Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-15
FACTS AND FANCIES.


In Louisville the medical institutions
have sailed down into watts supply OF
subjects for dissection next winter.
A railway is to be carried to the top OF
the Swiss mountain of Righi. 1t is al
ready opened to the hight of 1000 feet.
The old men of Mayfeld, Ky, spend
months in playing marbles in the court
yard, according to the Mayfeld Demo
GRAFT
A French chemist asserts that If tea
be ground like coffee before hot water is
poured upon it it will yield nearly double
the amount of its exhilarating qualities.
Poker playing is the game of the Com
monwealth of Kentucky. Even the la
dies go in on little pair" and stand
the "raise"
Poverty, ignorance and death are
counted a formidable trio of calamities,
but their influence can be counteracted
by occupation, virtue and religion.
AT the recent performance of the
Passion Play at ODER Ammergan, Ger
many, the correspondent of the Detroit
Post roomed and slept with Judas Is
CARROT.
Colonel Fl. Yule stated at the British
Association meeting a short time since,
that the teak timbers which bound the
walls of the palace at Clesiphon, in
Babylonia, dating from the fifth or sixth
century of our era, are still undecayed.
Experiments have been recently made
to ascertain the quantity of different
foods which needs to be eaten to make
one pound of flesh. The conclusion ar
rived at is that it requires % pounds of
milk, 100 of turnips, so of potatoes, 80
carrots, s of oatmeal, u of barley meal
and 81 of beans.
In Keokuk the other day, at the Iowa
State Fair, a baby-show was originated,
and out of twelve competitors the
bouncing ebony image Of Mrs. Chloe
Franklin" a black woman, was unanl-
mously awarded the prize as the hand
soonest infant in the group, and card
was pinned on the victorious one, stating
that his parents were of the Kentucky
stock, owned at one time by Henry Clay.
Lord Houghton, at the Scott cente-
nary, said of the worlds great ittera-
teurs, that they have seldom left des-
cendants. England has now no Shaks-
peare, no Milton, no Bacon, no Newton,
no Pope, no Byron; Italy has no Dante,
no Petrarch, no Alferi, no Ariosto;
Germany has no Goethe, no Schiller, no
Heine; and France has no Montague,
no Voltaire and no Descartes.
Cannot somebody compel drays, hacks,
transfer wagons, omnibuses, etc., to get
little further apart at the street inter
sections2 The way the thing is now
managed it is not unfrequently the case
that these vehicles string out for half
square, and compel pedestrians, particu-
larly ladies', to wait until they draw their
slow lengths by the street crossings, or
if they venture to pass, are liable to be
run over.
The following high pressure style OF
writing is quite fashionable at present;
thine is the earths attribute, and as
the earth leisurely and regularly renews
her drapery of foliage and flowers, so
she reconstitutes the forms of her sur
face and moves her continents and her
seas from place to place in the long
lapse of ages, to which the life of man
is but as one undulation separated from
the myriads of luminous waves which
are required to impress us with a sense
Of solar force"
The Evening Mail says Turk has APP
peared in New York with wife whose
strange, luxuriant beauty has created a
deep sensation. She has the eyes Of a
houri, almond-shaped, deep and dreamy,
and brilliantly white teeth, that laugh as
she laughs. The delicate white lace that
covers her blue dress is held by little
groups of real humming-birds, perched
on branches made of the brilliant wing
sheaths OF the green beetle. They are
sojourning at an uptown hotel, en- route
for Canada.
In the manufacture of needles at Red.
dieh, England, 5000 persons are en-
ployed. The wages vary considerably
ranging from &c cents to 81 20 a week
for children, and 81 ~ to 50 GO a week
for females, and 81 80 to 50 GO a weel
for men. A needle has to pass through
seventy different pairs of hands before
it is finished and ready for use, and th'
variety of needles made for the different
trades and professions, it is stated, may
be considered as marvellous. There is {
factory in the city Of New Haven wher'
the whole process of making the needle
is done by a single machine, without tn
Intervention of even one pair o
hands" and it turns out from thirty Il
forty thousand needles per day to eacl
machine.
This is a curious world. Two month
ago, says an exchange, one B. F. Sim
mons eloped from st. Paul with a mar
ried lady, both of them leaving familie
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