Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-22
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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skunks.
Some earth brought from Calao to
San Francisco as ballast was found to
be full of human bones.
Denver, Col, has forty-one patriotic
citizens, who desire to serve their coun'
try in the capacity Of postmaster.
The new theater the Criterion, Lon
don, is wholly under ground, the top row
of the gallery being on level with the
street.
The fact that Miss T. Deum sung a
very nice song is established By an an
nouneement to that effect in an Indiana
paper.
An obituary notice in Western pa
PEI contained the touching intelligence
that the deceased accumulated little
money and ten children"
A Boston coart has decided that if a
woman lends money to her husband she
cannot get it back. The decision will
not be new to many wives.
A Danbury woman, hearing that a
former neighbor, who had once tried to
injure her. had been seen in New Haven,
inquired with burning eyes and cheeks,
"What did she have oa2"
In Troy bunch of shingles fell
from wagon on the ferryboat and
struck fairly on the head of colored
woman, who exclaimed, "Y' oughterer
b shame to muss cullud woman's har
dat way. l wish de shingles fell oyah-
board"
The coasting trade in Alaska is rap
idly increasing, and complaints are made
that there is no correct chart Of the
coast. AS there are upward of $4,000
miles Of coast line, the work Of survey
ing, if undertaken, will necessarily
last several years.
The editor of the Kokomo (Indiana)
Tribune, who was robbed of four hun
dred dollars in an Indianapolis hotel,
the other night, attributes the affair to
g. an overruling Providence, and his for
getting to wear his nose glasses when he
bolted the door,.
The green paper in which lozengeS
are wrapped is full of arsenic, SO say
the scientists, one wrapper containing
enough to kill an adult, yet children are
allowed to eat the lozenges and play
with the paper, which doubtless in some
cases causes death.
There are two ways of doing il" said
Pat to himself, as he stood musing and
waiting for a job. IF save four thou
sand l must lay up two hundred year
for twenty years, or 1 can put away
twenty a year for two hundred years
now, which shall do2"
1t is now discovered that the account
Of a balloon being found in a tree in
North Africa, and supposed to have
travelled southwark from France during
the Franeo-German war, is founded on a
typographical error. The word should
have been printed baboon.
At Cardiff, Wales, the paupers have
revolted and refuse to eat. The cause
OF the revolt was the serving up Of Irisk
stews made Of preserved Australian
mutton. The women we're worse than
the men-seveu jumped out Of the win.
dow, got into the garden aud conducted
themselves like lunatics, until the police
were sent Tor.
A negro preacher holding forth to his
congregation upon the subject Of obey
ing the commandments of God says:
Bredren, whatever Cod tells me to do
in dis book (holding up the Bible), dat
I'm gWine to do. II / see in it dat
must jump troo a stun wall, I'm gwine
to jump it. Jumping troo it longs to
God; jnmpin' at it longs to ae."
On the 9Th of September the number
Of prisoners in the empire Of Russia
was 1864. Russia, has go prisons
with accommodations Tor only s.. 200
persons. Over 1900 prisoners had
therefore to be put in temporary quar-
tiers, even more unhealthy thai the reg
ular prisons The mortality i5f pris-
oners is, therefore, inordinaii large.
In The tEo years ls6s and Isl co.,
200 prisoners kept for a longer -)rter
time 10 confinement l5l.s5z .uO' IN
dergo medical treatment, a''en17O
died. That is 10 say. one % ~
four got sick, and one out Of leI