Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-08
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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According to the Boston Post, Captain
Hall and crew will soon effect an en-
trance into the best Arctic circles.
Some one says, the best way to be-
come literary man is to take a sea
voyage, when you will be very likely to
become contributor to the Atlantic.
Owing to the general prevalence OF
chills and fevers throughout the United
States, and the small stock of quinine
ON hand, that article has advanced in
New York from 50 35 to SO per ounce.
In France, woman has no remedy
when man promises to marry her and
doesn't. Practically, this has the effect
of doing away with what are called en-
gagements, and there being no engage
ment there can be no breach. A man
and woman intending to marry, marry
at once, and there's an end to diplomacy
and lawsuits.
A few months ago the Antwerp papers
reported that the Wandering Jew" had
reappeared and been spoken to in that
city. The tradition Of centuries is that
the visits of that mythical person always
precedes war or pestilence, and the super
stitious are now connecting the outbreak
of cholera in Belgium with the recent
visitation of the wanierer There is
something remarkable in the vitality of
this ridiculous tradition.
Mr.. Jones, the negro shootist, who
fred the contents of derringer into
the body of Mrs. Jones on Tuesday last,
finds the criminal highway hard road
to travel. He was bound over on a
peace warrant was placed under bonds
for shooting with intent to kill, fined ten
dollars for shooting within the corpora
ton, and was again placed under bonds
yesterday morning on the charge of
shooting with intent to commit murder.
1t is rumored that still another magis-
trate has issued warrant against him
for another phase of the same offense.
The legal doctrine that the smaller Of
tense merges into the greater one seems
not to be well understood in Memphis
The Winnemucca (Cal Register thus
writes of a ponderous bird recently seen
in that place: "0ur attention was first
attracted by hearing some one sing out,
Holy mother, see that COW with wings.
We stepped to the door just in time to
see the monster alight with something of
crash on the roof of Mrs Collier s
dwelling house, where it remained for
several minutes, taking quiet survey
of the land and the astonished multi
tude who stood gazing at that unex-
pected visitor. 1t could not have weighed
less than seventy-fve or one hundred
pounds, with pair Of ponderous wings,
which, when stretched out to the breeze,
must have been fully twelve feet from
tip to tip. Its color was that Of raven,
with the exception that the tips of its
wings and tail were white. An old
salt who happened to get sight Of the
bird thinks he must be a renegade mem
Der of the condor family He says he
has frequently met with just such crit
tiers on the coast Of South America.
If the Winnemucca people had put that
"old salt" on that birds tail it might
have been captured.
They do queer things in Cincinnati
as the following paragraph from the
Commercial of that city will attest;
1.-THE squad Of blackguards who take a
reeumbent position on the grass plats
of Lincoln Park for the purpose of OK
aiming ladies ankles and commenting
thereon. after the manner Of black
guards, should receive the attention Of
the police. A reeumbent position in
one of the station-house cells might havi
cooling effect upon their ambition"
1t has often been described how per
son felt when scalped by Indians. Al
to bow one looks after the operation thu
following may be taken as authority
A Western paper says Of a scalpec
young lady; THE skin on her eye
and eyebrows, having become attached
is natural, and the physician says b
can varFsnt the entire head TO be coy
cred with new skin; he intends to tax
skin from her arm and place it upol
her forehead and temples, so that it vii
be smooth and natural. Then, With
head of false hair, she will. in fe'
months, again walk the streets Of on
bluff city, so apparently her former sci
that it will take close observer TO de
tect the marks Of the frightful accident.
The perils Of going up IN balloon o
down ia a diving bell have been san
by poets, bat the danger Of wearing AM
7 using submarine armOF was illustrates
ON Wednesday last in St. Louis. Pstriel
Rooney, a diver in the employ Of tn
Waterworks Department, was drowne'
at the reservoir at Bisselrs Point. II
went down beneath the water TO repai
some slight break IN the works. and rt
manned below ths ssrfaee about tw
hours. His assistant then became ana
ious at receiving no signal from biz
{ in answer to his own, and. donning al
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