Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-25
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

years.
Ohio laments an invasion Of Canada
thistles.
Sixty tons of steel pens are made
every year.
Ten dollars will buy spotted pony in
Oregon.
Gratz is not relation of old John
Brown.
The jubilee took great deal of gold
out of the country.
A Michigan squirrel has been taught
to carry packages.
The decks of ships at sea are often
begrimed with dust.
A wire heated by galvanic current
will cut wood like saw.
California expects soon to become q
coffee growing country.
Lemons. have advanced three hundred
per cent. Punch does it.
Recruits for the campaign in Cuba are
being sought in New York.
Fifteen dollars will buy a lovely home
stead of eighty acres in Florida.
Mahogany wood has been discovered
in the Guinea region Of Africa.
There is q heavy crop of supposed
noblemen at the seaside this summer.
A Florida orange tree in Micanopy
yields five thousand oranges season.
A crazy Spanish woman is making it
lively for the people of Kansas City.
From Pensacola comes the usual ac-
count of gulping of bathers by sharks.
Canton, Maine, turns out one hundred
and eighty bushels Of toothpicks daily.
1t was iced cider that gave Asiatic
cholera to the New York man who
hadn't it.
One of the recent thunder storms de-
stroyed 100 barrels of whisky, at Pa
triot, Ind.
That once superb but now shattered
tenor, poor old Brignoli, is singing in
London.
Violent sand storms, doing great dam
age to the growing crops, are reported
in Arizona.
The fresh compilations of the Ger
mans is due more to their fondness for
salads than beer.
Mirrors laid over with gold reflect
sixteen times as powerfully as those laid
with quicksilver.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Of Albany is about to establish free
baths in that city.
The government employs upward of
5000 women in the different depart
ments in Washington.
The latest marriage in high life at La
fayette, Ind, was q wedding in balloon
q mile above the earth.
The book of Enoch, brought from
Abyssinia, by Bruce, the explorer, is in
the Bodleian library at Oxford.
The Postmaster General Of Mexico
reports one hundred and eight public
mail robberies in that country.
A rejected sutton in Kansas City got
even with the scornful widow by making |
her six-year-old son dead drunk.
In the nave of Strasburg cathedral
stands one Of the most beautiful pulpits
ever erected. 1t was built in l4S6.
White mice have become so plentiful
in Springfield, Ohio, that their proprie-
tors are turning them over to The cats.
1t is claimed that 100000 feet Of
lumber is made every twenty-four hours
at the mills on the Menominee river,
Michigan.
Peoria has Nilsson base ball club.
1t was named after Christine Nilsson,
distinguished real estate owner of
Peoria.
Some Of the German journals say that
Prince Napoleon excited considerable
attention by appearing on foot under
the Linden, in Berlin.
Idaho takes the lead Of every other
American locality in the multitude Of its
beavers, and will come into the Union
as the Beaver State.
It's refreshing to read that so delight
fully cool has it been Of late at Fire
Island that blankets and thick oyercoats
have been in great demand.
Joseph Barnes, Of Evansville, Indiana,
lately deceased, left 100000 to found a
spiritual education institution, and now
people want to know what that is.
A chicken-hatching apparatus, worked
by steam, is in operation at Elgin, III.
The first batch of eggs was cooked by
turning on too big head of steam.
The friends OF Mr.. Edwin Forrest will
be glad to learn that be is rapidly gain
ing his health, and will probably be able
to resume his professional engagements
in the fall.
1t is estimated that the population Of
this country fifty years hence will reach
leo, 600, 600, while in one hundred years
it will exceed the population of the