Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-28
FACTS AND FANCIES.


port News thinks, is more female corre-
spondents who fling their golden glesm-
ing over the somber tints of life.
There's girl in Iowa who has seven
fingers. Young men are rather shy.
Seven fingers can take in shocking
handful OF hair on occasion, no doubt.
your dress" said husband to his
fashionable wife, will never please the
men" IL don't dress to please men,
was the reply, "but to worry other
women"
Andrew j. Houston, descendant of
Sam Houston, of Texas, protests against
lottery scheme to rails monument
fund for his ancestor. He probably
knows that the lottery swindlers would
pocket nine-tenths Of the receipts.
Competent authorities have now come
to the conclusion that black boards
should not be black at all. Sea green
boards are said to be the most agreeable
to the eye, and delicate sky blue color
reflects the chalk with dazzling white
ness
A citizen OF Stonington, Conn, has an
old button which was plsughed up in one
of his fields, bearing the date of Wash
ington's first Inauguration, and with an
inscription showing that il was made
with others in commemoration Of the
event.
Miss Wyatt Of Medina, Ohio, has a
head on her shoulders that is twenty.
fur inches in circumference, or three
inches larger that the average male head.
Her delighted townsmen are waiting to
see what she will do with it. Still she
can sew ON a shirt button.
The Sultan appetite is enormous, and
when he goes to the opera be is followed
by servants, bearing load OF edibles.
he prefers to be amused by buffoons and
dancing girls. In short, is nothing
more nor less than big baby, who has
to be pleased with playthings."
The bones of Traveller" the horse
which General Lee rode during the war,
which died shortely after it's master, have
been forwarded to the North by Profes
sor McCullock for the purpose Of having
them put together. They will be added
to the Washington and University mu'
scum. t-
The brick archers in the Hoosac Tun
mel have now reached a point where the
rock is Of a kind which renderSit difficult
to detach the right quantities The Other
night small blast threw down great
mass of it, blocking up the track so thai
the passenger train was delayed fol
several hours.
4 Mr.. John Cultivate, the famous York
shire shOrthorn breeder, has sustained 8
very serious loss by the death of his cele
brated prize COW Vivandiere. This ex
traordinary COW could claim to be thu
best known shorthorn in the world, beiRl
as perfect in form at eight years old a
she was at four years old.
The Princeo Wales presence at tn
Nautsch girl dances in India is consider
ed unbecoming in England, and is know
to be thought disreputable among respeC
table Hindoos. DR.. Duff, of the Scottisl
Free Church, openly censures the Nuut
schy conduct of the Prince. Evdentl,
the sensual Aag" has been raised.
i A lady called upon her milliner tn
other day to get the character Of he
servant. The respectable appearance Q
the latter was beyond questioning, I" Bu
is she honest7" asked the lady, II an
not SO certain about that, replied til
! milliner II have sent her to you wit
my bill a dozen times, and she has neve
yet given ms the money.
! AT his last Parliamentary receptio
Prince Bismarck made some rathe
sharp remarks on German journalist
observing, ameng other things that the
are too apt to draw on their imagiuatio
} for sensational articles on foreig
!. politics, and thusdo not allow themselve
; sufficient time or space tor'ths though