Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

uel 'neir STOCKINGS with gold dust.
Captain Glazier rode horseback from
Boston to San Francisco 10 I44 days.
Patti, Nilsson AID Lucea are each co.
gagged to sing in Vienna before spring.
The handsomest thing you can do Just
now is to hand some money to the poor.
George Eliot ones. Lawes) is within
two summers Of b:ing sixty years Of age.
Miss Millie Christine, the t~wo.heedsd
nightingale, is in Manchester, England.
Gail Hamilton never yet refuseda rail.
road pass, and, heaven helping her, nev,r
will.
a German writer advises American
girls to marry American men, for true
happiness.
Mrs. Prue says that she enjoys herself
best when the days are short at the
winter s%olsce.'
Brother Holland has used up the news
papers almost As badly as Brother Tai.
mage has the thesters
Mrs. Boss is q new candidate for hon.
orS ! n the lecture field, but her name Is
suggestive of former triumphs.
Governor Fairbanks, Of Vermont, ia
so i'll that he has been ordered by his
physician to winter in the South.
Poor jim Nye used to say Ny PEG.
pie like me better than they do Jones;
but Lord can't run against q silver
mine"
There are only twelve women in Dead.
wood City, and when one Of them appears
on the street 2GOl men take of their hats
ID her.
Dan Rice says it is all very we'll to &C.
cuse him of losing his grip, but it is not
every man who can get up a 1851 show
sheriff s measure.
A Vermont mother remarked: Eyes,
| want my daughter to study rhetoric,
for che cant fry pancakes now without
smoking all the house up"
Rev. Anna Oliver has taken charge of
a Methodist church, Passaic, N. j., which
has a debt Of 800. 900. 1t will take two
half-csns and a reservoir to pay that OF.
1t is mentioned as a curious fact that
Messrs. Arthur a'Beckett aud f. c.
Burnham, the two principal editors
OF the London Punch, are both Roman
Catholics.
Lucille Western onee remarked to Z
Plttsourg critic: If my head had been
as well educated as my heels, | wouldn',
have been afraid to act with any OF the
great actors"
An EOglishmsn, lately imprisoned for
beating his wife, said, as he was locked
up, I've one comfort, anyhow; eua
that is. that I'm not seat to Jail for doing
a mean thing"
A circus elephant eats two bales Of hay
per week while in winter quarters, and
you can figure from this how necessary
it is for the man at the door to cast MUIR
derous glsuces at the deadheads. Free
Press.
Elizabeth Deroc, an old Dutch lady 0
Chicago, who saw Napoleon at Delft in
1900, says that he rode a white horst,
took off his hat to the people, and at a
banquet ate only white beans, for fear 10
might be poisoned.
A New Haven policeman found o gai-
mentin the street the other day, aud the
whole department have endeavored in
vain to decide whether it is q lady's
night dress or a minister's robe. Opin-
ion is about equally divided.
Secretary Cameron is going to marry
Mrs. Skunk, the widowed daughter Of
Judge jeremiah S. Black. She is forty
years old, handsome, clever and a.com-
plished, Her first husband was tie son
Of the old governor of Pennsylvania.
The Rev. L. P. Terhune, the husband
of Marion Hsriand, the New Jersey
writer, has been offered the c~haplaincy
of the American chapel at Rome, Tor
two years, with Il comfortable salary and
a three months vacation in the summer.
A Troy IN. Y man, who created a
sensation a lew months ago by conduct.
log the burial service over the remains
OF his vile, was married soon after, and
is now a fugitive to avoid arrest for
~swiudling the creditors OF his deceased
Wife's estate.
General Miles has been more success.
full as an Indian fighter then on OF tho
officers who have enjoyed bigger reputa-
tons than he in that style of warfare.
de Is a vigorous lighter, and appears to
understand thoroughly the business dele.
gated to him.
Mr.. Theodore Taomas unavoidable
failure to give his promised concert at
Watertown, on Saturday, has caused a
poet Of that town to burst into this pa
thetic strain: 20 Thomusl 0 Thomusl
Why did you stay from US, And NOT keep
your promus2"
Frederick Woods went out to buy a
coffin for his dead mo~therin-law, over in
Brooklyn, but on the way fell in with
friends, got drunk, and didn't buy tho
coffin. Justice Walsh let him of on