Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Bananas are ripe in Florida.
Coal oil production has recommenc

Bananas are ripe IN FLORIDA.
Coal oil production has RECOMMENDED
The corn crop of the country is 1900
900, 1000 bushels. ai HNViH
Liverpool people prefer AmericaI
bars TO get drunk at.
Twenty thousand dollars per night i
paid by New York for amusen ent.
A project is on the taps now for get
ting up 100000 Beecher memorial
Oregon cityh enough Chinese Free
masons to form lodge of their own.
Chestnut worms were never before az
plump and palatable as this season.
It is estimated that the election Of
Hartranft cost the Grant party$3, 900, OO0
All vessels passing Mount Vernon toll
their bells now, as before and during the
war.
Rochefort is petitioning for commu-
tation of his sentence on account of III
health.
Madame Lucca has lately been loaded
with presents of gold, pearls and dia-
monds. p
The Louisville Exposition, on a CAPT
tai of 1854, 600, has netted the directors
TIE sum Of $4,000.
A toy balloon sent upin Detroit landed
safely in Pennsylvania, after q sail Of
twenty-four hours. SH
The English sparrows have become 50
numerous in Pennsylvania that there is
talk of killing them. haa
Four parishes in Louisiana, with .
population of $4,000, consume 1000
barrels Of whisky yearly.
The sale of tweaty American papers,
including six New York dailies, is for
hidden in the German Empire.
Charles .0'Conor has grown rich by
avoiding the reckless extravagance Of
writing his name with two MS.
The editor of the Louisville CONNER
cial is the largest apple brandy manu-
facturer in the State of Kentucky.
The circulation of the Jurnal de ST.
Petersburg, official organ of Gortscha'
koff, is tremendous. Just $50 copies.
Mrs. Parton "(Fanny Fern,) made
more money by her writings than any
woman in America, except Mrs. Stowe
Carlyle is now nearly eighty, and has
abandoned writing, but appears in So
ciety and conyerses as vigorously as
ever af
Arthur RAIDER, Roumanian, is the
champion chess-plsyer OF Europe. By
the way, what has become Of Paul Nor
ply?
Kellogg-Clara Louise-weighs one
hundred and sixty pounds, and is grow
ing stouter daily. Parepa must look to
her laurels. ~
1t is stated by some of the profession
that there are less than sixty really com
petent shorthand writer's in the United
States.
The English Methodists Oil THAR
missionary baskets" by deputing ANA
teur peddlers of Yankee Notions" to
canvass the realm. 500
A steam wagon was exhibited at the
Georgia State fair, which shOuldered
twenty tons Of stone aud walked of
without grunting. fa. v
Mr.. Charles Morgan. New Orleans
steamboat and railroad man, has given
$ll0. 900 to build and endow a public
school in Clinton, Conn.
Mr.. Frazer Of Peru, Indiana, was
lately run away with and killed by the
same team that last July performed the
same office for his son.
At recent funeral in Georgetown,
Cal, man tainted and tumbled bead
long into the open grave, dying in a few
minutes .aCter,getdng out.
Tea gardens have been erected in India
for 1909 miles on the foothills of the
Himalaya mountains. Let China and
Japan look cut for themselves.
An Indianapolis clergyman who dis
covered clear case of kissing during
the evening worship, stopped his sermon
and offered prayer for the oseulators.
Adelina PATHS noble husband lately
got out of bed in time to see burglar
getting away over the garden wall, ana
the papers call it deed Of bravery.
Miss Nellie Grant will make her debu
in Washington society this winter at {
full dress ball to be given 10 Der homo
by distinguished lady Of the Nationa
Capital.
A long-suGering San Francisco crimi
nal has been convicted, after four indict
ments, FIVE trials, one acquittsl, an,
three hung juries. His name WASH
Mrs. Fair.
Cameron says that he would not hav
Forneys paper anyhow that be is goin
to start one of his own at Philadelphi
shortly with a capital Of 100000, an
make Forney sick.
Claudina Carroll, prima donna, VII
once sang with Tamberlik, Lagrange
FrezzOlini and other artists, is now CIV
ing instructions in singing and operati
defamation in New York.
The Car and Emperor Of German
accidentally bumped their helmets 4
gether while both we're trying to pieL u
the same piece Of paper, and that ha
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