Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-30
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
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powers is ami-cable. 2
By their deeds We shall know them"
these real estate brokers.
A copy of Chinese work in 6lOs
volumes is for sale in Pekin.
Seven thousand girls are employed in
the silk factories Of New Jersey,
A man in England recently walked
seventy miles in seventeen hours.
All persons profess to know how to
take care of babies until they get them.
At an Illinois wedding the other day
the groom was eighty-two and the bride
seventy-four years OF age. spi
1t is said Of noted Long Branch fiirt
that she danced seven hours day for
forty.three successive days.
A newspaper is the only instrument
which can drop the same thought into
thousand minds at the same moment.
A bunch of black Hamburg grapes
weighing twenty pounds and six ounces
was lately exhibited at Belfast Ireland.
Since the publication of their Health
Board analysis, prudent Bostonians are
living almost exclusively on ginger and
chocolate. s..
And now they are trying to arrest
Moulton. If they had arrested his
tongue, the world would have appeared
cleaner to-day.
While Chicago family were absent
on summer tour thieves entered the
house, sold out all the effects at auction
and pocketed the cash. aaat
Canned cocoanuts constitute the latest
profitable development Of domestic in
dustry and boon to the medical profess
sion in Willimantic, Conn.
A Boston court has decided that if a
woman lends money to her husband she
cannot get it back. The decision will
not be new to many wives.
A writer in the Alaska Herald thirk ks
that in $50 years Sitka will be one Of
the leading ship-building cities in the
world. Corner lots are for sale cheap.
The regular croquet hat is Of coarse
straw, in wagon top shape, covered with
rows of muslin pleating and cluster of
black velvet bows or else bunch Of field
flowers on top.
Boston has made the discovery that
one of the performers in Barnum's Hip
podrome is regularly licensed preacher,
and all religious scruples about visiting
a place of amusement are silenced &C.
cordingly.
The ground on which Northu mberland
House stands in London was bought for
the purpose of opening up new street.
The price paid was 81, 1895 a check
for which immense sum was handed over
to the late owner.
The gallant secretary Of life insur-
ance company being in command of a
platoon during the late unpleasantness,
struck up the gun of one of his men
about to fire on staff officer with the
exclamation, "D-n it, don't shoot at
him; we've got policy on him. Mem
Orleans Republican.
A lecturer, wishing to explain to lit
tie girl the manner in which lobster
casts his shell when he has outgrown it,
said what do you do when you have
outgrown your cothes2 you throw them
aside, don't your "Oh, mol" replied
the little one, we let out the tucks. "
The lecturer confessed she had the ad'
vantage of him there.
In England the same amount of care
lessuess in mailing letters is shown as in
this country. According the late report
of the British Postmaste General, it
appears that during the past year Is. 700
letters were posted without any address
whatever, and that nearly 400 Of this
number contained cash, checks, or bills
Of exchange to the value of more than
Ella 900.