Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-05
FACTS AND FANcIEs.

Wisconsin farmers are fattening pc
tato bugs on Paris green.
A man in Kentucky pretenda to hay'
found a mine Of frst-olass sealing wax
A white man was badly beaten by
Chinaman at Petalnma. California. ate
having conried the fight.
The Tennessee papers can get NOR
rattles on 10 the end of rattlesnake'i
tail than the press of any other State.
An Indiana gentleman is now livinl
in house with his 9Th wife and thre'
mothers.in-law. and yet he is not happy
A county clerk in this State refused tc
issue a marriage license because the
man was only four feet high and the wo
man six.
An indianapolis jailer attempted to
render his apartments burglar proof by
a coat of whiiewash on the interior II
was too thin.
The costs of proving, by the verdict Of
jury, that Susan B. Anthony was not a
man, as figured up by the clerk of the
court we're $2O4 IL, exclusive of law
yers' fees.
A railway station agent down East ran
away recently with some Of the funds,
aud an examination has shown that a
mistake he had made in his accounts
covered the amount he carried away.
A Japanese prince, Macao, may be
found daily in the State printing office
at the Hague, working at the case. He
is sent to Europe by the Japanese gov
eminent to learn the art Of printing.
The rising generation of Virginia
duelists practice upon the monuments in
the Lynchburg cemetery, and some of
them can already knock the eye out Of
an eagle or other craven image, three
shots out OF FIVE.
An Indiana man who shot another,
and aferward repenied, wrote to his
victim that if he would only get well he
would give him ten thousand dollars.
The wounded person expressed a will
lingness to get well at any price.
A new lecturer is in the field, in the
person Of survivor Of the City of
Washington, who proposes to discourse
his own experience. At this a surly
cotemporary says: ITS pity he was
not drowned, it would have added SO
much interest to the lecture. !"
Grace Greenwood relates as an in
stance of the extravaganza of New En-
gland humor, that when young farmers
wife made her first boys pants as ample
before as behind, the father exclaimed,
Goodness he won't know whether be-
going to school or coming home.
Shannon, Louisyille's product in the
domestic murder line, has handsome
features, distorted by haifsuppressed
emotion" but having beaten the partner
of his joys and finally shot her dead, he
has monrnfully observed that he has now
nothing to live for.
Khiya is described as a tumble-down
city, with two wretehed walls inclosing
an inner and an outer town, with pop
ulation variously estimated at between
1000 and 10000 souls, some seventeen
mosques and about a score Of schools.
A wealthy New York gentlemen of an
original turn of mind is going to have
stables built upon his ground after the
models of the Pyramids Of Egypt. He
contends the pyramid is the proper form
for dwelling houses also and has the ad-
vantage of putting stop to the eternal
discussions about Mansard and other
roofs.
A woman seventy-seven years old, at
Ripley, Miss, walked FIVE and half
miles to market lately, carrying on
her back seven turkey gobhlers, twenty
two chickens, twenty-four dozen eggs,
and six pounds Of butter" and she Goes
that sort of thing regularly. How the
express companies must love her
A droll bit Of pleasantly attributing
Beautiful Snow" to Mr.. William Win
ter-of course jeu d'espra aimed at
his hyemal name-has called out
denial from that gentleman, in which he
claims that there is something barbaric
in the cruel pertinacity with which many
persons are laboring to fix the author
ship of that melancholy mush upon their
innocent fellow creatures"
DR.. Mary Walker still faces the music
and de6antly proclaims her independ-
ence of usage. In her Baltimore lee.
ture she again declared that nothing
could induce her to abandon her style
of dress The Secretary Of the Treas
ury even hadn't money enough to buy
her of. She spoke Of herself as the
only woman in Baltimore dressed prop
erly for windy weather or ascending a
ladder.
The following is Turkish receipt for
a cement used to fasten diamonds and
other precious stones to metallic sur
faces, and said to unite surfaces Of pol-