Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-24
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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with 81 1897 children on the book.
Fire clay of good quality was recent,
discovered near Wheeling, West Va.
Wong Chin Foo, leader in the Chi
nese rebellion some years ago, is visiting
Boston.
The mill operatives of Bolton, Eng
land, have agreed to refer their case t.
arbitration.
Ice quarter of an inch thick was re
ported in the northern part of Maine .
few days ago.
The Pope is said to be having his
jewels, precious stones, ETC., catalogued
and appraised.
The new Globe Theater in Boston il
designed to seat 2lOO people in the par
quette and two tiers.
According to Carlists accounts the
troops now arrayed under the flag OF
Don Carlos number 1921.
1t is said that threefourths of the
women place the postage stamp on the
left hand corner of the envelope.
Spain, in changing Ministers at Wash
ington, has simply taken off her Polo
naise and sent us a Mantilla instead.
A Richmond paper laments the deca-
dence Of the Virginia ham, which used
to be one of the prime articles of good
living before the war.
A French nobleman in financial diff
culties was recently lodged in Jail by an
irate Newport innkeeper for non-pay-
ment of his board bill.
A Florida sportsman killed she bear
weighing over two hundred pounds, the
other day, using in his combat no other
weapon but a heavy stick of wood.
A young lady of Georgetown wants to
know why she shall pay eight dollars
for pair of silk hose, when she must
keep them out of sight all the time.
The summer guests at the Catskill
Mountains now amuse themselves by
spinning long yarns whilst seated around
blazing wood fire in the hotel parlors.
Amos Speakmsn, of Chester county,
Pa, lost his watch while coon hunting
sixty years ago. During corn-hoeing
time this season the identical timepiece
was found.
A dentist in Wisconsin who kissed a
young lady while filling her teeth, was
called on by her father with shotgun.
He paid the parent $500 not to fire, be-
ing extremely sensitive to noise.
Woman's inferiority-The young wo.
men who graduated at Ann Arbor along
with the boys, though they behaved bet
ter, studied even harder and shared the
honors, couldn't smoke the class pipe
Bereaved widows of an economical
turn of mind can now honor the mem
cries of their dear departed" by the
erection of zinc monuments, which a
Bridgeport firm warrants to resemble
granite, and which can be purchased
much cheaper than either granite or
marble.
This is the time for snake stories.
One of the latest is told by man in
Delaware. He was attacked by one of
those reptiles some time ago, in Sussex
county, he says, and in order to escape
he jumped behind a tree Thereupon
the snake in its rage struck at the tree,
and thirty minutes afterwaId dizziness
in the leaves was perceptible. In an
other hour they began to fall off, and
now nothing is left save a withered, ma
ked trunk.
The certificate of Algernon Charles
Frederick Sartoris and Ellen Wrensbaw
Grant is now at the Executive Mansion,
and will soon be sent to Mrs. Sartoris at
her home in England. It is an elaborate
piece of illuminated penmanship, en-
closed in a neat frame, about twenty by
twenty-four inches. The certificate is
surrounded by an elaborate border, with
the monogram of the parties in each
corner, and surmounted by the coats of
arms Of the United States and England.