Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-05
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

of triplets in New Hampshire.
In the police court at San Jose, Cal.
the other day, witness was asked, did
you ever kill a manP" He answered
No; but killed Chinaman once"
Fancy shoes, it is said, are going out
of fashion. The Shoe and Leather Re
porter says: 1.-THE demand is for plain
substantial shoes, such as are made fol
and will do good service. There is nc
money to pay for fancy stitching and
embroidery, but utility is the aim-the
most wear for the outlay"
Has anybody ever thought how great
a sum is two millions and half of dol
lars2 If it were laid in a straight line
made of American dollars it would ex-
tend nearly from Butchertown to Port
land. If it were to be counted in ones
by an adroit teller, admitting that he
could count two notes to the second, and
working twelve hours day, it would
take him nearly a month to make the
count.
The East India papers mention sim
gular case of going to school late in life.
1t seems that the Rsjah of Bussahir,
whose income is 100000 per annum,
began attending school when he was
twenty-five years old, and in the FIVE
years which have since elapsed, he has
become quite Anglicized. He is de.
scribed as being good.natured, and as
making it a point to compare his watch
with that Of every European traveller in
order that he may know with absolute
certainty what o'clock it is.
The other day as a Detroiter was rid.
ing on the Pontiac road, he came across
an old lady seated in buggy which had
been halted within a few yards of the
Grand Trunk railroad track She
seemed to be uneasy about something
and as he drove up she asked, Say,
mister, haint that engine going to come
along soon2" He asked her to explain,
and she pointed to the sign, Look out
for the enginel" and added, II hav e
waited more'n two hours for the ole
engine to go by, but I'm getting tired,
and if it don't come pretty soon I'll drive
right over the track and go hum"
Mr. Cyril Graham is preparing for the
press an elaborate study, by Russian
Scholar of the little-known and fast
dying-out Avar or Lesghian tongue. II
will consist of vocabulary, grammar
and some specimens of popular songs
and it will be preceded by q short notice,
by the editor, of the people who speak
the language and the localities which
they inhabit, as well as notes on analo
gies between the Avar and other Ian.
guages. A very interesting collection OF
Avar tales, it may be added, has recently
been published at st. Petersburg, by the
Academy of Sciences, under the title OF
Awarische Texte, herausgegeben Won
A. Schiefner."
An accommodation train between
jamestown and Lake View was the
scene of little incident the other day:
4" You don't think that boy is under ten,
hey, and you won't pass him for halt
fare2 Just look at that, will YEP" and
from out of the old carpet bag tho old
lady, with trembling eagerness, brought
the well worn family bible, and turning
to the page reserved for births and
deaths, held it triumphantly up under
the conductors nose, with, Does that
look as though l was liar, young manY'
With such testimony before his eyes the
conductor could do no more than pass
the boy for half fare, amid subdued APP
plause from the passengers, who had
been amused spectators of the scene.
Mr.. A. K. II. Boyd, the Country
Parson," as he calls himselfin his books,
must be a snob. He lately met a stran-
ger in his neighborhood, and finding
him well informed and agreeable, in
vited him to dinner. The stranger, not
having a dress suit with him, presented
himself at the dinner hour in gray
morning coat. Mr.. Boyd showed some
uueasiness, and at last told his guest
that he feared their dinner must be de-
ferred, since Mrs. Boyd always expected
her dinner visitors to be in the evening
dress. The stranger, Of course, said
that he wouldn't think of intruding in
that case, but would leave his card for
Mrs. Boyd, which he did, and then the
Country Parson" learned for the first
time that his visitor in the gray coat was
the Earl Of Fife.
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