Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-23
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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The Hungarian patriot Deak is
seriously i'll with asthma.
The Vile du Havre was insured for
$3.50, 900 in English companies.
The rule of "no wine" is becoming
common at New York receptions.
Dinners are supplied to poor children,
in London, at two cents per head.
Hartford is excited over the question
of allowing horse cars to run on Sunday.
Iowa City has sold off its public
library, and is going to invest in thea
ter.
In Japan, newspaper editors are
among the class privileged to carry
swords.
The St. Louis Journal thinks that Ger
aid Massey ia built on finer model than
Bradlaugh.
1t is said that Rome, with all its learn
ing, has fewer bookstores than Provi-
dence, R. 1.
1t took six teachers in q Cincinnati
school to spell giraffe, and then they
spell it with j."
Towering plants have been discovered
in eightytwo degrees north latitude, the
regions of eternal winter.
Marshal Bazaine looks every inch a
soldier, man who won his baton by
hard knocks and rough service.
The editor of Newark IN. j. paper
has been convicted of libel for calling the
City Counsel Fifthclass Caesar.
Jubal Early, Of the Shenandoah army,
comes out in card denying that he has
three wives and is addicted to gambling
and drunkenness.
Fifteen pounds of dried apples is the
minimum charge of an Iowa editor for
a irst-class marriage notice. One with
poetry costs more.
The New Orleans Picayune speaks of
roses blooming and oranges hanging in
clusters in that vicinity, and wonders
when winter is coming.
Me-we-se-no-qua, a Chippewa Indian
squaw, aged IS years, with an enormous
head and only thirty.six inches tall, is
on exhibition at Lacrosse.
The New Bedford Mercury calls the
Rev. George H. Hepworth a pugna-
cious parson." The New York World
says he is an ass and quack.
An English real-estate Spectator re-
Gently offered popular preacher &c.,
900 year to settle in the neighborhood
of his property, to send up its value.
Brigham Young has ordered nineteen
sets of muskrat furs for his nineteen
wives as a Christmas presents, and each
of the children are to have nice drum.
When Mr.. Alexander II. Steph ems
concluded his Grafton in defense of the
grab, the first member to congratulate
him, as we learn from the Washington
Capital, was General Benjamin F. But
Ter.
Peoria has been dreaming Of magnif-
cent structures to be erected by Nilsson
on the land which she bought in that
city. Peoria dream is now made night
mare by the erection Of cowsheds on that
land.
A New England woman, testifying in
a turkey case, informed the jury that
she knew those turkeys by their walk,
their eountenances and their manner Of |
roosting." She said nothing about
their voices.
Queen Victoria has interested herself
in the youth O'Connor, who made an at
tempt on her life some time ago. and he
nov employs his spare time in Australia
in composing letters in verse 10 her ex-
pressing his gratitude.
The friends Of a wit expressing some |
surprise that, with his age and iondness
for the bottle he should have thought it
worth while to marry. A wife was nee
essary," be said; "they began to say Of /
me that ! drank TOO much FOR a single I
man"
The Montreal fremen are 70 have a
new kind Of respirator. consisting Of a /
metal case filled with glyoerine and
powdered charcoal These viii not
only preserve the NEE from suhocahon,
but also eFeciually prevent them from
yelling. which al fremen seem 20 think
is particularly sficacious IN exiinguish-
ing fires.