Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

H'Ac INV WIZ
The British Museum had 4l8,000 visi
tors during 1871.
The nights are Illuminated in North
ern Iowa by prairie fires.
Fall River, Mass, has twelve new
mills in course Of construction.
A person advertises in London paper
for " secondhand artificial teeth.
Praise the sea, said wise old George
Herbert but keep up on dry land
A Maryland horse-fancier is import
ing Arabian stations from Egypt.
An iron girder bridge 1900 feet long
has been built over the Nile at Cairo.
"Wissanburg" is the title of the first
OF four war novels by Edmund About.
Punch asks, (Which goes the quicker
"a full minute or a spare moment"
Rev. Stephen Gladstone, the Premier s
son, has church-living worth $4,000
yearly.
Do not infer that an individual is GO
ing to spin yarn because he knits his
brow.
An Illinois man gives notice that my
wife, Ellen Moore, is no more wife OF
mine"
A prize stalk of cotton, at Louisburg,
N. c., has two hundred and sixteen bolls
on it.
The Queen of Sweden writes for the
magazines over the signature, Annie
Arden.
The subject of Rosa Bonheur's last
painting is combat between a tiger and
a hyena.
A man in Chelsea, Mass, died recently
from the effects of bite received from
a spider
A perfect egg, shell included, was re-
Gently found inside another egg at Potts
vile, Pa.
A bank.note machine, worth nearly
100000, has gone West, bound for
japan.
Az attempt has been made to get up
corner in the oyster market in Balti-
more, Nd.
A German biography of the late James
Fisk has been confscated by the Au-
strian government.
There are nearly one hundred women
serving on school committees in the
State Of Massachusetts,.
There was a boat race at Dundee,
Scotland, lately, between four cared
fishing yawls pulled by girls.
A Sheriff in Arkansas recently asked
condemned criminal to erect the gal
lows on which he was to be executed.
Mrs. Joaquin Miller, wife of the poet,
has been lecturing in San Francisco on
her husband Gas Man and a Poet"
The lightning burnt the hair off a
Wisconsin mans head, but neglected to
finish him. Effect of Indian example. !
A law suit has just been finished in
London which has been on the docket
for one hundred and forty-seven years
The Kansans, having seen flock Of
three hundred swans flying high, pre-
dict a beautiful autumn and a short win
ter.
A petroleum lake has been discovered
in Guatemala. All those States down
there seem to float on nitro-glyeerine or
kerosene.
The King of Burmah has recently de-
graded one Of the ablest and most pow
erfnl men in his dominions for drinking
wine aud taking brides.
The 10th of November will be the /
three hundredth anniversary of the for
nation Of the first English Presbytery,
at Wandsworth, near London.
There are over one thousand old dis
used mining shafts within the city limits
of Dubuque which require covering 10.
Pleasant place to drop in, Dubuque.
A custom is being introduced in New
York for morning callers-instead Of
leaving their cards, to inscribe their
names in a book provided for the pur-
pose.
A Kansas potato-digger struck a rat |
tle-snake's nest containing nine eggs. /
BE broke them, and nine lively little /
snakes came out and wonderingly |
viewed the landscape.
A Pennsylvania farmer at an auction
bought an old hearse, because he had
been wantin' a rig Of some kind to
take Marian and the children to circuses
and fairs, and haul potatoes in"
do you prefer Newport, this season.
asked a wife Of her husband. NO,
ma'an." said the husband, Il prefer old
port The wife smiled, and so did her
husband-soon after.
THERE'S one young lady in town, says
the TitusviIle Press, who eat oysters all
through .he month Of August when she
could Get them, under the supposiiion
that there was an "r' IN that month.
''CrEulsn vas the way she spelledh
A young lady who is Studying French,
saisiy wrote to her parents That sne re.
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