Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-17
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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Paducah, KY, is the latest as
for a public park.
Paris has nearly seven hundred
and fifty miles of sewers.
Germany has bought Schmidt's
chart Of the moon for $40, 900.
Louisville joins the list of cities
that complain of oyer-taxation.
Longlellow-"The sunshine of
life is made up of very few beams
that are bright all the time"
Oakland, Cal, opposite San Fran
cisco, aspires to be the great grain
exporting port of the Pacific, and
is likely to gain her wish.
Mr.. Winans' great organ at New
port, Rhode Island, is to be tried
this week. 1t is feared a great
many people will emigrate.
A Shelby (Ky.) man sent his
watermelons to market in a hearse.
Internationally sight it must
have BEEN Washington Star.
A new cotton press which has
just been put up in New Orleans
puts a pressure of two thousand
tons upon a single bale Of cotton.
A movement is on foot in Edin-
burgh to have a general review of
Scotch volunteers. A muster of
from 10000 to 10000 is expected.
Mayor Cobb, of Boston, recently
appointed on the police force of
that city a young graduate of Har-
ward College and Of the Harvard
Medical School.
A German countess at the Cliff
ton House, Niagara, last week, had
fifteen huge trunks, which stood
in the hall like a fortress of fnery
to excite the ladies.
Failure to report a case Of small
pox in San Francisco involves on
the part of the occupant of the
premises a penalty of $500, or six
months Imprisonment.
A Massachusetts, clergyman re-
ceived thirty cents for a marriage
fee the other day. The groom Of
fered him twenty cents at first, but
finally added ten, though times is
hard"
Wherever | 60" said an elderly
traveller the other day, 81 find men
wearing out their old clothes and
hats; but the ladies, without excep-
ton, have brand new and expensive
dresses"
California grape growers propose
manufacturing grape brandy, and
are DESTROYS that a bonded ware
house be established at San Fran
cisco to receive the producto of their
distilleries.
Henry Ammitt Brown has de-
cided, though hitherto strongly
Bristoadyish in his sympathies, to
take the stump for Hayes and
Wheeler. But Henry Dammit.
who's Brown :?
Sitting Bull has been attacked in
the rear. 1t is charged that he is
a renegade West Pointer, but the
evidences he has given of consum-
mate generalship completely refute
the allegation. -CbicaqO Times.
When a New York railroad COM
pany does not place drinking water
in its cars it is liable to a fine of
seyenty-liye dollars, half of which
sum goes to the informer and the
other half to the oyerseers of the
poor.
The introduction of female clerks
into the goods offices of the Lon
don and Northwestern railway, at
birmingham, have proved SO sue
cessful that the directors have been
induced to try the experiment in
! other large centers of traffic.
Prince Alexander, of the Neither
3 lands, has been initiated into Free.
Q masonry by Prince Frederick, the
Grand Master of the order. Prince
Frederick recently celebrated the
Sixtieth anniversary Of his investi
f ture as Masonic Grand Master fol
the Netherlands, apd was presented
!, by the brethren with a gold ham.
mer set with brilliants.
The Richmond Enquirer makes
. an appeal to all ex-Oonfederate,
who were in prison at Fort Lafay.