Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-06
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

Vielorien Sardous dramatic work.
have brought him over 100000 francs.
A Pennsylvania mother baptized he'
first born Parepa Nilsson Lueea Busk.
Miss woodhead has been elected tuto
of mathematics in an English college
Louisville announces its intention o
building the largest hotel on the planet
Several towns in Ohio have expert
enced second attack Of the epizootic'
A suow.bound lady in Michigan walked
home on snow-shoes, distance OF ninety
miles.
Michel Levy, the Paris publisher, has
received the decoration Of the Legion OF
Honor.
Bordeaux, the great western port oil
France, exports 100000 casks of wine
annually.
Dyout clearinghouse keepers are
scrupulous in their observance OF the
Ienten season.
Fourteen deaths from spotted fever
have occurred in aud about Naples, ILL.,,
in the last ten days.
A North Carolina lawyer succeeded
in making an impression on jury with
three.tined pitchlork
A star felt obliged to apologize to the
audience for the haziness Of his satei'
lites at Hartford performance the other
night.
twenty-five theological students are
learning Spanish to ct them for Prot
sstant missionary enterprise among the
Mexicans.
A new version of Faust in blank
verse, introducing a choir of monks
chanting the Dies Ira" has made hit
in London.
The prince imperial is enjoying him
self by opening thirty letters a day,
which promise TO assassinate him as
soon as possible.
Mad dogs are numerous at Pewaukie'
Wisconsin. They are mad because they
are obliged to sit out on cold door steps
such weather as this.
An Iowa woman lately went with
handsomer man, and her husband over
took her, and then let the other fellow
keep her for ten dollars.
Gold loekets for ladies are now made
deeper, the reason being, it is said, to
enable them to hold whole series OF
portraits Of adoring swains.
1t is said that more champagne is
drunk in the United States than in
France, because much more is made in
the former than in the latter country.
The large black silk Spanish fans have
become popular, but American ladies
have yet to acquire the trick of using
them with the grace Of the Spanish
bellies.
The Chinese have trade unions, and
at Soochow, recently, master was muir
dered for insisting on employing more
apprentices than the rules Of the society
allowed.
John Clement, of Rock Island, ILL.,,
will never stick his right thumb up to his
nose and wiggle his fingers in derisiOn
again, owing to his familiarity with
buzz saw.
The happiest man in the next House
of Representatives viii be Hon. VIM. j.
0'Brien, of Maryland. Mr.. O'Brien is
quite deaf in both ears Cincinnati
Commercial.
1.-THE winds getting round, " remarked
Bibbs to his friend Buggins, the other
day, when it changed from east to west
"Glad of it" replied Buggins. =" it's been
sharp long enough"
A phantom mule, ridden by spectral
miner who carries halfdozen piekaxes
swung about him, has greatly terrified
the workmen of Muldraugh Hill Tunnel,
in Taylor county, Ky.
The Legislature of Minnesota last week
came within an ace of removing the cap
ital from St. Paul because two hotel
keepers in that city declined to receive
Fred Douglass as boarder.
The Indians in the vicinity Of 0sh-
kosh, Wis, are choppers Of wood for
living this winter An able-bodied saw
age manages to spoil four dollar ak
and cut fifty cents worth Of wood day.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams has ac-
cepted the invitation Of the New York
Legislature to deliver an address in
eulogy Of the late William H. Seward.
The time of the memorial service has
not yet been fixed.
Somebody Of statistical turn is puz
zled to account for the great surplus of
births over deaths in 1872. We suppose
the reason is because it is cheaper, for a
man can be born for much less than he
can be buried. And a penny saved is
Dennv earned.