Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-03
FACTS AND FANcrEs.

England proposes to use chalk fc
fuel
A civil marriage law is 10 be intr'
duced into Germany.
An Omaha paper calls the fremen @
that city Fire fiend fighters.
A New York company turns out on
hundred thousand pies every week.
There are two hundred and eighty
FIVE ironclads afoat Of all nationalitiei
/ A Florida paper boasts twenty-nin
sponge vessels. They must draw waite
badly.
The almanac says that Jupiter is i
Cancer now. He is advised to use Gun
durango.
The French diplomatic agent and othe
French citizens have been murdered il
Paraguay.
Being buried by moonlight is all thu
rage among Eastern fashionable circles
at present.
Mr.. Fawcett, the blind minister Of Par
lament, revels in skating. Not at this
season, however.
VIM. B. Astor's income is $4,000 day
and he owns six hundred houses. He
only lives in one, however.
The New York journals contain com
plants from travellers of the prize
candy pest on the railroads.
Isaac Pittman, the inventor of that
system of photography which bears his
name, is bankrupt in London.
Mr.. Cobb recently married Miss Webb.
He knew that they we're meant to be
Joined as soon as he spied her.
A piece of fossil tree, two hundred
feet long and twelve feet in diameter,
has been found at Roxborough, Penn.
A St. Louis man advertises for girls
to work in hair" Married women would
be more experienced in that business.
The white elephant recently captured
in Siam takes rank after the Queen, the
heir apparent ranking after the ele-
plant.
The London Spectator says: What
ever else the political instinct of the
American people is or is not, it is al
most always safe.
The drum of column from the tenn
pie of Ephesus has been received at the
British Museum. Ten horses were re-
quired to draw it.
A Cairo dispatch denied that the
Egyptian forces have invaded Abyssinia;
they act strictly on the defensive and on
Egyptias territory.
Books are company, and the company
of bad books is as dangerous as the COM
pany of bad associates, while that of
good books is like that of good men.
No man can for any considerable
period wear one face TO himself and
another to the multitude, without finally
getting bewildered as to which may be
true.
A St. Louis art critic is OF opinion
that If art continues to progress there in
the future as in the past, all the sign
boards in the country will eventually be
painted in that city.
A Nevada paper tells of a head of
stock cattle, numbering 1900, which
passed through town out there, bound
10 California, having been driven from
Maine county. Texas.
The Arizona Miner declares that with
one thousand men mounted on good
horses, well armed and equipped, within
a year every Apache would be reserved
Or 90 on reservation.
The Yarmouth Register states in proof
Of the virtue of printers ink, that Bar
ney Gould, who, few weeks since paid
that Office twenty-five cents for posters
Of his new express business, is about to
be married.
A Michigan man of sixty lately cele-
brated his Wedding, and dropped dead
from heart disease in a few minutes
after the ceremony. Heart disease is
usually most dangerous before the cere-
nony.
Mrs. DIR. Clair DeEyere Spettigue, of
Boston, has entered the lecture field
with a discourse on Love and Mar
rage" Ifshe would only fall down and
break piece off her name, She might
succeed.
A wonderful cave has just been dis
covered in Kansas, which has lake Of
pure, clear water extending almost from
the entrance, in a northeast direction,
as far as the vision Of the discoverer
could reach.
General Bradley 7. johnson, in a re-
cent address in Massachusetts,, denied
the statements formerly made that be at
one time during the war rode coRspieu-
ously through the streets Of Fredericks.
burg dragging a Union flag pendant from
the tail Of his horse. He says it is ut
terly false and without "pretence for
foundation"
The General Superintendent of the
Michigan Central railway has forbidden
the sale of whisky, ale, beer, or other
intoxicating liquor along the line of that
road in any of the eatiuC.hous.s .,,.oL..l