Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-01
FACTS N

fashionable Berlin skates awkwardly
on the lakes of the Thiergarten in thai
city.
Isabella Wallace. claiming descent
from Sir William Wallace, the Scottish
hero, died recently in England, aged lO1
years.
Some burglars who broke into the
office of the Guardians of the Poor, al
Pittsburgh, considerably left a note be
hind them stating hat they had been
unable to open the. safe.
By the death of the widow of Sir
Francis L. ChantrOy, the sculptor, an
estate worth $4,000 0 goes to the zen.
couragement of British fine art in point.
ing and sculpture only"
1t IS proposed in Pitts5urg that the
city gauger shall in future include beer
barrels in his survey, as complaints are
made that the barrels frequently con.
tain less than the brewers profess.
The experiment ofintroducing English
hares in Australia has proved most sue
c%essful. Coursing has become "a colonial
sport, hares are plentiful, and English
greyhounds of the best blood have been
imported.
The largest telegraph pole in the coun-
try is said to be the one just erected in
New York to SUPPORT the wires center
ing in the new Western Union Telegraph
Company's building. 1t is ninety.three
feet high, rising much above the sur
rounding buildings, and is from a tree of
California growth.
a gentleman whose house was repair
ing went one day to see how the job was
getting on, and observing a quantity Of
nails lying about, said to the carpenter,
Why don't you take care of these
nails9 They'll certainly be lost" mo
fear Of that" was the reply; you'll
find them all in the bill"
The British Great Northern railway
recently killed a Mr.. Pym-a descendant
of Long Parliament Pym-and had to
pay $4,000 to his widow. Pym was
tenant for life" of an income of
SEA OO, and his death left his widow
without resources, so that the sum, large
as it seems, is only an assessment of
three years on the victims life.
A reward of $4,000 gold is offered
through a New York publishing house
for a copy Of a book published in Lon
don in 1890. The book contained some
Objectionable passages concerning a
member of the royal family, and it was
suppressed, but a single copy mysteri-
ously disappeared and is supposed to
have CONF to this country.
A Missouri legislator, hearing that a
number Of his constituents we're about
to present him with $7Oo worth of plate,
was so conscientious and high.minded
as to refuse the gift in a letter concluding
as follows: II am, and always have
been, opposed to public displays to
officials in the way of presents, addresses,
etc. If you have concluded to do any.
thing of the kind give it to NY wife,"
An aristocratic but economical ma.
tron in Chicago has bought a forty-cent
tea bell and invented a paragon of ser.
wants, whose only imperfection is her
deafness, When she has company at
tea, the mistress rings and rings for the
cake basket, or more hot water, or some
thing then, with the remark that Jane
gets deafsr and deafer every day, goes
for it herself and returns, maintaining a
Tentriloquial conversation with the imar.
mary Jane all the way up the basement
stairs.
That portion of Washington society
which entertains and is entertained, is
about shrinking from the exorbitant
charges made and poor service rendered
by the vast army OF colored help whose
assistance is evoked at balls, parties and
receptions. The Introduction of white
walters and caterersis one of the reforms
proposed by n portion of the much
disguised entertainers, whilst another
portion, more radically inclined, recon-.
mend the introduction of Japanese and
Chinese.
The supply of black walnut lumber is
reported to b. greatly diminished. A
Cleveland, Ohio, paper says; Kentucky
has quite a stock of good walnut, and
much that il very inferior on account of
its gray color and tough hard texture.
Missouri also has some Of rather al. in.
ferior quality. Western Ohio claims
good walnut, but hat of Eastern Ohio
and West Virginia is poor in quality.
The whole stock of the States is not
equal toa full demand for ten years to
come. Furniture manufacturers do not
use it as lavishly as they did five years
ago. Other woods are substituted when
possible, and 1000 feet Of walnut are
made to go al far again as it did a few
years ago.
The King OF the Lobby .
From the Chicago Timesl
After several winters in Washing.