Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-08-25
FACTS n FAXCIES.

They have glut so many peaches in
the Eastern markets that they are
glutted.
You might as well try to stuff butter
down a wild cats throat with a hot .awl
as to force initiation on the people.
A Chicago chemist, owing to the nom
payment of his fee, refuses to return the
stomach of a dead man sent to him for
analysis. f.,
A considerable amount Of damage ia
being done in California by millions Of
squirrels, which abound and prey upon
the wheat fields.
We would like to know if there was
ever a horse race, boat race, or ans other
kind of a race. when the best time on
record was not made2
Little Alice Oates will get her divorce,
and then Tracy will conclude he was an
ass when he smashed her watch and
spanked her with a rubber oyershoe.
A question. before the California
courts is, Whether a woman is to be
considered a widow because her hus-
band is in the. State in prison for like"
ut has been discovered that the sweet
fern possesses valuable tanning proper
ties" We discovered, when quite
young, that a beach rod possesses the
same qualities.
King Oscar H., of Sweden, is added
to the list of noble and royal authors.
He has written Charles XII, as King,
Warrior and Man" which is pronounced
a highly cultivated, though sophistical,
defense Of his great predecessor. whose
headstrong blunders proved the ruin of
his kingdom.
An American shipiha8ter has been
fined flO, at the Liverpool police court,
for having been drunk and r%iotous, and
having a loaded revolver in his posses.
sion. The defendant seemed surprised
that carrying a revolver in the street
was considered any o%fense, and re-
marked that he never went without one.
A mummy of the period of the twenty
sixth dynasty vas unrolled by a doctor
OF the British Museum in July. It was
the property of the Duke of Sutherland.
The body was that of a woman Of adj
vanced age and was in a perfect condi
ton. The Duke has presented the
mummy to the Museum of the College
Of Surgeons.
Two members Of the English Parlia-
ment have made a novel wager; they
have agreed to meet each other at Yoko-
hama on the 10Th of September, at 2
pm, one to travel by the United States
and sail from San Francisco, the other
to go by way of the Isthmus of Suez and
India, and If either fails to keep the
appointment he is to pay the ether elOOO.
The following is a portion of an ad-
vertisement that lately appeared in a
London newspaper: This is a con-
trivauce which, if applied to the nose
for an hour daily, SO directs the soft car
tilage of which the member consists,
that an Informed nose is quickly shaped
to perfection. Any one can use them,
and without pain"
An American gentleman nov travel
ing in Scotland says: question if a
more beautiful sight can be seen in this
wide world than the fashionable prone
made of Princes street, Edinburg, Scot
land, any pleasant day about four O clock.
Let the spectator take his eyes from the
picturesque glories of that exquisite
landscape and fix them upon the more
beautiful Of nature works who pass him
by. What l admire about the Scotch la
dies is their healthy look and educated
faces"
The Dundee Advertiser publishes an
item of some interest to numismatolo-
gists. Having promised that money was
once coined in Dundee, this journal
states that the rarest specimen known of
the local mint is a unique half-penny Of
King Robert II, in very good preserva-
ton. 1t is the only one of that reign
known to be in existence, and is further.
the only still existing regal halfpenny
coined at Dundee in any reign. The
coin is not much larger than a herring
scale and only weighs seven grains.
A wealthy Arabian merchant has fur
nished a German journal some interest
ing information about Mecca. The
Grand Sheriff, he says, is richer than bis
master, the Sultan; he speaks French,
and has French dishes at his table, and
eats on the finest china, but never uses a
knife, fork or spoon. The furniture OF
his house is made in the European style,
and comes from Constantinople. Life
in Mecca during the pilgrim season,
when there are about 100, 900 pilgrims
in the town, is much more expensive