Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-06
FACTS AND FANCIES.

OF speech apphed to dancing by the first
society Of Osborne City, Kansas.
1t is said that the manufacture of pref.
zels, in anticipation OF the Grown
Princes coming, has been begun in the
city of New York.
We are to have a polyglot edition of
the Pilgrims Progress" in six Ian
guSges-English, French, German, Ital-
ian, Spanish aud Portuguese.
There was exhibited at a fair recently
held in Travis county, Texas, an arti-
zeal block of ice which was manufactured
at Austin, Texas, and weighed 1000
pounds.
Troute culture is largely engaged in
on Long Island, ponds for raising great
numbers of fish having been established
recently at Noyak, Patchogue and
Palace Brook.
The sugar re6neries in and around
Brooklyn, E. D., represent in machinery
and buildings 81. OOe. 900, employ 5000
meu, and yield daily about, 5000 barrels
of sugar, valued at $4,000.
Artificial griudstores have been made
at Worms, Germany, of grill, soluble
glass, and petroleum. The proportions
are not given. 1t is said that they will
bear a very high speed without becoming
soft.
A tombstone lately erected in the
Nashville cemetery says of the deceased:
His accounts we're found square to a
cent" There are lots Of people who
scot at the idea that any one is buried
under that stone.
The prohibitory law being in full force
in Maine, a witness before a Belfast
grand jury was asked if he had drank
in a certain saloon. yes" "0ften2"
Yes" How much in six months2 p
well, | can't tell exactly. 1t might
be-well-perhaps-well, say a barrel"
A New Orleans physician has a novel
way of securing his fee when a patient
dies. he makes a post norton examiu-
alton and carries some portion. OF the
body to his Office, and gives notice that
he will return it when the bill is paid.
A case of general average: "Ain'tyou
rather old to ride for half price?" said a
Charleston car conductor to the elder Of
two boys riding. well" remarked the
youth, Il am under fourteen and this hey
with me is only six. That don't make
twenty, and you will take two boys under
ten for half price each"-and he took
them.
Two lovers at Wilmington, ILL.,, have
fallen out. The girl was about to marry
another young man when her former
suitor replevined a sewing machine he
had given her, She responded by suing
him for the value Of meals eaten at her
house, and now he has sued her for the
time occupied in counting her.
Mr.. George Smith, of the British
Museum, left London last week for the
East, to resume his researches in Assyria.
He will be absent six months, returning
in May; and it is thought probable that
he will leave England again in August
to continue the explorations which ear
not be conducted during the rainy season.
Jennie, you're my sweetheart" said
a ~nine.year-old sutton, as he sat alone
with his hearts idol, the other evening.
How can l be your sweetheart asked
the little miss, when | am Is years old,
and you only miner Are you thirtesn2"
"Of course l am" We'll" answered
the juvenile beau, after rejecting a little,
I'D a been thirteen, too, il / hadn't been
sick so much when ! was little"
Madam" he said, you see before
you a blighted fellow-creaturel / amt a
tramp, marin, | ain'tl l lave had my
little store Of wealth laid away for these
rainy days; but ahl marin, a relative and
speculation brought me to this sad state
in which you see mel l was long on E.
Railroad stock, marin, and-eh2 Wood2
Me- Me saw that wood2 Madam, / feel
you can not realize my situationl Good
morningl'-Boston Globe.
The following story is told of Barry
Sullivan during his reject engagement
in Providence. He called to him the
actor who was to play the first murderer
in Macbeth" and said: "Are you to
play the first murderer, sir?" II am"
was the rsply. well, sir, / don't want
you to play it in a red scratch wig, black
side whiskers and a blue domino"
why, sir, l never played it in such a
costume in my life" Perhaps not
prehaps not; but you look capable Of i"
A telegram from Nashville, Tenn,
states that there is good authority for
the statement that Vice President vii
son was engaged to be married to Mrs.
John A. Jackson, Of Williamson county,
Tennessee, and that the VOWS we're TO
have been contaminated upon the re-
covery Of bis health. 1t was mainly for
the purpose Of seeing her that he visited
Nashville last spring. They met the
first time at Washington, and afterward
kept up a constant correspondence until
the time Of his death. Mrs. Jackson is
one of the most distinguished and