Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-08
FACTS AND FANcIEs.

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liquor-are the latest.
A Georgia authoress has written 4
novel in which Alexander II. Stephen
appears as the hero.
A newspaper is published in the dia
mond district Of South Africa at the low
Il price Of $50 year.
J. A correspondent wants some one ia
= tel him who Richard III was before he
was himself again.
Q Fred. Douglass is getting old and
/ snappish, and talks of moving 20 Eng
land to spend the remainder OF his days.
The press Of Missouri calls for law
awarding death as the punishment for
placing distractions on railroad tracks.
Queen Victoria has presented $25 to
young man named Hughes, who was
recently tossed by her bull, Prince Leo
pold, at Windsor Park.
Two boys in n Connecticut normal
school have been dismissed for the alb
normal proceeding of cutting curl
rom the head Of one of the girls of the
institution.
A Pittsburg German boled the day he
was to have been married, leaving the
following card tackled on the outside of
his door: Mr.. Myers compliments.
Not at home. Gone to Germany"
A bereaved husband in Ohio has sued
the Cleveland Women's Medical College |
for the value of his deceased wife, whom
the lady students in that establishment
disseected too small for decent inter
ment.
An Italian sailor undertook to run a
muck at Prawle Point, England, lately,
and after stabbing about half a dozen
persons, was laid low by one blow of
sabre in the hands of a coast guard
officer.
A pumpkin-pie, ten feet in diameter
and four feet deep, was the chief feature
of dinner recently. The enjoyment of
the guests was marred somewhat by a
child falling into the pie and drowning
before their eyes.
Fuel is increasing in price in Paris,
as river navigation is entirely suspended,
and such banks Of mud have been
formed it is feared it will take time to
reopen the channels. The destruction
of property is enormous. ]
A worthy farmer in Georgia, who was
carried home on litter the other day,
solemnly asserts that nothing but
twenty-ton anchor can hold a sorrel
mule down to the earth after she has
stepped in yellowj Jackets nest. :
The Khedive of Egypt has ordered the :
wedding outfit of his daughter to be
madein Paris. One of the items of the
order is poiat d'AIencon at eight hum !
bred dollars yard, and thirty thousand
dollars of other laces are to be added.
1t is reported that NJ. de Lesseps en-
tertains the idea of cutting ship canal
through the Isthmus of Corinth, where
exeavating less than FIVE miles in length
would open communication between the
Gulf of Lepanto and the Gulf of Egina,
and make Morea an island. 7
A Chicago magistrate has decided
that reporters are valuable public ser.
wants, privileged class, having the right
to go where they please in search Of
knowledge, and must be INDUCED in the
largest liberty" This may lead to over
crowding the profession out West. "
The Paris Gaulois informs the French
people that the Victoria Bridge, over
the St. Lawrence river, is an immense It
iron tube weighing 100000 of kilo-
CRANES, measures more than 300 yards,
and stretches from the shores of Port.
land, Maine, to Port Sarnia, Lake u
Huron" F
An English Court paper has the fol-
lowing curious advertisement: "a piece
Of Queen Yictorias wedding cake, cut
off and tied up by the late painter in
ordinary, and written on by him, to be
exchanged for q dning.room table G.
cloth, or low tea-table, gilt legs, or good
exchange desired"
A promising young citizen of Clay
county, who was thoughtless enough TO
throw the bootjack at his mother-in-
law, is deeply impressed with the idea
that there is nothing so sharp and sud
den for removing the hair from a man. 4
head as potato-grater. He now occu- I
pies apartments in an clubhouse.
A smart boy in one Of the public u
schools Of Cadiz, having been required
10 write composition on some part of
the human body, expanded as follows n
Il The Throat-A throat is convenient to z
have, especially for ROSTERS and minis- Il
ters. The former eats corn and crows y
With IT, the latter breaches through his co
and ties il up. 2
A careless man put a lighted pipe in :
bis coattail pocket, Saturday evening,
and few minutes later startled people
by appearance Of smoke and fame from
that part Of him. As soon az be was
put out, he gratefully explained 10 his
deliyerers that be thought the weather
vas a mOderatin' d-n sudden Dan