Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.


Woodruff and Clafin are lecturing in
Vermont.
Josh Billings says he lectures for fun,
with 800 thrown in.
India has 100000 acres devoted to the
cultivation of opium.
The Texas editors wept at the grave Of
Abraham Lincoln last week.
He is in Harbor Grace, Newfoundland,
this time. Born in Chill 1876 years ago.
The Sea.serpeut is reported to have eS-
tablished branch Office in Lake Ontario.
A gentleman at Cookesville, Miss, has
a mules tooth that weighs sew en- pounds
and half.
British Columbia will send a Aag-pole
lao feet long, composed of single tree,
to the Centennial.
/. The metric system of weights and
measures is to be used in Egypt after the
lst of January next.
1t is reported that the new style Of
pantaloons to be worn this fall will be
large enough to tie back.
The beauty Of the English lake dis.
trict is being utterly ruined by railways,
factories and coal smoke.
1t is for Mr.. Sankey to explain how a
man can be cheerful and a Christian
and yet always be Moody.
Springfield, ILL.,, has two female base.
ball clubs, the Diamond Carriers" and
the Lace-Top Stockings"
Rev. J.. W. Mellar, of London, has a
mastiff that has won $4,000 worth of
prizes in different dog shows.
Of the 10000 persons arrested in
England last year for debt, one.fonrth
were able but unwilling to pay.
Volcanic eruptions still continue in
Iceland, entailing great distress upon
the inhabitants of many districts.
The Detroit Post announces that the
fast mail train will consist of an engine
and tender and four postal cards.
The wheat crop in Poland is more
abundant and of better quality this
year than it has been for long time.
Bushrod Washington, a greatgrandson
of George Washington's brother Law
renee, is content to live in Watseka, III.
Gortschskof, the principal Russian
statesman, is not gent" He wears
an old-fashioned suit of brown, and has
but one article Of jewelry.
A visitor in South Park, Colorado, has
picked up curious piece Of stone which
on scientific examination is pronounced
to be petri6ed plug of tobacco.
General Pemberton, late Of the Con.
fedOrate States army, is now in the EN-.
ploy of the Pennsylvania railroad to
establish iron works at Amboy, N. ].
The King of Holland is summering in
Switzerland, and has habit of walking
about his garden in his drawers, with a
pipe in his mouth, before all passers.
Victor Emmanuel will preside in per-
son over the autumn maneuvers of his
army this month. Several French and
German officers have received permis
sion to assist at the show.
Governor Carver will be carved in
marble, together with Miles Standish
and Elder Brewster, the panel with these
figures to cost $SOOO-the gift of Con
necticut to Massachusetts.
Chinese and Italian laborers undertake
the most adventurous and dangerou,
Jobs at lower prices than any othel
workmen are willing to receive, Thi
is free world for underbidders.
A heartless Pittsburg coroner's jury
man remarks that if the numerous vic
tins of railway accidents there wert
washed before they're mangled it woulC
be much pleasanter for inquests.
Mrs. Snipe, Of Galveston, Texas, founc
her husband sitting on the sidewalk will
another woman and attacked him furi
ously, fastening her teeth id bis throa
and ALMOST tearing out his windpipe.
The floating coffin" Bremen, whicl
arrived at San Francisco, the other day
with twenty-five men sick, after havinI
buried thirteen at ses, belongs to Edwar
Bates, M. P, the great ship owner whor
Mr.. PlimsoIl SO holly denounced,