Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


the 9th of October.
The British national debt will be re-
duced by 1915, 2l5 this year.
1t takes fifty thousand cabs to transfer
the London population from place to
place.
All hotel guests are expected to be
satisfied with their quarters, but the
walters expect fifty cents.
Mobile is almost entirely supplied with
coal from the mines in the northern and
central parts of Alabama.
Four clergymen Of as many denonii-
nations are attending to the spiritual
wants of Undertook, the sentenced muir
derer.
A lawyer in Illinois recently commit
ted suicide because old age was creeping
over him, and the younger men were
taking away his practice.
They have kissing fairs in Iowa for
the benefit of the chueches--price, ten
cents a kiss. But it is not stated who is
expected to pay the money-the lady
or the gentleman.
A California farm, purchased two
years ago for $24, 900, was sold not long
since by its owner for $4,000 During
the term of their possession they had
raised $40, 900 Of wheat upon it.
Wine growing is an important indus
try in the Colony Of Victoria, and the
government has forbidden the imDorta-
ton of European vines for fear Of intro
ducing some of the prevailing diseases.
At Salisbury Point, Mass, there are
three churches, the minister of each re-
joicing in the name of Wright. One
lives in the upper part of town, onei il the
lower, and the third at the mills; so the
people have dubbed their spiritual guides
as "Upwright," Downright" and
Millwright."
In the South number of geniuses Of
a speculative turn of mind are making
much money By passing off upon unsus-
pecting people the new one dollar bills
for ten. This is said to be easily done,
as the two large cross lines on the back
of the one dollar bill form almost the
Roman figure ten and are thus calcula
ted to deceive the unwary.
A clergyman being applied to, in less
than year after his appointment, to
put stove in the church, asked how
long his predecessor had been there, and
when answered, twelve years, he said;
" Well, you never had fire in the
church during his timer" No, sir,
replied the applicant, but we had
fire in the pulpit then"
John Browns body is laid under
huge granite boulder in North Elba,
Essex county, New York The farm
consists of eighty acres of land, and
produces little but potatoes and beans.
The family have dispersed, but the house
is used as an inn, with the sign:
John Browns House.
Refri shments.
Trout and chickens, SO cents,
Lodgings if desired.
There is trial pending in Paris which
will do the Imperial cause no good.
Prince Achille Murat has been obliged
to appeal to the courts to obtain from
his children $1,000 a year and $4,000
down to pay his debts. The Princes
Louis, Joachim, and Achille, and the
Princess Anna Murat, married to the
Due de Mouchy, resist this claim on the
part of their parent.
A new style of passenger vehicle,
omething between the street car and
he stage, has been fried in Chicago !
The body, which is about the size of the
,ne-horse car run on our cross-town lines,
langs low between the hind wheels. The |
onward wheels are small and close to-
,ether, allowing short turns so as to get
lose to the sidewalks, from which pas.
engers step directly into side doors.
THE jaws" says description Of a
ossil fish foupd in Kansas, are pro-
-ided with three kinds of teeth; first, on
he outer edge, row OF large, fat, cut
ing teeth, partially resembling those OF
shark; next, some small, blunt teeth,
placed irregularly; and finally, a third |
let Of small, sharp teeth, needle-like in |
hape forming a pavement" When an
went out to angle, and got
bite from that kind Of fish, he must |
rave known it right off.