Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-04-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.

What is it that a poor man has and a
rich man wants2 Nothing.
Dubuque besus have started the fashion
Of carrying their fair charges across the
muddy streets.
Zare T~halberg, daughter of the great
pianist, is to make her debut in London
this season in opera.
Miss Lucy A. Burnham has been
elected experimenting School Com.
mittee in Raymond, N. Il.
A Troy coroner can run a mile in FIVE
and a half minutes, even when the in
ducement is only a six shilling fee.
An ambitious Milwaukee wife has
named her first babe Zero, because it is
nothing to the number she expects to
have.
II always thought | should never rear
that child" said an OLD lady Of ninety
on hearing of the death of her son, aged
seventy.
MISS Emily Faithful has been %lectur-
ing to large audiences at Barton-on-
Huber, York and elsewhere in the north
of England.
A girl in %Susquehanna county, pretty
and not yet eighteen, recently sawed a
cord of wood in one hour and forty min
utes, each stick being cut twice. Her
mother bad told her she was fit for moth,
ing but to sit in the psrlor and read
novels, and she showed her if she wasn't.
During the late tourist season a travel.
er walked up to the bar Of a hotel in the
English lake district, and with a consid-
cradle flourish signed the visitors book,
and exclaimed, I'm Lieutenant Govern.
or Of -" That doesn't make any
difference said the landlord; you'll be
treated as well as the rest"
The Honolulu Gazette says a violent
snow storm visited Hawaii on the I'd of
March, covering the three stately sum
mits of the three mountains Of that
island. On the low lands it rained very
hard, and the lightning played brilliant
ly over the island, followed by incessant
clAps Of thunder. The next morning a
grand and beautiful sight was presented
the most beautiful ever seen in that
region-three mountains capped with
snow in the tropics.
During the great collapse Of 1857, a
gentleman of color kept a bank in a
Western city. His institution was ap.
psrently in a sound condition, but to be
in fashion with the white folks, he con.
cluded to fail. Next morning a man
came and shook the door, but a voice in.
side responded that de bank is closed" "
But the man replied that he had left a
new pair of boots there the day before
and wanted them. The fnancier opened
the door softly, and throwing out one
boot, remarked; I'VE is only paying Fifty
cents on the dollar,
A letter writer in Constantinople says.
One Of the p~erplexing things is the com
putation Of time. The Turks reckon
from the time of the flight of the prophet
from Mecca, and it takes 537 Turkish
years to make 52l Of our years. At sun.
set Of each day watches and clocks are
set to mark IL o'clock, and until the
twelfth hour after sunset the hands on
the dial indicate the time that has elsps'
ed since sunset. After that hour they
indicate the number Of hours that viii
intervene before sunset Of the next day
plus or minus the daily variation in thu
length of the days.
A practical joke was played on tn,
critic Of one Of the Paris papers at thu
last performance of 0rphee aux Enters
at the Gazette. Mile Angelo, who acte(
the part Of Venus, took oHense at somt
remarks made by the unfortunate scribe,
and vowed revenge. The critic, who oc
cupied a stall, did not for a moment an
ticipate the vengeance Of Venus, who, a
the end Of the first act, when the electri
light is turned on the inhabitants o
Olympus, who are about to visit the ter
~restrisl globe, Adroitly reflected the pow
erful rays of light int the very eyes Q
the journalist, by meant Of the steel min
/, ror she holds in her hand. The gods an
and goddssses on the stage were convuli
ed with laughter when they saw him try
ing to evade the binding rays Of ligh
shielding his eyes with his hand. an
hiding behind the seat in front Of him.