Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-12
FACTS AND FANcfRs.

EAOIO AMI ANNlEJs
The Mammoth Cave Of Kentucky is
for sale at 100000
The total number of Germans residing
in the United States is l,65O,53s-
Observation-Disclosures is Ger
man "for short for horse railroad,
Quarantine at Galveston, against New
Orleans and yellow fever, has been
raised.
This is about the time for boys to com
mence their annual falling from hickory
trees.
Janauschek, in Mary Stuart, and the
Oates company, in burlesqpe, are de-
lighting the ST. Louis people,
No one can say that the earih's crust
is too thin" 1t has thickness vary
ing from 1000 to $500 miles. i
The matrimonial fever prevails in
Williamson county, Tenn. Thirty per
sons were down with it last week.
Mouth harmonious, so popular with
the little folks, are said to be a delight to
dentists, as they corrode the teeth.
Music is taught in the public schools
of Cincinnati by the system of mineral
notations, invented by Rosseau in l742
1t is asserted that the peanut crop is
short this season, most interesting
item for lovers of this popular ground
nut. ..r.t,
A coal famine is feared at Cincinnati,
owing to the low state of the Ohio river,
which at present has the appearance OF
mountain streamlet. fi0 All
The proud cathartic State is what
her loving sons call the Commonwealth
Of Kansas 1t all comes from the cult
walton of castor beans. " ~"
The Cincinnati people are drinking
water since the erection Of the Davidson
Fountain. They think they have dis
covered new beverage.
"What is it that sticketh closer than
brother?' said Sunday school teacher
to one of his class. "a postage stamp,
by guml said the incorrigible.
The fires in the woods Of Northern
Wisconsin continue to rage fercely.
The FIRE king is waving his red flag over
the country like an exulting demon.
The Salt river bridge on the Louisville
and Nashville railroad, which was de-
stroyed by fire few days since, has
been rebuilt, and trains pass over as
usual fsf.sai.l
Bishop Selwyn is said to be the original
of Charles Kingsley's muscular Chris
tian-the man who feared God and
could walk a thousand miles in thou
sand hours"
A laborer in Sacramento, while I'M
loading a block of granite, was acci-
dentally flung up into the air twenty
feet, and his thrifty employer yelled at
| him TO cut it short.
The Pacific slope pronunciation of
Joaquin is Wawkeen.9 The readers Of
"Miller's Songs OF the Sierras will
govern themselves accordingly, and slope
the pronunciation as soon as possible.
The original draft of Lincoln'a eman-
cipation proclamation, signed by the
"late lamented," which was purchased
by the Chicago Historical Society for
SIS, OOO was destroyed in the late fire.
Lee Paul, the owner of Bob Shelton,
and who was expelled from the turf by
the Nashville Blood Horse Association,
denies the charge of foul riding, and
says he did his best to win. The Asso-
citation says he did his best to lose.
A Portland, Oregon, man is proud to
know that his wife has brains enough TO
90 lecturing about the country on wo-
mems rights, but sheds bitter tears
because she hasn't heart enough to stay
at home and look after her four little
children. f
Two ladies we're travelling on the cars
from Frankfort few days since, when
stranger asked the elder what relation
ship she bore to the younger. The
answer was quick aud pertinent. She
is my sisters daughter, and my daugh-
ter's sister," Howl
A modern philanthropist proposes
that newspaper be published especially
for the use Of convicts, ON the ground
that crimes are made too much the staple
topic Of our daily newspapers to render
them fit for use in our jails, if these are
intended as reformatory institutions.
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in her
articles upon the wrongs inflicted upon
sewing women, says Constant sewing
is harder than farming, more facilitating
than figuring in bank, and takes the
roses out Of the cheeks and backbone
out of the system with more than the
facility Of a Southern Illinois ague
( An old lady getting off the ears at
Hartford, the other day, attracted the
attention of a policeman, who rendered
his aid, when the old lady peppered him
in the ribs with her umbrella, and sharply
soliloquiEed; Clear out, you bigamist,
you shan't touch me- She had read
the papers. a.
A youth in Iowa, who has a turn for
practical joking, recently tried TO i'm