Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-02
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

The streets Of Jerusalem are now re
ported to be lighted with gas.
A young colored gentleman has en-
tered the Theological Seminary at New
Haven.
A Chicago physician asserts that there
! are $4,000 habitual drunkards in tina
city.
A large dry goods firm in New Yorl
did business last week amounting t.
10000 900.
When you hear a man say, Life II
but dream tread on his corns ant
wake him up.
There are two hundred and eighty-fivt
iron-clad vessels in the twelve chief ma
vies of the world.
A young lady has been found who, IN
stead Of having pupil in her eye. has
handsome schoolmaster.
In Georgia, no cotton or wooden mills
that may be built in the State during the
next two years are to be taxed.
A troupe of Ethiopian serenaders after
the American plan is on tour through
Norway, and drawing large audiences.
The three ruffians, Mace, Edwards
and Barney Aaron, shining lights in the
prize-6ghting world, have left New York
city for England.
The great cities of the West are in a
bad way. Chicago is in the hands OF q
vigilance committee, and the smallpox
is raging in St. Louis.
Alessandro de Angels, Roman pro-
fessor of bathing, has spent ten hours
day in the water. during the summer,
for the last twenty-five years.
The high price of meat in England
is again raising the question as to
whether the large parks Of the nobility
ought not to be yielded up to cultivation.
The Chicago Times publishes an ar
ticle which claims to show that there
have been nearly one hundred murders
in that city within seven years, and not
neck stretched"
Mr.. Bradford, the American artist, has
received commission from Queen Vic
toria and the Marquis of Lorne to paint
for them several pictures representing
scenes in the Arctic Ocean.
The experiments of farmers on the
coast end of Long Island in raising to-
bacco have proved very successful. the
crop being good and Of fine quality, and
ripening earlier than on the Connecticut
shore.
A veteran observer says: " | never
place much reliance on man who is
always telling what he would have done
had he been there have noticed that
somehow this kind Of people never get
there"
The Belleville heather Chinee, it is
reported, are rapidly learning =" Nell
can" customs: to have one holiday a
week, to run in debt and to decamp with
out paying. Several parties are reported
as victims.
Chicago is to have a million-dollar
opera house. The business men met
last week and decided to expend that
sum in the erection Of an opera house
which should be the finest ever built
upon the Western continent.
A Vermont pensioner has written to
the Pension Office as follows: Have my
name dropped from the pension rolls, as
can do nearly as much work as ever,
and ! feel in my heart that / can do with
out it better than the government can
pay it.
Can it be that the obelisk which Ma
poleon brought from Egypt covered
with inscriptions, and on which the
French lapidaries found themselves nm
able to make an impression, was really
engraved, as now suggested, by the sand
blast process2
:" tkink,". said farmer, " should
make good Congressman, for | use
their language. | received two bills the
other day, with requests for immediate
payment. The one | ordered to be laid
on the table-the other to be read that
day six months.
The importations Of a single Boston
house show FIVE thousand dozen Of brown
gloves. Pale blueish, lavender, pearl,
and chamoise buff will be worn with
dressy carriage toilettes, while still
fainter tints and immaculate white kids
appear for full evening dress.
At reunion Of the family of J. A. G.
Lee, of owingsville, Kentucky, on FRI
day, August 30, six thousand dollars
we're placed under the plate of each of
his children present. A correspond
ent of the 0wingsville News says: AS
Mrs. Nesbitt gazed with grateful bewild-
erment upon her thousands, she OBJ
served, If it is more blessed to give
than to receive, pa, how do you feel2'
There are some medical enthusiasts
in England who think perhaps it would
be wise if all small or unhealthy chill
dren were suppressed when FIRST born.
A writer says, had this been the practice
of the past, we should have had neither
Yoltaire, Victor Hugo, Goethe nor Sir
Isaac Newton. The last might have