Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-13
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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The carriage drivers Of Boston have
an association which gives an annual
ball. ssmg asssaaasl ssa
The fashionable wedding tour for New
York couples at this season is said to be
visit to Philadelphia. oiliAa
Paul Morphy, the foremost chess
player of any age or country, still re-
sides in New Orleans. 9'a
The most prosperous daily paper in
all Germany does not have circulation
Of twenty-five thousand copies.
To mothers You shouldn't let your
children read Watts poems; they con-
tain much hymnmorality Judy. y
A man out West has just returned
from an Indiana camp meeting. He says
that the right spirit prevailed. He tasted
it out of black jug.
A widow lady in Louisville has buried
FIVE husbands, the last of whom, previ-
GUS to his death, had buried the same
number Of wives.
James Beevis, who served under Wei
lington at the battle Of Waterloo, died
in the Sullivan county IN. ~ poor
house, at the age Of eighty-six, a few
days ago. as tasis3Hs ~
The attorney general Of England re-
Gently made long speech in the Itch
borne case, which when reported in the
newspapers measured eighty-two feet in
length. 6b6 isa So
Portsmouth, N. H., takes the premium
for long and faithful domestic service.
A maiden recently died there who was a
servant woman in one family for sixty
nine years. s'l'
The Washington Chronicle says; THE
phenomenon has been wit
messed in Boston Of a gas company
cheated by a citizen. Occasionally
bitter is bitten" saiae
1t has just been discovered that the
city of New York has actually paid for
the safes in which the ring thieves kept
their stolen funds This was certainly
adding insult to injury.
Eight out of every ten tobacco chew
ers in the regions where the plant is
raised use the natural leaf twisted up
into hanks and free of honey, liquorice
Juice or other modern adulteration.
In condemning late hours for dinner,
a medical journal says that within
twenty-four hundred years the dinner
hour has gradually moved through !
twelve hours of the day-from 3 am. to
3 pm. ws1 !
Cromwells skull is said to be in pos
session of Londoner, whose great
grandfather picked it up when, after the |
Restoration, storm blew it from the
pike on which it was fixed at Westmin-
ster. sq"
Johnstown, Pa, is said to have
church for each thousand of its popula-
ton, several of the churches being fine
specimens of architecture. A new
Methodist church was recently dedi-
Gated there. stfN 's'
One of the female clerks in the post
Office department at Washington, was
married last week, and there have been
since nearly one hundred applicants for
the vacancy There are also more than
Eve hundred applications of sother la
dies on hand for the first vacancy.
A resident Of Grayson Springs, KY,
killed near that place big
buck deer, with horns having four
prongs, which weighed, minus its head,
hide and entrails, one hundred and for
Iy-nine pounds. 1t is the largest deer
ever known in that part of the coun-
try.
Illinois farmers finds that the part
ridge is a great destroyer of the chinch
bug, which is soiDjurious to wheat-felds, |
and are beginning to protect them from
the fowler. One farmer says he has hun
1reds of tame partridges about the
place, and his wheat-crops are unusual
Iy abundant, while in places not far
away the chinch bug commits great
rayages. He feeds the birds in winter.
An English writer of hundred years
ago thus speaks of the status Of the
potato: This root increases prodig-
ously, and is very proper for feeding
and fattening cattle They are boiled
in water, and require but little boiling, !
though they may have been kept two
months in the store. Cattle eat them
raw, but for the table they are whole
some boiled. ! earnestly recommend
the culture of this plant TO husbandmeu,
As It's not only excellent food for cattle,
but good for man in years of scarcity.
After little use, the taste becomes at
least as agreeable as turnips, and par
Licularly if the potatoes are boiled with
bacon and salt pork