Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-28
FACTS AND FANCIES.

1ne woman d shingled SIMPSONS
hair must have been the first female
barber.
Edwin Alonzo sends us q poem on "a
Broken Link" Too late. Sausage sea.
son went out with the cold weather.
[Hawkeye.
Dumas wife is a Russian, and they
have two daughters, Miles Colette and
Jeannine, who are said to be charming,
witty and intellectual.
Mr.. Riviere, the conductor, is organic.
ing an orchestra of fifty English must
clans to give a series of concerts in
Paris mex July during the exhibition.
The early acts of the new pop give
no inkling as to what his Southern policy
will be- and even Stanley Matthews does
not assume to know.-[Worcestsr Press.
Mra. Harriet Beecher Stowe has been
passing the winter in Boston, at the resi-.
dence of her son-in.law, the Rev. j. A.
Allen, who is the rector Of the Church of
the Messiah.
The great destruction of government
timber affords members of congress an
unlimited scope for getting the dead
wood on each other in debate. -GBrook.
Ign Argus.
The car has offered a prize for the
best hymn celebrating the recent Rus
sian successes, and adapted for the army.
The composition is restricted to Russian
composers.
One Of the most popular c~arioatures
in Constantinople is that of a Cossack
kicking Lord Derby and asking him if
British interests are being touched
yet." LHawkeye.
New York paper is trying to get IN
a sensation about a new invention for
making gas out Of water. But no gas is
genuine unless stockholders can make
sixty per cent. q year out of it.
The NeOshO Newton county, Times
says every Democratic paper in the
Southwest is a greeuback advocate" in
other words, stands on the Indiana plat.
form Of February Goth.
The Chicago Journal predicts that
after Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines dies she
will lay claim to a quarter section right
IN the most aristocratic part of the city
OF the New Jerusalem.
Remember, DR.. Mary Walker, that the
woman who would lift her hand agairst
a man, save in the way of kindness. is a
wretch whom it were base hattery to call
a policeman.-[Utic Observer.
An artist Of this city has only to seat
himself with his feet elevated to the win.
doW'slll to create an impression on pas.
sers'by that mis- office has been provided
with inside nds.-[Rome Sentinel.
The American patriot seldom rms
away from a $25OO office, but the last
man who weht up to Alaska to be col.
lector OF customs got enough in twenty.
four hours and returned by the same shin.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal says that
the practice of snuff.dipping, which ia
usually thought to be confined to the
Ssuth, is SO much in vogue in that city
that the amount usually used is from
5000 to $4,000 pounds, which is worth
from SIS, 900 to S25, 900.
The Earl of B~eacorsGeld is one of the
best dresseFS in England; he has had on
the average a plug hat a month, his
trousers are usually of a light lavender,
and his coat perfection in fit. His valet
ia scrupulOus about the arrangement of
his curls, which are numbered.
The noblest Roman OF them all caught
a Syracuse commercial traveller trying
to make love to his daughter, and now
that %Syracusean is circulating a petition
asking congress to make it felony to wear
a boot weighing over thirty.fve pounds,
live weight IRome Sentinel.
a Boston paper says; "a butterfly
was caught at the South End yesterday"
1t may be safe enough to catch a butter.
fly at the south end, but when you 90 to
grab a wasp, you want to catch it at the
uortheasterly end, shifting westerly to.
ward the head. -[Norristown Herald.
Baby Las began to learn sacred bis
tory, and begs papa to ask her questions
just to see how wise she is. We'll"
said papa, can you tell me who Adam
was2' The father of all men," GOOD:
and who was Eve2" After a moments
reflection; The mother of all women
Cotton seed oil manufacture il bseom.
ing a marked industry in the South.
There are now seven large mills in New
Orleans, and others at Baton Rouge,
Shreveport, Natehez, Vioksburg, Dallas,
Memphis, Nashville, and even St. Louis
and Chicago. A ton of seed produces
twenty gallons Of oil, worth 50 SO, while
the refuse cake, worth $40 per ton, is
valuable as feed for domestic animals
and for fertilizing land.
High-bread women in Europe never
wear jewelry, except when in full dress.
This waH one thing | SO admired in Mira
Hicks. her diamonds were gorgeous.
magnificent, yet she seldom wore ali AZ