Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-23
FACT AND FASCIES.

. Dos'ou an masenm IS to be open
on Sundays, free.
The New York pos,ofics transmitted
IS ono valentine.
Churches with N'us glass windows
ought to be healthy.
Fred Nay has returned to his usual
haunts in New Ylrk.
The New o:Ieans Picayupe calls DR..
Mary Walker a selfmade man.
The Empress of Austria has given a
magnificent bracelet to Nilsson.
This is the way a Democrat puts it:
Floored, ehl Lose-iana, Ore.eone."
Eight to seven that the widow Oliver
don get a cent cut Of Simon Cameron.
1t was Henry Clay, and not Hayes,
who would rather be rigbtthan President.
The latest item of fashion intelligence
is that Bradiey's judicial robe is cut
bias.
a gentleman sent up to Mr.. Moody a
request for prayer for " a young married
wife"
James Gordon Bennett aud his sister
are in Paris. Mr.. Benefits going 10
India.
The Empress Eugene and the Prince
Imperial will return to England next
month.
Professor Adler is creating a decided
sensation in New York with talks on
religion.
Admission to both the poultry ard
baby show Use" says a Chicago adyer.
tisement.
Russian letters say Patti saved the
season at St. Petersburg and Moscow
from being most disastrous.
Stockings of cardinal red should be
laid aside during Lent. We must be-
temperate even in stockings.
The Irish organizations of Baltimore
have sensibly agreed to spend their St.
Patrick's parade money for the poor.
Captain Joseph F. Marsar, the inter.
prefer for General Lewis Cass when be
made the treaty of 1919, by which ,he
Indians ceded the Northwest Territory
to the government, is now a resident Of
Bay City, Mich.
The San Francisco Alta says that.
from causes not eaoily explained, Cali.
@fornia, and perhaps San Francisco in
particular, furnishes more cases of par.
alysis than does any other section of the
Country, if not of the world.
If you want to stuff a girl as full of
= vanity as a billy goat is of devllment nut
a big hustle upon the small Of her back.
aud turn her loose on Fourth street when
> the monkeys" are thick on the street
corners. = NorriStown Herald.
DR.. Schliemann has measured the
skeleton of Agamemuon, counted his
. teeth, and figured the old fellow all M.
Nothing remains now but for Mark
Twain to 20 to Palestine and dig up the
, bones Of Adam. He knows Just where
to find them.
Inc Baltimore Gazstte says: "Wouan,
beautiful everywhere in America, reaches
the pinnacle of perfection only on the
e shores of Chesapeake pay" Now we
want to know who was the m that
did it, where is the pinnacle, how high it
is and whether it hurt.
AT Savannah, Ga, a few DAYS since.
some children in an old cemetery found
a ring that was formerly worn by the
grandmother Of Colonel E. C. Anderson.
Of that city. 1t was inscribed 1863. and
had doubtless been brought to the sur
face in the removal Of bodies recently.
When a man without cash or credit
attempts to leave a hotel, and lowers his
valise out Of a back window by means of
a rope, it makes charity seem cold to
hear the voice Of the landlord below.
yelling up; "All right. I've got the
%valise; let 60 the %rope."-Ol Cifv
Record.
A cloak of partridge feathers is made
by an industrious young lady in Eng
land. Ten thousand feathers Of different
e sizes will be required, the tail feathers
S being used for the lower part, the breast
plumage coming above, and the varie.
e gated neck feathers being intended to
e%ncircle the throat.
: Michigan has gone into the subject Of
0 fish culture with an enthusiasm and dis
erection that must produce a marked
5 effect in the coat of living to the masses
8 of that State. Last year there we're de.
posted in the waters of the State nearly
100000 spawn, embracing salmon,
white fish, bass, pickerel and other vari-
cites Of valuable food fish.
Miss Bessie Ludlow, the New York
actress, is now the wife of Mr.. Michael
Gam, n of the proprietors Of the
Theater Royal, Dublin, and regarded as
coming for the Office Of Lord Mayor.
Since his marriage he has been ban
quoted by his brethren Of the Dublin
Corporation, and presented with a costly
!. service of plate, accompanied by an gd-
dress Of congratulatiOh 90 his union.
The comedian Charles Matthews, con-.
nainnL Authority saus n rnnd MI L..