Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-26
FACTS AND FANCIES.


Kentucky has one town without smal
J pox.
The ex-Imperial family will come
America next year.
There are two miles Of geysers alon
river in Idaho. na VS.
Theirs is seventy.fve years old, bu
be seldom dies and never resigns.
San Francisco adyices announces tha
the horse disease has got to Mare Island
| Joaquin Miller's poem, Arizonian,
has been translated into German by |
Baltimorean. "a
The pathetic Hugo likens the Frenc
Republic to Niobe. Perhaps he mean
because. its all Theirs.
A FIVE foot vein of zinc, sixteen fee
below the surface, has been discovered
at Olive Hill, in North Keaucky.
Miss Eliza Cook, the English poetess
is neither dead nor sick, as was reported
but in her usual health at Wimbledon.
II has been unanimously resolved BY
the Cop.lcil Of the English Pharmaceu'
tea Society to admit female students tc
its course Of lectures.
Washington Territory has got a bigger
lode OF cinnabar than it can convenient
" carry by itself, and wants Eastern
capitalists to give it a lift.
In China the marriage ceremony lasts
three days. In Chicago the marriage
itself Doesn't last three days-that is,
some marriages don't. = Norristopn
Herald.
George Alfred Townsend says I'm
Philadelphia they hang editors who say
anything of witty nature and no edi-
tor has been executed for a hundred
years"
In Bates county, Missouri, one termi-
nus of petriied snake has been struck
and about two rods of him laid bare.
Excavations towards the head are still
in progress.
A one-armed man in Salem lately ap-
piled for a divorce on the grounds that
the hand he had given his wife in mar
rage was lost, and that the contract was
therefore void.
A sentimental tourist 1--WE shouldn't be
surprised to hear that he is an Ameri-
CAM has been fined for emitting souvenirs
de voyage from the tails Of the horses in
Queen Victoria's stables.
A colored bootblack of Ohio, having
accumulated much wealth by polishing
upper feathers. has turned his attention
to souls, and presented a church to his
brethren at Perrysburg.
The officers at Fort Kearney keep q
negro'whose sole work is to break IN
their new boots. He has had such a
long experience that he keeps up a
continued volley Of Oaths, even in his
sleep. rh Ir
A California inventor has discovered
new and economical way Of producing
white heat. He says that at an expense
of s. per day he can run furnaces that
will smelt one ton of ore every thirty
minutes.
The Vosgian authorities are going TO
raise enough tax to put a Few nails in
the house wherein Jeanne Dare was
born, lest that mansion should go to
Rouen, where the heroine ended her
career.
A couple Of japanese priests are in
vestigating Christianity in Berlin, which
is about the last place anybody but a
Japanese would go to for the purpose
Of getting any practical ideas on the
subject.
The Supreme Court Of California. has
Just decided that, until the new code
goes into effect in January, the testi-
mony Of Chinese or Monaghan witness
is not admissible, under existing law,
against white person.
Duluth vaunts over St. Paul the com
parative mildness of its climate. The
thermometer ranges as high as fifteen
degrees below zero, and the inhabitants
easily keep themselves warm by sitting
with their feet in ice-boxes.
Springfield, Mass, talks Of putting
the numbers on its houses in the usual
arithmetical succession, which the con-
servatives oppose as being new-fangled
innovation on the t;me-honored custom
Of letting each householder put up any
number he likes.
Those who look upon tobacco as an
abominable and filthy weed have had
provided for them q paradise to which
they can emigrate and be free from the
fumes ofthe horrible cigar and the afro
cious pipe. A colony is being planted
at skiddy, Kansas, in which DO one is to
be tolerated who dallies with the weed
in any shape.
A certain captain living at Shelburne
Falls, recently got a stray cartridge
1 into his pipe while filing it for smoking.
After smoking short time the cartridg,
exploded, leaving the captain with a
short piece of pipe-stsm between bis
teeth, and his facial ornament " minus
portion Of epidermis. BE said th,
smell" made him think Of Older