Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-12-29
FACTS AND FANCIES.

France and England have had very
cold weather.
Gone into liquid-atioa-The Bank of
Brandywine.
1t is now proposed to uniform all the
London cabmen.
London has society which does free
washing for the sick and irfrm.
-Four newspapers published in PsF;s
are devoted exclusively to hair-dressing.
An exhibition Of specimens of needle
work, done in the public schools of Lon
don by the girls, has lately been held in
that city.
The Russians are beginning to turn
their attention to the advantage of con-
Meeting St. Petersburg with China by
means Of q telegraph across Siberia,
Egypt will probably soon become an
important exporter Of salt to India.
Since the lst Of May last 5000 tons OF
that article, produced at Suez, have been
sent to Calcutta
The German Parliament refused to sit
one day recently on account Of the cold.
1t appears they can warm the house and
they can ventilate it, but they cannot dc
both at the same time.
The police authorities at San Francisco
have made their first raid on the opium.
smokers, and will continue the crusad e
till they have broken up all dens fre.
quented by white people.
Colonel Valentine Baker has been
employing his prison hours by writing
the account Of his personal experiences
in the Russian campaign against Khiva.
The book is soon to be published.
New instruments for instantaneous
slaughtering Of cattle have been tried at
the Bradford, Yorkshire, abattoir with
success. They we're lent by the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
Chicago Times: !" If you don't want
your wife to bother you every day with
the remark Don't forget that worsted,
just mention to her the pretty girl who
tends the worsted counter where you got
the last.
1t is common thing to speak OF the
posterity Of Adam as the human fam
ily," but when it comes to the reading Of
rich mans will, we don't pan out as
brothers and sisters so much as you
would suppose.
Tenders are invited by the Lords Of
the British Admiralty for raising the
Vanguard. The ship is to be raised
whole, not in pieces, and payment is to
be lump sum, not percentage on the
value of the ship.
A reporter in Paris in looking up the
particulars Of murder, got into the
wrong apartment and was nearly
smothered with kisses by an emotional
pair who mistook him for their returned
son, who had been absent twenty years.
According to AristOphenes, the Gre
clan Artemus Ward, man was once both
man and woman. The partition which
resulted in the institution of distinct
sexes is attributed to the absence Of
shirt-studs and the frequent recurrence
of wash-day.
He bent over her tenderly as she sat
at the piano, and. putting all his soul
into bis voice, sang few bars Of that
ever-fayOrite hymn, Nearer to Thee, y
She raised her eyes to his face, and all
that seemed to strike her was The size Of
his mouth,
A great storm has been experienced
at Gibraltar, in which scarcely road or
street escaped damage. Many houses
we're burst open by the force Of the
water, which, in some cases, was eight
feet deep in the lower stories. Two
vessels were wrecked, with a loss Of
fifteen lives.
A Telegram from Vienna to London
states that snow has been falling inOes-
sanity The trains to Italy and Hun.
gary are stopped, aud the stations tenn
porarily closed. In Vienna the Police
are taking special precautions to prevent
accidents from the snow in the streets.
In some Of the country districts the snow