Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-02

Chicago wants a jubilee.

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rural town in Illinois. i.i.
Our greatest export of specie was IN
1864, reaching slo5,244,55o. stslai
Potato and chinch-bug items are .
feature of Westers papers just now. o
The Pereire Of the French ocean line
is now called the "ladies' steamer"
| No professional ball-catcher in the
country has his full number Of fingers
Wine can be shipped from Sacramento
to New York for twenty-five cents q
gallon.
Many of the coast cities are sprinkllng
their streets with salt water as sanitary
measure. ratl y
There is band Of los gipsies en-.
camped in the northern part of Phila-
delphia. 5,a5
An Illinois firm will pickle the pro-
duet Of one hundred and fifty acres OF
cncnmbers. ia@
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Several Troy workshops suspended
operations Friday on account of the
great heat. Ma
The largest iron steamboat ever built
on the Mississippi has just been launch
ed at Dubuque. aael k e9@
A drug firm of Wabash sells ninety
eight hundred doses of quinine each
month. Ague>
A Maryland man has 800 acres plant
ed with watermelons. Last year he
made $4,000 from it.
A travelling menagerie, consisting OF
one man and bear, is delighting rural
audiences in Indiana. a,h .,4
The wealth Of Iowa, by the census OF
1870, divided. would give $60l oS to
each person in the State. as
London is fuller than it has been for
many years, and an extraordinary de-
mand for bouse-room is the result.
Ten million gallons Of "schnapps,
the vulgar name of which is gin, are
said to be- made annually at Shiedam.
Suicides are again prevailing in Paris,
being often of such fantastic char scter
as to become ludicrous in the extreme.
The floating debt of church in Al
bany, N. Y, amounting to $4,000, was
liquidated by a single collection recently,
The Duke of Edinburgh received q
most hearty welcome in Dublin at the
opening of the Arts and Science Exhi-
bitten. +s4.iy .asesolN
New Orleans street railroads offer
$1,000 reward for the arrest of parties
who put counterfeit nickels in the fare
box.
A California lady purchased chicken
for home consumption, and found a
piece of placer gold. worth five dollars,
in its craw.
At York, England, is being built a
mammoth railway station, the largest in
Great Britain, and which is TO cost a
million dsllars.
Electricity is developed in metallic
wires by merely bending them, and the
development appears to be independent
Of any thermic action. MS 81.
Probably the oldest city--or rather.the
city containing the most standing relics
of the past in shape of houses, buildings,
etc.-in Europe is Antwerp.
There are several ministers of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in New
York who hold confessional services and
celebrate mass every morning.
The Pope appears to have shown his
animosity to the Italian government by
refusing to see the Burmese Embassy
accompanied by an Italian officer.
The younger Dumas has written q
play so thoroughly immoral that even a
Partisan audience, who are not over
scrupulous in such matters, openly con-
denim it.
Chief Bukkwujjene has just arrived in
London from India. He is a veriiable
man Of the desert, but he is to be chris
tanned by the Church Of England Mis-
sionary Society, and sent back to
convert his people. 1890
Philadelphia is excited over the fenc-
! ing of her public parks, the substitution
of posts and chains for the present iron
ratings being proposed. The discus
sion between the chainists aud the rail-
ists is intensely heated and acrimonious.
j.. Hudson botanists are excited over a
floral monstrosity recently discovered in
garden it that city. The flower itself
is a perfectly formed rose Of unusual
fragrance, on the top Of which are seven
buds, completely filed and ready to
burst.
The Norfolk (va) Journal announces
to the scientific world that the welding
of copper, which has occupied the skill
and the science Of the world for ceutu-
ries without success, has been discovered
by Mr.. George Davis Of that ciy. ~
1t is mentioned as curious fact By
old woodsmen that the beech and syca