Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-16
FACTS AND FANCIES.

There are 100000 more women than
men in England.
The Kentucky tobacco crop is said to
be small this year.
The postage on newspapers to France
is now three cents each paper.
A Hartford woman said she had Tex
curted three times this summer"
Nova Scotia has had the coolest and
fcggiest summer it has had for many
years.
Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Is
lands, announces her determination to
marry an American.
1t is estimated. that eight million peo-
pie in India are dependent upon charity
for their daily bread.
The Pennsylvania railroad claims to
own the largest locomotive in the coun-
try. 1t has twelve driving wheels, and
weighs seventy five tons.
Among the modern improvements in
Persia which the Shah has ordered is a
guillotine, gallows and corps Of ballet
girls to be shipped to him from Europe.
A South Carolina judge follows the
English fashion in wearing silk gown
aud going to and from the court house,
preceded by the sheriff carrying drawn
sword.
A Western postmaster writes to the
Postmaster General that hell will be
full OF country postmasters before long
if they do not get more pay than is al
lowed this office.
An indianapolis paper says: "0f
course we know that organ grinders are
nuisance, and should be abolished,
and yet it is strange how much interest
solid business men and others take in
the antics of the accompanying mon
key"
These lines are by Saginaw Mich }
poet, and were composed while the
writer was floating down Flint river in a
dugout:
Wonst the red ,Iniuns here took their delight,
Fish't, fit and bled..
Now most of the Inhabitants are whites.
With nary red.
Women dress to please the men," do
they? Why, if the whole male genus
were extinct, il wouldn't make feather
or furbelow difference in the get up of
the dear creatures, so long as there was
living chance Of spiting some other
woman.
The princess Blanche, of Bourbon Or
leans, daughter Of the Duke of Nemours,
is just seventeen, and Prince Pascal de
Bourbon, Count of Bair, whom she is to
marry, is twenty-five. he is Of the Ma.
Piles Bourbons. The marriage will take
place at Cannes.
The custom-house authorities in San
Francisco have discovered a new pecu-
liarity among the artless Cinnamon.
Each Celestial on landing has been in
the habit Of wearing a number of silk
blouses, one over the other, thereby de-
frauding the revenue.
A daily paper has the following among
its marine notices: THE schooner AL.
batross was wrecked on the coast of
Newfoundland on the llth inst, the
captain swimming ashore, and the fe
male cook also, she being insured for
$4,000, and heavily laden with iron.
Algernon, Sartoris is done" by a
Green Bay, Wis, correspondent, who
says that when Miss Grants choice was
at that place he had "a Saxon face,
white by nature, red by education; limo.
cent blue eyes, with a baby like wonder
in their serene depths; solid, elephantine
limbs, and tremendous hands and feet. "
A ranchman in Virginia City, Nevada,
saved his crop from the grasshoppers by
a six weeks fight. His grain is sur
rounded by an irrigatiDg ditch, and
when the grasshoppers began to hatch
be covered the field with water and kept
it there till the insects we're drowned.
His neighbors suffered severely from the
insects.
The Ogden Junction, Mormon news
paper, says that the latter day saints
who had contracted plural marriages
never claimed anything more for those
contracts than that they we're unions un-
dera religious order divinely authorized.
They care nothing about the recognition
of these unions by society at large.
They hold them to be binding between
the parties in the sight Of heaven, and
seek no sanction from human authority.