Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-22
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

others as they would do you.
A little ammonia in water is one of
the best headcleaners there is.
1t is roughly estimated that the annual
production of American wine is about
twenty millions Of gallons.
Rochefort has Endorsed American ho-
tells by saying, II wasn't bitten once"
II is possible the bugs knew him.
The price current OF girls for wives in
Armenian villages, is quoted from ten to
eighty dollars, according to age and
quality.
In this country there is a doctor to
every 6lS Of the population, while in
France and England there is one to
every 1000.
Vice-President Wilson is stated to en-
terrain, among other ills that flesh is
heir to, a decided preference for Phila-
delphia belle,
Hailstones the size of turkey eggs are
reported to have fallen in Bergen
county, N. j., during sudden storm on
the 4th of March.
A Lowell, Massachusetts, old maid dis
comfited carping critics by exhibiting to
them documents proving that she has
received over forty offers of marriage.
Westminster Abbey is great rendez-
vous on Sunday afternoon for Ameri-
cans in London. During service they
employ their time by copying inscrip-
tons from gravestones.
A Boston man was cursing an editor
the other day when he fell dead. Sew
eral sim liar instances having since been
reported, men should be careful in speak
ing of anything sacred.
Tamberlik, the tenor, is reported to be
so particular about his food that he takes
his cook along with him on all his tray
els. The latter alone, of all mankind,
can prepare maccaroni to suit the tenor's
fastidious palate.
A Detroit editor says: Chicago may
talk about the homely women Of Detroit.
but there is one redeening power. When
one of them gets mired they don't have
to dig up half the street to get sixteen
foot scantling under her foot for pry.
Among the great natural curiosities to
be descanted upon in future blythe talk
ing Snowman in Barnum' S is new black
rhinoceros weighing nine thousand i've
hundred pounds. Ladies and gentlemen.
are allowed to ask as many questions as.
they please.
A Kalamazoo judge went to neigh
boring town to see a man, and tele-
graphed back to his wife, Have found
Garland; won't be home for week..
When the dispatch reached her it read,
Have found girl, and won be home for
a week" Here let us draw vail.
The poet of the Lynchburg News
hasn't been particularly lucky In an
ode to his girl he says: Keen is your
sorrow, but keener is my grief." The
compositor, who lost his undermost
nickel on the top row the night before,
set up, but keno is my grief."
The glory of Ems, the fashionable
German watering place, is said to have.
departed It is said to be largely sup
ported by the French visitors but, since
the war, patriotic feelings keeps them.
away, while the Germans appear to have
found the place dull and tiresome, and
so have deserted it.
1t was suggested in the st. Louis
Common Council that the liquor saloons
should be closed on the Fourth of July.
If there is time" Numbered Alder
man Corwin, when the average Ameri--
can citizen is justified in INDUCING in
the spirit of '76 orsof later date, it is
on the Fourth of July" And the voice
of the suggester was heard no more.
A correspondent of the New York
Post writes: Zone of those beautiful
reflections from the clouds called O
mirage occurred on the afternoon of
July in front of the Katskill Mountain
House. The house was very perfectly
reflected and persons could see them
selves within the cloud expanded to-
Brobdinags in size, surrounded by a
halo Of glory. The picture continued
about ten minutes, when it vanished into
thin air"
Ladies who are not conscious of the
power they possess may be gratifed to
learn that, according to Thomas Hardy,
the English novelist, those who have the
power Of reproaching in silence may
find it means more effective than
words. There are accents in the eye
which are not ON the tongue, and more
tales come from pale lips than can enter
an ear. 1t is both the grandeur and the
pain OF the remoter moods that they
avoid the pathway of sound.
The best instance of plucky women
to be noted is the walking tour of the
Misses Ward, and party of FIVE Amer
lean ladies, who are now journeying on
foot through Germany. The ladies are
by a lad of thirteen and
they are travelling with sketch books and
a light baversack, picking up informa-
ton and making an art tour Of the Ger
man towns Resting by the wayside,
and with time to stop at noted places, 1t
is an example which is worthy OF imita-
ton.
Here is a pleasant incident 70 beguiIe
the tedium Of long voyage: The steam
ship Sultan lately arrived in the Thames
from Calcutta, bringing complete cargo
of the larger carnivora and other ami
mails including rhinoceros, several IL
gers leopards, etc During the home
1ard yoyage one ofthe leopards escaped
from its cage. The passengers on deck
were hurried below, and the crew
climbed into the rigging. No one
thought Of reeapturing the leopard, and
after a consultation he was shot.