Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-29
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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Brooches.
San Francisco papers each cost the
city fourteen and half cents per day.
The Parisians are enjoying new
opera by Offenbach entitled = Madame
llArchiduc.
Lake Champlain is reported TO be
fourteen inches lower than was ever
known before.
This spring over thousand orange
groves are to be. planted along the St.
Johns river, Florida.
The Tichborne claimant is to be EN-.
ployed as a tailor, aud. is TO finish his
sentence at Dartmoor.
A number of Alma wis sportsmen
who chartered steamboat to go hunting,
returned with just one snipe.
An Indiana woman said she must
have new pair of garters, and ordered
the clerk to cut off two yards of elastic
A car hung on elastic springs, by
which all jOlt:ng is made nearly imper.
ceptible TO the passengers, is being tr led
on one of the French railroads.
A party of Englishmen, headed by.
Sir Samuel Hays, left Denver City, Col
orado, in October for bear hunt, and
up to the 18th inst had not been heard
from.
An Arkansas paper describes the neu.
trail condition of political aspirant by
saying that he roosts in Washington on
the gable end of the ragged edge of de.
spair.'
A correspondent says bare legs and
bare chests are common in Yokohama as
white shirt fronts. padded bosoms and
trousers are in this country. Hope it's
warmer there than it is here, then.
A French scientist declares that the
flesh of the Caucasian is-bitter and salty, |
while that OF the negro is Of fine favor,
and will keep much longer. Missionary
societies will doubtless be interested in
this fact
There was a curious lawsuit at Slate
Center, Iowa, the other day. Mr.. Snider
had Mr.. Mitten arrested for putting a
crooked pin in his seat in church, and
the examination before the magistrate
was held with closed doors
A New Hampshire paper declares that,
at the recent fire in Wilton, the amateur
Gre brigade took the town hearse to the
conaagration, installing it for the en-
CINE. They did not discover the mistake
until they tried to find the hose.
On the occasion OF her recent visit 10
England the Russian Empress wore a
cloak Of Siberian Zhibellene valued at
over $4,000. Two hundred and thirty
skins, worth about sixty dollars apiece,
we're employed in its manufacture.
Culpepper county, Virginia, is prond
IN the possession OF veteran OF the
war of 1912, who, Notwithstanding the
aighty-two summers which have passed
over his hoary head, can jump and
crack his heels twice before touching
The ground"
There is no truth in the report that
he Prince Imperial-Napoleon Wis
engaged TO be married to a Russian
Countess. He is lower young yet.
md apparently is welded only to his
studies, TO which he applies himself with
intiring zeal.
Our old friend Alexis has succeeded
o his grandfather's reputation Of being
he handsomest man in Europe. He
md the Czarewitch visited the BouAes
oarisienne, during their recent sojourn
u Paris, and warmly applauded Judic,
irisot and the rest.
Away up in the Himalaya mountains,
7here they never dreamed of encounter
ny an European, some Russian ex-
'lorers recently met an Englishman =
nth six hundred mules laden with an
assortment Of English goods, on his way
o Yarkund, the capital of Eastern
rurkestan.
While excavatirg q street at Helena,
Arkansas, day or two since, the work
nen struck huge iron lid or cover
light feet below the surface On raising
an immense cavern was discovered,
he dimensions OfWhich we're very large.
he chamber is believed to be the work
4 former civilization. 1t is now partly
lied with water.
2'aere are now at least fifteen hundred
ative women, principally Of the middle
lass, in and around Calcutta, receiving
ducation at their own homes. The ex-
ense is met by grant from the Gov
rnment. Over twenty-five hundred
'omen have been constantly under in
traction at their own homes in thatI
art Of India for the past ten years.
No Norwegian young woman is per-
iitted to receive attentions from Nor
legian younO man until sha Ia thor