Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-25
FACTS AND FANCIRs.

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At Warren, ILL.,. last week, calf was
7 born by its mother being killed by To-
connective. 1t still lives.
In Racine there is a good hotel called
, the Huggin House" 1t is great re-
sort for young married people.
The newest style of coffee pot has a
little steam whistle attached which warns
the folks when the coffee is ready.
Pra Bat Somdetch Prabaramin Tara
main Taramaha Chulakonkorn Klao
Pra Chao Pom Din Siam is the name of
the King OF Siam.
A Minnesota elopement slipped up
by the young lady slipping down on the
ice and shrieking shrek in front of
the paternal mansion.
A contemporary ungallantly makes
the observation that the leading cham
pions of woman's rights are generally
found to be mans lefts."
The Sultan has received large gift OF
birds and beasts from the Khedive,
among them some Cuban bloodhounds,
with keen noses for a negro.
A copy of the third folio of Shaks-
peare, printed in 1864, was sold last
week at London auction for fl4l, or
about seven hundred dollars.
Mr. Luttrell said in the California
Legislature the other day: =" For $500
years we have been carrying on the
principles of the dark ages.
The Boston Globe is the only daily
newspaper in the United States that
speaks we'll of dogs. As the Globe is in
dependent, it can say what it pleases.
DR.. Major Mary Walker is still arga-
ing before the House military committee
in behalf of the right of women who
served in the war to recognition and
compensation.
Kossuth has settled down in Turin,
looking, as letter-writer says, old and
faded, but the brave spirit bursts out
now and then in the fire and eloquence
of his earlier days.
A good man, who has seen much OF
the world, and is tired of it, says; The
grand essentials to happiness are some
thing to do, something to love, and some
thing to hope for.
Chicago people are smart. 1t is re-
ported that, to avoid the fire limit ordi-
nance, houses are built on rollers out
side the fire limits, and quietly slipped
across the lines in the night.
Somebody tells the Scientific Ameri-
can of a way to clear well Of carbonic
acid gas. 1t is to lower a red hot iron to
the water, so as to produce a little steam.
The vspor instantly absorbs the gas.
The Danbury Conn News speaks of
a violent snow squall which struck that
place, dashing down upon us from the
western hills with all the vehement
grandeur of four dollar rooster when
pursued by a stone.
Plantamsur, the astronomer. informs
frightened world that he has not dis
covered any comet that will knock the ,
earth to pieces. The story was manu-
iactured from whole cloth by sensa-
tional Swiss journalist
A man in one of the smaller towns in
Maine was elected to Office and got mis-
name in the papers, and the officers of a
bank went for him to pay him $25, which
had been in the bank fourteen years,
and they had not been able to find the l
owner'before.
The late Miss Sarah c. Lewis, of !
Braintree, Massachusetts, by her will,
gave Elizabeth J. Josselyn the use Of her
house and land SO long as she cares for
and: maintains the cats she left. On
the death of the cats, the house is to go
to the University Society. !
Joaquin Miller is to lecture in New 5
England next fall By way Of an ad- =
vertisement he has deserted and been !
divorced from his wife, has got engaged I
to Scotch peeress, and wears a shirt '
with pink boa-constrietors writhing on
green ground Chicago Post
A Philadelphia woman who, forty a
years ago, at the age Of sweet sixteen, !.
married rich old fellow Of three-score 4
for his money, expecting soon to be I
gay and festive widow, has recently died q
at the age of fity-six, leaving husband !,
of leo, and four children to mourn her /
loss. a
Japanese women whose lovers are !,
faithlcss rise at two clock in the morn a
ing and drive nails into sacred trees, b
vowing that when her lover dies she will b
pull them out. She believes that the :
god, to save his tree, will strike her lover I,
dead. This is little worse than lying a
awake nights to hate people. d
A visitor to the Supreme Court Of the B
United States speaks of il as supposed 4
to be the most digniGed tribunal, not 2
withstanding he has seen one Of the !,
judges eat an apple with great gusto
while seated on the bench, and another
partake of molasses candy, aud after !, ,