Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-04
FACTS AND FANCIRs.
San Diego is reveling in ripe strawb'

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Froude is dsshing of history of
Ireland.
In Brooklyn schools God is pro-
nounced "goad1 laA
Leap year parties are having a run
all over California. tii' g s..n
A recent earthquake broke muen
crockery in Vermont
Nelson's old flagship, the Victory IS
to be sold at auction. sf ,'s
There are twenty-four cardinals hats
in the Roman college.
Sergeant Boston corbett, the slayer OF
Wilkes Booth, Is dead. 31a
The Albany (oregon) treasury con
tains twenty seven cents. .af
General Butler was intended by his
parents for clergyman.
Rome, according to the recent census,
has a population of 24l.5s6.
Castunda, of Lima, Peru, is the rich
est man in all South America.
Alabama has six cotton factories
which work up 10000 bales annually.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
convention meets at Reading, May sOth'
In London the past year two hundred
and eight fatal street accidents occurred.
A young lady in Detroit has made
collection Of two hundred and ten wish
bones.
Ready maid bridal costumes are
appropriately advertised in New Jer-
sey paper. az
The recent severe storms in Texas are
said to have killed large Numbers Of
cattle there.
The planters Of Trent county, Georgia,
are sadly set back in their work by the
cold and wet
Fifty women are confined in the Louis
Vile work-house, having been convicted
of being common seolds.
All the architects in Connecticut have
been unable to produce a satisfactory
plan for the new State capitol.
On the western side Of the Atlantic
ocean there are said to be three times as
many storms as on the eastern side.
John Poole, the author of Paul Pry,
died recently. at the age of eighty. He
had a pension from the English civil list
If your sister falls into well, why
should you let her stay therea Because
you cannot be brother and a sist-her
too.
Instead Of curtain, the Grand Opera
House, at Paris is fitted with gigantic
mirror. This is an admirable innova-
ton.
The New York Herald says that, as
general thing. among politicians the
principle nowadays is to watch and
prey.
At Hartford City, Indiana, meeting
was recently held to indorse Congress
man Shanks, which was presided over
by Mr.. Shinn.
The other day an old settler of Hous-
ton, Texas, sold for $500 three acres of
ground for which he paid only twenty
FIVE cents an acre.
Why is a man who makes addition to
false rumors like one who has confidence
in all that is told him? Because he re-
lies on all that he hears.
A Philadelphia halter, lately estab-
lished in Madras, has written home for
large consignment Of stove-pipe hats for
the use Of the idols Of the natives.
In New Orleans the grand jury has
presented the street railways for mis-
management, on account of the num-
Der Of casualties occurring on them.
A clearinghouse keeper in Atlanta
found that he had filled his castor with
whisky instead of vinegar, as soon as
his lady boarders got hilarious on pickles.
A cheerful giver put the following
note in a pair Of pantalOous sent to the
Michigan sufferers: There, take EN-;
last pair I've got; don't get burned out
again"
Caleb Blake, of Turner, Maine, has
taken a contract for getting out fifteen
thousand wooden boot heels The wood
is of birch, of which be has to cut two
hundred cords.
On Western railway, bride is said
to have handed her marriage certificate
to the conductor instead Of her ticket,
and was Mortified to hear that it was not
good.
A Missouri gentleman who owned too
many Of his neighbor's horses, was hung
while on his way to vote, which" re-
marks contemporary, is calculated 70
deaden ones interest in town politics.
A monument has been erected at the
Gap, in Saulsbury township, Lancaster
county, Pa. dedicated to the memory Of
William Penn, who held conference
with the Shawnee chieftains on the
spot
| ]. A. Sutter, the California pioneer,
who made the FIRST discovery Of gold,
and ia nov living In Iifz Lancaster