Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-31
ruCTs AND EANCIEs.
Drought still troubles Illinois.

Tom Thumb has joined yacht CLUB.
Oysters are now being raised in Ne
braska.
The Davenport brothers have gone TO
farming.
Sugar is used for fattening cattle in
California.
Broom corn sells at sixty dollars ton
in Texas.
Pancake Mountain is a California
landmark.
The kangaroos in Australia are dying
of sore throat
A floating hotel is being built on the
Allegheny river.
The female prisoners are now escap-
ing from Sing Sing.
In Vermont there are lady clerks in
some of the hotels.
Christine Nilsson owns property in
seven American towns.
Salmon are being propagated in the
rivers of New Zealand.
In Kansas raccoon has been edu-
Gated to turn grindstone.
In Wisconsin justice has recently
granted himself divorce.
Russian sable is fashionable trim
ming for outdoor costumes.
A Maine man has slept in a haymow
every night for the last twenty-five years.
An Irish gentleman speaks of the Mis-
sissippi as the father of McWaters
Fashion dictates that window shades
should no longer be of linen, but of
lace.
The dearest object to man should be
his wife, but it is not unfrequeHtly her
clothes.
New Orleans is taking advantage Of
the cold weather to build another ice
factory.
A French chemist makes diamonds by
extracting the color from other precious
stones.
Massachusetts has a turkey that has
laid one hundred and thirty-nine eggs
this year.
Gail Hamilton says il is not good to
make God capricious." Then why does
she try to do it2
An Indiana school girl of thirteen is
six feet one, and hasn't got up to the
higher branches yet.
Prince Michel de Lusignan, of st. Pc
tersburg, has been sentenced to trans
portation to Siberia for forgery.
A pauper at Lenawee, Mich, poor
house was formerly supervisor and SUI
perintendent of the institution.
Not man has been arrested in st.
Johns county, Florida, for year. The
officers Of the law cant catch EN-.
The officers of the English army at
tending public balls, ETC., have been Or
dered to appear in uniform hereafter.
Ladies are beginning to wear, slung at
the waist belt, small daggers in costly
gilt and jeweled sheaths. N. Y. Mail.
Thirty persons we're recently poisoned
by eating sausages, at Coral, Michigan.
That's what comes of leaving brass col
lars on dogs.
A son.in.law of the ex-Queen Isabella,
of Spain, was summoned upon jury in
Rome recently, and refusing to serve he
was fined $3.50.
Cardinal Cullen is reported to have
advised the Catholic clergy in Ireland
to use their influence to secure the dis
continuance of wakes.
There is movement started to annex
West Florida to Alabama, Middle
Florida to Georgia, and make East
Florida constitute the State.
A GAINESVILLE Wis clergyman deliv-
cred his sermon sitting down the other
Sunday, because earbuncle forbade his
standing up. His text was from job.
Nearly three thousand English eler-
gymen have petitioned the Archbishop
of Canterbury for permission TO omit
the Athanasian creed from their SCI
vices.
The Titusville boy who has long sled
that will hold six girls; is DESTROYS of a
business partner who will help pull
heavy loads of this nice kind of freight to
and from the school-house without grum-
bling.
Everything now is sacrificed to poll
tics" murmured a wretched -0"ng
Brooklyn wife, whose husband mad
pawned her back hair for money to use
at late primary elections.
A prying reporter tells US that the
bride at a recent wedding in Killingly,
Connecticut, wore the beautiful. pink
stockings which her mother wore at her
own wedding, thirty-fve years before.
The New York Times thus explains
how it was that the flames got to the roOi
in the burning Of the Fifth Avenue Ho
tel: Fire always is aspirani, the SOLD
exception being where incsndeseeni
masses fall down and so act as media Of
ignition"
Simpkins having welded and settled