Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-14
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Daroer s nands.- lhockland Courier.
Victoria WoodhuITs lectures in Er-
gland have failed, and she will try the
stage.
No man can make any headway play
ing poker with q chap who holds a hec-
tic flush.
The Alabama ~penitentiary is said to
have earned $35, 900 above expenses in
September.
Little Sofftgoodz: Beg pardon, miss;
but you are down on my invoice for the
next dance"
A Boston firms ledger weighs forty.
seven pounds. The athlete who keeps it
finds the hsalth.lift unnecessary.
There isn't much difference between a
grasshopper and a grass widow after all.
Either will jump at the first chance.
1t costs the women of America s 1000.
600 per year to keep their faces painted,
and then they want good clothes besides.
San Francisco girls have a grimace
and a squeak, so hat their music is even
worse than that of the other girls Of this
country.
The Galveston News says the work of
clearing titles to the stolen lands of the
Kansas-Texas ring will produce 5000
lawsuits.
Cents are coming into use in St. Louis.
Some day the dishonest nothing.for.less.
than. fve-cents system must everywhere
disappear.
The first animals that came out of the
ark were a pair Of calves. They were
on Noah's legs, however. -[Ciucinnati
Saturday Night.
The handsomest man on the floor of
the house varies even according to the
number of female correspondents in
Washington. -[Hawkeye.
An Illinois clergyman took to whisky
and quinine to cur chills, and an inves.
tigating committee is looking for the
quinine part .-[Free Press.
A New York Herald Photographer i'm.
agines that Vasssr College, where there
are SO many young women, is a sugar
refinery" but those 'lasses are not for
him.
Election euehre" is a new game at
cards played with the ordinary euchre
pack to which is added q new card
marked "Aliunde Joe."-LNew York
Sun.
There is nothing that will knock the
ground-pinning from under a mans theo.
logical training quicker than to walk
against the edge of a door in the dark
LSt. Louis Times.
The public library of Victoria, Aus
trslia, has 10000 volumes; the library of
parliament, 10000; the University Ii
brary, 1900; the Supreme Court, 49,.
900, and 100 other public libraries have
l74,lO3.
An Oshkosh, Wis, genius solves the
resumption problem. AS gold is only
worth three per cent. premium, let the
government, he says, stick a three cent
postage stamp on each dollar bill and
the thing is done.
King Louis, Of Portugal, who has Just
published a Portuguese translation of
" Hamlet" is now preparing a transla-
ton of the Merchant of Venice" The
" Hamlet" translation is said to have
been a very successful one.
The venerable Professor Dana, of Yale
has distinguished himself BY
chasing through the streets a sharper.
who nearly cheated him out of five dol.
lars by professedly soliciting for a sick
fireman, catching him and lodging him
in jail.
1t is said to have become very common
for the ladies of the Russian nobility in
the large cities of the empire to offer
their diamonds to the public treasury,
and wear as ornaments buttons torn
from the uniforms of slain officers and
No one a better appreciate the fact
that the world is full of hollow mock.
cries than the man who prepares a lee.
ture with the title How to Get Rich
and then cannot make money enough by
it to pay his hotel i'll s.-[Turner's Falls
Reporter.
Complete winter suits of clothing, to
the amount Of five hundred thousand.
are to be furnished to the Turkish troops
the field blythe voluntary subscriptions
of the nation; forty thousand to be sup.
piled by Ooustantinople and the rest by
the provinces,
Some persons we're discussing the
of big heads and little heads in
the hearing Of a great overgrown lad,
who, on account of his Stiffness, was the
butt Of all those about him. After listen.
ing to the debate for some time, he sud.
denly blurted out in a deeptoned, coarse
voice, What's the use in having a great