Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-12-31
FACTS AND FANCrEs.

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plication for his third divorce.
Kentucky is said to have lost over
$500, 600 by defaulting sheriffs.
The citizens of Omaha are known
among the people as 0mahogs.'
The English revisers of the New Test
ament have reached the end of the Acts.
The American colony in Paris this
winter is small, and gradually growing
smaller.
There has been fall o. three or four
shillings a ton in the price of coal in
England.
A man in London recently killed his
two children to save them from being
sent to the workhouse.
A new Russian five per cent. loan of
fl5, 100000 has been introduced on the
London exchange at SO.
Lady Caroline Guest, of England, has
an annual income of $l5OO,OOO from
her coal mines in Wales.
Lockport New York; hens think it
nothing remarkable to prepare $4,000
dozen of eggs for market weekly
Germany is epltivating the arts of
peace by ordering FIVE million more
rifles, merely to encourage industry.
Some young chap thinks it is easy to
enter an old mans house, because his
gait is broken and his locks are few.
The Right Honorable William Mos
NELL late Postmaster General of Great
Britain, has been raised to the peerage.
It's estimated that the hard-worked
post Office clerks will be required to
read 100, 0OO,OO postal cards next year.
Items about little boys who pull each
other from under broken ice are fash
ionable just now. No family should be
without one
Marshal MacMahon, President Of the
French Republic, is seventy-two years
Of age, and has had his term Of Office
extended seven years.
What comes after r." asked teachr
of small pupil who was learning the
alphabet He received the bewildering
reply, You do-to see Lie"
The ex-Empress Eugene wants
5000, 900 from the French treasury.
That amount, she thinks, viii enable her
to live 10 becoming style at Chiselhurst.
The Secretary of the Great Eastern
Steamship Company has been sentenced
to ten years penal seryitude for defraud-
ing the company of more than 5000 900
There seems to be mania for stylish
carriages among Washington officials.
The popular vehicle. however, is the.
carte blanche Nsw York Commercial
Adcerfser.
The apairs which nave for some years
been going on in and about Windsor
Castle have at lcagth been completed,
at a total cost Of nearly quarter OF a
million dollars
Alsdy p, Appomattax, Virginia. re-
Gently gave party to which her son
invited several Of his school fellows.
The LADY is ono hundred years OLD. and
her son seveniy-tvo.
A Mrs. Pleasant, Of Fort Laramie,
has sued paper for saying that she
has murdered three husbands, when the
fact is she hasn't murdered but two, the
third one getting away with broken
rib.
The arguments for a new trial in a
Chicago Court in a recent murder case.
were based on the fact that the States
attorney had wrongfulIy quoted certain
passage Of Scripture in bis closing
speech
a. Sunday-sehool teacher Of many
years experience, has arrived at the
conclusion that the only way to keep an
infant class perfectly quiet is to supply
each one with unlimited quantities Of
molassa candy.
Quite a number Of men are employed
in Newburypori, Massachusetts, in
catching frogs for frog eaters. One
man has taken one thousand and an
other six hundred this season. They
are Kept in tubs and faiiened With meal
and shipped to order.
At Beauvais, France. some very valu-
able relics have been found. A working
man has dug up 3 case containing many
gold pieces Of the time Of the Roman
Emperors. Other vases have. teeu de
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