Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-24
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Spain.
There are eighty.seven Catholic
priests and 2,6l3 Catholics in Ceylon.
A death notice in Springfield, Mass,
paper has the final words, Burial Pri-
yate."
Marshal Bazaine is kept closely con-
fined in his prison on the Isle St. Mar
guerite. ~
There is one card in q euchre pack
which has never turned up trump, 1t is
the left bower.
Bengal is receiving seven thousand
tons of breadstuffs week, and still it
doesn't go round.
An effort is being made in Georgia to
have the State redeem the treasury notes
issued during the war.
The Archbishop of Santiago declares
that females in the choir are check on
true piety and devotion. a0 I
1t is claimed that Utah has 5000
white inhabitants, besides 5000 colored
men, Chinese and Indians.
The Irish volunteers of Charleston
propose erecting a monument in mem
ory Of their fallen comrades.
The revolving practice of sacrificing
human beings still prevails in some
parts of the African Gold Coast
A Vermont debating club is now strng
Cling with the question, Which eats the
most chickens, ministers or owlsY
A painting of the Madonna, by
Raphael,i is for salein England, for which
the modest sum of 100000 is asked.
King Oscar, of Sweden, is the inventor
of fire escape apparatus. 1t was lately
tried in Stockholm and proved valua-
BILE invention.
1t has been decided at Brussels that
the Belgian government must compen-
safe travellers for the loss of their time
by delay on railways.
A few days since at Liverpool the
punishment Of the cat was inflicted on
four prisoners who had been convicted
at the last assizes of garrotting.
A revival in the town of Amity, Iowa,
containing about two hundred inhabi
tants, has resulted in the profession Of
religion by nearly every resident Of that
place.
A small propeller, the Emerald Isle,
only ferty.fve feet in length, running
on Lake Tahoe, is the fastest boat Of
her size in the United States. She
makes fifteen miles an hour.
Steps have been taken toward plant
ing trees in Sackville street, Dublin,
some sixty. eight feet apart beside the
curb stone on each side, after the man
ner of the Partisan boulevards.
A party of ladies, accompanied by an
officer of the Young Mems Christian
Association, visited bagnio in India
nopolis, on Wednesday, and held a
prayer-meeting in the parlor.
The British Anti-Slavery Society has
published formal address to the EN-
peror of Russia, returning thanks for
the part he has taken in procuring the
abolition of slavery in Khiva.
The meanest man has turned up in
the vicinity Of Mendon. He wants his
wife's step.father to pay him $40 for his
wife's attendance on the old gentleman s
wife-he. mother-during her last i'll
ness.
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the superabundance Of handsome young
ladies there, and thinks they hate good
looking Yankees just enough to mErry
them for revenge, if they ever have an
opportunity.
An entry has been found in the Record
Office to the effect that King Edward III
paid el6 on the first of March, 1860, to-
ward the ransom Of the poet Chaucer,
who had been taken prisoner in the war
with France in l359-60.
A spread.eagle orator of New York
wanted the wings Of bird to hy to
every village and hamlet in the broad
land; but he wilted when a naughty boy
in the c.owd sang out You'd be shot
for a goose before you had few mile. "
An ambitious young lady was talking
about her favorite authors, when a lite
rary chap asked her if she liked Lamb.
With a look Of inefable disgust, she
answered that she cared very little about
what she ate, compared with knowledge.