Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-23
FACTS mi FAsCIEs.

OACOA Jul biCo 1Ctdu III NCN lOIh
for twelve cents per pound
Theodore Tilton and his daugh-
tiers have been visiting the Exposi-
ton.
0ffenbach is at work on three
operas to be produced in Paris next
winter.
Long Dog is Sitting Bulls chief
Of staff.
-Four million barrels of flour are
required to feed the people of New
York for one year.
Olive Logan is still praising
Grant. Cardiff-no, we mean Con-
s%tancy, thy name is Olive.
Lake Superior has a citizen who
is a poet, a scholar, a merchant, the
owner Of a museum, amineralogist,
a botanist, a hunter and a taxider-
mist.
An economist calculates that the
wasted forces in nature are sufi-
Gent in the aggregate to keep the
entire machinery Of the world in
motion for 100000 years.
The jewels of the late Sultan of
Turkey have been pledged for two
thirds their value at the Mont.de-
Pete in Paris. The amount lent
on the iewelry was $2,497,600.
The London Milk Journal says
that a pint of milk heated a little,
but not boiled, taken every four
hours, will check the most violent
diarrhea, stomach ache, incipient
cholera and dysentery.
The Graphic, having given the
world a picture of the Hayes fam
lily tomb, now produces the Wheeler
cemetery lot. A cheerful publica-
ton like the Graphic is worth
many votes to a Presidential ticket.
Rockport, Mass, appropriates
the proceeds of her tax on dogs to
the purchase Of books for her pub
lie library, and thus makes lovers
of the canine species pay for the
literary entertainment of the other
citizens.
Most Rome dogs sit in the back
yards and howl all night, so that
people will know they are not away
anywhere killing sheep. A man
has to own 1929 sheep before he
appreciates the grandeur of such
conduct. Rome Sentinel.
A grand ball, Sin honor of the
memory of General Custer" was
given at White Sulphur Springs,
r West Virginia, the other night.
Strange way hat of honoring a
dead mans memory by metaphor
cally dancing over his grave.
There is exhibiting in Cincinnati
an artificial chicken hatcher. 1t
consists of a large glass box, hold
ing 400 eggs on wire trays. The
temperature is regulated so accu-
rately that it seldom varies half a
degree from 100. The invention is
SAID to be a success,
"Steam is a great thing" re.
marked a traveller in a railroad cal
to his yis-a-yis. $50 it is" was the
reply; 81 owe my fortune to it.
A Monsieur is manager of a com.
> pany?' "No." can engineer, per
haps?" "No, l have lost a mum
: Der of relatives by railroad acct
d dents"
), An old woman in California re
n fused to allow a railroad corporation
to lay rails through her property
The track layers took advantage O
u Sunday day on which she coul,
not appeal to the courts-and pu
e down the rails. She was outwitted
but not defeated. When the loco
d motive came along over the brancI
line she took up a position on tn
track and wonld not stir. Tn
locomotive backed and left her a
y her post,
le A Paris paper publishes the fol
e, lowing Scene--a telegraph ofic
y
s. in Vienna-the operator, lookin
to at his watch, says "Too bad
s. cannot go to the concert tonight.
oy "Why not ?" asks a companion
a 81 am waiting for dispatches frOI
ct Belgrade, and they don't turn Il
n. till midnight" Have yOu Cor
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