Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-01
FACTs AND FANCIEs.


The Virginia Educational Convention
has voted against teaching girls algebra
The death is announced Of Rinaldo
Rinaldi, celebrated Italian sculptor
and pupil Of Canova He was born at
: Padua in 1898.
Bishop Foley, Of Chicago proposes TO
build on the North Side Catholic church
at cost Of $3.50, OOO aud residence for
himself at $4,000.
Father Hyacinthe is attracting large
congregations in Geneva. He still adj
heres to the liiurgioal usages Of theRo'
man Catholic church.
The French residents OF New York
have agreed to send testimonial to M.
THEIRS. Il will not be case Of cam
brio handkerchiefs. -Nep York Com
merciGl Advertiser. Ihlo.
There is child in Oshkosh, Wis,
whose father and mother, two grand
mothers, two grAndfathers, three great
grandmothers, and three great grand
fathers are now living.
Rev. DR.. Partridge, rector Of Christ
(EpiseopaD church, Brooklyn, declares
that the debt Of the church might long
ago have been cancelled with the money
paid to ungodly singers.
Texas received 10000 immigrants
last year-at least 10000 from Europe
and the Northern States. Texas and
Georgia are the banner States Of the
South in wealth and progress.
A Columbus (Ga. hen has nest high
up in tree, and she sits, and sits and
every day or two an egg drops overheard,
so to speak. 1t is predicted that her
family viii not pan out " we'll
A doctor Of Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, wants the custom Of telling bells
for funerals discontinued. 1t has de-
pressing effect upon the sick, aud can
not prove q source Of much enjoyment
TO the departed.
A marriage engagement which exeites
considerable interest in literary circles
in London is that of William Rossetti, a |
brother Of Christina Rossetti and Dante
Rossetti, the artist, to Miss Lucy Brown,
daughter of the artist.
The statistics Of the Presbyterian
Church, North. for the last year, show
the membership to be 472,O23, being
net gain of 1861. The number Of
churches organized during the year was
ITO and Sc dissolved.
A new import, Kangaroo skins. is
talked of. These make boots and shoes
Of great durability. and of velvet-like
softness. In Australia each untanned
skin sells for twenty-five cents. The
trade is very considerable.
An enthusiastic African, who had
+" spent dc winter in Jamaky," found it
an earthly paradise. he said he could
= lie abed, and. putting bis arms out de
windy, pick oranges, pine apples and
Jamaky rum right off de trees"
All Sing, the Chinese overseer at
North Adams. Massachusetts,, has been
charging his followers one hundred dol
ais for rice which cost him fifty dollars,
and fifty cents for mailing letters which
lidn't cost him anything Give him his
naturalized.
1.-THE Rsjah Murahsis, Of Katapore,
las died in Florence, Italy, where he had
arrived in the course of travel for in.
Itruction. He was twenty-three years
I'D. and the sovereign of six hundred
thousand people in India. His body
las been sent to his native province for
cremation.
The editor Of the San Francisco Alta,
tobacco to be injurious, quit
Imoking, and said that at the end Of the
irst twenty-four hours Of the trial he
already felt so much better for abolish
ng the filthy habit that he thought he
would be able to resume it again very
Ioon.
One hundred years ago, when the FIRST
Conference was held in Philadelphia,
here we're but seven churches belonging
o the Methodist societies, and they we're
n an unfinished condition. Now the
church edifces number $4,000. and the
5000, which more than aver
.ges q church or parsonage for every
lay during the century.