Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-22
FACTS AND PANCIEs.

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Flowers made Of mother o pearl are
now used for trimming wedding dresses
Australia Is said 10 be gradually rising
at the rate OF sixteen inches in cen
fury.
Up TO the first Of January, 1873, there
we're 67,ll2 miles of railway in thi'
country.
Mexico claims that she can produce
coffee equal to that grovn in any part oil
the world.
A Connecticut man has had made for
him tin coffin, in which he proposes to
be buried.
A sea lion weighing three hundred
pounds, was recently captured at Wits
Beach, Maine.
sothern does not deny the current item
that he has made round million by act
ing the Damphool.
1t is said that more women are ar
rested in San Francisco than in any
other city in the Union.
The widow of General Robert L. Lee
has engaged quarters for the summer at
the White Sulphur Springs.
A society mans argument against
suicide is, that it is the hight of impo-
likeness to go anywhere until you are
invited.
A widow in Dublinshty years of age,
recently brought a suit for breach OF
promise against her godson, aged thirty.
The jury gave her one.half cent damages
and twelve cents costs.
The Utica Herald says men will never
know what effect It would have had on
Job if eleven little girls lad called on
him, one after another, and tried to sell
him Sunday school picnic tickets.
In a recent case of assault with in
tent to kill, In Indiana, it was shown
that the ARRAY came about from a father
insisting on remaining in the room with
his daughter and her beau. The SYM
pathetic jury acquitted the young man.
NJ. Ranc said: :" NJ Paul de Cassag-
nae has thought that it was easier to de-
nounce me than to give me sword
thrust" and NJ. Cassagnac replied
"What day will you please meet me at
the frontier2 l call on you, abandon
ing to you every advantage, to designate
the time, the place and the weapons; l
shall he there" and they were, and
Paul was seriously wounded.
The venerable marked turtle, which
always finds his way into print at this
season, has now appeared again in Mas
sachusetts. A Mr.. Harlow, of Taunton,
who embellished him with his initials on
July 4, 1888, and again dated him IN
ls47, found the reptile for the third time
on the I'd of July, eight miles from the
spot where he FIRST formed his acquaint-
ance forty years before.
A young lady who is doing some
climbing in the Catskills, has created a
sensation with her alpenstock, which is
branded with the name of several of the
Alps, two passes in the Pyrennees,
nearly all the Scotch mountains, Mount
Washington in New Hampshire, a peak
Of the Blue Ridge and several localities
in the Rocky Mountains. The stick is
nearly covered, and she has earned all
the names BY actual climbing.
1t is said that in Richmond, Me-, when
a gentleman's family leaves home for a
week or two, the gentleman complies a
list of his friends and neighbOrs and
mails them the following circular
NJ sends his compliments and an
nounces to the gentlemen named below
that he will do them the honor of dining
with them on the days placed opposite
their respective names. He will expect
asgood dinner"
An editor discussing " colleges" men
tons an instance where "a far-seeing
parent proposed TO make great inter
national lawyer of mis- son, and at Har-
ward and Heidelberg his whole attention
was turned in that direction. He studied
law in the best schools in Europe and
America, graduated with highest honors,
and is now wealthy and successful ma
chinist, and plays the organ ia church
every Sunday-the one valuable re-
mainder Of his German schooling"
The following old inscription is upon
a tombstone in Winslow, Me-: " Here
lies the body of Richard Thomas. An
by birth. A wing of '76.
By occupation cooper. Now food for
worms. Like an old rum puncheon,
marked, numbered and shocked, he will
be raised again and finished by his Crea-
Tor, He died September %, 1874, aged
70. America, my adopted country, my
best advice to you is this, take care Of
your liberties"
The authorities of Lyons, in addition
10 prescribing an early and inconvenient
hour for funerals, now permit only three
hundred persons TO follow the corpse TO
the cemetery. Recently, at the funeral
Of an aged woman, the creWd was very
LARGE hpt ,vhan three hundred nergong