Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-08
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

number here tonight, and also that
Thou art here Notwithstanding the in
clemency Of the weather"
Miss Rosa Eytinge, who was perform
ing last week at the Chestnut Street
Theater, Philadelphia, suddenly lost her
voice on the stage on Thursday evening,
and, of course, was Obliged to relinquish
her engagement. The theater was tenn
porarily closed.
At the Barnsley County Court in Eng
land, on Sept. 18th, a tailors bill was
disputed on the ground that the trousers
and waistcoat did not fit. To the great
amusement of the spectators, the Judge
ordered the man to put the garments on,
and then decided they were good fit,
and ordered verdict for the plaintiff.
The first live specimes of the Russian
fish, the sterlet, have just been brought
to England from St. Petersburg. Twelve
of them we're placed m large deal tank
in St. Petersburg, and only three died in
the nine days journy to London. These
fish are very handsome and graceful in
their movements, and are esteemed a
great delicacy in Russia. They have
benn placed in the Brighton aquarium.
The death of q schoolboy at St. Mary's
School in the Marylebone district OF
London was caused the other day by one
of the teachers striking him on the head
with his fist. The teacher first struck
the boy with cane, and after some time
with his fist knocking his head against
the wall. The boy, who was only ten
years of age, was soon taken very ill,
and died on the following day.
A Gilbertown Qowa) man, while dig
ging well, recently came to a broad,
fat stone, twenty-five feet below the
surface, under which was found sarco-
phagus containing the skull, vertebra
and charrsd ribs of man, an iron cir
clet or crown, bronze dagger and bat
tie axe, several finger rings, a peculiar
instrument of music and panel of
wood, mach worm eaten, on which was
partially engraved and partially stained
nude figure bound TO a tree.
Several of the old Puritanic laws re-
main unrepealed on the Connecticut
statute book, and if anybody takes q rifle
on Sunday, except for charity or neces-
sity, he is liable to fine of from 81 to
81. while the man who let's team may
be forced to pay fine of $40. Bias
phemy against God, or either of the per-
sons of the Holy Trinity, or the Chris
tan religion, or the holy scriptures" is
still punishable by fine not exceeding
500, and Imprisonment in common
Jail not exceeding one year.
About six hundred operatives in the
mills at Fall River held a meeting last
Wednesday evening, at which the speak
ers we're very emphatic in their denun'
Citations of the corporations for making
inadequate provisions for the safety of
their operatives. A resolution of indig-
nant protest against the makeup of the
iury-compose6 as it is of those inter
ested in the mill-was passed; also one
demanding a law, similar to the one in
England, providing for the safety Of mill
operatives, with a ten.hour article.
Professor Quincy, dean of the faculty
of Harvard College, has addressed an
appeal to the parents OF the sophomores
and freshmen of the institution for their
influence and authority against the prac-
tice of hazing The present senior and
junior classes agreed, two years ago,
to refrain from hazing and discounte-
nance it in others, and they have kept
their promise. The faculty admits that
they are powerless to entirely suppress
the practice, and that those whom they
dismiss for indulging in it are usually
not the most culpable, and the RESPONSE
bility of breaking it up must rest with
the students.
A writer in the Constitutional gives
some particulars about Val Richer,
where M Guizot has just died. He says:
1.-THE wealth Of the house consists in
the library, which contains not less than
thirty thousand volumes. There are
scarcely any rare editions, nor are any
of the books remarkable for rich bind
ing. 1t is a collection made for work,
in which little attention has been paid
TO mere artistic merit. but much to
utility and the means of facilitating
study. The library of NJ. Guizot is in
that point of view an Incompatible
mine, and offers all the resources that
can be desired; for labor and study it
possesses, besides for the history Of Ger
many and Great Britain, the most pre-
cious documents in the language Of those
countries, such as probably no other col
lection in France can rival at this mo-
ment."
The Reindeer.
The wealth of the Lapps consists in
/ .ha;- raiudaar which arc their only stan