Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-15
FACTS \ FAScIEs.

The New York Herald speaks OF the
" illegal usurpatiOn" Of q Terry fran.
chise.
Lillian Conway, the actress. has mar
ried Charles Camblos, jr, a broker of
Philadelphia,
That jimblain on the left foot Of the
goddess OF liberty does not bother her
as much as it did.
The Cincinnati Gazette thinks that
the Paris of America" ought to have q
"Bois de Bologna"
1t is hay fever that Annie Louise Cary
is afflicted with, but Of course her
sneezes are musical.
They have a Blanchard Food Com
pany" in New York. There's a chance
for the tramps to enlist.
The foreman Of a jury in Texas, which
lately granted a divorce to a woman,
married her the same day.
The camp.meetiRg people are still in
tent on saving souls, but they have to
get out of the tent to do it.
A recent bankrupt counted in his
assets forty shares Of Kelley motor
stock. No wonder be went up.
The increase of tramps in the country
is accounted for. Only twenty Office
seekers are left in Washington.
Jay Gould used to peddle maps in
Delaware. II is only in America that
the tramp can become a capitalist.
Is it Strakosch who has engaged Patti
for the coming season in America, or one
of our enterprising divorce courts2
Two of the Cincinnati papers have at
last found a live issue to quarrel over.
They are disputing about the Turkish
war.
The disconnected man thinks that the
fall in sugar might have come just as
well as not before berry time was nearly
over.
The Nashville American deity OBJ.
serves: John Sherman is winning
golden opinions from all sorts of bond
holders"
The St. Louis lawyer who took a $4,000
fee when he might have had $4,000, is re-
ceiving admitting mention all over the
country.
Ben Wade says of the labor resolution
in the Ohio platform that it is a great
! strain on a mans muscles to read it and
t not laugh.
The Chicago youth who ordered a
! standing COLLAR as high as his ears was
d gratiied by receiving the mainsail Of a
late schooner.
> Brother Hayes has sent a basket o.
\ flowers to a Jewish golden wedding,
What are you going 10 do about that,
Judge Hiltou2
e Judge West is said to have the biggest
feet Of any man in Ohio; but his raising
1t of more cornS than other people doesn't
make him a Granger. 4
1t A fisherman in France lately got il
the line of a rife range, and received il
y his body twelve bullets, but none pene
d trated to any vital part.
IS We may expect to see Madame Jauau
! schek and Fechter appear together thi,
season on a St. Louis stays. Such a
contrast as that will bel-[Fimes.
q Queen Victoria is the richest woman
!, in the world. her income is about So,
N l25,OOO a year, and Of this Amount she i
not supposed to spend more than 1925,
a 600.
Ie Concerning the alleged poem by Edga
n A. Poe, Uncovered at Kokomo, Ind, i
T. may be said that it would hardly b
ID possible to Kokomore villainOus mess d
IS imposture.
" When q woman wants to kill a tramp
she is always careful to take the brick
bat that keeps the kitchen door open, Q
n, some other old thing that is Of no pal
er %ticular value or consequence; but whe
~ shs gets mad at the man of the hous,
e. she is just as liable to throw the bei
m china sugar bowl or TIE nickel.plate,
cake basket rs not.