Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-01
A C AND FANCIEs.

Atianta mas ninety seven lawyers.
PAducah has 1900 disciples Of Murphy.
Turkey is waving a white flag and
Britannia rules the wave.
Debt" says Billings, "iz a trap which
= man sets and bats himself, and DELHI
eratOly gets into"
Corn and rock" is the fashionable
drink in New York. Whisky and rock
candy are the ingredients.
A paper at Columbus, Ind, advises
people not to call a man a liar when the
ground is frozen.
The Earl of Roseberry, having a Jour.
n%alistic ambition, has purchased the
London Examiner.
Look how healthy watering.places are.
says Dio Lewis. They have no feather
pillows to speak of.
Mrs. Swisshelm rays p~antaloons are
unphysiclOgical." Not if properly
patched behind -[Boston Post.
Dom Pedro is tryingt to break himself of
the habit of looking around at dinner to
see if the conductor is through.
THAT Banker Of Mine" has the best
run of anything out. The edition rarely
stops short of Europe Burlington
Hawkeye.
A Washington woman has applied 10
be appointed a constable, despairiug of
catching a man in any other way
[Danbury News.
The autograph of David Garrick is
worth $l4; that of Mrs. Siddona brings
$40; Rachels s.; Handers S2lO, and
Edmund Kean's SIS.
Mr.. Blaine, when complimented by a
friend on his handling of Hoar and
Dawes, replied; "0h, it's an easy mat
ter to surprise two old women"
Major F. H. Bristow, a brother of ex.
Secretary Bristow, is a candidate for re-
election to the Office of county attorney
of Todd county, KY. he is a Democrat.
The able Republican editors are never
so happy as when they see a Democratic
brickbat SHE'D at Tilden. Samuel seems
to trouble their sweet dreams. -[Boston
Post.
~,
/, The ladies are all opposed to the tele-
, phone. They don't care to have a young
fellow whispering in their ears with his
mouth twenty miles away. funny
!, Folks.
Lieutenant Flipper, the only colored
graduate of West Point, will probably
be appointed military instructor Of the
, colored branch Of the Texas A. and NJ.
college.
1t is reported that Peter Cooper is ne.
gotiating for the purchase Of Limestone
Syringe, near Spartsnburg, s.. c., where
he will establish an institution similar
. to Cooper Institute of NeTsyOrt.
Nine Helena Modj eska IS a native of
Cracow, the ancient capital Of Poland.
Her name in its native form is Modrze-
jcwska. 1t has been mercifully abbrevi-
!, ated and simpli6ed by her American
manager.
A Vermont widow of sixty, with ten
children, has married a boy of sixteen.
Before the ceremony her oldest son. a
man aged thirty-fve, knocked down the
prospective bridegroom. However, the
happy youth won't have any motbsr.in.
law.
The late NJ. Theirs particularly de.
sired the absence of his eccentric old
father from the celebration of his mar.
riage with rich lady of Paris, and so he
engaged for three weeks all the seats in
all the diligences running to Paris from
the paternal nsighborhood. The plan
succeeded.
Mr.. Henry ]. Byron says that Charles
kean was one Of the most sensitive of
actors, but, strange to say, this sensi.
t~iveness was only exhibited to any great
degree during the performance of certain
parts. For instance, when playing
"Wolsey," a door claiming, an ill.timed.
cough, a crying infant or an Obtrusive
| n%ut-cracker, would drive him to despair;
. whereas if be were playing Hamlet"
you might bang the doors about him with
impunity, and crack all CoVent Garden
, without upsetting him.
The fashionable bracelet in Paris is
' resclavsge-slavery 1t is q fetter of
gold worn on the arm above the elbow
aud is rivetsd and soldered by the Jew
r eles in the presence Of the donor, to be
worn till death, or divorce, or separation.
The %jeweler, when the operation is over,
: bids the lady call next day to see that
the rivet holds firmly. She comes
t without her friend, bien entendu-and
= the treacherous goldsmith confdes to her
the secret of a concealed spring, by
( means of which she can remove the fet-
ter at will.