Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-06
FACTS AND FANCIES.

suburbs OF Pittsburg, Sac is about forty,
a German by birth, aud for nine YEAR,
past has worked at the trade as a helper
to her husband.
We ell knows" said the school com.
mitteeman to the new teacher be was ex.
aiming for her position, " that A, B an'
c is NOVELS, but wot we wants to know il
Wy they is so."-[Boston Transcript.
The Syracuse Standard says: "The
most beautiful woman in the world il
thirty-two years old, aud lives in Lou
don" We beg your pardon. She is not
so old by three years, and we left her at
home on South Hill this morning. sing
ing to the baby.-[Hawkeye.
Ex-Governor Abner Coburn, OF Maine
has a little estate which is worth mem
tioning, although it comprises only 693,.
600 ceres. OF these acres 1900 are in
Maine, l35, 1000 in Canada, 3 5000 eaca
in Wisconsin aud Dakota, 10000 in
Michigan and 5000 in Minnesota.
A Flint river professor writes us:
Which is proper, Come from under
the table, or come out from under tho
tableG'" Neither. You should saw.
Come right out from in under the
table" What you want to make a sen.
tence strong is plenty of proportions
[Hswkeye.
He smoked. He drank. He wen
lived fast Seldom went to church.
Was at times pro(ane. But he's not in
State prison and his reputation is SAL
lGrsphic Are you never to have done
talking Of yourselI2 Dent you know
that this takes up the readers time?-
Courier.Journal
Cincinnati papers tell of a Hebrew
who, though dangerously sick, refuses to
eat a pork chop prescribed by his physi
clan. Consistency, thou art a Jew.ill."
ICON. Adv. His refusal could not
have been because pork is in.Jew.dishes.
Must have been some other reason.
The pen of the Washington core:
spondent has been skipping around Sem
ator Benjamin Hill thus; "a blue.eyed
man, mild as May, v%elvety, b~road.faced.
and u%nassumiug as a field dandelion."
So picturesque a description ought to be-
agreeable to the senator, but it is much
to be feared that he will not appreciate il
to any great extent.
Augustus G. Bartlett, who is white.
brought a suit in Chicago for divorce
from his wife, who is black. They had
been married two years, and had lived
together peaceably, but he had grown
tired of the notoriety that the contrast
in color gave them. His accusations
against her, however, were found. to be
groundless, and the case was decided
against him.
Mr.. John Welsh, recently appointed
minister TO England, is a somewhat tall
and slender person, with a pleasant face
half hidden in a gray beard; with large
blue eyes, and a veil shaped head COW
cred with profuse gray locke. He has
the air and manner of on educated mer.
cha0t; and has, indeed, been for most of
bis life a very successful business man.
-[Nex York Tribune.
Bsecher has been pitching into the
press for printing the details OF scandal.
He says: "You want to know Just what
that dissipated husband is, and Just how
that quarrel began and went on; and the
nastier it is the more you read it," Well.
we honestly confess we did want to know
all about it. But his counsel were so
clever that we never coull get quite
down to the true inwardness of the Gaze
philadelphia Bulletin.
a Boston drummer, who prides him
self on his charms, forever lost his pride
the other day. He drove his fellow
drummers wild in a car by his attentions
to a comely maiden, to whom be showed
his samples, and whose hand he squeezed
tor half an hour. But when the train
stopped a quiet old fellow stepped for
ward aud thanked him for entertaining
the girl, remarking: "She is hopelessly
insane, and | am taking her to the State
asylum ere."-[New York Sun.
Winter has fully set in on the summit
of Mount Washington, and the frost for
nations, so peculiar to the high noun.
tain regions, are wonderfully beautiful.
Sergeant Cone, of The United States
signal station, and bis assistant, D. c..
Murphy, are now the only PERSONS Gu the
summit. Sergeant Cone, who had been
TO the Fabyan House for the mails, walk
to the summit on Tuesday, it taking
four hours to 20 three miles, from tho
base to the signal station. The wind was
one hundred miles an hour, and
the murcury had fallen to 20 degrees
Boston Transcript.
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How He Lost His Leg.