Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-24
FACTS AND FAScrEs.

/ iJiuS tho PVS"'
population.
A "Workingmen's Accommodation
Bank" is great novelty. They have
them in Boston, and call them pawn
shops.
The present population Of Prussia, ac-
cording to the recent census, is A,64Z'-
$50, an increase of 2,sO per cent. over
that of 1867.
The preachers of Quincy, Illinois, are
trying to stop Sunday horse cars. They
evidently want to close their churches
and 90 off on vacations.
The city of Chicago is about to COM
mence the construction Of another lake
water tunnel for the purpose of afford
ing the city an additional supply OF
good, fresh water.
Watering-place letters are now IN
fashion quoting the hight of the Their
mometer, the rapidity with which shirt
collars wilt, the glory Of the surf and
the size Of the mosquitoes.
A five-year old visiting at the seashore
and obliged to sleep three in a bed, mar
rated her dream, which being unfinished
she accounted for fully by not having
room to dream the rest of it.
The Deputies Mitre, Dera and Ele
nera, of the Argentine Republic, have
submitted to the Senate project OF law,
authorizing the Executive power to Dor
row 81 600, 900 to buy two men-of-war, etc.
A father was winding his watch when
he said playfully to his little girl: Let
me wind up your nose.p NO" said
the child, II don't want my nose wound
up for don't want it to run all day..
Never write letter with pencil, as
Won can never tell when trivial note
may become matter of great import
ance. Through the illegibility OF
hasty pencil note an Illinoisan lost
case at law, involving $4,000.
There are, we understand, two papers
published by Americans in the English
language in Germany, and one in Swift
zerland. A new American paper has
likewise appeared recently at Dresden,
and another at Rome.
Prince Napoleon realized recently, in
London, about half million by the sale
of his collection of relics of Napoleon
Il. Among them was the celebrated
travelling library of the great emperor,
in two hundred and fifty volumes.
The proprietors of the Berlin Vos-
sische Zeitung, in honor of the one hun
dred and fiftieth anniversary of the
foundation of the paper, distributed
10000 thalers among their employees,
and gave each of the reporters 1000.
In 1869 the Moniteur, in Paris, had
twenty-five thousand subscribers, and its
goodwill was appraised at twelve hun
bred thousand francs. 1t prints now
less than one thousand copies, and may
be bought for fifteen thousand francs.
1t is remarkable coincidence that
James Gordon Bennett, who founded the
New York Herald, and Nathan Randall,
who was invited by Mr.. Bennett to
unite with him in the enterprise as a
business manager, were both carried to
the tomb on the same day.
A Kentucky newspaper tells OF an old
hen that flies up into mulberry tree,
picks off the berries, and, having satiated
herself, fastens her claws to the limb
and shakes off some for the little chick
les that stand underneath with beaks
wide open ready to catch the tempting
fruit.
A celebrated poet, writing to an edi-
tor, proposed to supply him with any
length Of lines, and for any occasion.
The reply was practical: "Send me a
hundred yards of lines long enough to
fish for conger cells, and that will bear
the tug of porpoise, as / am going to
the Isle Of Wight for weeks fishing.
The people Of Maine held a snow pic
mic on the fourth of July. In the north
ern part Of the State there is a snow
drift of enormous dimensions, which,
although the mercury in the neighbor-
hood ranges from ninety TO one hundred
degrees, bids fair to last all summer.
The drift was originally seyenty-fye feet
high.
AWestern paper has the following ad-
vertisement: Engaged Miss Anna
Gould to John Candall, city marshal Of
Leavenworth, Kan. From this time
henceforth and forever-until Miss Anna
Gould becomes widow-alI young men
are requested to withdraw their particu-
lar attentions.
A Georgia colored preacher during a
funeral sermon lately, said: lie rumin-
ates no longer among us; he have exon
Grated from the syllogisms of this worlds
discrimination, and when he gifts to de
cold, dry stream Of the river Jordin, the
Kerosines and Periphens will meet him
dare to row him over on dry land to the
silverstering city"
The women of Damascus, Illinois, take
part in the discussions of the Farmers
Club meetings. A recent subject of dis