Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-20
E,SANCE COMMITTEE 3
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Tie herring catch in England has
been very good this year.
"Old velvet" is what the Vicksburs
people call their local beverage.
Sound timber has been found in the
Egyptian pyramids four thousand years
old.
1t is beginning to be fashionable in
New York to Danish wine at wedding
nuptisls.
Somebody has discovered that Victor
Hugo and General Jubal A. Early are
very much alike.
The prevailing shrinksge in value has
caused Boston dollar store to be re-
duced to a ninety.cent store.
A Providence, Rhode Island, man wa,
recently fined fifty dollars for calling
another man "bSsotted human hyena.
A corners jury in Illinois recently
found that . man came to his death by a
blow on the head, which was given
either before or after drowning.
Vermont talks of increasing its Gov
errors wages above the present rate Of
81 Is day, so as to raise him nearer &c
an equality with journeymen mechanics
A new toy for boys is bear about two
feet high, which, upon being wound up
growls and stands upon his hind legs in
true bear style. These toys are made in
Munich.
One of the lights OF Washington Sc
eiety this season will be Mrs. Yano, wife
Of the JspaneseCharse d'Affaires. There
is said to be considerable celestial sweet
ness about her.
A steam gong, consisting Of three
fifteen inch steam whistles, has been
erected at the Sandusky Steel Works,
and, when blown, it is said, can be heard
fifteen miles away.
An Augusta Georgia paper recently
contained the following advertisement:
The gentleman who dropped his slung-
shot in the Opera House Arcade can
obtain the same by calling at this ONCE
and proving property.
The young ladies Of country semi
nary are puzzled over the exact mean
Ing of the following inscription, recently
discovered on the wall Of the building:
Young ladies should set good examples,
for young men viii follow them.
a let Of the dead takes but a small
space in the newspapers. to that required
to enumsrate the living. The list Of
persons who have failed during the panic
is as nothing when compared to the vast
catalogue Of those who have paid their
obligations.
A story comes from Heidelberg ofiour
German students, two Of whom agreed
to play game Of cards. the stakes be-
ing that the loser should shoot himself.
The game was played and the terrible
forfeit paid by one OF the young men.
His companions have been arrested.
A curious museum has been opened 10
New York. The show consists of
choice collection Of dumb jack screws,
noiseles5 ratchet drills, sectional jim
mics, brass knuckles, slurg shots and
the deadly sand bar, ropes that haVs
hung noted criminals, and other relics
Of crime and its professors.
A sentry at the Royal Arsenal, Wool
Eich, England, has afforded rsmsrka-
bic instance Of somnambulism by march
ing four miles in his sleep, carrying his
kuapsick and rife and six rounds OF
ammunition. Fortunately be wss met
BY policeman and awakened to a sense
OF duty before be bad injured himself or
any one else during his slumbers.
The climate Of Florida appears to be
just as COED for beast as msu, if We be,
lieve the horse story thus recorded
" Colonel Stockton, Of Quincy, Florida,
is working horse in bis stage that he
has owned thirty-fve years. When he
purchased this best friend Of man he was
beyond the age Of ten. Heis still vigor-
Gus, and promises to live many years.
and is highly priced by his owner.
A Sitka correspondent thus describes
Alaska scenery; " Take one big noun.
tain, covered With trees from the base
nearly TO the summit, with an under.
growth Of bush, briers and moss, almost
iupsssable-multiply the one BY 10000,
and you have Alaska. There is terri.
be sameuess Oue singular feature Of
this mass Of forest is the absence Of
birds. ] have seen but one robin in