Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-06
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


!, English tanners are expeshentinl
with buffalo hides.
Most of the stoves used abroad arr
made in this country.
London literati complain OF lack o
good caricaturists.
Dartmouth College has just graduated
fourteen Roman Catholics.
Boston's public debt, less redemption
funds, is now $l6,670,2T6 OF.
The foot and mouth disease is again
bothering English horned cattle.
The Amherst College crew claim tc
have made the fastest time on record.
| A very smart Wisconsin woman has
added six to the census within year.
A vessel lately took lss, 900 bushels Of
wheat from New York to Liverpool.
A new synagogue of surprising archi-
tectural merit is being put up in New
York.
1 There are six ordained womel pastors
in the Universalist Church in the United
States.
The thing is now to use croqnet balls
of gilt. They look very brilliant on the
green lawn.
The Liverpool and Philadelphia
steamers will be named after American
statesmen.
Pelham, Mass, takes the lead on
snake stories, claiming black serpent
fourteen feet long.
The Uxbridge bank robbers have
made the widest tales Of gentleman
brigandage credible.
The new French loan is the largest
known since public credit became re-
source of civilized States.
The luxurious offices in the Grand OPP
era-house have cost the Erie railway
company $4,000 per annum.
Staging on the overland route between
San Francisco and Portland, Oregon,
has been reduced to 297 miles.
Girl graduates with golden hair have
an irrepressible fondness for ascending
"Great Sky TOP" at Lake Mohonk.
Moonlight promenades on the beach
form the latest method of superinducing
youthful ENHANCEMENT at Long Branch.
Chile still needs civilization. Seven
men recently received 1900 lashes each
to make them confess to arobbery.
Sand spouts ten feet in diameter and
one thousand feet in hight waltz about
the deserts in Nevada for hours at
time.
Gnats have taken complete possession
Of the region of the Upper Sacramento,
Cal, and men are forced to go about
yelled.
England consumed in 1871 hundred
and twenty million pounds of tea.
Quantity of roast beef cannot be com
puted.
Once traveller leaves Egypt on his
way to the interior of Africa, dogs be-
come unfrequently met with and at last
disappear.
Cape May, not to be outdone, has a
Z" Irritation walk" but ladies complain
about its too brilliant illumination at
night.
The white settlers at the forks of
Stickeen river, in British Columbia, are
reported to have all been murdered by |
Indians
Wisconsin arises from a misprint. All
the early French documents have 0uis-
consing, or Misconsing, and this seems
to come from Miscosi, at is red"
Wishcons may mean a small beaver /
lodge"
Delaware, based on the statistics of /
the railroads covering the transportation
Of small fruits, will net 1886 600 from
fruits this year-strawberries, $500, 600; 4
blaekberries, SIP, 900; and raspberries,
s24, 900. The increase of value over
last year is put at 1852 900.
An eccentric Italian has turned up in
Virginia. BE was found
camped out in the woods, and living in
a bush house, with a looking glass on a
pole outside. He was dressed in a sum-
mer suit, with long hair tied up in femi-
nine style. he is about thirty years old.
and his habit is to chase all boys who
come near his house in the woods.
The MethOdists of Wisconsin, in con-
yention at Madison, have expressed an
affirmative opinion on the question of
opening the pulpit to women, and one
Of the principal speakers, Rev. DR.. Eel
lows, superintendent Of public instruc-
ton has advocated a modification Of the
system of itineracy, so that the relations
between pastor and his congregation
may be continued as long as they are
satisfactory.
A correspondent Of Vienna paper
recently saw the ex-Prince Imperial Of
France at Chiselhurst, and gives the fol-
lowing description Of him: "An over
grown boy with a pleasant face, dreamy