Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-03
FACTS AND FANCIEs.ii

dead.
Cairo, Egypt, is experiencing Sc
we're monetary squeeze.
New Orleans theaters are giving ben
etits to the widow and children Of Capt
Fry.
Wells, Fargo & Co. have imported
blood hounds to use in hunting stage
robbers.
A double wedding, at which twin
brothers married twin sisters, occurred
at Kansas City recently.
Almond culture is the latest expert
ment in California, and it is said to have
proved very successful.
A new cave, of large dimensions, was
recently discovered near Tatesville,
Montgomery county, Ky.
An Indiana widow wants 100000
damages from the man who refused TO
keep his promise to marry her.
An army surgeon is SAID to have APP
piled to the Sanitary Commission for
consecrated beef and desecrated veg
etables."
The highest point in Georgia has been
ascertained to be Blood Mountain, in
Union county, which is $500 feet above
sea level.
The present epidemic of involuntary
economy among the fair sex, is said to
have been very profitable to the glove
cleaners.
Rats and other small game are said to
be much more plentiful in Japan since
the natives have taken to eating beef
and mutton.
A German philosopher has traced the
cause of the alarming increase of emo
tional insanity to the increased con-
sumption Of oysters.
A Maine justice INDICATED the dig
nifty of the law by sending a newspaper
editor to prison for calling him mud
dle-headed manikin."
One thousand two hundred of the
teachers in the New York public schools
have petitioned the Board of Education
to restore corporal punishment.
A rich bridegroom in Cleveland gave
each of the six bridesmaids who assisted
at the wedding, diamond lockets, with
the monogram of the newly welded
couple.
Cincinnati is asking itself whether it
is the correct thing for welI-kno@n
ladies of high social position" to fire..
quGnt lager beer saloons unattended by
gentlemen?
Nine Benedek, the wife of Marshal
Benedek of the Austrian army, lately
drew prize of el2, 900 in the Roume.
lin Railway lottery; small consolation
for Sadowa.
A young married man in Brattleboro
poured twelve gallons Of brandy into
the river at the request of his young
wife. Young couples are always ex-
travagant.
When Texas coroner wants a little
ready money, all he has to do is to
drive bis jury out to the nearest grove
and cut down one of the suspected
horse thieves.
The King Of Portugal has presented
his wife, the Queen, with a gold medal,
for the heroic conduct lately displayed
by her in saving their two children from
drowning
ln Providence, Rhode Island, re-
Gently, runaway horse caused the up
setting Of a hearse. The cefin was
broken open by the fall, and the corpse
rolled into the gutter.
Judge Pitnan Of Massachusetts, re-
Gently refused to naturalize a man who
had been convicted of selling liquor. !
He said there we're enough liquor sellers
now without adopting more.
The two Georgia ladies who recently
became heirs to immense estates in |
France have had their credulity imposed
upon. A London barrisier has had the
kindness 10 write over and tell them 80.
A spiritual medium lately distin-
guished himself in Illinois By informing
a patient that the rheumatism would
soon leave his left limb. which happened
to be a patent army leg presented to
him BY grateful county.
There are many excellent reasons for
net sleeping in church. Here is new /