Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-10-03
FAcrs AND FANCIES.

the Jesuits.
Howard GlynsOn Miss Readenl
the deaf and dumb writer, is At Whip
pies School. At Ledysrd, learning The
process Of lip-reAdinE.
The BAvAriAa G0v-rnDsnt AAs Tor
hidden BAvAriAn students Of Theology
to enter the German college al Rome IS
long as II remains 1sds- the direction
Of the Jesuits or any kindred order.
A little girl vas asked What vas the
meaning Of the word happy. She gave
5 pretty answer. sAyiaE. II IS to feel
as If you wanted 70 give all your things
TO yOur little SISTER.
A contemporary says that stray
leaves from sOon-cOning orange bios
SONS aufter ArOLnd in prophecy Of we'd
dings 10 BE-" Let EN- fat It's none
Of our funeral.
Mrs. PasisrsOs, who presided over the
domestic economy Of the White House
during the term Of her father, Andy
johnson, has added new luster to her
lAursls By taking the premium for the
best batter It Tennessee fair.
There Is living native Of NeSberry
county, South Carolina. twenty years
Of age. Who weighs only thiriy-ihree
pounds, bis hight being SIX inches Tom
Thumb Is distaBced.
Miss Mary E. Beedy, the excellent
English correspondent. who has been
making = very successful leeturing tour
IN England, was formerly = teacher in
the common schools Of St. Louis.
An Ohio woman lately Travelled with
one ticket, four trunks. band boxes, q
sover-pot, poodle dog. umbrella, jng Of
milk, lunch-b2sket, paper sack fall o.
peaches. and boy Of fifteen, whose age
she gave IS nine.
Mr.. Bagsby has got = nice place on
the Sugar Hollow road, some three miles
from Dsnbury; but the family dent like
It, because It prevents them from getting
TO church. They were in to visit the
eirc1s to-day. and told Us about it
DanbuTy Ne,es.
/ The following are the ages Of the
members Of the firm Of jay Cooke d
Co.: Jay Cooke is about 81; William
G. Moorhead, 81; Henry D. Cooke, 45i
In. c. FsbDestoek, ~; George c.
Thomas, 40; Pitt Cooke, ~; jay Cooke
Jr., %; J. A. Garland, p.
A girl about sixteen years Of age re-
Gently arrived at Howard City, Mich.
having been sent BY express from some
point east. She was regularly billed,
and a shipping tag attached TO her
showed her weight 10 be log pounds.
At Paisley. IN Scotland. a stained
glass window 10 memory Of Sir William
Wallace has just been unveiled. Wal
lace is represented ~ sampson, after
his conflict with the PhiIistines, uttering
thanks to the Ged Of Battle. The win
dow bears the inscription: To the
memory OF the knight Of EIlerslie. in
this parish. Erected BY the Glasgow St.
Andrews Society"
A boys tooth-ache generally com.
mences at 3 am, reaches its highest
altitude at s.45, when the pain Is intense
to an extraordinary degree; commence,
to subside at ., and after that disappear.
with q celebrity that must be very com
forting to the sufferer. II. Ct night, tha'
boy hasn't got four quarts Of walnHtr
spread out to dry up stairs, it is becsusI
there is no place up stairs 70 do it,
DdHbury Ners
Lieutenant Wheeler's ASTRONOMERS
and surveying parties. which have beei
; at work this season in Colorado, Utah
Wyoming and New Mexico. have ascer
tanned that the remapping Of ell tina
vast territory viii be necessary, that tn
various mountain ranges will have 70 b
located anew, and that the Rocky Noun
tain range. instead Of being the backbon
Of the continent is separate range, G
and IN itself, with clearly defined bss
lines. The operations Of the survey tax
in the whole Pacific coast. and the are
which will be mapped during the comm
season will cover $4,000 square miles i
Colorado, $1,000 in Arizona and Ne'
Mexico, and from 1000 to 5000 in South
eastern Utah.
The death is announced Of Mis-
Elizabeth Carne, Cornish celebrity
She vas for years a frequent writer il
the LOndon Quarterly Review. sh