Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-25
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Two amateur journals in San Fran
cisco are involved in libel suit.
Gray hair has been aptly termed "a
little dust from the road Of life"
Sanscrit aud Anglo-Saxon classes are
to be organized at Boston University.
Rose Hersee, the singer, is reported to
be lying dangerously i'll of typhoid fever
at Dublin.
The Alexandra, one Of the minor the
aters in London, wss lately sold at auc-
ton for $500,
Vienna has decided to adept crema-
nation. 1t is the first capital city which
has taken this step.
A Milwaukee man who needed some
action aad regular exercise, was advised
to mix his own cocktails.
The people of Cory, Pennsylvania,
were edited few days ago by foot
race between two young ladies.
A woman was fined ten dollars in Lon
don recently for taking child suffering
from scarlet fever into a street car.
The Dodge gold mine at Lisbon,
N. H., is yielding $50 from ton of ore.
A block of gold, weighing $500, was
taken out few days ago.
About 1000 Icelanjers will soon emf
crate to Wisconsin and settle on tract
of land purchased by agents whom they
sent in advance few months ago.
Fisks Grand Opera House, in New
York, now occupied by the Erie rail-
road, is soon to be abandoned by that
corporation, who have announced an in
tention of moving further down town.
A meeting of English amateur oars.
men was held in London on the 4th inst.
An effort to induce one or more crews
to visit Philadelphia in 1876 was made,
though with what success is not known.
The municipality of Vienna, acting
upon the advice of the board of health
OF that city, has decided that the crema-
ton of the dead, upon the same plan as
that adopted in Leipzig, should be i'm
mediately carried out.
The Lake Superior copper mining re-
gion produces about twelve thousand
tons of the mineral annually, for which
from five to eight million dollars per
annum are received.
In the American Woman's Home an
account is given of the profit Of bee rails
ing as an occupation for woman. AS an
illustration it cites the case of lady
who bought four hives for ten dollars,
and who, after having sold twenty-five
hives and four hundred and twenty
pounds of honey in FIVE years, was Of
fered at the close of that period, $500
for her stock.
The San Francisco Bulletin, in late
issue, says: Small dealers are COM
planning that enough of 6ve-cent pieces
cannot be obtained for the transaction
of business. SO great is the demand for
these coins that premiums, varying from
two and half to FIVE per cent. in gold
are paid for them. The cause of the
scarcity is probably owing to the fact
that the mass of the people are begin
ming to insist upon more accurate re-
turn of change than has heretofore been
customary"
1t is asserted that 500 pounds Of frogs
are consumed daily in New York. They
are caught chiefly in Canada, and are
sent there in salt sacks laid fat on the
floors of freight cars, and containing
each about hundred frogs. An average
Of FIVE per cent. die in the train. Eacf
female frog is said to spawn over 6
thousand at a time, but not more thar
fifty Of that number live to attain full
growth. They are often eaten by their
own species or by birds and snakes
They are usually taken with the hook
but bite at it only when their heads are
above water. A bait is often unneces
sary. The frog catcher frequently brings
his hook under the jaw of the frog with
out creating alarm, and jerks its point
into the flesh. He is then easily lifted
into the boat.