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

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closing their skating-rinks pretty soon'
Bass, the English brewer, pays yearly
500, 900 to the railroads for transpor'a-
ton.
Chicago has one saloon for every lao
Of her population, including women ana
childrea.
An English jury assessed the value OF
a mouthful taken out ola mans lex eya
dog at $3.50.
John II. Surratt is writing history oil
his life and his connection with the as
sassination plot.
The report that Nine LOyson, wife OF
Father Hyacinthe, has a son aud heir IL
coniradicted.
The roads to Yosemite are now open
and large numbers Of tourists are pour
ing into the valley.
Chester county, Pa, last week ad'
mitted to probate a last will and tesla
ment written on slate.
Lord Nigel Kennedy has become a
bankrupt with no assets. His are the
mis-" Fortunes of Nigel.
Cincinnati hotels have a substitute for
hash called "moka." Ii includes the
ingredients of hash and twenty-one more
things.
The Chicago Times calls the church
from which its reporter was recently
elected, 1.-THE Church of the Holy Shila'
lab"
Ohio brags of barn which has been
struck seven times by lightning since
April /, bat thinks a hurricane might
fetch it.
A man named Nixon, formerly street
beggar in Mobile, has just died in Ore
gon leaving a fortune estimated at hall
a million.
Two of the Herald men are in Spanish
jails and the rest of the staff shiver new
whenever they get a note from the man
aging editor.
A Vicksburg young man accepted six
shillings for saving the life of a hand
some heiress. Our faith in novels grows
weaker day by day.
On St. Louis garroter recently ar
rested we're found manuscript arguments
to show that the Bible made contradic-
tory statements.
They have discovered another i'm
msnse jaw bone up in Baker county,
Oregon. 1t is supposed to have be-
longed to an antediluvian poker player.
1t was necessary to postpone funeral
in Baltimore the other day because all
the carriages in the city had been en-
gagged by visitors to the race course.
An old woman at Liverpool, Ohio,
didn't want EN- to take any trouble
after she was dead, but if it was just the
same she'd like to be buried with her
spectacles on.
Pennsylvania proposes to make Its
Legislators perjure themselves at the end
of each session by swearing that they
have neither taken bride nor anything
else that didn't belong to them.
A Massachusetts, farmer recently adj
vertised his farm for sale, and now he IS
asserting that he has fed out over a hum
bred barrels of oats to the horses OF per
sons who have come to examine 1t.
No art treasures of any value have
yet been obtained by dredging the Tiber.
Like the whole ground on which modern
Rome stands, the bed of the river is at a
great elevation over its ancient level.
Men often commit suicide when they
cannot live longer with their wives but
the situation of William Dawes, Of Lock
port, Indiana, was SO uncomfortable that
he did more-he eloped with his STEP
mother.
A man who had his new hat exchanged
for an old one in BARRIERS shop adver-
tises that unless it is returned he will
forward to the wife Of the person who
took it the letter found concealed in the
lining of the old one.
A recent calculation relative to the
principal European languages shows that
English is spoken by ninety millions OF
persons, German by ffty-fve millions,
Spanish ffty-fve millions, and French
by forty-fve millions.
They are laying rails in Florence in
order to convey in safety Michael An
gelos statue of David from its unpro-
tected site in front of the Palazzo We
chic, where it has stood for $50 years,
to the imperial gallery.
The expectation of Arab horses from
the provinces of Bagdad and Syria has
been prohibited for the next seven years,
with view to preserving the breed,
which has been seriously diminishing in |
those parts of the empire.
Joaquin Miller is proved by an Oregon |
paper to have been at one time head
chief Of the Modoe tribe, but after q
short trial the Indians discharged him.
Joaquin Is remembered among the tribe
as Nowofadam, the moon gazer.
A Utica man, whose wife had been
lll for some time nama dawn TOWN one l