Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-03-02
FACTS AND FANClES.
&. wHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor,

Children are the tomorrow OF society.
Beecher likens himself to st. Paul,
and jealous Minneapolis is mad about
it.
Revolutionary relics are keeping the
manufacturers busy, so as to have them
in time for the Centennial
Shakespeare said, There is tide in
the affairs OF men, but it appears to be
pretty much all tied back in the affairs
Of women.
They say that Tiltonr solicitude about
brain food has resulted chtay in making
his hair volumiuous. The recipe must
be valuable.
Surveys are being made OF the coun-
try around London with view OF som Q
definite steps being taken for the defense
of the metropolis.
Mile O., of the Palais Royal thsater,
said to Hyacinih Gracious, but have
a cold. What do you do when you have
cold2' "I2' said Hyacinth, II cough. -
Thirty robberies were reported in San
Francisco in January Timid pastors
decline to attend the sick call at night,
unless accompanied by a solid man or
two.
A tramp Ess recently sentenced to two
years In the House Of Correction for re-
ffusing to saw wood at the North Andover'
Mass, Almshouse, in Payment Tor lodg-
ing and breakfast.
The awful charge of pautheism hss
been brought against an Illinois caidi-
date for Lieutenant Governor, and his
friends admit that they might as well
try to nominate Thomassen.
The Venetian journals have sounded
the, praises of Signoripa Etelka Gerster,
d beautiful Hungarian. This lady, a
blonde as fair as Nilsson, is endowed
with high soprano voice, very sweet in
tone. and of extraordinary compass 2
They do some things better in France
vide the following neat way Of putting
it, fron 3 Partisan paper: The Princess
De M--is shout to retire from society
for little while, and is buying edginEs,
insertions, muslins aud so on, which she
is making up into little garments too
large for doll and too small for her.
self r
Indiana. says a correspondent, Is
threatened with no less than four csndi-
dates for Governor, and all this dissen-
sion is caused by the finance question,
which is discussed from mansion to hovel
with more interest than hes ever at
tached to any question in our natiOssl
polltics, excepting the slavery question
in ante bsllum days"
Ole Bull was once seeing the sights at
Donnybrook Fair, when be was sttFsRtsd
by the sound of a very loud violin in a
tent. He entered and said; my good
friend, DO you play by noteH" THE
deuce note, cir" "po you play by
ear, thenf" Niver an ear, youg
honor" " How do you play, then2"
Be main strength, be jabersl"
lie came from the country seven years
sso, and is now Fell-to-do merchant
Last week he wrote % tho old folks,
telling them he had married a lady with
very 6ne voice-a "mezEo-soprsno of
quits extraordinary compass" He re-
ceived au answer from the maternal side
Of the house, informing him that bis
Ismented aunt was afflicted With some.
thing Of that sort during her lite, but
had always found relief in placing s
~ Mustard-plaster on the sole Of each foot
and drsnking a pint Of catniptea.
Miss LyGis Thompson is playing
Titsuia at the Criterion Tbesier, Lon
don, with brilliant results. A special 10
tbs New York World says Since Miss
Lydia Thompson returned to England,
stamped with the spread eagle of au
American tour, London fsllu down be-
fore and worships, not perhaps ths
| ground she trsads upon, but those con.
! ySqienceS wherewith upon the ground
abe tr,'Sds, aud which, | am glad to say,
caper az aimbly bow as when they
twinkled and Slittered 10 paritcOloFod
! .,,h,y all ov.r tho great republic"