Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-13
FACTS AND FANcIRs.

Massachusetts, drank SIS, iOI IS worth
Of liquors last year. no
Rev. II. W. Beecher received over onf
thousand callers on New Years
Boston is shipping soabs westward
with which to vaecinnate Indians.
The old city gate at St. Augustine is
being destroyed by curiOsiiy-seekers.
| A Michigan lady has forwarded a
twenty-pound turkey to Queen Victoria.
OF eighiy.eight Cincinnati journalists
only sixteen are natives of the United
States.
Emma Lazarus, a dark-eyed Hebrew
maiden OF New York, is the coming
poetess.
Over 1000 American girls are now
receiving their education in English
schools.
Oregon boasts Of having raised =" six
pound potato 5000 feet above the level of
the sea-"
Mr.. Bergh is urged to wrestle with the
dealers who cruelty oyer-fatten cattle
for butchers.
Mr.. Corbett, Of Pittsburg, smashed a
young lady's heart, and the jury gave
verdict of $4,000.
An old woman died lately at LaSalle,
ILL.,, aged seventy-three years, who had
survived ten husbands.
The latest convention spoken Of is
that of the goosepickers, who are to
meet in Chicago this year. I
Fifteen families in Boston club to-
gether and pay doctor 500 a year to |
keep oil the members in good health.
Another rhinoceros has been born at
the Geological gardens, London, and the
keeper has adopted him as bed-fellow.
A Pennsylvania Dutchman has in
scriked his name on the roll Of fame BY
erecting a sausage of over two tons
weight. |
Vanderbilt has commenced chewing
tobacco, and laments that fifty years Of
his life were wasted without knowing
the goodness Of the weed.
A farmer Of Charlotte, Mich, under
took to drive turkey to market, when
the proud bird made dash for liberty
and broke $3.50 worth Of plate glass.
Rev. Mr., Brown tells Britons that in
America ministers ride for half price,
and so do editors. A friend of his, who
is an editor and minister, therefore
rides free
The East India cotton crop is much
larger this year than last. In four d.
visions reported the out-turn is 7Ol,-
III, while last year it was only 534,-
$40.
Out in Missouri, society lets widows
marry at the end of three months
mourning. Women are so scare out
that way, that they can't be allowed 10
waste any time.
The population of Australia is esti-
mated at two million FIVE hundred thou
sand British speaking people, with a
commerce vi four hundred million d
dollars yearly. /,
Suits have been begun by the German
government against all the newspapers
within its jurisdiction which published |
the speech lately made by the Pope to
his Cardinals, and which has deeply irri-
tated Emperor William and his Cabinet. (
In order to quiet the maidens' fears Of
their constancy, the lovera in the eastern
part of Maine bind themselves by
note as follows: h
HAMPDEy. Me-, September 10, 1872.
Dear Mary-I promise TO marry you
IN six months from date.
Yours, lovingly, E. N.
A St. Louis paper complains that,
there are two hundred and
Fifty thousand square miles of the earth's
surface sunderland with coal, it takes
the largest half of dollar bill to buy a
bushel of the stuff in St. Louis. Is it
possible that the newspapers of that
village are in such reduced circum-
stances that they buy the coal by the
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