Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-18
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FACTS AND FANCIES.
A monument to Robert Bruce is to oe
erected at Stirling Castle.
The Russian Grand Duke Alexis has
left Hong Kong for Shanghai.
Lady ushers did the showing round at
New York church wedding.
Chinese women sell for seven hundred
dollars piece in British Columbia
Cardinal Cullen, who is now in Rome,
has frequent interviews with the Pope
An order has been Issued by the Italian
Ministry, forbidding Louis Blanc lectu-
ring in Italy.
The Secretary of the Treasury is said
to have decided that imported chignons
are liable to extra juicy.
The western bank OF the Missouri, at
Omaha. is being washed away at the
rate of six inches day.
The Stove and Tin Trade Journal is
the name of new weekly publication
published in New York.
A friend of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
says she is on the shady side Of sixty. 1t
is not always cloudy at sundown.
An aged Indiana man lately married
his sons stepdaughter. he won't take
any sass from his fatherin-law.
Miss Blair, of Grasshopper, Kansas,
exhibited at the State fair sixty-four diff
ferent kinds of jelly of her own making,
Lotto Lee, the young bride of Robert
E. Lee, son of the deceased Southern
leader, died at Romancoke, Va, a few
days since.
The total valuation of real and per
sonal property in Boston is S6s2, u |, 300,
an increase during the past year of over
$40, 100000.
An adventurous Frenchmsn, named
Bailiff, is about to embark for New York
in twenty.four foot yacht of novel
model, wherein he expects to cross the
Atlantic in fifteen days.
Mile Bonelli, who is to appear at the
Olympic Theater with Mile Aimee, is
said to be one Of the most beautiful
actresses on the French stage.
An Iowa girl dismissed her lover be-
cause he marched in Tanners pro-
cession. The girls out there don't
believe in training in that crowd"
An Albany grandmother of seventy
lately eloped with a young man whose
father she had tried to capture in years
agone. She evidently likes the family.
Mrs. Fair once said, as she shook out
her golden curls before the mirror, that
they would never hang such glorious
woman as she was, and she was right
about it.
The marble for Valentines recumbent
statue of General Lee, intended for the
Memorial Chapel at Lexington, Va, is
now being quarried in Vermont. It's
carving will be begun in two months.
A well known writer on farm subjects
says that the way to raise pig iron is to
ring the pigs nose and then let him
root for it, Pig lead can also be pro-
duced by attaching a rope to the hind
leg.
Cincinnati is arranging for a munich
pal festival to come off at the EXPOSE
ton building May, 1873. Theodore
Thomas will direct the musical perform
ance with an orchestra Of two hundred
performers.
The yield of olives this year at the
San Diego Mission will hardly equal
that of last season, but the fruit is of
fine quality, the olives being very
large and plump. A quantity Of oil will
be made, and. as last year, a consider
able lot will be packed Cor home sale
and for expectation.
The spicy New York letters in the St.
Louis Republican are written by q
wealthy lady named Mrs. Mary II. Burn
ham, an elegant, dashing woman of so
ciety. The Republican folks have lately
made her a present of the complete
Encyclopedia Britannica" seventy-two
volumes, as a token of their esteem.
~ remember" says Lord Biden, Mr..
Justice Gould trying case at York, and
when he had proceeded for about two
hours, be observed, Here are only
eleven jurymen in the box; where is the
twelfth Please you, my lord, said
one Of the eleven, he has gone away
about some other business, but be has
left bis verdict with mel >"
Milwaukee enjoys its own fat woman.
Her name is Praegar, and Fairbanks
hardly does her justice at FIVE hundred
and thiriy.fve pounds. She girths i've
feet eleven inches over the bosom, five
feet two around the hips, two feet four
around the arm, and when she laughs
her chin wrinkles down into the dark
like cellar stairs.
Mrs. Ella C. Granger the wife Of
Cincinnati inebriste. has brought six diff
ferent actions for damages against as
many saloon-keepers for selling intoxi-
catiag drinks to her husband, between
the years 1870 and 1872, thereby leading
him 10 his ruin. She modestly asks OF
each the snail sum of $4,000, or $780,
900 from the six.
A complacent landlord OF c AOREtaln
hotel al breakfast the other morning,
planted his thnmbs in his waistcoat
armholes, leaned significantly back in
his chair and said: Gentlemen, where
do you think that bsefsieak comes
from7' From near the hOsss,' vas