Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-27
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


is in this country.
Montreal has ordered $4,000 statue
of Lord Duiferin.
One Of the lady students at the Mich
igan University attempted suicide the
other day.
Forty.two postofices in the United
States glory in the possession OF the
name of Washington.
A lot of 1000 frkins of butter was re-
Gently sold in Chicago, for export to Eng
land. The price was 26 cents a pound.
A barber is no longer simply a ton
serial artist" He is a professor OF
cranicultural abscission and craniologi-
cal tripsis.
Among the students at the Columbia
Law School in New York, is Ulysses S.
Grant, IT., President Grants second son,
and graduate of last years class at
Harvard College.
"Show me a Radical, gentlemen, "
said a politician, "and I'll show you a
liar" II, sir, am one" exclaimed a
ready opponent Just come round
the corner" was the reply "and I'll
show you a fellow who said couldn I
find Radical in the ward.
The keeper of one of the mountain
hotels in California is going to keep his
establishment open all winter, with ar
raugements for sleigh riding, snow-shoe
exercise, skating, etc., so that people
can go from the green valleys below to
the mountain top for taste Of winter,
and return the same day if they choose.
According to the Journal de Paris
orders have been given by the French
Government for the manufacture of the
new Gras rife, which is to replace the
chassepot. 1t is expected that the entire
army and reserve will have the improved
weapon within twelve months. France
will also have by the end of 1875 494
batteries of six guns each.
Foul water and lack of proper dwell
ling accommodations led to strike OF
nearly three thousand persons employed
at the Trendom colleries, England.
Neither acts of Parliament nor orders
of the Local Government Board had any
effect in producing the desired improve
ment, so laboring people took the matter
in their own hands and struck for q
remedy for the causes of their complaint
Many farmers in Rice county, Mime
sofa, have been obliged to dispose Of
their focks of sheep on account of the
ravages of wolves, large number o.
sheep having been killed during the pas
summer. Sheep husbandry was becom
ing quite an important branch of bust
ness in that section, and. no little loss
will be felt if it has to be abandoned.
Sir Alexander Cockburn has just ap
pointed his cousin, Frederick Cockburn
Queens Coroner-a post with large pay
and no work. This is the third piece o
promotion the Lord Chief Justice hal
given to his relative in little more thar
year. The mastership Of the Court o
Queens Bench, vacant by his advance
ment, is conferred upon Mr.. Mellor,
son of Mr.. Justice Mellor.
A Richmond man, who had been com
planned of for keeping vicious dog, pu
the animal upon the stand as witness
On being asked if he would bite an!
one, be uttered a peculiar noise ant
shook his head. He was then asked i
he would bite if his master sshould Sc
him on, and replied in the affirmative b.
nodding his head and barking. Wher
asked if he would bite the court h'
shook his head vigorously, and Thu
secured for him an honorable acquittal
A pious elder of the Scottish kirk on
his way to service of Sabbath morning
saw little boy and girl playing marbles
He wrathfully inquired, Boy, do yor
know where children go to who plal
marbles on Sunday2' "Ay, ay," an
swered the boy" they gang down to thu
field by the brig (bridge). MOI
roared the elder. "they go to he'll ant
are burned" The little fellow, LOOKING
shocked and frightened, called to hi
sister, Come ava, Jeanne, come ava
here's mon swearing awfully."
One night, recently, Detroit police
man, passing certain house about II
o'clock, saw a man drop from window
and heard smothered cries inside. ID
seized the man for a burglar, but sool
found that he had the owner Of the hous
in his clutches. Well, said the officer
at looked suspicious to see you drol
out of a window that way" Well,
replied the man, heaving sigh, "whei
the old woman gets her dander up In
not particular about what road ! take t
get out of the house"
HUNTSVILLE AND CINCINNATI