Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-15
FACTS AND rANCIEs.


Know all men by these presents. u
Grant,
If a sailor has been travelling on horse
back, can it be said that he rowcdfl
What is that which makes every per
son sick but those who swallow itY Flat
terry. g
1t is an error to imagine that women
talk more than men. They're listened
to more-tbats ali. rd'ql SAT
A German songstress is said to touch
high G with great ease and power Thai
speaks well for her hygiene. ga y
There is a house within few miles o.
Plymoth which shelters under its rool
FIVE generations in the saue family.
The most important needle-work ever
done in the world, is supposed to have
been done by the mariners compass.
Switzerland exports $4,OOO,0OO worth
of cheese year, that being almost the
only article of export from that country.
An Indiana paper congratulates itself
upon the fact that there are more d.
vorces granted in Austria shan in In
diana.
A lady with two marriageable daugh-
tiers informed gentleman that one was
a blue-net" and the other q bronze. !"
The Lawrence (Kan.) Tribune thinks
grapes will be so plentiful this season
that they will be sold for two cents q
pound.
A store on Melpomene street, New
Orleans, has out sign odd furniture
what ain t no use made just as good az
new.
Swear not at all Let all your com
munication be y Yea" when invited to
drink, and Nay" when solicited to
treat.
According to careful estimates, which
are deemed reliable, one-third Of the
wood and timber existing in California
years ago has been consumed.
There is an old gentleman in Houston
county, Ga, who says he never had a
pair of shoes lntil after he was grown
and had become the father of two chill
dren. ush
A civil war recently broke out among
the bees owned by an extensive apiarist
in Illinois, and ninety FIVE swarms out of
one hundred and ten we're slaughtered
on the field of battle. Hil }egeh n
A project for the formation of tun-
mel under the Straits Of Gibraltar has
been presented to the Spanish Minister
Of Agriculture. 1t is intended to run
from Algesiras to Centa.
The number of Cashmere goats in
California, from one.quarter to full
bloods, is estimated at about 10000.
The fleece, according to grade, is worth
from twenty-five cents to one dollar and
a quarter pound.
A young lady in Peoria church be-
came seasick recently from the effect
produced by the continuous swaying of
fans all around her. She had to be
taken from the building. b.
A German musician has discovered
that the tone Of violin can be greatly
improved by immersing the instrument
in lager beer, and leaving it there until
it becomes thoroughly saturated. b
Sir Charles Lyell declares that the
entire continent of North America will
be washed away into the ocean in four
and a half million Of years. And yet
the people take an interest in real estate.
The tourist season in Switzerland has
already had its full list Of horrors. -Four
deaths from accidents, two ladies from
falling over a precipice, two gentlemen
by drowning, one gentleman murdered,
Den Carlos is now at Lausanne, on
the shores of Lake Geneva. His daily
life there must be good deal pleasanter
than lodging through the passes Of the
Pyrenees with Spanish patrol at his
heels. . la
Two sisters in Prussiaa town loved
the same fortunate man. They we're
practical people, and deciding that they
had rather halve him than monopolize
anybody else. they captured the youth
and started for Utah. -s
A little school girl refused to define
clown as " low vulgar fellow" For
her stubbornDess the teacher whipped
her and kept her detained in play hours,
but probably felt some remorse when
she found that the little childs father
was clown in circus.
A French inventor recently made
public trial Of boots designed to aid one
to walk upon the water. Nothing ever
aOated more beautifully than those boots
did, but the triaing circumstance that
they aoated wrong side up nearly caused
the inventors death.
Two years ago a Connecticut man re-
ceived a gross insult from a neighbOr
who lives a quarter of mile or more
from him. After long meditation he has
now purchased peacock and jaekass,
and anchored then Ia q field adjoining