Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-20
Q AMI FANClEs.


Valuable pearls have been found latelJ
in the Winooski river, w.
Besides the children, the gates of THU
country have $4,000. 900 cows to contend
with.
Freemasonry is a %penitentiary offence
in Porto Rice. A man with opinions Of
bis own might about as we'll tryt 0 live
in Illinois or Iowa.
The Rev. Robert Collyer, in his Boston
lecture, ridiculed a boy who didn't want
to dance. The Rev. Robert is popular
Chicago divine"
Spelling Bees" have become quite
fashionable in Australia, The Sydney
News of a recent cate devoted an entire
column to an account of the first
spelling bee ever held" at that place.
The Lynchburg (Va.) Republican re.
ports squirrels migrating southwark in
large numbers, saying that they may be
seen above and below the city, just before
nightfall, crossing the river in their bark
boats, using their tails as sails when the
wind is favorable.
They thought they had a small sea
serpent the other day at Jacksonville,
Florida. 1t was swimming in the sea,
and its evolutions we're considered
graceful. 1t passed through a school of
porpoises and a flock of pelicans with
out paying any attention to them, and
directed its course to the shore, where it
was killed, proving to be a rattlesnake
hoary with age and of great size.
The following is published as actually
engraved on a tombstone in Chautauqua
county, N. Y:
Neuralgia worked on Mrs. Smith
Till meath the sod it laid her;
She was a worthy Methodist,
And served as a crusader.
Friends came, delighted at the call,
In plenty Of good carriages;
Death is the common lot of all,
And comes more oft than marriages.
Apropos Of the introduction Of our
fast mail trains, which make on an aver
age 40 miles an hour, it may be said
that, after all, as compared with English
railroad travelling, the time is not so re-
markable. For instance, the Scotch
mail makes 3SS miles, from Edinburgh
to London, in nine and a half hours, the
actual.running time being a little Inside
OF eight hours, or at an average speed Of
fifty miles an hour.
Sea gulIs are caught alive in an
unique way at Mount Desert. A stick is
put through the tail of a small fish and
then it is left upon the seashore where
it can be seen by the birds. They then
seize and attempt to swallow it head FIRST,
and succeed remarkably well until they
come to the stick, when a stop is made.
They cannot swallow it farther, and it is
equally impossible to raise it, and SO
they choke, strangle and fall over, when
they are captured.
a Shelby (Ky.) paper is responsible for
the statement that a young lady was
recently married in that locality who was
so exceeding modest when the hour for
tying the matrimonial moose arrived that
she had to be tied to the bedpost until the
ceremony was performed. She was per
fectly willing and DESTROYS Of wddeing
the man Of her choice, but the idea of
marrying in the presence of any one else
was more than her modesty could stand;
hence the necessity of tying her.
A census of the beggars of Paris,
which has lately been taken, gives the
total number at $3.50, of whom 25,48O,
are women, 1880 men, 1860 girls and
1870 boys. They are distinguished
under the following heads: The mendi-
csnts who do not demand money, the
disguised beggars who sell matches, pins
and buttons, and the beggars of the
Barriere, who are always dying of star
walton, looking for their parents, moan
ing the loss of their employers money,
etc.