Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Violins were invented in l477.
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Violins were invented in l477.
Pumps were invented in 1925.
Engraving on wood was invented in
l460.
Roses were first planted in England
in 1922.
Paper was first made of linen rags in
l4l7
Shiliings were first coined in England
in 1904
There are seven American lady sculp-
tors at Rome. a
Diamonds were first polished and cut
in 1889.
Almanacs were first published at
Bunda in l470.
Gun-locks' were invented at Nurem-
burg in 1917.
1t is said that the war costs Germany
a million sterling day.
Charles Dickens, in his twenty-four
works, introduced us to 2425 personages.
A wad or pad of about thirty sheets of
paper will, it is said, turn rife-bullet.
The Gattling gun is making good
deal OF noise in Europe.
10 Davies county, Illinois, has a local
preacher l03 years old.
Lynn, Massachusetts,, has shoe
maker who has worked steadily for sew
enty-four years.
If capital can import its labor with
out duty, why should not workingmen
import their goods in the same way?
The Bible is now printed in no less
than twenty-five of the modern languages
of India.
A New York athlete recently put up
and held out a ten-pound dumb-bell 1881
times in four hours, and would have kept
on-only he tainted
1t has been ascertained that there are,
in the United States, 6l 900 ministers, of
all denominations, al an average salary
of $700
The French have women surgeons,
and they are said to take leg off in
such fascinating manner that amputa-
ton is favor.
An Iowa editor has unfortunately fall
len heir to nearly three millions, and
will probably outlive his usefulness as
journalist.
An impoverished editor at the West
got elected constable, but his new office
did not enable him to arrest the atten-
ton of his readers.
The young ladies of Upton, Illinois,
have formed society to discourage
young men with any bad habits except
chewing gum, on which they place no
restriction.
In New York recently, a young forger,
heir to q million dollars, was sent to Jail
to await trial. The judge steadily re-
fused to bail him, notwithstanding his
wealth.
A daughter of G. Taylor, of Middle
town, Connecticut, was suddenly rem
dered speeehless, not long ago, without
any apparent cause, and while in per-
fectly good health.
Governor Holden, of North Carolina,
has been converted under the preaching
of the revivalist, Mr.. Earle, and is soon
TO be immersed and taken into the Bap-
tist Church.
A brave conductor on the railroad near
Wilmington, Del, recently jumped in
front of locomotive and snatched a
child from the track at the imminent
risk of losing his own life.
The engagement of Mr.. J. G.. Bennett.
jr., of the New York Herald, to Miss
Margaret Middleton, is announced. Miss
Middleton is Buffalo lady, and a niece
of Leonard W. Jerome
News comes from Salt Lake that at
the funeral Of Mormon recently, twenty
of his widows locked arms, and, keeping
step, followed the remains TO the |
silent tomb.
A Colorado woman, who liked to make /
the most Of everything, made a 1000 /
mile trip, including horseback ride Of
four hundred miles, to spend Thanksgiv-
ing with her friends in Ohio.
A woman named Mary Hicks died at
Islesworth, England, last month, at the |
age Of one hundred and four, retaining /
all her faculties till within short time /
of her death.