Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-31

Grapes are now so abundant in some
parts Of the West that they are sold by
the ton hiiA
Western Iowa has caught grasshop-
per that measures an inch across the
back.
The water in the Hudson is now so
low that only steamboats, of very light
draught can ascend to Troy.
They have found gas coal along the
line Of the Pacific railroad that yields
ten thousand feet Of gas to the ton.
The Portland Transcript decidedly
objects to the fire engines in that city
starting out to extinguish the Northern
lights.
Boston is very much afraid that an
earthquake reputation may affect the
price of real estate there ilh
The late James I. Brady once re-
marked that his experience convinced
him that a mans wife was his best law
yer.
In England and Wales there are 81
7l3 people Of unsound mind under the
cognizance Of the Lunacy Commission
ers. p ta HU0It' uNf
Assistant Bishop Pinckney, of Mary
land, is sixty years old, and his wife
eighty, she having made the clothes in
which he was christened when a child.
The quails in Indiana are said to get
intoxicated on polkberry juice, so that
they can easily be killed by blow from
a stick. HRt rE J
The father of young lady in Ken
tucky overheard lover asking his daugh-
ter if she wore false calves. Only one
coroner was necessary.
The Troy Press says Morrissey's Club
House is built on quicksand and has
settled four and half inches since its
erection.
In Weare, N. H., man finds comfort
in the possession Of an old pewter platter
that was being set upon the table for
supper by his grandmother, at the time
she was struck and killed by lightning
many years ago.
One of the colored jurymen that tried
negro case in the Criminal Court at
Evansville the other day, being asked
how he knew the defendant was guilty,
replied that he saw it in his eye-he
didn't need no witness.
The Americans in Paris, who pre-
ferred to remain there to enjoy the fun
and novelties of the siege, have had
enough Of it, and are anxious to get out.
They are finding the novelty of short ra-
tions too expensive, and that Paris, cut
off from the outside world, is humbug.
A man named Howard, handcuffed
and with his legs tied, jumped through
the car window, while the train was
nearing St. Peters, Minnesota, on the
22d instant, but was caught by the Off
GERS by the legs, the train stopped, and
the chap allowed to drop outside into
the arms Of his assistants.
Once, long ago, an old hummer in
Massachusetts, village, learning that he
was threatened with expulsion by the
brethren of the congregation with which |
ne occasionally worshiped, got the start
1f them" by posting on the meeting
house door one Sunday morning a mani
Iesto communicating the entire church
or alleged too intimate familiarity with
he bottle.
The people of jackson township, In
Llama, seem. to have discovered q re-
way Of curing diseases. The
Fort Wayne Gazette says that a little
,irl out there was advised TO wear a
harm about her neck for fifteen DAYS.
md then her father was to take 1t and
ide bareback, as hard as he could 90, to
he Maumee river, distance of twelve
niles, throw the bag into the water, and
hen return, being careful to be just half
vay home by sunrise. = ~
In visiting the wells of the oil region
me is struck with the originality of the
Ill operator. You see it sticking around
N the derricks; drilling well will have
N board nailed in sight, "0il or
IL; Grease or China" etc, Around
Producing wells there are apprehensions
f FIRE; :" Throw away that cigar;
Fools caught with lighted cigars in
heir mouth will be shot, etc. Shingles
caring such inscriptions as these stare
ne in the face whichever way he turns
The Columbia (Ky.) Spectator says
hat one Of the natural ouriosities Of Ed
iundson county is Dismal rock, per
endicular rock one hundred and sixty
hree feet high, on Dismal creek. Near
he town Of Brownsville is a cave not :
cry extended, but quite large at the
pening or entrance into the cliff of
ipeen river at that place, To the mouth
{ this cave Green river sometimes
ises, and in the cave is q large tree,
omewhat imbedded in the sand, which, c
hen the writer visited il some thirty $
ears ago, seemed to be perfectly petri-
ed, especially the bark Of the tree.
A letter from Brussels says. Brussels I
ow bears an animated aspect The
ireets and promenades are crowded
18th the numerous wealthy people from
rance who have taken refuge here. II u
Jay be predicted with certainty that Y
iany Of them viii become permanent
and also that many important I,
idnstrial establishments win eventually y
e transferred from Paris to Brussels. K
he bankers, stockholders and specu-
tors Of German origin who have been
xpelled from Paris feel already quite at
ONE on the Brussels Change, and are
full swing 10 establish business rela- !.
ons here. With firmly settled gov
-nment the guaranteed neutrality and =
le free institutions Of the country; with
q unrivaled geographical situation, and
ro6ting now BY the exodus from Paris, Il
russeis promises fast 10 become one Of
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