Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-06-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.

A schoolmarm of Dedham, Mass,
Furnishes lazy pupils by giving them cas-
tor oil.
The total Grange membership in the
United States is now estimated at about
l,25OO0O.
Visitors at the Hot Springs in Arkan-
saS say it is getting too hot to be healthy
in that region.
Philadelphia two hundred and fifty
carpet factories in busy times employ
60,O00 persons.
WAS Barbara Frietchie myth2" in
quires several papers. Certainly not;
she was a married woman.
Celibacy and wedlock-If single life
is bad, then it stands to reason that
double life is twice as bad.
Chicago has a female sexton who re
serves all the best graves for young men
who fall dead in love with her.
Going to Europe to study music or
marry a nobleman is the averge expect
alton of young lady travellers.
They have little pink bug in Mime
sofa that eats grasshoppers eggs. Down
this way we call it the lady bug"
The question between Chill and the
Argentine Republic about the ownership
of the Straits of Magellan is yet un-
settled.
Harvard University has decided to
spell the name Shakspere," instead of
Shakespeare" as has been its custom.
By a sensible regulation Baltimore
girls must be twelve years old before
they can enter the high schools of that
city.
The New Bedford editors are collect
ing big eggs by means of artful little
paragraphs praising the persons who
send in the eggs.
The proposition to introduce ladies as
railroad conductors is frowned upon in
view of the fact that their trains are
always behind.
A man in Joliet, ILL.,, has kept lot Of
potato bugs in bottle for eight months,
and is sadly discouraged by finding them
as lively as ever.
A Lutheran clergyman in Freedom
Wisconsin, who refused to otficiate at the
funeral of granger, has been dismissed
by his congregation.
Two wings of the Dakota Republicans
have united in call for territorial con
vention to nominate delegates and terri
torial officers, to be held at Elk Point,
July l6.
A Western justice of the peace-is said
to have had l30 out of his l35 decisions
reversed on appeal In the other five
cases the parties died before they could
appeal.
The lamentable consequences of the
Mill river reservoir disaster is said to
have caused several persons to have be-
come insane who lost friends or rela-
tives by the accident.
An efficient corps of young ladies
from various sections of the country are
about to visit West Point to examine the
cadets. The young warriors are sprout-
ing their mustaches and polishing their
brass buttons preparatory to undergoing
the trying ordeal.
The womans crusade at Washington,
Iowa, has taken curious direction. So
much opposition has come from the
churches themselves, pastors and lead.
ing members, that the active crusaders
have recently taken to praying for that
class, instead of the dealers and venders.
Several large prsyer-meetings have been
held, and quite an excitement prevails
as to the policy indicated.
The British Medical Journal publishes
an article by distinguished physician,
in which the writer states that he has
observed that a peculiar and rather com
mon deformity of the chest is caused by
the habit of sucking the thumb in in.
fancy and early childhood. He says
that the weight of the arm on the thorax
of the child during sleep, produces de-
preston of the ribs in the line occupied
by the arm when the thumb is placed in
the mouth.