Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-13
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

She can swim. Alexandrovna.
The fund for the Agassiz memorial
now amounts to $96, ,552.
General Frank P. Blair, jr, has Joined
a Presbyterian church in st. Louis.
The Emperor of Russia wants his visit
to England to be considered as strictly
private.
Professor Lepsius has been appointed
principal librarian of the Royal Library
at Berlin.
Tennessee is the latest State to come
to the conclusion that its Constitution
needs tinkering.
The jurymen in the Tichborne trial
were paid seven dollars and fifty cents
day for their services.
A Biblical student has discovered that
Moses was the only man who broke all
the ten commandments at once.
London is beginning to feel uncom
Portable about the insnfficiency of her
waters for extinguishing great fires.
An Indiana man was lately buried in
a coffin made from tree which he
planted. How happy he must have been.
Brotherly love is not the only kind
they cultivate in Philadelphia. For
1912 fond hearts were made to beat as
1891 in that city last year.
A backward spring-that Of the man
who thought he could get out without
stopping the omnibus, and-sat down in
the mud.
The New Orleans Picayune wants
some of the female crusaders to visit
that city and try and remove some of the
bars from the mouth of the Mississippi
A countryman seeing the artifcia
flowers in the window of a millinery
establishment yesterday, said them ere
we're the putiest hot house posies he
ever seed. "
In New Hampshire they value
skinned milk at two cents a quart for
feeding pigs The CourierJournal says
that in Louisville ten cents a quart is
paid for the same thing to feed babies
with.
Among the European economies is
the gathering up of cigar tips, cut off
before smoking. In Dantzie one boy is
fed, clothed and schooled on the pre-
ceeds, and in Berlin a small asylum is
supported by them.
Professor Owen, who has lately re-
turned from tour in Egypt, will pre-
side over the chronological section of the
International Congress Of Orientals to
be held in London, from the l4th to the
18th of September.
In the British army and navy they
make the wearing of flannel a point OF
discipline. During the hot season the
ships doctor makes a daily examina-
ton of the men at unexpected hours, to
make sure that they have not left of
their fannels.
The brains Of people advanced in
years would be greatly strengthened by
habits OF study. Old people should have
their lessons, their mental culture, like
children. 1t would be almost cure for
the decay Of the mind as age advances.
Martin Luther.
A Milwaukee man has applied for a
patent on fountain pen, which, by the
pressure of the thumb on a small rubber
ball, projects stream of ink through
the holder ana into the face OF the tel-
low who is looking over your shoulder
while you are writing.
A building in San Francisco that has
five hundred rooms is to have clock
with FIVE hundred dials, dial for each
room; to be operated with compressed
air, conducted in pipes all over the build
ing. The clock has been built by the
Seth Thomas clock company Of Connec-
ticut.
Mr.. John Fishbaek, proprietor Of the
Indianapolis Sentinel, wagered 500 with
a young lady niece that she couldn't
hold her tongue for a week. The young
lady very unexpectedly took him up, !"
and unless she speaks within the next
two hours Git is now four o'clock pm
Mr.. Fishback will have the 500 to pay
During the week he has escorted her to
the opera, and although he has done his
best TO get her to speak, and hired other
members to trap" her, yet she has re-
sisted all their effsrts. On Thursday
last the journalist offered to compromise
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