Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-12
FACTS AND FANCaEs.

actively engaged in obtaining converts
in Michigan.
Small quantities OF. cotton are being
cultivated by farmers in Kansas, as an
experiment.
An Indiana lass is now engaged TO be
married to young man whose hand she
. refused seven times.
The purchase and sale of Chinese
women is reported to be still carried on
on the Pacific coast.
The timid man is alarmed before the
danger, the coward during it, and the
brave man afterwards.
The Houston, Texas, Telegraph thinks
there will be FIVE thousand candidates
for mayor of that city.
Boxes govern the world-the cart
ridge box, the ballot-box, the jury box,
the bandbox and the pill box.
In life we always believe that we are
seeking repose, when in reality all that
we ever seek is agaitation.
Japan's first railway is perfect sue
cess, the people Aocking frem miles
around to enjoy the rapid motion.
The high price of Goals and beef in
England is said to be having depress-
ing effect upon the matrimonial market.
Some mountains in Oregon, near the
town of Astoria, have recently been
showing signs of pending volcanic
eruption.
The Duke of Genoa, nephew of
King Victor Emmanuel, will shortly
start for voyage round the world on
board an italian frigate.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsylvania, was
presented with qusrtz-mounted cane
as a souvenir, on leaving San Francisco
for home, few days ago.
The main reason why the Grant party
don't want to clasp hands" is because
il they opened their paws their stealings
might fly away.
They put it gently in Illinois. A
horse thief is said to have changed his
residence from Berlin to Joliet. Peni-
Tertiary at the latter place.
American fashionable weddings are
now to be conducted on the English
plan, the groom proceeding TO church
first and waiting for his bride.
A mechanic in San Francisco has in
vented baby.carriage so formed that
when not in use it may be folded upinto
a space not larger than an ordinary port
folio.
A gentleman who has been doing the
comfortable at country boarding house
says that his bed constantly reminded
him of Richard III, because it was de-
formed, unfinished, and scarce half
made up"
If idleness does not produce vice or
malevolence it commonly produces mel
ancholy. Let every man be occupied,
and occupied in the highest employment
of which his nature is capable, and die
with a consciousness that he has done
his best.
A most useful example has been shown
by the justices at Chesterfield England
sessions, who have fined two miners
somewhat heavily for using naked lights
in Tapton colliery, where safety lamps
should have been employed.
A carpet-bagger came home from
Southern city the other day, and told his
friends thusly: There was a motion to
run me for Mayor, but the majority of
the citizens wanted me to run out of
town, and-I came away"
The quantity of pins annually manu-
featured in the United States is said to
amount to 2,250,O0O packages. Each
one of these packages should contain
1900 pins, giving the enormous amount
Of 425, 900, 900 pins made annually. One
factory alone in Boston turns out eight
tons ofpins per week.
They have cool way of putting things
in San Francisco. A savage dog has
lately taken TO nibbling small children,
and one of the papers quietly warns his
owner that it would be hard to find a
jury to convict the man who should find
it necessary to put one load of buckshot
in the dog and another into his master.
The peon system of labor still remains
throughout Mexico and upon the Rio
Graude border of Texas. A poor man,
on account Of his own or the necessities
Of his family, once obliged to become
the debtor Of one Of the weather. classes,
becomes bondman, and his servitude
is enforced until by his labor he dis.
charges the debt.
A Detroiter lost a pocketbook with
seven cents in it, and went daily TO the
police station for week to learn il any
tidings had come of it. Finally the
sergeant, tired OF his questionings, gave
him seven cents, which he received
thankfully, remarking, +" / tell You it
made me feel bad, as ! saw the poor
house looming up before me"
A new pavement is being made in
Union Park, New York, chiefly Of rock
imported from Switzerland, which il
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