Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-23
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Madam Lynch, the mistress Of Lopez
is reported dying in the south of France
doctor: Come to Jesus" was thu
order a Sedalia doctor found on hi
slate. 7fsta LINg9l N
Chicago is to dig canal connecting
the Cincinnati soup-house with the Mis-
sissippi. bro
During 1871 there we're seventy-siA
horses in this country that trotted thell
mile in 2;30 or less.
The new slang phrase is frem Dun
dreary: Its one Of those things nc
fellah can find out.
Mr.. Shirk, of Pennsylvania, aged
ninety-nine, is the last one to claim q
vivid remembrance of G. W.
| Ex-Governor Henry A. Wise is going
North to lecture on The Physical
Geography of the United States" Isl
Lady Franklin has purchased Frank
lin house, in Lincolnshire, and proposes
to make it museum of Arctic curiosi-
ties.
j. St. John Arbuthnot, the real author
of Beautiful Snow" is driving a hsh-
cart in Brattleboro, Vermont, He is
reduced to penury. .a
An imaginative Western editor in
forms his readers that No jeering
skeleton mocks him from the battle
ments of melancholy lofty peak"
Nero is acquitted of the charge of
playing the violin at the burning OF
Rome. John s. c. Abbott has proved
an abb. Besides, the Emperor couldn't
fiddle.
Ariosa, young Cuban of fine attain
ments and noble character, was recently
shot by the Spanish troops, preferring
death to the alternative of entering the
Spanish army.
There are rumors that the Great East
ern is to be bought by the Hamburg
American steam line and will be used to
bring emigrants from Germany to the
United States.
In view of certain statements made in
Fosters recently published life of Chas.
Dickens, it is said that the friends of
Mrs. Dickens propose to publish the true
story of the separation.
Hereafter any member of the Chicago
fire department who enters a saloon for
the purpose of drinking intoxicating
liquors during the progress of fire,
will be discharged from the force.
A distinguished eronaut states, as if
it were something to wonder at, that a
woman's voice may be heard at an alti-
tude of two miles from the earth, while
that of man never reaches above
mile.
The Leavenworth Times, speaking of
Stokes probable appearance as lee
turer, suggests that he had better be
careful about his rostrum. 1t might give
way under him and cause him incon-
venience.
1t has long been supposed that cold,
very great cold, had the eff !
feet of weakening iron; but it is now
as the conclusion Of repeated |
and careful experiments, that it adds to
its strength.
In an acrolitic shower which took
place in Sweden in 1869, surprise was
expressed that stones weighing two
pounds, when striking on the ice on a
liver, made holes only three or four
inches deep.
The Grand Duke Alexis is betrothed |
% the Princess Mary Elizabeth, of Prus-
ia, eldest daughter of Prince Frederick |
Charles, known by the soubriquet Of
the Red Prince" The engagement
will be officially announced soon.
A man in Robertson county, Texas, |
las forty-one living children. Sixteen
# them served in the same company in
Confederate regiment during the war.
lie is now living with his eighth wife,
nd is sixty-fve years old.
NJ. O. de Benaze has made some ex-
,eriments upon the deviation of the
endulum at Callao. He finds that the
ngular attraction of the Andes is about
wo minutes and eighteen seconds, and
hat the level of the sea is elevated l37
letres by the same attraction.
The Scotsman describes feat of road
1t says that steam locomo-
We has just accomplished a journey
-ithout a parallel, viz: running from
IPSWICH to Edinburg by road, distance
f four hundred and fifty miles, in
sventy-seven hours travelling time.
Samuel Hartman, of St. Croix, Wis,
stired from military life with brevet
rigadiership. Goodbye, general"
ere the parting words of his old com
ldes in the army. "How are you,
olonel2" was the salutation on reach
,g Wisconsin AS he approached home,
lis began to come down to How dye
0, captain?" and finally, when he
anne among the boys at home, he was
reeted with Halloo, Sam; got back
gain2"
President White of Cornell University, c
advocating the joint collegiate ednca- t
on of the sexes, adduces as strong !