Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-11
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

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Sickness is rare in England. The
leading physicians charge 500 a visit
The British navy has two thousand
vessels at sea in different parts Of the
world.
Stopping trains and robbing the pas
sengers is common exploit Of the ban
dts in Spain.
A trigonometricsl survey Of japan is
to be made undar the direction Of Eng.
lish engineers.
An ancient well, built Of stone, was
recently discovered in Illinois, thirty.two
feet beneath the surface.
Princeton, Wis, has a curiosity in the
form Of baby, with black wool grow
ing on one side of its face.
King Victor Emmanuel objects to
officers of the Italian army initiating
the royal style of mustache.
The greatest depth of the Pacific
Ocean, between California and China, is
only about two and half miles.
Milwaukee has started an art gallery,
with the hope that j; may tend to en-
courage q love Of art among its citizens.
At a recent municipal election in
Manchester, England, out Of 27,363
voters, 1855 we're unable to read or
write.
a Detroit paper announces pending
marriage by saying, Young Blank is
trying to marry a father-iR-law worth
four millions.
a W estern paper announces the COM
ing of a star actor who will show our
benighted citizens how Shakespeare
ought to De slung."
Arcadia, Illinois, boasts of man who
was one of British regiment which
guarded Napoleon Bonaparte on the
island of St. Helena.
1t is proposed to neutrLlize strip of
land twenty miles wide, across the 18th
mus of Panama, to include the railroad
and the city Of Panama.
A mixture of petroleum, sweetened
with glycerine and impregnated with
carbonic acid gas, is said to be made
and scld as champagne.
Two Jewish ladies recently passed
Government examination in Rome, and
obtained certificates to enable them to
become teachers in a communal school.
1t is said that Galway, on the west
coast of Ireland, is to be made port
call for steamers crossing the Atlantic.
The harbor affords excellent accommo.
datons.
A planet is said to have been discov-
cred nearer to the sun than Mercury. Its
year has been calculated at thirty.four
days, twenty-five hours and thirty-two
minutes.
A Massachusetts town desired to make
It's citizens as happy as possible on
Thanksgiving day. and resolved to re-
duce the price of marriage licenses for
that day only.
Manchester, Iowa, boasts that FIVE out
OF the nine leading business houses in
that city are managed by women. 1t il
suggested that the name Of the town
should BE changed to Womenchester {"
The relations between Meudelssohn
and his contemporaries is thus summa.
rized by recent writer: He hated
Meyerbeer to the extent of envying him.
and envied Schnmaun to the extent of
hating him"
Trieste, the most important Austrian
port on the Adriatic, wants TO throw of
Its present nationality and become a
part of Italy. Nearly the whole of its
inhabitants are said to be of Italian
descent.
England is very anxious to obtain the
honor Of being the FIRST to discover the
North Pole, and a united effort ia TO be
made by the Royal Geographical and
other societies to send out another ex.
ploring expedition.
A young married man Of Brattleboro,
Vermont concluding that rum has killed
thousands. poured twelve gallons Of
prime brandy into the river. and, with
lawyer as q witness and uprolled eye.
balls, sWore of forever.
Ireland is profiing by the large in
crease in the price OF coal in England.
The island is known to contain many