Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-06
FACTS AND PANCIES.

brated its centennial.
The late John C. Heenan was buried
in New York.
Australia is beginning to export wine
in considerable quantities.
The building of an ox.cart is said to
be among the lost arts in Georgia.
There are six thousand pedagogues in
Switzerland, and most as many pupils.
Florida is reported to be already FILL
ing up with invalids for the winter sea-
son.
A Texan ranch man boasts of thir-
teen bullet holes in his skin from Indian
rifles.
Professor Tyndall has been elected to
preside over the next meeting of the
British Association.
Mrs. Alfred Gatty, one of the best
known writer's for the young in England,
died recently.
1t is said that Russell Quincy, late
British Commissioner to this country, is
to be made haronet.
A Desmoines man won two hundred
and twenty-five dollars and seven plug
hats on the last election.
1t is considered a notable fact that
nearly all the aldermen of Houston,
Texas, can read and write.
A man in New York has a watch
which he claims has gained enough to
pay for itself in six months.
Mr.. C. C. Fulton's interesting letters
from Europe to the Baltimore American
are to be published in book form.
Boston is proud of the fact that, with
her increased dimensions, she will pay
forty per cent. of the entire State tax.
A result of the National system of ed
ucation in England has been to increase
the demand for female teachers.
The.fres at the Lanesboro', Mass, iron
works have not gone out, night or day,
since July, 1872, when the "blast" was
begun.
Daniel Webster, a colored man, who
was charged with killing David Carroll,
in Hudson couHty, N. j., was acquitted
by the jury.
An enthusiastic editor of New York |
sporting paper thinks Congress should
appropriate slOO,OOOt to be used as prizes
Tor horse racing.
A demonstratiye maiden in Skowhe-
yan, Me-, recently kicked persistent
uitor down stairs with such violence
hat his life was despaired Of.
A letter from St. Johns, N. F., says
hat merchants, fishermen and all traders
ire jubilant over the splendid success Of
he fisheries this season.
Archery is becoming favorite amuse-
nent among the New York bellies. In
England archery meetings form a prom
nent part Of the summer amusements.
The Chicago Tribune says that large
Quantities of barley, doctored with sui
'hur fumes, and aiterward steamed, to
axe away the smell,are still sent to them.
The Savannah Advertiser says that I
be loss to the South BY the burning of
in houses every season amounts to a
arge per centage OF the value Of the en-.
ire cotton crop.
II is stated that the attention Of the
british Government has been called to
be large slave trade carr led on between
be ports on the northern coast Of Africa
md Turkey.
According to a statement in the New
York Herald, one Of the jurors in the
Stokes trial has been heard to state that
lie and others had agreed upon a verdict
which would not hang Stokes.
A lady travelling on a New England
rain recently, tried to quiet her little
10Y, telling him that the conductor
ometines swallowed naughty little boys.
The boy astonished her q few moments
fter when q conductor Of unusually
,ortly dimensions entered the car, By
Ma, / guess he has sEal-
owed one little boy already"
E. J. Dougherty, the Deputy Postmss-
sr At Wilmington, Del, has been held in
5000 for appearance at tbeUnited States
District Court in January next The
barge is the embezzlement Of about
1000, Of which Sls6 81 vas taken from
be money order box. Oakland, Cal. ,
ias developed Edwin Hunt, the County
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