Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-22
FACTS AMI FASCIES.

Abby Hampton, a colored actress, has
made a grea; hit as "Topsy."
A reduction in the price Of lager beer
is now one of the Issues" in Cincinnati.
That sweet patriot, Rochefort, received
$l4.4OO a year for editing The Rights
of Man in Paris.
Elizabeth c. Chaplain, a Scotch girl,
is the author of Sankey's famous hymn,
Ninety and Nine"
The daughter of Archbishop Whately
has a school of four hundred boys and
girls in Cairo, Egypt.
Bertha Won Hillern's manager cant
endure the long practice walks" she re-.
quires him to take with her.
So long ago as l776 Abigail Adams
bade women remember this: "All men
would be tyrsnts if they could"
Maud Oswald, Barnum's best rider,
proposes to try to ride three hundred
miles in twenty six hours in Dexter Park,
Chicago.
At the close Of his last novel, A
Woman Halter" Charles Resde comes
out powerfully and eloquently in favor
Of women doctors.
Bret Harte has written a poem on a
! little boy sleeping. A poet never looks
to see where he is sitting, once the afia-
| tus m upon him.
Two women have been appointed pho
~nographers to the Supreme Court of
Maine, and are highly commended by
/. both bench and bar,
A lady writer declares it is nothing
:, against the honored state Of wedlock
that so few married lives are without dis
appointments and regrets.
Lola Montez is buried ia Trinity
churcb-yard, New York, where a plain
slab bears her name-Eizabeth Gilbert
and her age, forty-one.
N Wagner, who cannot speak English,
lie writes to Herr Ullmann that he is think
~ ing seriously OF coming to America, and
n. If he does will stay here permanently.
Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, joint au.
: thors Of House Decoration" carry ON
with great success in England the BUSH
ness Of professional house furnishers
II and decorators.
If In Amsterdam, in ye good old times,
e. an ancient deaconess sat in a convenient
&c place with a birch rod in her hand, and
switched the backs Of unruly children in
at the congregation.
A young married woman mended her
az husbands coat. She sewed the tail
no pockets up all nice and tight-thought
they we're holes. The Woman's Journal
OF says the aneedote is a fact.
" The Married Woman's Association
nd proposes to erect a statue in honor of
Ter the husband who empties the water out
of the basin after he washes his hand 8.
But the association has not found him
by yet.
'c What's in a nsme2 The West Point
Jan graduate who stood lowest on the list
parted his name in the middle, thus: F.
mel Halverson Fronch. The next lowest re-
1 ioiced in the name of Ariosto McCrim-
mon.
Mrs. Lucretia Mott has been lattening
> up, and now kicks the beam at sew
enty, but Alex Il. Stephens sees her and
70 goes fourteen ounces better. Thus doth
II the sterner sex lord 1t over poor, patien'
woman.
+ A distinguished Englishman, Lore
Paget, who lately witnessed a parade 9
, the cadets at West Point, enthusiast
cally exclaimed, You ought to Sent
out three thousand men a year from thii
institution"
no Cupid and Mars have met on tn
m. golden coast. General Maggie, Of Cal
ami. %fornia, is required by a jury to pa
III. $27, 800 to a woman named Hants, VIII
nix sued him for breach Of promise. II
not. has appealed the case.
A French chemist makes a pill o
which the name and dose are legibl
an printed. So the man who gets them ne
only gets a ueedful medicine, but ais
90 swallows a great deal Of valuable inioI
nation -[Danbury News.
shall woman be denied the right
vote because she can't fight, when
job darby, who cuts off his right little to
With a Ratchet to Feep from being draf
l. ed, enjoys the inestimable privilege
the ballot2' asks Mrs. Gage,
rer. Send us, from every town and count
II OF in America, poems-asd, sweet, dream
,bo ae poems on Summer" Write only {
king Zone side of the paper, please. We wa
ated, the other side of the sheet to write edit
eyes rails on, Huntington Hawkeye.
eem'
or Peter Schwab, the famous brewer
Hamilton, Ohio, has just conclud'
sue arrangements for supplying Gilmore
and Garden, New York, with lager beer, shi
lost ping daily during the seasoutwo hundr
fare and fifty kegs in special reirigerai
.rml. cars.
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