Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

ton.
Ice has began to form in the lake at
Duluth.
Telegraphy is now taught in some OF
the English public schools.
The Daily Sand Pump is the title of a
newspaper in the oil regions.
Within three months more than thirty
women have been appointed postmis'
tresses.
Baltimore thinks Of increasing its
limits so as to include some OF the
suburbs.
A wedding dress, ordered in Paris, for
the Grand Duchess Maria, of Russia
cost $500.
The most important visitor to the
printing Office just now is the man who
shuts the door"
A female infant probably descended
from Mrs. Skewton) has been born in
Minnesota with two hearts.
Prime Minister Gladstone has refused
to receive a deputatien of women to
urge the claims OF woman suffrage.
The canton of Neuchatel, Switzer.
land, has resolved to place portrait Of
the late Professor hgassiz in lis iegisia'
tive hall.
A woman down at Lake City threw
pepper in her husbands eyes the other
day, and he threw hand full Of nails
into her-fnger nails.
A teacher at deaf and dumb school
in England has offered to teach an un-
usually intelligent ape in the London
Geological Gardens to speak.
It is suggested that when q lady pre-
sides over a public meeting it would bt
more proper to address her as chair
madam than chairman
The local of Natchez paper fell
asleep while crossing the river in ferry
boat the other day, and when he awOke
he owed the company thirteen dollars
aud seventy cents, at ten cents a trip.
What is a more exhilarstiug sight,
asks a Vermont paper, than to see
eighteen handsome girls sliding down a
hill on an OK sled2" Nineteen" says
the experienced editor Of the Boston
Post.
1t is announced from Washington that
the late President Lincoln's coachman
has been appointed to snug place in
the Treasury Department. This goes
far to confirm the popular belief that
ours is a stable government.
The governing board of the famous
Rugby school has unanimously resolved
10 remove DR.. Hayman from the head
mastership, he having declined to ac-
cept an invitation to resign. The inter
ests of the school demanded this imper-
alive action.
Boston Globe: "A Detroit Justice Of
the Peace recently told girl who ap-
peered before him that she had an art
less way about her that reminded him OF
a hen balanced on the top Of picket
fence, but he sentenced her to ninety
days, nevertheless.
The Pope was lately pleased to re.
ceive party of A mericans who desired
TO present some slight tokens Of their
love and esteem for the Holy Father.
Among the slight tokens" was a gold
easket filed with English sovereigns and
a cross Of solid gold three feet high.
The English cricketers who WOE SC
many victories in America, have been
beaten in their FIRST game at Melbourne
by team Of eighteen. The Victorian,
in the first innings scored 267 against
ITO on the English side, and ultimately
won the match in 20 runs.
i Bombay, the great cotton port Of Brit.
ish India, is to have a dock at cost OF
$3,75O,O0O. At present ships have to lie
of in the harbor mere thaa half a mile
from shore, and their cargoes are loaded
and unloaded by means Of native light.
ers, the process very slow and sxpen,
sive.
One wet night in Boston recently, Wis
itors TO q public ball found a man at tbs
entrance holding out ticket check, aut
saying, Umbrellas, please" PeOpl,
gratefully resigned their wet umbrellas
to bis custody, but when the entertain
meut was over, both man and UMBRELLA
had disappeared
Monaco. the headquarters Of gamblius