Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-13

FACTS AND FANCIES.

The Germantown (Tenn.) Telegraph
has discovered that there is yast uil-
ference in the flavor OF eggs.
Tn New York the police take wooden
legged inebriates apart and carry them
to the station-house by sections.
Some people make their religion go q
long way. A good woman bought lot
terry ticket the other day, accompanying
the purchase with the soliloquy, Inc
Lord knows how it'll turn out. It's all
in the hands of the Almighty, l 'spose.
aThis little fellow" said Martin Lu-
Their of bird going to roost, has
chosen his shelter and is quietly rocking
himself to sleep, without care Tor TO-
morrows lodging, calmly holding by his
little twig, and leaving God alone to
think of him."
A Wyoming correspondent says that
in most of the juries during the recent
court term at Cheyenne there was
slight sprinkling of women. In capltai
cases female jurors are placed in charge
of a female bailiff, and are allowed to
retire to an apartment by themselves
during the intermissions of the court
until the cause is finally submitted, when
they are, of course, required to be smut
up with their associates of the sterner
sex until they can agree upon verdict
This is said to afford fine opportunity
for innocent semi-Airtations; but it is
not alleged that the lady jurors did any
thing of the sort.
Smokers will be pleased to learn that
large deposits Of meerschaum clay have
been discovered in Patagonia. Hereto
fore the supply of this material for pipes
has been limited, the clay being found
in Turkey, Greece, Asia Minor, and on
the shores of the Mediterranean in small
quantities. A great many people fancy
that their pipes are real hydrous sill
cate of magnesia THAT being the scien-
tific name of the genuine meerschaum),
whereas the aforesaid pipes are made of
common clay, colored, or of bread, and
are foul at the fortieth smoking. AS
meerschaums are the healthiest pipes
possible, the Patagonian discovery is to
be rejoiced at
Accident has had considerable to do
with the most important scientific dis
coyeries. A gentleman in Bingham,
Utah. who is sinking a shaft with the ex-
pectation of finding gold in canyon,
some time ago nailed piece OF sheet
iron ND to keep the water from dripping
ON the men at work. After it had thus
served to keep off the water for some
three weeks, he took it down, and found
to his astonishment, that it was covered
more than an inch thick with gold, silver
and copper, with little iron, which had
been in the water in solution, and be-
canse preciptated by being brought in
contact with the sheet-iron The silver
was over 5000 to the ton. and the gold
over $500, besides the copper,
On the eastern slope Of Clark Noun
tain Nevada, near its summit, there Is
perpendicular cliff two hundred anc
fifty feet high. At about one hundred
| feet from the base OF the cliff, on its
front, are engraven the characters
tILD. The cross and the letters are
of immense size, being fully sixty fee
| IN hight, and cut into the cliff two ant
n half feet deep-so that they can BE-
plainly seen ct distance of five miles
By whom this strange workmanship wa
done is unknown. The fact, however
that the letters are the Roman eharac
ter and are preceded by the figure OF
cross, would make it appear that 1t wa
done by the Jesuit missionaries, WIFI
were known to have been in that region
many years ago. The Indians kno'
nothing of its authors, nor have the.
any traditions concerning their origin