Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-02
FACTS AND FANCIES.


to get rid Of sewing. A4te'
Misunderstanding the past year 25OC
baby wagons have been sold in Salt Lake
Ireland is to have a new magazine,
Nowadays" with distinguished con
tributors.
An inventive genius in Ohio. proposes
to furnish horses with false teeth, so as
to conceal their age.
"He feel dead and expired in a few
minutes" is the startling revelation
made by Georgia paper.
Mr.. Maurice Grau has secured the
Emily Soldene Comic Opera Company,
of London, for tour in this country next
season.
For intercepting telegram and read
ing it, a schoolmaster in Manchester,
England, has been sentenced to three
months imprisonment.
1t is the fashion in Paris to give enor-
nous bouquets to favorite actresses.
These are sometimes so very large that
they cannot be carried into private
box.
A man who was seen coming out OF a
Texas newspaper Office with split nose,
with one eye and with one ear, explained
to policeman that he entered the Office
simply to inquire If the editor was in.
And he was in, the victim mournfully
added.
A Norfolk, Va, paper recently con-
tanned among its local items the follow
ing: Yesterday one of the hands
wiped off the piston rod Of the new cot
ton press of Messrs. Reynolds Bros.
with parcel of waste cotton, which
afterward he threw aside. In less than
ten minutes the same took fire from the
rays of the sun"
Two New Haven fishermen recently
drew up pocketbook which had evi-
IDENTIFY beenin the water for number of
years. 1t contained several American
gold and silver coins, and a roll of bank
bills estimated to be worth $1,000. There
were no marks sufficiently legible by
which its former owner could be identi-
fed.
Death from the bite OF snake is not
frequent occurrence in Scotland, but
one occurred there recently from this
cause. In Sutherlandshire, a little girl
of four years was in o field hunting for
bird s nests, when she was bitten on the
leg by an adder, from the effects of
which she died forty eight hours after
wards, in great agony.
The former chief of police of Terre
Haute, Ind, was recently married under
unusual circumstances. His little son,
tired of living without mother, sugges-
ted to his father the lady whom he would
accept as a stepmother. The lady was
sought, and listened to the singular pro-
position. She awakened Ter little
daughter and laid the subject before her.
The child consented to her mothers
marriage, and it took place the very
next day.
Londoners are to have trout fishing at
their public parks. Mr.. Frank Buck
land has turned number of young trout
into the Serpentine, sheet of water in
Hyde Park resembling the pond in our
own Central Park, where he hopes to
raise stock of fish sufficient to afford
sport for citizens whose business or
means will not allow them to enjoy the
healthy occupation of fishing in country
streams.
Judge White gives rs an evangelical
story of the first water. One of his
students was a convert at q protracted
meeting, but not finding the peace he
hoped from his conversion, be waited on
his minister and informed him of his
backsliding condition. "Your heart is
hardened by your profession solemnly
said the man of God. "Quit the law
office, retire on your knees your study,
and be brought out either Christian or
q corpse.
"You have too much baggage said
Sir Garnet Wolsley to an officer during
the autumn maneuvres two or three
years ago. The officer pleaded permis
sion to keep what his portmanteau con-
tanned, but Sir Garnet restricted him to
what was absolutely necessary. There
upon the officer took out small book
aud hurled il away, saying, That is the
only useless thing in my portmanteau.'
1t was copy of Sir Garnets Soldiers
Pocket Book,