Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-19
FACTS AND FASOIEsy

San Francisco baby show weighed two
bounds aud half. II is nearly two
months old.
Professor Dana strongly asserts that
"it now seems demonstrated by astron
emioal and physical arguments that the
interior of our globe is essentially
solid"
Industry is not always rewarded. A
Sing Sing convict worked eighteen
months on false key, and It was taken
away from him the day it was CON-
pleted.
The Hartford Post has been sued for
one thousand Nollars damages for re-
ferring to Professor Gardiner, the soap
peddler," as the chronic nuisance of
Connecticut.
The other day, at Lincoln, Nebraska,
lawyer arose and said: May itplease
the Court, there's a fight out doors, and
| ask for a short adjournment" The
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Court went out with him.
The revenues Of the Pope from relig-
ious houses in the city of Rome amount
to 100000, while that from churches,
converts, parishes, colleges and church
offices amount to $4,000.
Three Buffalo men have been killed
by lager beer within year. but lager
itself is beneficial. Bloggs says this
shows that lager should be served in the
feather gourd at FIVE cents quart
A young man who recently went to
Chicago writes that the wider the circle
of his acquaintance grows the more pro-
foundly he sympathizes with the Hi
nois passion for building penitentiaries.
Rev. C. L. Thompson, of Chicago,
says if you wish to epjoya Sabbath two
hundred years ago-go to Halifax. He
has tried it, and thinks it wonderful how
the antique and modern shake hands
together.
Another rope-walker, Signor Ballini,
is going to cross the Niagara below the
falls on cable, and will eclipse Blondin
by finally jumping into the river be.
meath, distance of one hundred and
fifty feet.
A Rock Island physician has had his
portrait painted, and a local art critic
declares that you can feel saws and
things rasping over your bones, and
taste calomel, blue mass and quinine as
you look att. :"
The Wesleyan Church in England
raised last year for missions 100000.
One of the secretaries, being asked how
they were able to raise so much, an
swered: By the grace of God and the
penny a week"
In Savannah, Georgia, women are
employed as horse car conductors, and
modest young men complain that they
cannot enter one of those vehicles with
out having an arm and hand passed
around their waists
A woman in San Francisco proposes
to walk 1000 miles in 1000 hours, and
her husband, who is a Methodist
preacher, wishes the bet was for ten
times the distance, and that she would
march off on a straight line.
Many of the religions weeklies con-
tend earnestly that Professionalism is not
on the decline in the United States. 1t
is usually conceded that it is weaker
than it should be for want Of unison and
hearty cooperation on the part of the
various churches.
Professor Daniels, of Vermont, made
a bet that he could look ferocious bull
out of countenance, and competent
judges estimate that the Professor was
thrown up tweuty.seven feet. The Doc
tor was eventually saved by the courage
and tenacity of his legs.
The wife of Rev. Newman Hall is
afflicted with a dreadful temper not
only, but is charged With criminal init
macy with a man named Robinson.
This is remarkable, considering that she
is the daughter of a clergyman aud the
wife OF clergyman; and one is forced
10 the conclusion that religion, unlike
charity, doesn't begin at home.
A wealthy Philadelphia father gave
his cOnsumptise son money u take les
sons in boxing, and to afford further ex-
srcise appointed him his collector Of
tents. Seven Of his houses are now
empty, and seven Of his best former ten
lnts have taken their black eyes into
court, demanding heavy damages. The
Toung invalid has sailed for Cuba.
The Banner of Light, a Spiritualist
PAPER hailing from Fort Wayne, Indiana,
ays that the churches in that region
IRE greatly revived by celebrated
physical and personating mediums, and
hrows out bold challenge for public
discussion Of Spiritualism as bible phi
osophy. The writer expresses himself
IS getting hungry for chance to show
Up the rottenness Of old creed-bound
heology.
At late service in the Episcopal
Church in New York, Of which Rev. DR..
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