently sllthe rage among the colored
people of a village near Cleveland, Ohio,
until some dastsrdly 6end one evening
seut in pound Of dynamite. aud then,
for fear some Dinah-might be injured,
they adjourned sine die.
Tobacco smCke Swinburue abhors,
never entering a room where smoking
is going on If be can helpit, One day
he tried every room stetho London Arts
Club, and smoking was going on 10 each;
10 frenzy hethrust his bead into room,
among 3 few quiet people and cried !;
" James l. was knsve, . tyrAnt, a fool
a liar. q coward; bEt | loYe, worship him,
because be slit the throat Of that black
guard kaliph Who invented this GItby
smoking
The success attending the German eK-
csyationS at Olympia gives great salts.
faction in Berlin. One after the other
the fgures formerly sdornipg tho eastern
part Of the roof, and miuutely described
BY Pausahiss, are being dragged from the
bowels Of che earth. Nike has been found
in tolorable preservation the head Of
KlSdsos ia there. Myrtilos is announced,
and Deus just emerging, The undsrtsk-
lpg is chiefly due to Prof catiips, who
many years ago iusiScd upon ahexpedi.
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