Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-02
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Lawyers have a clear majority in the
Indiana Senate, and farmers quorum
in the House.
A rooster lately attacked child in
Alabama, and so severely injured it
that it died after three days Of great
suffering.
A rope thirty-two hundred feet long
and weighing tou was recently shipped
by a New Bedford manufacturer to
Titusville oil firm.
San Francisco is erecting an immense
shirt factory, in which four hundred
persons, one-half of whom will be Mon.
golians, are to be employed.
THERE'S an unusual demand for old
fashioned grain cradles in Iowa this year,
the copious rains having made the
ground too soft for the machines.
So large were the hailstones which fell
at Damascus in tempest which visited
that city on the lst Of June, that three
men were killed by them and eight
wounded.
The Milwaukee Sentinel heads its &C.
count of the sinking Of theie blockade
runner Rothsay Castle THE Mer-
rimack, Of Hampton Roads Fame, Sunk
at Toronto
Kentucky boasts of a cornstalk bear
ing fifty ears Of corn and an immense
amount of silk. The middle ear is full
sized, and the other forty-nine grow in
ranks about'it.
A branch of the Mormon Church, with
a newspaper called the Adventurer, has
been established at Clarksburg, West
Virginia. There are several members
of the sect in that vicinity.
A girl covered her face with both, her
hands when she thought he was about to
kiss her; then she, complained; "Oh,
my hands are too small; there is room
for five hundred yet between them"
The Christian World declares that ma
ternal love in women is the most con.
tracted Of the social affections, is shared
in by all the higher animals, and has no
title in itself to the name of virtue.
A gentleman in Kingston, N. Y, has
cured his hen of mania for Matching.
Stones, clubs, basins of water were in
vain; but when fre-crackers exploded
under her, she concluded to come of.
Senior P. 9. Armijo, the mutton mil
lionare Of New Mexico, sold over 200-
900 pounds of wool last year, With bis
father and a business partner he owns
nearly 100000 head of sheep, scattered
over range of country more than 300
miles square. He has had two losses by
Indian raids, one of $4,000 head and the
other of $4,000; "but," he says, II
hardly missed them"
Jane has got very nicely turned
ankle, haiu't she?" said John to his wife
the other day. And then John noticed
a strange, unearthly gleam in the eyeIo
| his spouse, which made him feel very
uncomiortable--he knew not why. But
the next day the place which Jane had
| filled in the domestic economy of the
household was occupied by middle
aged woman with ankles like those Of a
Mullingar heifer.- MilWaukee Ne,oS.
The London gossips are telling this
story, apropos of Queen Victoria's con-
tinued seclusion: At the Princess Of
Wales garden party, at which she was
present. the other day, the Queen &C.
costed a distinguished officer and con-
versed afably with him for some min
utes. At last the gallant General re-
marked: IL am really very sorry, mad
am, for being so stupid. I am sure
have seen your face, and remember it
perfectly we'll, but l cannot remember
your name"
Guano was FIRST brought to this COIN.
try by Commodore Stewart, in 1926, aud
at that time attracted but little attention.
In 1910 it was again introduced, aud its
use spread rapidly, both here and in
Europe, and ever since the demand for
it has gone on increasing, until whole
islands have disappeared under the pick
and shovel, and numerous fleets laden
With the precious material are nasisatng
the seas In every direction, to distribute
lit to all parts Of the civilized world.