Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-24
FACTS AND mSCIEs.

OreRon Olly haSa Sniuese rlee -""SO
lodge.
Spelling schools are being revived i
Michigan.
Dubuque has revival, and Peori
the Black Crook"
The international lunatic " Bates
on his way home.
Cincinnati clcrgymen refuse to MARI.
on tick any longer.
Boston boys play poker in the ruins o
the burned district.
King Oscar, Of Sweden, is the tallest
monarch in the world.
A negro woman is preaching earnestly
in the streets of Macon.
A hundred-dollar rooster died of apo
plexy at New Haven recently.
Carson, Nevada, is holding cock-6ght'
to pay for State university.
There are lunatics confined in nearly
every county Jail in Kentucky.
There are 500 female postmasteri
handling mails in this country.
A Wisconsin paper advertises for sale
"a COW that gives milk five years old"
Three hundred bloodthirsty women
want to be doctors in San Francisco.
Numbering new born babes in China is
now frowned upon by the government.
West Point musicians say they can't
waste so much wind without more pay.
Cheap cider burst two Good Templar
organizations in Massachusetts, last fall.
Stanley and Kalula have been added
to Madame Tussaud's wax figures in
London.
1t takes only $4,000 a year to replen-
ish the wardrobe Of the Austrian EN-
press.
Fifteen hundred Jesuits have emf
grated since August !, from Germany to
Austria.
Nice holiday turkeys with bricks in
their crops are a cheerfal feature of life
in New Hampshire.
Safes are to be introduced on palace
cars, for the convenience of the country
man who is always losing his ticket.
The manager of Berlin opera house
has published card saying that Lucca
can't sing in any German theater.
A Boston scientist says that the little
house fly breathes through his sides, and
expectorates out Of the top Of his head.
Boston has smoking cars upon its
street railways, and contemplates put
tiag on a few hog cars for those that
chew.
A jealous custom-house official in
Maine seized nutmeg that wicked
smuggler was trying to get through the
lines.
st. Louis dog-catchers strap dogs to a
long rope with q guide at each end, and
then run them to the pound twenty-five
at time.
Dobbs mentions that the young poet
who went about signing for " An angel
in the house" got married recently, and
now be signs more than ever.
The Nebraska Indians are allowed to
ride free on all trains they can jump on
while the latter are in motion. The tribe
is being reduced very rapidly.
When a new town is started on the
plains, Chicago drummers camp out and
wait for the new stores to be completed,
to sell the owners a bill Of goods.
A colored citizen of Connersyille,
Ind, is erecting a summer temperature
in that vicinity because his children are
not allowed to 90 to white schools.
An Iowa man cannot remember where
he bid cofee-pot full Of silver during
the war, and has nearly scratched every
hair out Of his head thinking about it.
A Evansville, Wis, man made prepar-
atoms to kill himself, but was persuaded
out Of his notion by the promise of a
position as book-keeper in beer saloon.
Since the Chinese of the Pacific slope
held their annual "devil drive last
month. it is said tia: there is need Of
more laborihg men in the Chicago vine
yarS.
California is making brandy from 6gF,
The liquor is very pleasant, and after
drinking a quart or so a man will cheer
fully stand any amount Of abuse from
his wife.
Louisville restaurants advertise turtle
CUP maie from terrapins that Daniel
Boone once owned and carved bis name
upon. As turtle-shell decorator Dan
lei was a success.
A New Albany man, with fifteen
daughters and twelve sous. is figuring as
to whether it viii be cheaper to mix uI
an arsenic stew, or use kerosene for
kindling.vood in his house.
Trains on some Of the Missouri rail
roads run so slow that woman with her
back elevated to the proper attitude can
overtake one on foot il Il contains her
husband and another woman.
lis fun to 90 TO school in Minnesota.
In the town Of Alden both teachers and