Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-26


society.
A Florida gentleman has set out TIM
year l25 acres of orange trees, making
the largest grove of the kind on thu
continent.
A cowardly and brutal Englishmai
' has been found who traces all the FAULT
of modern clergy men to the influence o
women.
Lightning spoiled the chimneys o.
three houses triangularly situated, al
Marlborough, N. Y, and then went about
its business.
In portions of Pennsylvania, the po
tato bug has been comparatively idle
this season, and potatoes are sold at ten
cents a bushel.
On the day before the Fourth Duluth
ians wore their overcoats. Who would
not be a Zenither" of the "unsalted
sea about this time.
The practice Of wearing eyeglasses
on the bridge of the nose is causing an
alarming increase of cancer in the nasal
organs of New York.
A young sprig of English nobility
came to this country, plunged into q
career of dissipation, and killed himself
last week at house of ill-repute in New
York.
A Kansas Radical editor, when he
heard of Greeley's nomination. very
sensibly gave up his paper. got married
and went to work in his Authoritarian $
saw-mill. f
A little boy named Youmsn died IN
Rochester, New York, a day or two
since from the effects of stepping on a
piece Of glass, which made wound in
one of his feet.
"Kepatomeataterin." This was the
note sent by a farmer to the school
teacher in the potato-digging season, to
explain his boys absence from school.
A new attachment is now being made
at Colts Armory. Hartford, Conn, for
the Calling gun. 1t is known as the
drnm.feeder," by which 400 shots are
discharged per minute.
A Wisconsin German, nearly ninety,
loaded, last Sunday, eight loads of hay,
with the thermometer indicating above
the nineties, and though it was the Sab
bath day he wasn't sun-struck.
A Virginia rock has lately taken to
explosions and the discharge of pieceS
of itself as if it had the volcanoes"
1t did so about twenty years ago, but
didn't have the disturbance so badly.
The Grand Opera House at New York
had an unusual attraction the other
night, being hand-to-hand combat upon
the stage between a burglar and watch
man who had chased him in there.
An exchange says that one hundred
years ago Newport's foreign trade was
greater than New York's. Well, it is
now, her imports consisting of Spanish
Admirals, French Dukes and sich."
The local civil rights bill of the Dis
trict of Columbia has gone into effect,
and compels all hotels. ice-cream "a
looms, restaurants, bars, barber-shops,
ETC.. to give equal rights to colOred peo-
pie. ~
The figures of the insurance compa-
MES doing fire business in New York
last year show that their fetal premium
income was O,OOO, 900, and their losses
and expenses were $46, OOO,O 900. a clear
loss Of $6,O0O,OO0.
Several holes were burned through the
siding Of the house Of j. T. Owen, near
Fulton, New York, the other day, by the
concentration Of the rays Of the sun by
some new milk cans that lay on bench
near by, each can acting as concave
mirror.
In 1860 there we're about two hundred
schoolhouses in Kansas. This year there
will be about two thousand. In 1855
there we're but sixty miles of railroad,
now there are about two thousand. In
1861 there were 100000 people in the
State, now there are near lOe 900.
The following is a scale Of the aver
age duration Of animal life from the
most celebrated writers on natural his
tory; A hare will live 10 years, a cat 10,
a goat 8, sheep 10, dog from Il TO 20,
an OK 20, swine Is, pigeon 8, a turtle
dove %, partridge %, raven 100, an
eagle 100, goose 100.
The Connecticut Legislature has taken
up the question of compulsory educa.
ton. 1t is said that $1,000 children Of
that State between the ages Of four and
sixteen DO not attend school at ali, and
the advocates Of the new Law think il is
a state Of things which should be reno
died.
Quite a stir was occasioned in 81. Jo-
seph county, Ind. lately by Young
lady whose marriage was about being
cOnsummated-iu fact the miB.iste aud
friends had arrived-when she posi- itivels