Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-20
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Wasn't Eve Adam 5 gard en- ANGER 4
London still has twenty theaters open.
Keep cool Well, we would, if we
could only getit.
Washington has inaugurated an early
closing movement.
1t is nothing for Georgia woman to
kill fifty snakes per week.
Iowa farmers are despondent, because
Paris green will not make the locust
take French leave.
A Paris correspondent describes an
opera bouffe actress as having a
"plumpitudinous physique" sqa. h'
In Maine, the other day, lightning
struck in thirteen places between the
cities of Bangor aud Bucksport. 80
Absent-mindednes finds its highest
illustration in the case of the Fon du Lac
girl who went TO the postoffice for a let
ter and forgot her own name, l'ase
Quite valuable pearl was found re-
Gently in a clam shell in brook at
Wilbrabam, Mass. 1t is Of perfect glove
shape, and weighs sixteen grains. 1oi
Monogram fans, made oflwood, with
mdnograms cut from envelopes aud
note paper pasted upon them, are all
the rage at the watering places this sum
mer.
The beer drinking population of Mu-
Mich, Bavaria, recently struck against
rise in the price of beer, pledging them
selves not to drink until the price was
reduced to the old figure.
According to the Detroit Ree Press
the belle of Dubuque won silk dress
by carrying hod of brick to the top Of
forty. foot ladder, while a great crowd
stood and cheered at the sight.
English tourists are Of the opinion that
our seaside resorts are overrated. The
hotels are Q beastly,' the meals ''aw-
fully poor and class Of people met
with the "rummy sort, you know.
Oilcloths, if we'll rubbed With wooden
cloth and warm water, with the addition
of little skinned milk, if convenient,
will, it is stated, look nearly as fresh as
new. Scrubbing brushes and strong
soap are ruinous to them.
!"Why did you leave your last place."
inquired young housekeeper about to
engage a new servant why you see,
ma am, replied the applicant, II was
too good looking; and when / opened
the door folks took me for the missus"
A slave who had escaped from the
King of Ashautee arrived at Cape Coast
Castle in the last part of May. He re-
ports that King Coffee is sacrificing as
many human beings as ever, and that he
was forced to run away in order to save
his life.
A California paper denies the story
going the rounds Of the press that the
California young men wear their stove
pipe hats in the theaters in revenge for
the ladies' high bonnets, but dds, paren-
thetically, that they would be justified
in doingso.
Bottled guppowder, says the Chicago
Tribune, was an effective instrument of
death on the Fourth. So far as reports
have come in, three prominent boys,
upon whom centered the hopes Of their
families. were killed outright by this old
device Of the devil. ere
The Washington Capital says of the
recent marriage OF young society man
with q ballet girl of that city: 1T
the youth acted foolishly in marrying a
ballet girl, be might have acted just as
foolishly in marrying a society girl. No
one knows how it may turn out"
Who wrote the John Brown song2
The Boston papers are trying to decide.
SO far it is agreed that the music was
condensed from old Methodist camp
meeting songs, and was first sung blythe
Twelfth Massachusetts regiment, while
Halls band was the first to play it. The
author OF the words has not been dis
covered, and he is not likely to volun.
tarily avow himself. tll
San Francisco anticipates doing
large business in sardines. A packing
house has been erected, aud, as the fish
are abundant all along the Pacific coast
from April to August, it is anticipated
that a very large business will be done.
Having the sardines aud the means of
curing them, the proprietors of the es-
tablishment now propose to get their