Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
The cent coin is a convenient mea-
sure of length. -Four cents placed edge


The cent coin is a convenient mea.
sure Of length. -Four cents placed edge
to edge measure just three inches.
One Of the spouts Of Lotsa's San
Francisco fountain will be eight feet
seven inches from the base, commemo-
rating the greatest altitude Of her kick.
Now let the fearless Sheridan tremble.
The Dubuque Lyceum, after a stormy
debate, have decided that the govern
ment erred in sending troops to LOUISE
ana. B.
70 live loved before" said a Detroit
woman to her fourth husband, as she
took a handful Of hair from his head
because be objected TO hang out the
weeks washing.
During the four years of civil war still
raging in Spain, Madrid has never for
one single night closedii its various places
of amusement, the tSeaters especially
having been kept going at full blast.
Texas sends us this shooting intelli.
gence: " In the town of Emory two
absurd young men were firing crackers
in a grocery, where they were stopping
ore night, and a man in the next room,
fancyipg they we're shooting at him took
his gun and fred away, wounding both
the pyrotechuists.
The city marshal Of Salem, Massachu-
sets, is required to wear the shoulder
straps of a Brigadier General. The
banditti of the place look upon him with
reverential awe as he strides the prinei
pal street, and the small boy breaks for
the least freQuented Of the suburbs when
ever he is seen to approach.
In January, 1870, NJ. Margolidet-as
an experimental natural history-plaeed
q frog in a hole dug in a solid stone, and
closed and hermetically sealed the open
ing. On the 18th of last month the
stone was opened at the Museum Of Nat
ural History, in Paris. The frog was
living, but not lively.
An upright man, who does not want
to be set down as a suicide or a murderer,
or both, should beware how he goes to a
drug store and asks for FIVE cents worth
Of strychnine. 1t is much eaaier to en-
dure the ravages of four or FIVE hundred
rats than to encounter the terrible eye
Of a druggist who thinks he understands
human nature.
Mrs. Seiaete, of Cleveland, Ohio, who
used to have strange adventures as a
Union spy, and who served in General
Burnsides' division, is having trouble
with her two husbands. The second
husband has a watch which the frat one
lays claim to, and the ex.spy threatens
to push things to the bitter end if the
claimant persists in his efforts to get
possession Of the time-piece.
While DR.. Horton, of New York, was
kneeling to straighten the zinc under a
stove which he had just put up, a colored
chambermaid attacked him with a sluDg
shot, knocking him over and c~onsidera-
bly, damaging his head. He managed to
rise and wrest the weapon from her, but
she escaped before she could be arrested.
She had been in the house only ten days,
and, finding that she was to be discharg-
ed, took this method ofletting the doctor
know what she thought Of him.
Sister Tbeodosis, oil the Hospital for
Incurables in Paris, who is now ninety
years of age, has just had a new and
complete set Of teeth given her by ma
ture. The case is more remarkable as
it makes the third set Sister Theodosia
has had in addition to the ordinary two
sets common to humanity. When she
a forty.seven and again in her sixty
fourth year new sets, complete AID per
feet, developed themselves in her jaw.
The attention of the French Academy
of Sciences will be drawn to this extra
ordinary fact by NJ. Gianbattests, the
physician in charge Of the hospital.