Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-16
FACTS AND FANcrEs.

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made man.
Rev. W. Fl. II. Murray has returned
to his Boston pulpit.
Mazzini is being embalmed in, spite OF
his will, which forbade it.
Victor Hugo's publishers are reported
bankrupt on Victors account.
Manton Marble has no disposition yet
awhile to have a marble tombstone.
The doctors work fills six feet o!
ground, but the dentists fills an acher
A country fair in Illinois offers ten
dollars for the best looking baby-a low
bid.
Minnesota comes to the front with
twenty-five million bushels of wheat this
year. Sian
Bayard Taylor went abroad, we dare
say, because be wished to, not because
he differed with the people OF Kenneth
Square as to the relative merits OF ma
tive wine and pork fat. .a $50 8.
A poet asks: Where the dead, the
vanished dead, who trod the earth that
now we tread2" If we were to make a
random guess, we should say the most
of them are buried-though this may not
be the right answer.
We expect three or four diamond ex-
petitions will leave California immedi-
ately. A man has just arrived there
from Arizona with diamond the size oil
q cart wheel, for which he has refused
seven dollars and half. He says it is
worth ten dollars if it is worth cent.
There was one pun of Sydney Smith s
that Charles Lever never tired of telling.
Mrs. Grote. the wife of the distinguished
historian, appeared once at soiree with
queer sort of turban on her accom-
plished head. Look at that" said
Sydney; that's the origin Of the word
grotesque.
A grave-digger, walking in the streets
of Windsor, Vermont the other day,
CHANGED to turn, and noticed two doc
tors walking behind him. He stopped
till they passed, and then followed on
behind them. And why this2 said
they. II know my place in this process
sion" said he.
A grateful couple at South Bend, Ind,
who have just recovered from a serious
illness, tender their thanks to the South
Bend cornet band " for so kindly discOn-
tinuing their practice during our i'll
ness" They may well be grateful, for
to the self.sacrifcing spirit of that band
they undoubtedly owe their recovery.
At Paterson, New Jersey, the mosqui-
toes are so large that the dwellers in
houses just put in the window sash with
cut the glass, thus securing plenty Of
fresh air, and obviating the expense of
mosquito nets. Some Of the mosquitoes
are small enough to get their heads
through the sash, bat they stick at the
shoulders. ,I
The high price of meat in England
has resulted in largely increased con-
sumption of timed meats from Austria
liza. Although this article was only in
troduced in England in 1866, when the
quantity imported was 81 cwt in 1871
237 leo cwt. was imported, the value
being nearly s2,5OO,OOO. In 1872, it is
estimated that the imports will more
han double those Of 1871.
Prentice Milford writes from South
end, watering place near the mouth Of
the Thames, to the San Francisco Bulle-
tin: Il have seen the great English
nation battle. have seen girls and
women wading about like SO many sand
pipers. They tuck up their apparel and
walk right in here. 1t is almost as free
and easy as the Garden of Eden might
have been before bathing clothes were
invented" ..--