Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-10
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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Baltimore has a large excess OF fe-
males over males.
Cincinnati has slaughtered q, 900 hogs
during November.
Ashtabula, Ohio, is now Illuminated
with gas from crude petroleum.
Ship building on the California coast
amounted to 5475 tons this year.
Trieste is trying to get "aus" of
Austrian rule, and be sunny Italian.
San Francisco has spent $500, 900
on city hall, and it is still unfinished.
Those Adventists on Terry Island
still cherish desire to become sky ter
riers.
The grand shower Of November me-
teors, promised so long, won't comet
before 1899.
1t is said there are upward Of 10000
residents of Canada who were born in
the United States.
In Birmingham, England, recently
spiritualist suddenly fell back dead in
the midst Of seance.
In the language of the War Depart
ment, it is proper to say geodetic sur
vey," not geological survey.
DR.. Burrows succeeds the late Sir
Henry Holland as one of the Physicians
in Ordinary to Queen Victoria.
Canon Kingsley is making speeches
in London in behalf of the lady candi-
dates for the London School Board.
The New York World thinks Phila-
deiphia will give London, Paris and
Vienna lessons in the show business.
The Supreme Court of California has
declared it unconstitutional to tax mort
cages on land which already bears a
tax.
Little things please little minds. A
Bangor man exhibits with pride sing
ing mouse which he has caught and
Gagged.
A foreign taste for coarse beef and
mutton has been introduced in Japan,
and the native rat market is becoming
fiat in consequence.
"The nobleman organ grinder" has re-
in Dublin, Ireland. 1t settled
by the gossips that the musician is
noble, but what particular one none can
say.
A million dollars worth of ostrich
feathers is imported into England every
year from the Cape Of Good Hope.
Every pound Of these feathers ia worth
fifty guineas.
1t is said that the venerable Joseph R.
Chandler visits the county prison twice
every day, according to his custom for
twenty-five years, in his official capacity
Of inspector.
The Emperor of Germany has con-
ferred upon DR.. DolliHger, on the occa-
sion Of his fifty years professors jubilee,
the order OF the Red Eagle Of the Sec
ond class with the star.
The Supreme Court Of California re-
Gently gave a wife tbree-iourths Of the
estate, after she had been divorced on
the ground of extreme and disgracefnl
cruelty committed by the husband
Count Fugger, being a Jesuit, has
been forced TO leave Bavaria. The
Count is the lineal representative Of the
famous Fuggers, the Augsburg bankers.
whose help enabled Charles V to carry
on his wars.
hochefort, according to accounts sent
from st. GATHERINGS Island, was sick
throughout tie thirty-fsur days Of the
convict ships voyage to that place, and
it was expected that he would die before
arriving at New Caledonia.
Colonel Yilliers Stuart, a man promi-
nent in English politics in the time Of
Lord Melbourne's ministry, has died in
Dublin As be retired into private life
in ls47, he is scarcely known At all TO
the present generation Of public men.
The annual report Of the Commis-
sioner Of Internal Revenue discloses the
interesting fact that the receipts from the
distillation and sale Of spirituous liquors
amount to more than one-half Of the
whole sun realized from internal
revenue
Agrarian outrages seem to be reviEiBg
in Ireland. A country gentleman named
Lepoy vas recently shot At through a
Eii.SoF Of bis house and wounded, il is
said rnn~fa1lv He I'D evirfad a e.