Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-06
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


FACTS AND FANCIES.
slEighteen daily papers are published
in Texas.
Quack horse doctors are becoming nu-
merous.
French opera has been abandoned in
New Orleans. Laal.e
Fifty new American novels have ap-
peared this fall.
Very little shipbuilding is now in pro-
gress in Quebec, Canada.
Copper mines have been opened in
the vicinity of Smartville, California.
English dog carts are quite numerous
this season, in Central Park, New York.
A pumpkin followed out was used as
ballot-box at q recent Kansas cleo
ton.
Dan Rice's trick horse Excelsior is
dying of old age and disgust in Cincin-
natl.
The postal railway service has been
increased during the last year 10000
miles,
Air brakes are now used on oil ex-
press trains on the Boston and Albany
railroad.
A number Of the Chinese workmen at
North Adams. Mass, have cut oil their
pigtails.
The apple cropin Illinois is immense
Hundreds of bushels are rotting on the
ground.
A New York saloon keeper advertises
for " boy to open oysters about hiteen
years old"
The census of Vienna, Austria, Just
taken, shows population of nine hun
bred thousand.
1t is announced that the Grand Trunk
railroad of Canada is to be changed to a
narrow gauge.
Double breasted jackets Of thick pi-
lot cloth will be fashionable this winter
for gentlemen.
The Danish national income during
the past year shows an excess OF sSSS'-
900 over the expenditures.
The New York roughs use poisoned
bullets so as to make sure of their VIC
tins even if vital part is missed.
Louisville sportsmcn are obliged to
content themselves with shooting grass |
hoppers, Other game being scarce.
A Springfield, Ill, court has decided
that railroad tickets purchased from one
station to another are good either way.
indianapolis is to have monster
grain elevator, towards the erection OF
which one hundred thousand dollars mas
already been subscribed.
San:Francisco isn't a good place for
blacksmiths. One of them was recent
" presented with triplets, and his wife
thinks it must be the climate.
The south side of the Arkansas river
is reported to be lined for one hundred
and fifty miles with vast herds OF elk
buffalo, wild horses and deer.
The celebrated trotter Strawberry,
that trotted eighteen miles in sixty
eight minutes once, has recently died in
Minnesota at the age of twenty-five.
Young ladies who indulge in horse
back exercise and huge bustles at the
same time shouldn't mount a horse that
is not accustomed to carrying double.
One of the results Of the presence Of t
women in the Michigan University is I
said to be that the appearance and be- q
havior of the classes now in attendance .
are better than ever before known 8
A Kansas paper has the folio wing;
9 The gentleman who lost his false
teeth while chasing poor widow
voman's chickens can have them by
Ealing at this office and paying the
harges."
A Cincinnati colonization firm has
purchased a large tract of land in North
IN Louisiana at three dollars an acre,
md between one hundred and fifty and
wo hundred persons will shortly leave
cincinnati to work the land.
Photographic" is the name of dis
,overy by Mr.. Woodbury., chemist Of 1
london, which, it is supposed, will take !
he place Of photography. The process !
S the same, except that gelatine is used
1pon the plate which takes the picture.
Its said that there is only one real
Chinese woman in the United States, and
she is the wife of San Francisco mer-
chant. The olive-eyed females so com J
mon among the Mongolisns of the
Pacific slope are all of Tartar extraction.
Smokers who buy meerschaum pipes
ready colored should be cautiousin their d
purchases. From a recent report, pub 1
lished in Paris, it appears that the most i
noxious pigments are frequently EN-
ployed to give the clay the cherished
hue.
A little boy appeared at one Of the
public libraries near the city, and re-
turning a book, said: Mother says she
won't take any more books out just now,
as we've got tue smallpox at our house"
Boston Paper.
In respect to Mr.. Beeeher, the London =
Echo says: The New Workers keep a
pet clergyman whose doings are as care
fully chronicled by their Journals as those /
of royalty are by the Court Circular. 1t
must be added that they are often origi-
nal enough to be recorded"