Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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Protestant souls in Berlin average
$3.50 to pastor. ia9a w
A. c. o Hear is rising colored ora
tor Of South Carolina, a5,l g eFa r
A successful lager beer brewer in Gin
cinnati is named Sawney 81. .
Byron's Maid of Athens Teresa
Black, is bedridden and poor in Athens.
London is more than usually blessed
this season by the American migration.
The Moravians are about to publish a
translation of the Bible in Esquimo,
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Large numbers OF bears roaming in
Vermont are being converted into bears
grease.
In White county, Illinois, the reign
of law is enforced by sheriff named
Hale Storms. til vs. 81
A Detroit manufacturing establish
ment throws in warm dinners daily to
its employees. sag
Query for the loil-isn't there just
little too much stage effect about the
Philadelphia PLATFORM" Fdl 700
1t is estimated that China will be a
market fer American butter and cheese
to the amount of 5000 tons annually. "
A colored orator of extraordinary
power, Henry Cartwright, is said to have
been discovered in Racine, Wisconsin.
Chicago barefacedly asserts that a
matron within its limit at the age of
seventy-nine has just given birth to
son.
Notwithstanding the late frosts, the
vintage of California will undoubtedly
exceed eight million gallons, besides
brandy.
When an impecunious person has ex-
hausted his resources at his uncle's
he generally resorts to out-of-the-way
haunts. afe aG
Morning prayers are no longer obliga-
tory at Vassar College. and the students
feel as if they were relieved from Vas
sariage. rH ql
The Able Michand is about to estab'
lish in Paris an anti-infallibility "Old
Catholic chapel, wherein Hyacinthe
will preach. in.
An illogical contemporary insists that
the city car companies should make it q
standing rule to supply seats for all
passengers.
An inquisitiye Eastern man has bad
his nasal organ cut off by buzz saw.
This came of pcking his nose in other
peoples buzziness.
Bismarck stands godfather to scheme
for establishing uniform rates Of postage
throughout Europe, Russian and Turk
ish Asia and America. b
The entire Russian sect of Mennonites
proposes to come and settle in America
if the government will exempt the mem
bers and their descendants from military
duty.
Indiana o'erleaps the discretion of
plausible mendacity in trying to make
the rest of the world swallow hypo-
thetical youth weighing sos pounds.
This is too thin"
One Mr.. Phound, an English bachelor,
is about to marry the Japanese Princess
Sotsuma perhaps for her money, in
which case he may be penny wise and
Phound foolish.
The recent General Assembly OF the
Presbyterian Church reiterated the opin'
ion announced in 1892, misunderstanding
the practice Of allowing women to preach
in their pulpits.
The census states that ninety-one
thousand ministers in the United States
receive an average salary Of 500 annu-
ally. A writer thinks they should make
strike for higher wages.
Germany cherishes the memory OF
Goethe with loving reverence; she has
already seven statues Of the poet, and a
magnificent monument is to be erected
to him at Berlin this spring.
With no intention Of punning, the
Michigan prohibitionIsts have declared
that the " Republican party have been
tried upon the liquor question, and has
been found wanting" Wn
Professor Finite, a music-teaeher Of
Scotch descent, in Indiana. is anxious
to learn from the Genealogical Regis
try" whether he can claim relationship
to the Earl Of Fife.
Some idea of the extent Of st. Psuls
Cathedral, London, is had in the fact
that no fewer than $4,000 people were
under its roof on the occasion Of the
royal thanksgiving.
An Illinois genius has discovered how
to make sugar out of elder plants. The
trouble is that groeers, who are always
on the lookout for new-crop sugars"
are not likely to take the elder article.
Somebody has unearthed Chinese
MS, written some 900 years before the