Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-17
FACTS AND FANoIEs.


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A Western jury recently brought in
verdict Of Unsuitable breach OF prom
! Use"
New Hampshire has minister TO,
poor TO own Bible, and who has u
borrow Que to preach from. r,fr r
AT Washington wedding lately, tn
groom wore black kid gloves, and mar
ried the bride with a diamond ring.
The ladies Of Illinois get together Il
crowds and 80 out to hunt rabbits. Th'
rabbit crop hasn't thiuned out any, how
ever.
The girls at an Ohio female college
had 70 lie in bed all day recently to keep
themselves from freezing, because the
heating apparatus had got out Of order,
Doctors, in Tennessee, are said to have
a rather hard time. Ii the patient lives
he seldom pays, aud il he dies the rest
of the family want to shoot the physi-
clan. ''
The Arcadian Club, in New York, this
year followed the custom of bringing in
the " wassail bowl" at midnight, and in
PRODUCING mummers who sung Latin
carols.
A nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte is
said to be practicing medicine at Marine
City, Michigan, and boasts that he can
kill people faster than his uncle ever
could.
A Georgia negro was overpaid 500 on
check by bank, and he returned the
money. The local paper says this is
another evidence that the race can
never be civilized.
A country customer in shoe store,
on being asked what number be wore,
replied, "Wby, two, Of course, and
seemed inclined to be indignant with the
store.keeper for asking such foolish
question, am,
The Governor of Pondicherry, mar
row strip of territory on the east coast
of the Indian peninsula, belonging to
France, has prohibited dancing through
out the colony as long as the Germans
occupy any portion of the soil of France.
The introduction of gondolas is talked
of in Chicago. They are to be 1900 feet
in length, and worked by engines of 1000
horsepower. 1t is expected that these
light skifs gliding over the canal or
river will have very picturesque effect,
and give to the city quite Venetian
aspect gt0W ,il5t .NG
The following condensed system Of
gardening is recommended by cotem-
porary for the study Of the ladies:
Make your bed in the morning; sew on
your husbands buttons; do not rake any
grievances; protect tie young and ten
der branches Of your family; plant a
smile of good temper on your face, and
carefully root out angry feelings, and
expecta crop of happiness"
A quiet wedding in a Connected vii
lage church recently was interrupted by
an amusing incident. In repeating the
question, IF you know any cause,
etc., the minister happened to look
straight at nervous young man di-
rectly in front of him. He, thinking
he was addressed, started to his feet in
much haste and trepidation, and blurted
out, 4" Oh, no, bless mel not the slightest
objection, sirP'
In reference to the late rumor Of a
duel between Count Corti andDonn Piatt,
the latter says in his paper of Sunday:
i" There was no truth in the report what
ever. We did hear that the Count had
indicted noto on Monday and given it
to a friend; but the friend, instead Of
delivering it to us, went TO bank and had
it discounted. So it was not challenge,
but promise to pay at ninety days.
That's all.
According TO an estimate, out Of
twenty-five hundred and forty emperors
or kings, over sixty-four nations, two
hundred and ninety-nine we're dethroned,
sixty-four abdicated, twenty committed
suicide, eleven went mad, one hundred
died on the battle field, one hundred and
twenty-three were made prisoners,
twenty-five became or were pronounced
martyrs and saints, one hundred and
Gfty-one we're assassinated, sixty-two
poisoned, and one hundred and eight
sentenced to death. Total, nine hundred
and sixty-three.
The Chinese, it is related, have a very
peculiar method of discovering the hour
of noon. Clocks and watches are scarce
among the peasantry, whereas cats are
numerous, and the eyes of these animals
are said to serve as time-keepers. AT
the exact moment Of noon, the pupil of
the cats eye is said to become an exact
line, but as the sun declines it widens,
becoming of an oval shape at sunset, and
almost circular as midnight approaches,
while it gradually diminishes in breadth
as the sun rises, until it again becomes
a thin line at noon. Experience, it is
said, enables the Chinese to become very
exact in telling the time by this means