Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-26
X. WI RTMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor.
ACT N FANCIES.

Trinity College, Dublin. possesses a
harp dating back to the eleventh century.
Ii is said to be the oldest one Of the kind
in the world.
Pennsylvania has 7O7 newspapers and
periodicals, Is being daiIies. The aggre-
gate yearly circulation Of these p~ublica-
tons is stated at s .73S,52O.
At the latel election 10 Ohio a vote
vas taken on a constitutional amend
ment authorizing the Legislature to enact
a law imposing a tax OF dogs.
The three wonders Of the world at
preseDt-how huG accumulateS in vest
pockets, where pins go to, and why when
q msa comes out Of a salooa he looks
one way and goesthe other.-New York
Times.
A reed cane aged 900 years Ia to go
from Binghamton, N. Y, to the Centen-
NAL. 1t is said to have been the prop
srty of Prince HoGsll the Good, Of
Wales, from whom the present owner is
de- csndei.
loan Sin Miller is evoking more myste-
rious mel,>dies froa HE we'll .sirummed
Tyre:
.. n a1f
As a. wlv sunk The clo,,d payiiiohed sun, !.
And when The nieht ON hill and plain had
duly dwelt. um
In Samoa. the new kingdom by the
sea, the constitution provides that after
the expiration of seven years. when the
people are accustomed to the ballot and
realize the sanctity OF the election"
they may change the monarchy into a
republic.
Mr.. SERGEANT Ballantine, the distin'
guished English barrister, has been re-
tanned to defend the prisoner Vain
wright, accused of numbering Harriet
Lane, whose dead bcdy was recently
found cut up in parcels in the prisoners
possession.
The-population Of Jerusalem is very
A~uctuating, being much larger at the
season Of annual religious feasts than al
! other times. The average population is
| estimated at lS,0e0. The Mohamme-
dams are the masters, but the Jews are
in the majority.
Mrs. Mary Bassett, M. D., is said tC
have an annual income of $4,000, de
rived from her professional work in
! Cooperstown, n Y. She has met witt
! prejudice and lived it down by faithful
work, with batter persecution, and hal
ignored it altogether.
The Dominion Government promises
that the new Welland canal shall be fin
ished in time for the navigation seasoI
Of 1877. The whole line Of the cana
will havesixteen feet Of water, and th,
locks will be two hundred aud eighty fee
long and forty-siK wide.
Grandfather Longlegs has been dis
covered in the act Of dining on the lal
vac of the pestiierous potato bug. Al
eeady endeared to mankind by his read
mess to indicate the direction taken b,
the lost bovine, this new usefulness vii
more than double his popularity.
An odd thing has happened to q Pari
reporter. While looking mp Tie psrticv
lars of a murder he got into the wron
apartment and was nearly smothere
with kisses by an emotional old pair VIII
mistook him for their returned son, VIII
had been absent for twenty years,
The music in elevenEpiscopal churcht
in New York costs yearly about $59,4OO
Trinity church leads with an annual e.
penditure Of $4,000. In i've Roma
Catholic churches of that city, the a
! uual outlay for music is $l6,5OO. II
; expenditure for music, annually, in a
. the New York city churches is over ha
. a million OF dollars.
Orestes A. Brownson, irst a Presb
/, %terian, next a Uniyersalist, then Il u
tartan, and finally a Roman Gatholi
having since 1874 conducted Brow
sons Catholic Review" discontinued
publication with the number for Oct
L ber-not from lack Of support, he sa
r. in that number, but on account Of |
1 precarious health and the failure Of J
eyer.