Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.


FACTS AND FANCIES.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln summers in
Canada.
Florida has just sent out fifty tons OF
spoRges.
Lamartiue last surviving sister has
lately died.
The burglar has been called an enter
prising man.
Australia is turning out pearls the
size of acorns.
Cranberries are picked by horsepower
in Wisconsin.
An iron fence is eucircling the Tippe-
canoe battlefield.
A sexton at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
is beautiful blonde.
An Iowa man makes illuminating gss
from corn on the cob.
The Lowell Courier says that Captain
Jack is Lo Churehman.
Lake Superior has still ice enough to
cover forty square miles of its surface.
All babies named after Dan Rice get
free passes to his show as long as they
live.
Old British bomb-shells are being
brought up in the StoningtOn, Conn,
harbor
An afflicted woman in Connecticut
borrowed marble-top bureau tn use at
funeral.
A Japanese coin 1000 years old was
lately found in chest of tea at Newark,
New Jersey.
Jown Owens recently died in Missis-
sippi, the victim Of the use of tobacco
for lO3 years.
People never applaud Mexican actors.
When man makes a good hit they pelt
him with fruits.
The Khedive has new golden dinner
set studded with 5000 karats weight Of
diamonds.
A Philadelphia man has purchased
and set up his gravestone and carved on
it: Died April 4, 1879"
Vienna has law by which the out
side doors Of all houses must be locked
at ten o'clock at night.
A helpless invalid lady in California
climbed a tree in lively manner upon
seeing grizzly bear after her.
1t will take six years more to get the
spire Of the Cologne Cathedral up to
the desired hight of six hundred feet
A Green Bay, Wisconsin. boy weighs
over three hundred pounds. His parents
are fondly anticipating his manhood.
Poughkeepsie churches nail up pews
which they cannot rent, and strangers
either have to set down on the floor or
leave.
Pet poodle dogs have bathing dresses
now. Their hair would get out Of curl
if they we're allowed to enter the surf I'M
drsped.
miss Anthony enjoys the proud dis
tinction Of being one Of the few trans
gressors who we're ever punished for IL
legal voting.
The correspondents say that President
McMahon's carriage is erect, though it
has been generally supposed he rode on
horseback.
Paxton. ILL.,, has a new paper called
the Gimlet, which is to be devoted to
life, liberty aud the pursuit. Of green
backs"
An Ohio professor puts calomel on his
potato plants and saliyates the bugs until
they lose their teeth and are rendered
harmless.
Milwaukee has dug up a coffin con-
tanning two full-sized human skeletons,
aud argues that her pioneer settlers we're
Real estate has risen in Virginia. A
negrs there who had a $l5 cabin de-
stroyed during the war has presented a
claim for $2l 900.
The Steubenville Herald says that a
Jefferson county man who is very fond
Of cunning went into the woods to shoot
squirrels. He shot one woodpecker and
the top Of his horses head of. His lit
tie boy laughed boisterously when he
saw the governor coming home At
RiEhi drawing the wagon, which con-
tanned a set Of harness and no game 10 f.
speak Of
The miners in Relief district Oregon.
recently vent almost vild With joy over
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