Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-27
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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latter during the recent chilliness.
Salt Lake is seven feet higher thar
when the Mormons first settled there.
If heaven helps those who help them
selves, how well thieves must get along
The Queen Of sheba's palace is the
latest archaeological discovery announced
The debutantes at Washington won'i
notice youths who do not wear high
beavers.
! A young lady in Terrc Hauts devotes
/ her time to learning the pedigrees of fast
trotters.
A kentucky farmer keeps warm in a
homespun overcoat presented to him BY
his wife forty years ago.
A Vermont town is divided upon the
question Of the proprieiy of its clergy
man playing at blind mans buff.
A Detroit boy wanted to kill his little
brother because be would not get into
bed frst and warm the couch.
A girl sixteen years old has carried
the mails over thirty-four miles of Iowa
road three times per week all winter.
Many of the housewives Of New Eng
Sand still weave the cloth from which
their husbands trowserloons are made.
The lower House of the Nebraska Leg
islature has declined to concur with the
Senate in bill legalizing miscegenation.
In Buffalo, recently, boy, aged ff-
teen, tried to kill bartender with q
slung shot, because he was refused a
drink.
A Boston paper complains of the
abominable practice Of parting the hair
on the side, adopted by some young
ladies"
A New York man has invented an air
gun which throws bullet through a
horse and makes no report. The gov
eminent refuses to patent it.
A Dubuque, Iowa, temperance lecturer
says that in that city there are thou
sand boys Of the age Of twelve and I'M
der who are Keeling drunkards.
The Helena (Montana) Herald says
the Sun River Valley is literally alive
with countless herds of buffalo, which
have left their customary ranges for
that region.
Lancaster Hodges, now resident at
Fryeburg, Me-, is curiosity. He was
born at Danvers, in the State of Massa-
chusetts, of slave parents, and is now
l03 years old.
A new phase of mans abominable tyr
amy, over the weaker sex is developed
in Wyoming, where nearly oil the rulings
Of the female magistrates are overset by
the male judges Of higher courts.
Herr Sassche. the Director General
of the Berlin postoffice, has been staying
at London to obtain information with a
view of establishing district postal SER
vice in Berlin on the English system.
A Maine woman ate four quarts Of
oysters at one sitting the other day, and
won 500 by so doing, which, after de-
ductng her burial expenses, eighty-6ye
dollars left her fifteen dollars to com
mence the next world with.
The FIRST duel ever fought in the State
Of Arkansas took place in Little Rock
in the year 1880, between Mr.. Crit
tenden, Wing, aRd Mr.. Conway, a
Democrat, and grew out Of politics.
Mr.. Conway was killed on the first round.
The wife of chimney sweep at St.
Imier, Switzerland, whose house was on
fire, interfered with some pretty pyro-
technics that the crowd was waiting for,
by carrying three hundred pounds Of
gunpowder from the cellar, through the
flames.
A servant girl in Pittsburg, Penn,
has sued her employer for seven hun
bred and seventy-eight weeks wages, At
three dollars per week. She ssys she
began her work January !, 1858, and
has never received cent in remunera-
tion.
A Connecticut tailor, who could only
afford to pay for standing room near the
ceiling at one Of Lucea's operate per
formances, said it was interesting to
look down upon the youths in four dol
lar seats, Of whom he was unable 70 col
lect his bill for tailoring.
The words Of glorious old John Milton
are right words. Though all the winds
Of doctrine we're let loose upon the
earth, 60 truth be among them, We need
not fear. Let her aud fslsehood Crap
pie; who ever knew her to be put to the
worst in free and open encounter"
An oak tree was recently pat up at
auction, at Schleithein, Switzerland,
the trunk Of which was fifty feet in
ength, and had a mean diameter Of
twenty-ssven and half feet. It was
two hundred and ffty-6ve years old, aud
covered eight square perches Of ground.
The Milan correspondent Of the Swiss
Times writes Last Sunday evening
February p a series Of distressing &C
eidenis occurred at the Scala. The
clothes Of ballet-dancer caught Gre,
md hrt fnr he irnm.d..tn "a Of de