Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-14
FACTS AND FANoIEs.

| Madame luhoauui "
waxed the Shah
Evidnaee Of insaniiy-when a cook
broils cucumbers.
: Charleston is rejoicing over her first
: lamp.post lelter-boxes.
The editor of the Paris Gauloia has
0 ha, the courage 10 decline TO fight a
del.
California, finding that cotton aud
Dbacco growing is success, is trying
Office.
A Minnesota paper. finding other news
! scarce, reprinted the Ten Command
ments.
A Wabash Qnd, editor returns thanks
for centipede sent him by mail from
Texas. aa f
Some friends Of an editor in England
lately gave him dinner and put 100000
on his plate.
Isabella Of Spain, who is visiting
Vienna, enjoys the royal privilege OF be-
ing let alone.
The fact that no monument marks the
birthplace Of Washington is being com'
mented upon as a national disgrace.
A Topeka editor cOunted.tweniy dogs
in one yard the other night, aud the
meeting wasn't fairly organized either
A newly arrested indianapolis crimi-
nal who had ''reporterphobia," placarded
his cell door with don't know any
thing"
A poor, lone widow, with seven chill
dred and sore throat, paid the neces'
sary taxes and took six dogs from the
Milwaukee pound.
Mr.. Wallace, of Minnesota, dressed up
as an Indian and skulked around a
neichbor's house. A doctor shortly alter
developed lead mine on his person.
A gentleman in Indiana, when asked
why he didn't marry and settle down,
feelingly replied that he thought more
seriously Of being divorced and settling
up.
In an advertisement OF bakers bust
ness for sale, the following appears;
Death the sole reason for leaving.
1t would be difficult to find better
reason.
The sword of Tamerlane and that OF
Yakoub Haveri, of bloody memory, are
on exhibition at the Vienna Exposition.
The former dates from the middle of the
fourteenth century.
The New Bedford Mercury tells of
former prosecuting officer of Massachu-
sets, that it was said Of him, after he
had practced for many years, that he
had no more bowels that lignum-vite
statue.
An Ohio parish, by the one. cent-a.day
plan, has paid all the incidental ex-
penses of the church, the quota assigned
for the missionary purposes, various
sums for other benevolent purposes, and
the Convention assessments, and yet
manages to keep balance on hand.
Everybody in the congregation, young
and old, gives one cent day. A good
plan to be tried elsewhere.
The American Sunday School Union
report forty-nine years work as follows;
Schools organized in destitute settle
ments, about so, 1000; children gathered
in, over 265O,OOO; persons engaged as
teachers, 4l5,OOO. The forty-ninth an
nual report shows that the receipts on
account of missionary operations Of the
Society, including legacies, amounted to
s., SOL 1893; expenditures, SS,945,S53.
A recent article in the Catholic Re
view states that Bishop Vaughan's mis-
sion to the negroes Of the South is pros.
pering and that at the College of St.
Joseph, in England, twenty-three stu
dents are preparing for it. six Of whom
are Americans, five English, six Irish,
three Germans, two Hollanders, and one
Belgian. In addition to the usual VOWS,
these missionaries blind themselves for
life to the negro mission, as fathers and
servants to the blacks"
Wilkie Collins is determined to do his
very best on this side Of the water. He
said the other day, in reference to his
readings in London, They are but re-
hearsals by which l, as an untried public
reader, am endesvoring to train myself
for my appearance elsewhere. / owe
much to my American friends, and wish !
to do much to please them" From all
accounts thare is great necessity for re-
hearsals.
At the London Literary Fund dinner
in London, Mr.. Tom Taylor, the drama
fist, said that during his twenty-five
years of official life, his literary work
was chiefly done " in the invaluable
three hours before breakfast" To this
it may be added that George Eliot's "a
vorite time for composition is from six
in the morning till niue; and Mr.. An
thony Tyollope breaks the back of the
day" as Sir Walter Scott has it, by i'm
proving the shining hours.
There is one superstition in France