Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-25
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

A light employment-Cleaning win
dows.
Motto for chess-ployers-" Act on thu
square"
A school board that is never elected
A blackboard. E WIS.,
"Kole oyle sixty cents a GAL is
Macon, Georgia, sign.
Miss Anna Dickinson is writing
book on the labor question.
II you wish to make an Impression
fall down in the mud
There is sleighiag in many parts OF
New York and New England
Detroit has eight hundred thousand
tors of shipping on the lakes.
Dummy engines are running on all
the street railways in Chicago.
The objection 10 boating matches is
that they always end ia row.
Beavers are worrying the people OF
Kansas by damming the mill streams.
In what case is 1t absolutely impossi-
BILE to be slow and sure?-In the case Of
a watch.
The San Francisco Bulletin calls
Chinese servants GROWING domestic
l;,ar-o;rsu,apt
In the dearth of horses the mails are
carried on foot from Calais TO Machias,
Maine, q distance of forty-four miles. Z
At one of the New York churches a
list Of the weddings TO be celebrated
during the week is hung in the vestibule,
for the convenience of the young ladies
Of the congregation.
A law has been passed preventing the
erection Of new buildings in Vienna
during the progress Of the exposition in
1873. This has been done with a view
of preventing street distractions.
Mr.. Surgeons sister is preaching at
Willingham, Cambridgeshire, England
with success, that the police authorities
there have expressed their thanks to her
for effecting a decrease in the number OF
criminal cases.
A New York business man stopped in
at an opening as he was returning home
the other day, and purchased his wife
six thousand four hundred dollars worth
oe dress goods. AS the cold weather IS
coming on this was thoughtful in him.
The wedding procession Of John Al
der and Priscilla, with some modi6ca-
ton, was acted over again in New
Bedford Massachusetts, by bridal pair,
who were carried from hotel to the
railroad depot in hack drawn by oxen,
with white ribbons on their horns.
Queen Victoria, who is now in Scot
land, recently paid another visit to Mr..
and Mrs. Brown, of Micras-the latter
being the mother of the Queens well
known Highland attendant, John Brown.
The royal visit was prolonged for some
time, and was the second, if not the third
call made by the Queen upon Mrs.
Brown during the present season.
A Baptist minister at Harlem, New
York, got into trouble the other day, by
remarking at the funeral Of member OF
his church, This man was lazy Chris
tan" and, upon the family Of the de-
ceased Directing TO such language, made
matters worse, the following Sunday, by
saying, There is family in the church
who are my enemies for the reason that
did not say the soul Of the sOt was 10
heaven" The resalt Of which is that
the ingenious clergyman has been hauled
before council for misdemeanor.
A law of England enforced in the
seventeenth century "All women, Of
whatever age, rank, profession or degree,
whether virgins, wives or widows, that
shall FROM and after this act, impose
upon, seduce and betEay into matrimony
any Of his majestys male subjects, by
scents, false hair, Spanish wool, iron
stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes or boil
stored hips, shall incpr the penalty Of
the laws in force against witeheraft, sor-
Gerry, and the like, and then the mar
rage, upon conviction, shall stand null
and void.
Attempts to vFack railroad trains for
the purpose Of plunderiEg thP baggage
are becoming alarmingly frequent. 4
train on the Old Colony and Newport
railroad, in MASSACHUSETTS, with its liT.
ing freight, narrowly escaped 5estrue.
ton from this cause a few days ago. The
engineer discovered rail laid across the
track, fortunately, 10 time to stop the
train before reaching tie spst. in The
sudden check which followed the appli.
cation Of the brakes, however, the blow
CT cock broke, and the engineer wal
badly scalded by the escaping steam.
An instance OF the danger Of leaving
young children alone occurred in ia
= maica, New Yort, er Wednesday even
ing. Mr.. Thomas Robinson and BIZ
wife, living on Prospect street, wer'
absent from their homes about an hour
engaged ia shopping. leaving an infan
asleep in a cradle. During their absenc'
the child was attacked by rats with mos
horrible results. One side Of its iae'
5 vas badly mutilaied, one ear was nearl,
E eaten Of. and one eye was entirely de