Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-11-13
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

ONO owns SlOO,VUUiUVu worth oi 1--WE
stock.
New York has self-propelling steam
fire engine. ~
Monday is now advocated as the pay
day for working people.
Tight Squeeze is the name of town
in Binwiddie county, Va. 3
The mercantile marine of the whole
world numbers over 81 900 vessels.
An Italian and a Japanese woman
we're recently married in California.
A Georgia girl, ten years of age, is an
accomplished driver of fast horses.
There we're four feet of snow on the
summit of Mount Washington, on the
LIST inst lsi
Cod fishing off the Banks is reported
to be excellent this year, but the herring
fishery is failure.
Young candidates for the pulpit in
New England are questioned as to their
belief in the Darwinian theory.
Before Chicago has finished her neces-
sary structures, she is talking about a
crystal palace, to cost $250,00O.
Columbine is the very pretty maine of
young Danbury girl-that is at home;
at school they call her Lum."
A horse thief in Iowa recently broke
Jail, knocked down the jailer, and was
neatly captured by the jailers daughter.
A discovery of gold and silver in pay
ing quantities is reported from Union
township, Luzerne county, Pennsyl-
vania.
At Pittsfeld, Mass, recently, man
with child under one arm, and apig
xnder the other, Joined in funeral pro-
cession.
The Portland Press says the horse dis
ease may be Auctuating in some places,
but it appears to be a stable thing in that
city.
The police Of jackson, Michigan, are
prohibited from smoking, drinking, and
sitting on dry goods boxes while on
duty.
During the last ten years $3.50, 900, 900
worth of ladies' dress materials, jewelry,
etc., have been exported from Paris to
this country.
A couple, in Colorado, who had been
divorced and lived apart for twenty-three
years, met recently and were married
over again.
The great tunnel at Baltimore, on the
line Of the new Baltimore aud Potomac
railroad, will, it is said, be completed by
the end of the year.
Cook 4 Son, the well-known European
excursion organizers. are stated to be
about arranging for an extension of their
system to this country.
Squashes of log pounds in weight are
among the products of western Kansas.
After the meat is taken out they are con-
sidered very serviceable as calf pens. /
If there be anything on earth which
can make lovely woman stoop to scold-
ing, it is to find that her dearest friend
has brought home new bonnet from
Paris.
Mayor Medill, of Chicago, perpetrates
the practical pun Of insisting that the
Sunday liquor law shall include " medi-
uni" as well as bar-keepers, under the
head of dealers in spirits.
A Virginia paper says THE Cover
nor is about to commission four hundred
colonies of militia, that being the num-
Der Of Virginians over twenty-one who
have no titles already"
A Galesburg man played highwayman
one dark night for the benefit of par
ticular friend, and had one of his ears
shot of. He thinks the winding up OF
the joke was entirely too practical.
The newspaper correspondents at
Washington propose giving dinner 10
Stanley on his arrival, and have APP
pointed a committee of invitation to
meet him on his landing at New York.
A monster in human form goes about
in Cincinnati representing himself as
tester Of meters for the gas company.
Once he gets into a cellar he tests, not
the meter, but the canned fruits and
wines.
81 declare, Mr.. Boxer, it seems you
have read everything" Why, ma am,
after working thirty years as trunk
maker, it would be something to my
shame If / didn't know something Of the
literature of my cou ntry."
At Rochester, New York, on the I'd
instant, Miss Susan B. Anthony pre-
scented herself and was registered as a
voter. The news Of her having been
registered soon spread, and many other
ladies soon followed her example.
willards Hotel, in Washington, after
having been closed for eigeteen months,
is to be opened shortly. The Kirkwood
has been remodeled, and other extern
sive hotel accommodations will be ready
before the opening of Congress,
In Marseines recently a young girl
named Irma Gras, a very handsome bru-
nette. assassinaied her lover because he
refused TO buy her a gold watch. To
the general establishment Of the court
and audience, the jury acquitted her.
There is war between the Chicago
children who are educated in the schools
and those who are trained in the streets.
Thelatter waylay the former blacken
their faces, throw pepper in their eyes
heat them. and throw stones through