Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-27
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

Atlanta, Ca, pays over $50. 900 year
for its public schools.
The Chicago Times speaks of its re.
porters as our ambassadors"
The debt of ST. Louis, Mo, amounts
to little under $l7,O00,00O.
George Fruits, of Alamo, Ind, is said
to have reached the mellow old age OF
III years.
The bricklayers of San Francisco
want five dollars for a days work of
eight hours.
According to the latest statement OF
the British Registrar General London
has population Of 3,254,260.
The druggists in Cincinnati are trying
to profit by the temperance crusade by.
advancing the price Of soda water.
1t costs i've dollars to swear in the
open air in Marion, Ohio, and the tax
rate is very small there in consequence.
1t is now asserted that Santa Fe New
Mexico, and not st. Augustine, Fla, is
the oldest settlement in the United
States. Ail ft@t +tnt 5000
An ingenious Nevada gentleman
claims the invention of process Of
manufacturing ground glass without
grinding"
= The tailors of London base their
latest strike on the great moral princi-
pie that all alterations of misfits must
be paid for as original work.
A Paris correspondent says that one
of the principal officials of the Ministry
of Justice has been sent to London on a
special mission to demand the extradi-
tion of M Rochefort.
The woman's crusade has already sue.
ceeded in producing $4,000 newspaper
puns, of which the threat of the saloon
keepers to malt treat their visitors is
perhaps the best-that is the worst.
The furniture and effects of the late
Senator Sumner are advertised to be sold
at auction, in Washington, on the Sd of
June. His collection of books and
paintings are not included in the sale
A San Franciscan came home from
business, and finding his wife house
cleaning, added to her labors by cutting
his throat on the clean kitchen floor
Some men have no feeling for their
wives.
A rooster at Windsor, Vermont, at
tackled a boy four years old the other
day, and knocking him down. gave him
FIVE wounds in the head with bis spurs.
The old cock didn't live long to crow
over his exploit, however.
Chicago is initiating the hanging gar
dens of Babylon. A building which has
recently been erected, divided into flats
for housekeeping, has its roof covered
with earth, in which are planted a num-
Der of flowers and trees.
The romantic youth who bankers to be
a canal boat driver and encounter ty-
phoons, etc., ought to know that every
canal boatman is knocked down an aver.
age of twenty-one times per month. So
says the Loekport Journal
The most asinine burglar in Vermont
is James l.. Blodgett, who went through
a store at East Dorset, the other night,
and stole new suit Of clothes, but left
behind him his old duds, which contained
u diary with his name written in it.
While couple of women were dis
cussing the other day the merits of
certain physician, one of them asked
the other what kind of a doctor he was.
"Sure, dunno" was the reply, but
think it's an alpaca doctor they call
him. at.irras
A young girl, who had an offer Of mar
riage which she wished to accept, sub.
mitted the matter to her father, who ad.
vised her against matrimony, using as
an argument the quotation from ST.
Paul, "They who marry do well, but
they who do not do better. " Well,
said the damsel, Il love to do well; let
those do better who can.
The girls Of California seminary
lately developed singular fancy for
using one cent stamps, instead Of the
regular kind upon their envelopes. The
letters we're so plain and matter-of-fact
and the attempts atevading surveillance
in the old fashioned way grew so scarce,
that one inspecting teacher investigated
this whim. And lol the cunning crea-
lures had taken to writing tender, emo
tional little epistles to their lovers under