Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-05
ACTS AND FANcIEs.

/ ABOUT Ia, wv pounuS VI "assS PHPNi
accumulates yearly in the Treasury De-
partment. And that isn't all the waste,
.by long shot.
England paid the United States last
year Cor cotton slsi,OOO,OOO, and max
ing this up into fabrics she cleared SlsS,-
OO0, 900 of net profit.
The Chateau de Monte Cristo, on the
banks Of the Seine, which was bought
and baptized by the elder Dumas, has
just been put up for sale in Paris.
While the Clinton doctors were in at
tendance at the Medical State Conven-
ton, the other day, their patients reeov-
ered.-AppletoR VS. Post.
While the sugar cane contains nearly
twice as much sugar as the beet root, in
the process of extraction more sugar is
obtained from the latter than the former
According to careful estimates, which
we deemed reliable, one-third of the
wood and timber existing in California
twenty-five years ago has been consumed.
A large equestrian statue of Napoleon
the Third, purchased by the inhabitants
of Chiselhurst, is to be erected in that
place on August 18th, the Emperor's
fete day.
Harvard College stift leads in the
number of its students (l3l6), while
Yale (755) is surpassed by 0berlin
(l229) and by the University of Michi-
gan QIlO).
A San Francisco paper says Two
Cinnamon collided with knives, on Eagle
creek, few days ago. One of them
has quit mining. His friends sunk
shaft and put him in it.
Iron shingles have been recently pat
ented, and are said to be less expensive
than slate. They are made about six
inches by thirteen inches in size, and
fasten with headless nails.
Including Sundays Russia has one
hundred and sixty.three holidays leav-
ing only two hundred and two working
days in the year. The average compen-
sation Of workingmen is sixty-fve cents
for the workingdays
The reading OF novels is said to have
led boy named Smith to run away
from his home in Brooklyn. And the I
moral is, of course, that no parent hav-
ing boy named Smith should allow I
hiE to read such stuff.
An afflicted patron Of intelligence
offices thus gives vent to his emotions:
=" Earnestly solicited-A person Of cul-
ture and aesthetic taste 10 preside at the
kitchen range. where there are only two
in family. Salary, whatever such a su-
perior mortal would deign 10 ash"
Torpedo throwing in San Francisco is
the last exhibition Of deyilish revenge
Some person unknown threw a torpedo
through the window into the parlor,
which was filed with company, and
grecked house, demolished doors and
windows, and furniture destroyed was
he consequence.
Tying a line, on the end Of which is
ish hook, to a large rocket, hitching the
nook to a mans hat aud then getting
him to FIRE Of the rocket, is the latest
-orm Of practical joking in Troy. it
works to the intense astonishment Of
he victim, and the intense amusement
Of the jokers.
The California Academy Of Sciences I
is discussing the origin Of the iron sand
iound in great quantities on the coast.
One theory is that it was an evaporation
from the sea, and another that it is the
result of disintegration. It seems to be
admitted that the sand supply is suff-
cient to establish the iron industry in its
vicinity.
The King of Bavaria, in answer to an
inquiry made by the ex-Emperor Napo-
leon, whether he might go this summer
to Bsyarian watering place for the
benefit of his health has replied that
the popular feeling against Napoleon
was too strong in Bavaria to render his
in that country desirable.
Private letters from Mr. jefferson, the
actor state that his recovery has not
been as rapid as the newspapers are
good enough to make it, His sight is
still feeble, and he suffers from severe
pain in The eyes. He will be compelled
to wear glasses until he begins his en-.
gagements next season. His eyes are,
however, steadily improving, aud the
danger of losing his sight is passed.
John Potts, the lately deceased chief
clerk of the War Department, had been
thirty-six years in the service, and for
mole than twenty years chief clerk:
aud Stanton was wont TO speak Of him
as perfectly incorruptble. His wife
and daughter are in Europe, Miss Potts
being engaged in marriage to a Russian
now at St. Petersburg. He
has two sons. one in the army, and the
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