Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-13
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

There are three hundred different re-
ligious sects in England.
A Kansas paper heads a paragraph,
Read this if you wish to sleep
soundly."
Mrs. Mcfarland Richardson's mar
riage with Chicagoan is announced for
September.
The late Marshal Concha had the
beautiful art of " inspiring an extraordi-
marry terror in every one.
+. A woman at Lowell, Massachusetts,
who weighs three hundred and ninety
one pounds, is running the hack business
in that place.
Until recently there was a horned tree
in Michigan. Some one had placed the
horns of an elk in the crotch of the tree
and the wood had grown around them.
Sixty perfect and beautiful Greek
statues, representing pure specimens OF
Greek feminine beauty, have lately been
placed in the Museum of Antiquities OF
the Louvre at Paris.
la Philadelphia twenty five years ago
there we're twenty-three Baptist churches
with 1000 members and 100000 of
church property; now fifty churches,
Is, 900 members and $3.000,0 900 OF prop
erty.
Have you the smallpox in the
house2" The boy who understands
English replied No; but we expect
it every minute, and when it arrives
will send it up to the chamber OF
madam"
A Newark, N. j., couple recently per-
formed a delicate duty before being mar
ried. They together visited cemetery
and first decorated the grave of the gen.
teman's former wife, and then that OF
the lady's former husband.
Somebody has invented a sun um
brella and mosquito net combined.
They will be useful for the seaside, as
one planted beside camp stool will
shelter the head, while the net sets the
winged plaques at defiance.
An autograph letter of Nell Gwynne
recently sold in London for one hundred
and forty dellars, and the manuscript of
Charles Lambs famous Dissertation
on Roast Pig for one hundred and sew
enty dollars. A letter from Oliver
Goldsmith to David Garrick sold for
three hundred dollars.
According to a correspondent OF the
Home Journal, visitors to Long Branch
must beware of trap, or rather q mum
Der of traps, for unwary sojourners
The writer SAYS: Those innocent look
ing basket chairs that shade one so
nicely from the sun, aud are left along
the beach without apparent ownership,
as sort Of traps for the unwary-how
naturally one drops into them as a tiy
into the web woven for him. By the
time the victim gets to thinking how
comfortable and pleasant it is, and won.
dering who invented, and what kind OF
body left it there, along comes the Jer-
sey owner and demands a quarter.
A Roman correspondent of the Bos-
ton Pilot writes concerning the degrada-
ton of Catholic churches IN Italy by the
government and people that in Naples
the Church of San Martino, one OF the
richest churchesin the world in respect
to marbles, statues, mosaics and pant
ings, has become a museum. In PERU
gia one church is turned into picture
gallery, the altar torn up and pictures
from converts and monasteries and
churches hung around the wallis an
other in this same city is used as hay
loft. In Foliguo the grand old Church
of Domihieans, with its Gothic wheel
windows, is turned into stable for cav
airy horses.
The word "milliner is derived from
the name of milan" Millinery for
some centuries was synonymous with
fine dress goods of Milan manufacture.
1t is still the most fashionable city in
Italy, and is the center of its silk bust
ness. From 1865 till 1859 Milan and
Lombardy were ruled over and plum
dered, first by the Spaniards, next by the
Austrians, then for time by the French,
and after them again by the Austrians,
until liberated by the battle Of Magenta,
which restored it to the Italians. The
wealth and beauty Of the city, and the
wonderful fertility of the surrounding
country, have always rendered it an OBJ
jeet OF cupidity and longing desire to
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