Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-28
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

japan has Tour cncinicai iapoi"Ioiioo'
Liverpool has prosperous American
club.
" Cider apples can be had for picking in
New Jersey.
The insane asylum at Oshkosh, Wis.,
is to cost s2Ol,l4O
! In British Columbia Chinese women
are worth 800 each.
A rowing club of New South Wales
has challenged the world.
A 400 pound German lately sued for
divorce in New York court.
The Jewish Messenger estimates the
Hebrews in New York at $4,000.
strasburg's beautiful cathedral is to
be restored at an estimated cost OF
. $4,000.
Saginaw, Mich, has rebuilt seven OF
her eight school-houses burned last year.
A New York clergyman alludes to
ritualism as merely matter OF can
dies and night-gowns."
Two Germans in London fought a
duel with bowie-knives. One had his
mouth enlarged to his ear.
The stone of Scone, on which the
ancient kings of Scotland we're crowned,
is now in Westminster Abbey.
A man in Polk county, Iowa, has
stolen and concealed bridge twenty
four feet long without taking it apart.
A Chicago zephyr blew horse
against street car, SCATTERING the We
hicle and causing the ladies to faint.
On a woman with red hair who wrote
poetry:
| Unfortunate woman! How sad is your lot
Your ringlets are red, but your poems are not.
For the centennial of American indie
pendence, Philadelphia will erect
building that will cover fifty acres of
ground.
The New York and Erie railroad is to
Il
be cut down to the usual gauge, and
five years win be consumed in the ope-
ration. eqrla
The Woman's Tea Company of New
York has dispatched clipper ship
named Madame Demorest" to China
via Australia.
The Washington clergymen are pro-
testing against Sunday funerals, and
doctors are requested to regulate de-
misses accordingly.
AH Englishman has been imprisoned
six months for experimenting with pep
per diet upon an infant until the little
innocent was suffocated.
The Cinnamon in Cuba are paying old
scores, and lately killed with their hoes
one Domingo Photo, whose family had
killed eleven of their number.
The late Mr. Delaney. naval clerk of
Kittery, Ne, although he had lost all his
fingers, is said to have written very
good hand, holding pen between his
wrists
The Rev. Mr.. Purchas, prominent
ritualist of Brighton, who was tried and
condemned last year by an ecclesiastical
council of the Established Church, died
recently.
The Roman theatrical managers are
filling their pockets by producing repre-
sensations of the inquisition, now that
the pontifcal censorship has been re-
moved.
Baltimore claims to import more cof-
fee than any other American city, and
it would seem with good grounds, as
eleven millions in duties on that article
have been collected the past year.
What was supposed to be ship in the
American desert turns out to be a small
boat, which man named Clark, en-
gagged in teaming years ago, abandoned
in an unfrequeuted spot.
A Chicago horse of eccentric tastes
threw hog over the fence, bit a COW,
tore up several young trees, knocked
down several fences, and finally took to
the prairie, where he was shot.
A London tailor advertises garments
cut not only to ct, and in the best style,
but regulating any dispropOrtion that
may exist, and enhancing the correct
contour of the proportionate."
Red table napkins are coming much
into use in restaurants, and it is sug-
gested as a reason that it is because peo-
pie used to mistake the white ones for
pocket handkerchiefs and carry them
away.
DR.. StillmAn, who testified to Mrs |
Fairs insanity, was asked if he had
ever read Stobel on Insanity. He said
he had, and was then told that there was
no such author.
A Swedish woman, who arrived at
marlborough, Queensland, by the last
emigrant ship, gave birth to four female
children; all are alive and doing well.
A subscription IS being raised on behalf
Of the mother.
Considerable ingenuity and clever
handiwork are nova days exercised
upon children's aHghans. Those of
pure white zephyr, with colored mono
grams in the centre, are regarded by /
fond mamas as particularly mice"
The Danbury News says: This is
opening week for chestnuts. In falling
out Of the trees we have noticed that
good boys geRerally strike on their
heads, while bad boys invariably land on
their feet The Legislature should look |
into this matter"
The Royal Arsenal at Woolwieh, Eng, /
is engaged in casting an anvil block /