Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-30
FACTS AND FANcIRs.

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toga Springs,
St. Louis is working hard to suppress
faro and keno.
A small town in Florida has been
christened "Beecher."
The fruit in Kansas this season is
hardly up to the average.
New Hampshire consumes the least
tobacco of any of the States.
"Greeleymocracy" is one of the
words now figuring in campaign para
graphs.
The Virginia State Library has been
decorated with portrait Of Horace
Greeley.
Several of the county agricultural as
sociations are to abolish horse-racing at
their fairs
A Gothamite writes from Europe to
the New York World that the Danube is
neither beautiful nor blue"
An Irish editor says he can see no
earthly reason why women should not
be allowed to become medical men.
The Boston Pilot says. 1.-The desire
to live by writing is, to ninety out of
hundred people, a bad sort of insanity"
A citizen of Greenbush, New York,
stopped his daily paper because there
were SO many murders, suicides, etc.
in it.
There will be enough grapes in Texas
this year to make more wine than was
ever manufactured in France in one
year.
Michigan is to be envied-they had a
snow-storm there the other day while the
thermometer was among the nineties
here.
Jacksonville, Florida, trafics in alliga-
tor skins. One thousand FIVE hundred
were recently shipped North from that
point.
1t took fifty.fve indianapolis police
men to go on a picnic, but they only
fosnd it necessary to leave six behind to
guard the city.
Twenty-four and half per cent. of
the 100000 people within a radius of
forty miles from New York City Hall re-
side in New Jersey.
An inquisitive Indianian placed an
obstruction on a railway track in order
to see how high locomotive would jump
when going at full speed.
There are six ordained women pastors
in the Universalist Church in the United
States. This is the only church which
admits women to ordination.
Laurent Laporte thinks the PROPOSE
ton to have a parliament in Egypt is a
joke huge enough to make the colossus
Of Memmon explode with laughter.
Mosquitoes are not as troublesome in
Boston this year as sometimes; but there
are loud complaints of feas, and people
are wondering where they come from.
The buff Heather shoes are again very
much in vogue at the watering places,
and are said to be much cooler than
those made of ordinary black leather.
The city attorney of St. Louis has
been fined fifty dollars for being half an
hour behind time, and ten dollars more
for not sitting down when ordered to sit.
Mr.. Max Maretzek returned last week
from Europe, and will shortly make
known his plans for the operate cam
paign with Lucca and Kellogg next sea-
son.
The Liberal Christian expresses the
opinion that the lives of most people in
the Christian church Of this country are
too comfortable for them to be very reli
gious.
A Hannibal, No, cooper is attempt
ing to play Joshua. he commanded the
sun to stand still, and because it
wouldn't is likely to be taken to the lur-
attic asylum.
The First Presbyterian Church in
New Jersey, has had reg
ular services, without intermitting a
single Sunday, for the last two hundred
and seven years.
George Augusta Sala thinks that in
no country in the world are so many
men of shining talents, Of noble minds,
Of refined taste buried alive as in the
United States.
A son Of Edward Rutledge, of South
one Of the signers of the De-
Of Independence, is said to be
still living in Illinois at the age of one
hundred and three years
Cardinal Richelieu was very fond Of
cats; indeed, he preferred a cat to
catechism any time. He was not par
tieularly addicted to poetry. notwith-
standing his passion for the news.
In the onion there is found a peculiar
oil containing sulphur, called the sui
phuret of allyle. The odor Of the breath
after eating onions is caused by the
presence Of a small quantity of this oil.
There are about four hundred species
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