Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-27
FAcTs AND FANCIEs.

a $500, 900 hotel at Omaha.
An Imperial Academy of Science
was opened last month at CrAcow.
The Connecticut farmers are raisin
more tobacco this year than ever.
A firm in the Pennsylvania oil region
has taken contract for sinking wells II
japan.
The Odd Fellows of Johnstown ar
going to build hall for the brotherhood
in that city.
The Chicago Inter'0cean has take'
the lead in organizing children's exeur
sions in that city.
Boston DEGREES that its public schol
ars shan't be whipped until the day
after they deserve it,
Here is the newest floral "senti
ment." If you wish for hearts ease
don't look to marigold
Yale oarsmen have determined tC
abandon their own crew'd ideas and
adopt the English stroke.
A portrait of the late Horace Greeley
has been presented to the Wisconsin
State Historical Society.
The Chicago Tribune says that the far
mers of Illinois intend to run a candi-
date for Governor next election.
A widow in Maine recently worked
out her tax on the highway, to the en-
tire satisfaction of the supervisor.
The Dunkers held a grand love feast
at Meehanicsburg, Penn, last week, at
which two thousand persons were pres
ent.
A grand Grafton is expected from Mr.
Disraeli next month, on the occasion of
the unwilling of the statue of Lord
Derby.
1t has been estimated that it would re-
quire 1875 tons and $50 pounds of gold
to pay off the public debt of the United
States.
During the continuance of the Maine
General Hospital Fair, in Portland, a
small sheet was issued aptly named The
Tonic.
A monster Goldfish was caught off
Newburyport, Massachusetts, last week,
which weighed ninety-four pounds when
dressed.
Keokuk, Iowa, appropriately places
the celebration of the Fourth of July
under the direction Of its fire depart
ment.
Nashville people find consolation for
the cholera scare" in that it markedly
diminishes the obsession Of life-insur-
ance agents.
A Cornell University student is said
to be making a handsome income by n
lemonade stand which he has set up in
one of the college halls.
New Bedford boasts of woman in
that vicinity who lives within two miles
of railroad and never saw the cars,
and says she don't want to.
The Eastern press demands special
protective clause for Holsters in the game
laws, the total determination Of these
crustaceans being imminent.
A Troy schoolmistress has been dis
missed for trying to beat the proper pro-
nunciation of the letter z into the head
Of lisping pupil of tender age.
Ten young ladies of Dubuque, Iowa,
have simultaneously discovered that the
world is hollow and their dolls stuffed
With sawdust, and have entered a nun
merry.
An orphan under age married his fe-
male guardian recently in Illinois, and |
vas obliged to get her written consent 10
he marriage before the wedding could |
axe place.
A pugnacious gander attacked little
wo-year cid boy in Montreal recently, |
md so frightened the child that he was
brown into violent fit of commissions,
ro,, uyh;.h he dia1
A curious coincidence is reported from
Cast Unity, N. H., where a child was
ecently born on the birthday of its
mother, and the mother was born on the
birthday of her father.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, is badly in want of
n investigating committee. The mem
ers of the City Council have fallen out,
nd are busy accusing each other Of
tsaling the public money.
a rural resident of Boone county, New
'ork, Who carried his rat poison and his
hewing tobacco loose in the same
ocket, very nearly fell victim last
7eek to his bucolic simplicity.
A Michigan couple moving TO another
art of the State found their FIVE chill
rem to be a great inconvenience, and
attributed them along the road, to who
yer they could find to accept the pres.
nj.
A young couple in Usage City eloped
he other day. The bride, before leaving
lie paternal reef, interviewed her faith
rs bureau drawer, and voted herself an
lcrease Of back pay to the extent Of
ne thousand dollars.
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