Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-28
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

CITY w thO C"'N"s
The apple orchards in Northern Ne'
York have been attacked with diseas'
0 which is killing many Of the trees.
According to the Charleston News
: "a singular and mysterious fatality
seems to hang over the seat OF thu
Orangeburg Senator"
Chicago printers are in huff because
the Chicago Relief Society have sem
their report TO Boston to be printed
They consider it typographical error
Gerald Massey will not only read from
his own works, but also PROFOUND and
answer from the platform this conun'
drum: why doesn't God kill the
devil2"
A boy was recently arrested in San
Francisco who had for some time made
it regular business to steal the flowers
of the graves in one Of the cemeteries
and sell them.
A New Orleans paper thinks that the
postal cards will at least have the effect
of inducing terser style Of epistolary
composition, and higher appreciation
Of the value of words.
A Western paper thinks the Colorado
desert only needs irrigation TO become
the most fruitful spot on the continent.
Probably the same result might follow
the irrigation OF the Great Sahara.
At Bangor, Maine, recently, two robins
gave battle to a cat that had stolen their
Aedglings, alighting on her and pecking
her head aud back until puss was glad to
relinquish her prey and beat retreat.
Thirty.fve thousand dollars worth Of
Peruvian bark, consigned to Powers u
Weightman, Philadelphia, was recently
burned to generate steam on freight
ing vessel which ran out of coal. That
was bitter joke, indeed. p. q W. can
truly say that their bark is on the sea.
A Georgia paper recently contained
the following item in its Society Gossip:
1.-The amiable and delicious Miss Pix
ington, whose charms of mind and per
son have turned the heads Of our gallants,
now does her hair in braids, and patron
ICES this paper exclusively in her per
sonal makeup"
Sir Sidney WaterIow, Lord Mayor of
London, who was recently created bar
onet, is printer, stationer and blank
manufacturer. His present position is
entirely owing to his own exerhons, as
he started in life poor, unknown boy,
without friends or influence, and with
very imperfect education.
At Barnstable, Mass, the sexton re-
moved the elapper from the church bell,
so that the boya could not ring it on the
Fourth of July. The boys. however,
went one better, and suspended the fiat
iron in place OF the distracted clapper,
greatly to the damage Of the bell and of
the ears of the citizens.
A devoted sister in the Thursday eve
ming prayer.meeting, few weeks ago, in
praying earnestly for the pastor, prayed
that he might "be enabled TO preach that
truth which converts souls" There is
good deal Of truth, valuable in its place,
scientific truth, theological truth land /
had almost said political truth), that
does not convert.
There is a fly in Cayenne, Guiana,
known as the man eater, which is the
cause Of many deaths in that penal col.
ony OF France. NJ. Coquerel, who has
investigated the subject, describes the
insect as laying its eggs in the mouth or
nose of sleeping person. The off
spring in their larval state usually bring
about the death Of the victim.
In Chicago recently doctor pre-
scribed for sick man and left word
that one Of the children should call at
his office the next day and say how the
patient was doing. A little girl came,
and, when questioned, she promptly an
swered Please, sir, father, is getting
better; he's broke the stove all to pieces
this morning and been fighting mother,
just like he used tol"
HThe destruction of human life in
India by beasts Of prey and venomous
serpents very large, and is attracting
the attention of the British Government |
According to a recent statement in
Lower Bengal alone, l3.4OO persons we're
killed in the six years from 1865 TO 1870, |
and for the entire Peninsula it is esti-
mated that 10000 persons annually lose
their lives from this cause.
A curious marriage took place at
SALISBURY, Vermont, recently. The
groom was an old man seventy years Of
age, and the bride was former wife,
from whom he had been divorced for
many years. During the long interval
he had lived in Ohio, where he was twice
married, and recently returning to his
old home, he found his first wife had
remained single The fame was re-
kindled, aud the ancient couple we're
rejoined after half century.
A silly girl in Baltimore recently had