Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-02
FAorsAND FANCIEs.

Virginia proposes 10 tease hef peh
Tertiary.
Petersburg, Va, ships Christmas toy
to Scotland.
There are l,S77OOO,OOO of us on thi
terrestrial globe.
American apples bring ten dollars
bushel Ia Australia.
4 The dispositions in Marshal Bazaine'
trial number 5000 documents.
4 Twenty-four amendments to the con
titution are pending in Congress.
The Texas railroads are carrying i'm
4 migrants at two and half cents mile
/ Wisconsin lead mines have yielded
S3O,0O0,OO0 worth of lead since theil
discovery.
An English paper attributes some O
the horrible murders here to election ex
element.
Florida is suffering from the combined
ravages OF ripe watermelons and carpet
baggers.
| A Waterloo soldier in Vermont, aged
ninety.fve, lately married and entered
on his last campaign.
There have been some heavy freshets
in Georgia, delaying railroad trains and
doing much damage.
The Nashville Union brags that ii
hasn't man on its staff who isn't rich,
talented and good looking.
A salmon lately caught in an Oregon
stream yielded large amount of good
meat and an excellent silver watch.
A university is to be established at
Adelaide, Australia, and one man has
subscribed twenty thousand pounds.
Ebenezer Childs, of Pennington, Me-,
was wounded by bayonet in 1914. and
has since drawn $l3,3S0 in pension
money.
England has built a steel steamboat
ninety feet long and drawing only
twelve inches of water for one of the
rivers Of Brazil.
Western Australia offers FIVE thousand
pounds reward for the discovery of a
paying gold held within three hundred
miles of any port.
Last year Russia produced three hun
Dire and fifty thousand tons Of iron,
the greater part of which was charcoal
iron Of superior quality.
4 black bear undertook 10 mug airs.
Mason, of Wisconsin, to death, but she
jabbed the tip Of an umbrella into his
eyes and he seeded.
DR., Livingstones daughter lives very
quietly and unostentatiously in Glas-
gov, Scotland, and devotes her time to
literature and the fine arts.
The Quakers have begun missionary
work at Matamoras, Mexico. Rather
uncongenial soil for the doctrines Of
George Fox.
The rise in the price Of lumber on ac-
count Of the great FIRE in Boston will add
at least $4,000 to the profit Of the pur-
chasers of the Coliseum.
A Lowell Massachusetts, preacher
walked up his congregation, last Sunday,
by requesting them to sing hymn in
the middle of sermon.
The telegraph lines in japan are to be
thrown open to public use, and gas is
now used for lighting the streets and
dwellings, of Yokohama.
Chicago burglars say that they never
Jaw money SO tight as at present, and
hey declare that every other watch has
,een sent to the pawn shop.
Some Montreal medical students lately
itolea corpse from one Of the professors,
md selling il to another institution, had
/ jolly drunk on the proceeds.
another California widow Is TO claim
he sympathy of Pacific jurymen on &C
.ount Of Eve grains Of strychnine found
n her dead husbands stomach,
The Presidents new stable, at Wash
ngton, is nearly completed, and is much
liner than the houses of the mass Of tax
payers whose money built it.
The maple-sugar interest Of Vermont
low exceeds in magnitude the wool in
crest, which was for "a long time so
prominent in the Green Mountain State.
A thief at Marshall, Kentucky, got
'ound out because, after cracking a
store, he generously returned next day
o spend the money with the proprietor.
Nine human beings drank themselves
o death from sundry casks Of liquer
washed ashore near Portland, England,
rom the wreck Of the Royal Adelaide.
A Baltimore man engaged in the bril-
liant domestic amusement Of cooking
nd swapping a pistol became respon-
ible for the death Of little four-year
I'D girl
An Indian jumped on a can Of nitro
slycerine at New London the other day,
70 see how the old thing worked, and
The last seen Of him he was riding a
cloud.
Chief Justice Taney's bust IS al last to
be placed among those Of the other chief
justices in the Supreme Courtroom.
The marble efigy Of the great jurist has
.hus far been exiled from it, proper rest
rg place through silly spitefulLess, pro-