Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-27
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Labor in vain-mining.

The Grand Duke Alexis is now boun
for the Amoor river.
Counterfeit fifty cent notes are agai
appearing in circulation.
A quarrel over a twenty-five cent be
resulted in murder at Richmond. Ker
lucky, lately. aaa1 N
The dearest object to man should b
his wife, but it is not unfrequently he
clothes.
A Kentucky newspaper finds faul
with some of the Judiciary there for play
ing marbles.
Mark Twain's middle name has bee
mystery. 1t is Samuel Longhorn'
Clemmens. ao
A Georgia authoress has written
novel in which Alexander II. Stephen
appears as the hero.
The Chicago Tribune says there ar
more wooden buildings in that city nov
than before the fire.
James Fisk, pere, is the travelling
agent of Connecticut firm which man
ufactures carpet tacks.
1t is stated that the two daughters Of
the late Charles Lever inherit from theii
father about $4,000 each.
Captain Kendall, the inventor Of cir
cular saws, died in Maine, the other day
at the age of eighty-nine
Two hundred colored Atlanta citizens
who didn't pay their street tax are nov
called upon to work it out.
A lion is said to be roaming the woods
in Missouri, and making things very
lively in his neighborhood.
New Hampshire still hugs Puritanism.
Her constitution contains Protestant
qualification for certain Offices.
No well regulated California family il
without slcp bowl seooped out of
two hundred and fifty dollar ruby.
China manufactures twice the amount
Of gunpowder of any other country, but
uses more for fireworks than for war.
Late English journals allude to ru
NOR that poison, and not rheumatism
was the cause Of the recent severe illness
of King Amadeus.
The newspaper offices at Chattanooga
are to be anchored during high water
which sometimes mandates a portion o.
that romantic city.
A guileless man at Daabury, Conn.
saw beautiful chrome advertised fol
fifty cents" and sent on the money anC
received the jack of clubs.
A man advertises for competent per
son to undertake the sale of a new medi
cine, and adds that it will prove highly
lucrative to the undertaken
Mr.. Mitchell, an English member o.
Parliament, has shocked the aristocratiC
society Of which he was an ornament by
marrying pretty Irish barmaid.
The female students Of Western col
lege are said to be holding their own.
Which means, probably, that none have
married and changed their names.
Americans are said TO be numerous il
Havana this winter, the hotels and board
ng-houses having about as many as thel
can comfortably accommodate.
1t is evident that women can sue as
well as be sued. We are told that LaurG
D. Fair has sued the managers Of hal
in San Francisco for refusing her the
use Of it.
A Chicago police sergeant, who joineC
the force twelve years ago a poor man
has accumulated 100000, and resigned
to give another poor but honest man al
opportunity.
A meddlesome man, who was watch
ing his wife bake pies, stepped with hi
bare foot on a warm stove lid, and ther
stepped up in the air few PAGES, anC
has gone West.
StoneWall Jackson was a believer il
astrology, aud more than ten years be
fore his death calculated for himself I
horoscope, which was fulfilled by hi
fall at Charlottesville.
Great complaint is made because o
the rush Of Italian immigrants to Thu
country. IRasmuch as an Italian dis
covered it, we rather think his country.
men have a right to come.
Brandy and alcohol are now manufac
tured from lichen and moses in St. Pc
tersburg, and in the northern provinces
of Russia generally this branch of indus
try has become quite extensive.
The actual duration OF q Hash OF Light
ping does not exceed the millionth par
Of second. But the retina Of the hu
man eye retains the impression Of tn
electrical fash for much longer period
Murders are so common in New Yorl
that when a gentleman went home an
announced to bis wife that Mr.. Creole,
was dead, his little three-year-old, play
ing on the hoOr, looked up aud said
Pa, who shot him3"
A writer in the Nashville America
states that oak slaves for making win
casks in the sosth Of France, are sen
from the forests of Kentucky and fer
nessee. A wine eask in France is sal,
to be worth as much as the juice Of tn
crane 70 ell il. so scarce is stave timbe,