Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-26
FACTS AND PANCIEs.
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Northern emigrants 10 Florida ar
hankering after apples.
The disabling Of the cable is ascribe
to the Fish dispatches.
Mr.. Sumner will take another kur'
peAn trip this summer.
Northern emigrAnts to Florida ar
hankering after apples.
Longsireet has lost much Of his oil
popularity in New Orleans.
Delirum tremens invalidaies Mary
land life insurance policies.
Forty-two snow storms visited BOsto'
during the season just closed.
Americans carry on two'thirds of thu
business done in Honolulu.
England expends half million
pounds a year on Notifications.
There is an immense demand for fer
tilizers throughout the South.
France imported 100000 pounds Of
human hair from japan last year.
Boston is feasting on ripe strawberries
which can be had for two dollars box
A Bombay coal mine promises to rival
those of Newcastle in productiveness.
Two prima donnas supply the spirit
ual needs OF a congregation at Key West,
Florida.
Cincinnati burglars break into the
police stations and steal the police wa
ter-proofs.
The same man has swept the walk in
front of the White House fer twenty
seven years.
The United States produced over sixty
millions Of the precious metals in 1877
three millions more than in 1871.
The Governor of Nevada has signed
the bill passed by the Legislature of that
State making education compulsory.
PhIladelphians are petitioning for the
appointment os women as inspectors OF
the women's department of prisons.
Matthew Arnold, in his new volume
entitled Literature and Dogma ex-
presses his disbelief in a personal God.
The Bank of England has just put up
clock with fifty dials to it, and in
creased its force of clerks to nine hun
bred.
Ono Of the numerous places known
as "Washington's headquarters is an
nounced for sale near Morristown, New
York.
The Oneida Indians of Wisconsin
have a brass band, black their boots,
wear blue neckties and read the story
papers.
Georgia planters are reported to be
devoting nearly all their lands to cotton,
reducing the grain crops in an alarming
manner
The old rhinoeeros in. the Geological
Gardens in London has been prisoner
there twenty-five years, but he enjoys it
and is fat.
A Philadelphia judge decides that
stealing girls photograph from her
album is as bad as stealing horse from
barn.
A Brookly family stole and burned up
in the kitchen stove 5000 worth of ma
hogany which had been imported for
piano legs.
Niagara hackmen have raised their
fares since Agassiz' prediction that the
attractions there wonld dry up in few
centuries.
The Brazilians are not a reading peo-
pie, supporting only tive newspapers,
and scarcely ever INDUCING in such use
less articles as books.
The richest man in Delaware was
poor boy twenty years ago. He started
in life by borrowing seven dollars and
investing it in apples.
A colored North Carolinian, aged
eighty.three, recently allied himself to a
bride of sixty-fve and a nother-in-law
of one hundred ard fifteen.
The Khedive of Egypt is one of the
gayOst old boys in the business, squan-
dering about eight million dollars year
in faring sumptuously.
Miss Bowles, aged sixteen, in Boston,
last week, fell down stairs, and in doing
so one Of her hair-pins was driven into
her head, rendering her insensible.
A young ~ Boston lady has taken
the lecture platform, her topic being
" What the. japanese Want" They
want everything, even to blue stockings.
The banditti in San joaquin county,
California, are holding high carnival
since the withdrawal Of the telegraph |
from that county. The telegraph is a
capital police agent.
Seven hundred American exhibitors
have already made arrangements to
send goods 10 the Vienna Exposition,
three times as many as represented us
at the Paris Exposition.
The French Minister Of instruction
has issued circular to the directors of
colleges and schools, forbidding tobacco