Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-03
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

Josephine Mansfield is said to be dy-
ing Of cancer.
1t is said that most Of the children in
the Oneida Community are red-haired'
A Kentucky wedding party waited III
teen minutes while the groom went out
and stabbed his brother, who was annoy
ing the bride by hanging round the house.
An attempt is being made in England
to revive ombre, which, during the sew
enteenth and eighteenth centuries, used
to be the moet fashionable ccrd game.
It is said that Sir Bartle Frere will be
made member of the Privy Council, in
recognition OF his services in procuring
the cessation of the Zanzibar slave trade.
Al the end of August, l67s, nearly
two hundred years ago, the first white
men, jacques Marquette and Louis
Joliet, arrived at the spot now known as
Chicago. I
A local geologist OF Terre Haute says
that any person having a taste for gold
mining can clear from forty to sixty
cents day almost anywhere in Vigo
county, Ind.
Somebody says that England is eele-
brated for its fogs, Ireland for its bogs,
France for its frogs, Canada for its dogs,
Maine for its logs, Ohio for its hogs, and
Virginia for its egg-nogs.
Don Piatt describes the British House
of Peers as "a body Of men exceedingly
quiet and unpretending in manner, not
remarkably striking in countenance, and
so badly dressed that it seemed an afec-
tation."
1t is said that the atmosphere in the
region between Big Trees and Yosemite,
in California, is often so full Of electricity
that electric sparks follow the hand when
passed ever blanket at night in the
open air.
The French police have lately arrested
the leaders and others of q company OF
twenty youthful bandits. The ladsWere
from fourteen to seventeen years OF age.
Their depredations were generally com
mitted in the neighborhood OF the Aus
tsrlitz bridge in Paris.
The Chinese military authorities at
Tiensin have forbidden the soldiers to
smoke opium, and punish them severely
for SO doing. This may be the initia-
tory step of new law throughout the
empire, but like all sumptuary laws, 1t
will be next to impossible to enforce 1t.
Thousands of Roman Catholics in
Holland recently made pilgrimage to
BrieIle to drink the water Of an old well,
which is believed to have the power OF
curing diseases ordinarily incurable. A
large pilgrimage to "the most gracious
chapel at Thorn" village near Rure-
mond, is announced for this month.
A new and cruel invention is the in
PRODUCTION Of living butterflies into the
center pieces of flowers, which usually
adorn the middle of the tables at fash
ionable dinner and supper parties. The |
unfortunate insects are fastened to fine
wire, which is passed through their bodies
and concealed among the flowers.
The Chicago Superintendent Of Public
Schools has hit upon device which APP
pears promising. He recommends the
of an ungraded school, to
which the bad scholarship boys who
swear, are obscene, rowdyish, or who
violate any rule, which ofense
is ordinarily punished by suspension or
dismissal, and the girls who are OF the
same sort--shall be sent from all the
other schools, there to remain until they
become NJ IOT dSSOCihhnB Win inc
properly-behaved scholars in the graded
schools. By this plan the evil disposed
will not be deprived of an education, but
will be educated in school Of manners
as well as mental instruction.
NJ. D., distinguished French advo-
cate, was recently conducting suit for
separation brought by a woman against
her husband. The counsel for the latter
having exhausted his stock of argu-
ments, proceeded to read to the court
plumber of letters written by his client
10 the plaintiff before their marriage,
copies of which had previously been
served upon his opponent. The court
shall determine" he cried, whether
The writer of letters, glowing with so
pure and tender fame of love, could
be capable of committing the enormities
charged against him." NJ. D. quietly
placed an open volume on the Judges
desk, observing as his opponent began
10 read, 1.-THE court would perhaps Hike
10 follow the text" The letters had
haer stolen from Rousseau's Nouyelle