Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-18
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

The British navy has 1000 vessels at
different parts Of the world.
tits reported that a Protestant chapel
will be established in Havana.
1t costs FIVE dollars to swear out loud
in the streets at Springfield, Mass.
In Germany, all quarrels and estrange-
ments are made up and healed on New
Years day.
A full blooded African, with straight
red hair, is one of the curiosities OF
Chicago He talks of lecturing.
The latest explosion was that of tur'
KEY on Thanksgiving Day in a Cincin-
natl hotel The cooks face was badly
scalded.
A chiropodist announces on his BUSH
ness cards that he has removed corns
from several Of the crowned heads OF
Europe"
Mrs. Cough thinks it better Cor a
woman to be laughed at for not being
married than to be unable to laugh be-
cause she is married.
A child was smothered in Appomattox
county, Va, recently, by guests at we'd
ding throwing their outer garments on q
he'd where it was lying.
Eugene will pass the winter at Nice.
Most people will imagine that we are
about to say that she will have a nice
time of it, but we are not
Carlotta Benettini, a famous Italian
lady, who, in conjunction with Mazzini,
became noted Republican leader, died
recently in Genoa, aged sixty-two years.
The lectures on polygamy, in Denver,
Col, by Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, nine
tenth wife of Brigham, have been poorly
attended, but the Denver press has made
the subject leading topic.
James H. Lucas, the wealthiest citizen
of St. Louis, died few days since. He
died worth from 10000 900 to $4,000, 900,
and took not cent with him. There
was no pocket in his shroud.
The Tribune, a moral authority, says:
If a young man cannot pay his board
bill, and has no reasonable prospect OF
being able to pay it, we are inclined to
think it is his Christian duty to abscond.
Hard times sociables are fashion
able in Western Pennsylvania. The
guests are compelled to appear in patched
clothing, and the refreshments consist OF
mush and milk and baked potatoes.
The amount of timber annually con-
sumed in the form of toothpicks may be
judged by the fact that toothpick fac
tory at Canton, Me-, recently bought 600
cords Of wood for making into tooth
picks.
1t is decided by an Indiana editor, who
can't stand it any longer" that the
only difference between the entrance to
a barn and the lounger around newspa'
per offices is that the first is barn door
and the latter a darn bore.
Daniel Andrews died recently in Della
ware. He left large fortune, and be-
queathed to his brother the sum of six
cents, because that brother had once
jerked a chair from under him, and suf-
fered him to fall upon the floor.
An episode in Mr.. John P. Hale 5
career was the devoted attachment be-
tween a young lady of his family and
the actor John Wilkes Booth. In Booths
diary, which was taken from his dead
body there was a picture of this lady.
DR.. Russell, in his Diary During the
Last Great War" describes Marshal
Bazaine as "a sensuous, earp-like sort
of man, with a good deal of swagger;
q cafe, billiard-kind of a General, all
feathers and boots, like Winfield Scott.
A young man being asked by a judg,
whether he had father or mother, said
he wasn't quite certain whether ne had
or not First. his father died, and his
mother married again; and then his
mother died, and his father married
again; aud now he didn't know exactly
whether they we're his father aud mother
or not
Upon Mr.. Joseph Arch's return to
England he was at once interviewed
and he made some astonishing declara.
tons. Il intend to 90 on he said
Cd until have drained the country OF
agricultural i.aborers. When the last
man Of the De- 81 ship-load quits the shore,
then, and not tin then. may Mr.. Arch
-. d.. r-- Fral leave of his native