Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-26
FACTS N FANCIES.

is now a Democrat.
Vice President Wheeler will marry an
Albany lady soon.
One of the bellies of Bryan, Texas, has
eloped with a barber.
Extract from a letter in a recent
breach of promise case: My ownest
own"
The princess of Wales recently wore
calico, which was very nice of the prin.
cess.
Ex-President Lerdo has been visiting
the coal regions of Eastern Pennsyl-
vanis.
New York is about to steal PhiladeI-
phis's Thunder, the distinguished or.
ganist.
California has had an unsatisfactory
rainy season, and postoaices don't 20
begging.
The tradition Of the FIRST Chinaman.
Fohi, reaches up 400 years. How is
that, Fohi2
Kentucky girls cut of the tops Of
their stockings and make wristlets fer
their beaux.
Theatrical people are not grasping or
selfSh-thsy believe in giving every
body a show.
Sturgeon is a plain man and not a
high liver, though he suffers a good deal
from the govt.
Lucy Hooper describes an American
female with Partisan airs as "a goose
lined with a snob."
It's said that Oakley Hall has been
seen in Paris, aud is reserved in man.
ner only when addressed by his real
name"
Laura D. Fair has been in court again,
and it is said that when she reached for
her handkerchief the lawyers on the
other side ducked.
Pin your faith only to the chap who
boldly says envelope. = indianapolis
Herald. THE chap" who thus boldly
speaks is one Webster.
The times may be hard, industries de-
pressed and trade paralyzed, but it can.
not be denied that the business Of the
astronomers is looking up.
God bless dear papa and mamma,
and oh. dear Lord, please make us very
stylish, was the prayer of a little New
York girl whose parents we're 4" fashion.
able"
1t sounds like a romance to read that
over one hundred handsome American
girls broke through the ice last winter.
were rescued, and have married their
rescuers.
About the Oldest little game of draw"
we know of was played when Joshua
RACED Jericho, aud the fellows Of the
city wished they hadn't stayed in
Hawkeye,
A New Hampshire man has not given
his wife a new dress for seventeen gears.
and ne has been formally declared by a
commission to be an irresponsible per.
son, whose misery habits have become a
mania.
Duke Alexis inspected the patent
bfice one day last week, and took espe-
cial interest in fire arms, bridges, artiG.
eial limbs, harvesting and sewing ma.
chimes, and processes for manufacturing
leather.
New styles Of silk goods are soft, like
raw silk slack woven aud striped irreg.
ulariy with dsshes of color in knotted
threads, brocadod lines in fsh.scale pat
terms in oriental colors-bronzs and
green predominating.
General Klapka expresses the opinion
that Turkey, supported by the entire
Mussulman population of Asia, is an
overmatch for Russia, and that tie latter
power has made a false calculation.
The general iorgets the financial side Of
a lsng contest,
You see I have hunting, banking,
ships, publishers, en- article, and a Christ.
mas to DO, all at once, and it is my opin-
ion they will all get muddled. A mud
die will print, however, though it won't
add up-which is the real advantage Of
literature. = Walter Rsgehot.
Half the company of the Coincide
Franchise is i'll. Mile Croizette has
long been hors De combat, Sarah Bern.
hardt has taken a congo of a month on
account of illness, Deladnay has fallen
sick. Coquslin has the rheumatism, and
MouuetSally ia too i'll to act.
The Pope, in acknowledgment oe the
ten thousand francs lately presented hin,
by the COmte dc Chambord, has sent
him a splendid mosaic, ons-half repre-
senting Pagan Rome in gloom and
clouds, and under the shadow Of death.
the other half Christian Rome, illumi-
mated by ,hR light Of Truth