Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

E,a MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. q q
Cincinnati has two base ball clubs
composed of girls. 's91# 'na hHi'
Yale College has entered its one hun
dred and seventy-frst year.
A thousand horses a day are said tC
be killed for food in Paris. .....,
An Iowa genius has trained sheep to
participate in dog-fghts. w.
A farmer in Orange county, Florida,
during the season, realizes $l25 O month
from nine banana plants. y "''' '
Welsh clergymen are holding love-
feast in New York. They call il the
Dywgpwdgen Dyrdgwyle. laelg bua
/ The postage ON ione letter cost Mr..
Samuel II. Ross, of Knox county, Ohio,
$l69 so. He forgot, and mailed the
letter inside a newspaper,
An economical man can live comfort
ably onitwo cents day in Japan. If he
owns q good black.and-tan he can live
like Partisan, free of cost rrio +.
Land in London is worth So, 900, 900
an acre. 1t is perhaps of such soil that
Mr.. Roosevelt proclaims Five Acres
more than enough. iaia 'If' ~
A Texas octogenarian, and not cir
Gus manager either, says from first to
last he has received by discharges of
guns and pistols into his body, one hun
dred and seventy-five bullets. ~ y ''A
In ballet performed at Berlin, one
scene represents Paris, whence Gam
beta and Others are escaping in large
balloon. A Prussian soldier shoots at
the balloon and brings it down.
Many of the prisoners captured at and
about Orleans are children under ten
years old, natives of Alsace, who, speak
ing both French and German, were
found useful as spies. isom an tat
The finances of Pittsburg are in "a
good condition. There is triae over
S40O,O0O in the city treasury, all ofwhieh
draws five per cent. interest. 1t costs
$4,000 month to carry on the munich
pal government, ga a.llq i
In London, on the anniversary of the
Soldiers Battle of Inkerman, the sur
viving officers and men of the Grenadier
Guards who fought at that battle dined
together. The regiment was 400 strong
when it went into action Just sixteen
years ago, ands of that number only
thirty remain. fhm rIfiH
A section Of one Of the mammoth big
trees of Calaveras county, which has
been on exhibition at San Francisco, was
brought eastwardly by the Central Pa
cific train recently, having been loaded
upon ears in sections. When put to-
gether for exhibition it tmeasures twenty
five feet in diameter. p,
A negro and white boy quarreled in
cornield, near Huntsville, Alabama, on
Thursday last, over the number of ears
of corn shucked by each. During the
seuffle which ensued the negro stabbed
the white boy in the neck, severing the
jugular vein, causing almost instant |
death. The murderer escaped arrest. H'b
Brown University has jast received
the. largest Holtz electrical machine in
the world 1t produces electricity by in
duction instead of friction has thirty
inch plate, and is capable Of producing
a ffteen-inch spark, while the largest
friction machines can produce but a
three inch spark under the same circum-
stances as this viii one Of twelve inches.
The English volunteers do not appear
to be the best armed troops in the world,
if we are to accept the description of a
juvenile correspondent OF. the Pail Mall
Gazette of his cousin rifle. The cousin
is a volunteer, and possibly a crack shot,
but it seems that he has to drag his rifle
mp and down the room, and to bump it
frequently upon the floor, before he can
get the ramrod out, v-rf III. rs,r ~
A curious case has passed through the
Queens Bench, London. A lady Of sew
enty, having a life interest in some prop
srty which, If she married, would go to |
her grandchildren, and not wishing her
relations 10 lose the money, married
paupeE so as to forfeit il 10 them The
,reditors contended that the marriage
vas collusive and fraudulent, but the
Judges confirmed the decision of Mr..
Baron Martin, who held that they could
lot recover. Hinail Ila 500 e.11 7ai us
The following pleasant view of going
o law, taken by British contemporary,
will probably find many fellow-feelers on
his side Of the Atlantic, at least among
hose who can say crede espertO: "a l.
nan who goes to law is looked upon as
,erson who voluntarily engages in an
which is certain. to Tighten
lis purse and to rembitter his life. His
riends consider him in the same light as
he civilian who. goes under FIRE, or the
who embarks on a long sea ,
oyage, If the landsman does not suffer j
rom sea sickness, or IL the civilian is .
lot struck by alhullet, the general opin-
On is that Providence has been too kind, =
nd a vague impression of disappoint-
ient prevails. 7" $500 ano' Iof
Hiram Jones, under the sentence of
cath for the Newmarket murder, is now :
a careful course of medical
reatment N jail at Concord, N. H. Hell
ut his throat some time ago, but the
oetors have used their best skill in re-
airing the damage, and entertain conf
ent hopes Of having their patient ready
Or the gallowsih A-short time. An of :
lhich is sstrictly lawful, Of course, but it :
lso comes very near being ridiculous. =
When it is the determined purpose Of
he State that a man shall leave this ,
lorld, the exercise Of sleepless watchful- I
ess and the highest medical skillto keep
i'm from going out of it, is probably as
Bs any manifestation of
ifcial care and vigilance could well be.