Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-07
FACTS AND FANClEs.

The terrific Talmsge declines a pulpit
in Chicago.
Bayard Taylor will remain in New
York during the winter.
Duke Gwyn has gone East to remain
until SITTER the election.
If you know a mean thing of your
neighbOr, get it copyrighted,
Thackeray always looked at a man as
a possible character for a novel.
Said a country girl recently, is opera
bouffe anything like donation pariy2'
The Rev. Ned Wright, tie converted
burglar, is building a $4,000 church in
London.
Why are travelling spiritualists like a
pile Of greenbacks2 Because they are
circulating mediums.
Why do uOtrulhful persons lie more in
the winter than in the summer? Be-
cause the nights are longer.
Moody and Sankey's new Tabernacle
in Boston, which ia to have a seating
capacity of 5000 persons, will be opened
January LIST.
The autobiography Of an freshman in.
forms US that he ran away early in life
from his father on discovering he was
only his uncle"
Smith College, Northampton, Mass,
is so crowded With young ladies' that the
trustees have decided to erect more cot
tages to lodge them.
Lord Lytton is making arrangements
for the production of bis late fathers
Enacted play, which is founded on :he
"CaptiEi Of Plautus.
The new servant girl, on the first morn-
lag after her arrival, iugeniously asks,
And does girls that live out have TO
make their own bids, NUM-
An old edition Of Morses geography
says; Albany has 400 dwelling.houass
and l,4OO inhabitants, all standing with
their gable-ends to the street."
Mrs. Hayes reads the papers on both
sides, and frowns ouly when she sees
those hideous cuts OF the Governor
which adorn the rural weeklies,
Are blaeksmiths, WHO make a living
I by forging, or carpenters, who do a little
counterfeiting, any worse than men who
sell iron and steel for a living2
4 Imitation L%imburger cheese has been
manufactured so successfully in Wiscon-
sin that families living near the factory
wers obliged to close their windows.
why don't you literary men get
> rich2' asked a lady Of a Bohemian. Il
don't know" he Teplied, unless it is that
dollars and sense never 90 together"
Suppose | should work myself up to
the interrogation point?' said a bean to
his sweetheart. Il should respond with
an exclamation, was the prompt reply.
Nothing takes the almightiae1 out of
! your Ctcils, your Towards. or our Cav.
endishes quicker than TO encounter an
American hotel clerk Brooklyn Argus.
: A sArswd old Yankee said he didn't
believe there was any downright cure for
laziness in a man. Bat" he added,
I've known a second wife to hurry it
: some"
= A compositor, setting up a report Of a
horse-race, said the booksellers were
Of busy" instead Of the booksellers" Bat
be it did not altar the sense of the para.
IS graph.
IS. Among the religious notices in {
Western paper one reads: "Parsor
y Piper pipes a religious roundelay Il
'. happy hearers at St. Luke's, on Sundays
" morning and evening"
P. I. Barnum, the great Snowman
figures up that 49, a, 900 visitors havI
en- entered his different museums, circuses
ng m~enageries and shows Of various sorts
nc in this country and Europe.
~ An infantry officer who conducted
a detachment of troops to South Carolina
cd writes us: This movement is not with
nm out les advantages. Ny men are al
M. learning to play a first rate game o
he euchre.'
oh Some Asiatic notions wonld bes
ve- transplanting. In a town near Beyrou
be the young men who had been conyerte
Ter to Christianity have founded a club 70
TX the express purpose of putting an en-.
per to lying.
! Count dc Bardi, nephew Ct the Coun
de Chambord, has been married at Sail
burg to the Princess A~delgonde, daugh
ter Of the late Dom Miguel, Of Portuga
The Codnt de Chambord was present
The bridegroom is twenty-five and th
bride eighteen years Of age.
mr. The death at Paris, at the are
ave ninety.one, is announced Of Miss Erase
u.s. eldest sister Of the Princess M'4rat. 81
hat was a woman Of admirable q~ualitis
cts and was deeply attached to her sist,
ing whom she had educated, and whom \
would never co9aeht to leavs,