Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-14
FACTS AND FANCIRs.


Squirrels intest California.
Baltimore lives on ducks and terrapin.
California trade lags aud agriculture
prospers
Cotton raising in Missouri has proved
failure.
Minnesota women may vote on school
questions.
Scelye, Of Connecticut, is the bookish
Statesman Of the House
Louise M. Alcott calls John Swinton
the modern American Goldsmith"
The Boston Globe thinks New Eng
land has declined iu power by putting
inferior men to the front of affairs.
In Louisiana the death rate among
negro children is less than that among
white children; but in the case Of adults
the rate is excessive on the side of the
negroes
Mrs. Wiehaus, a German woman living
IL Lawrence, Mass, recently became
the .Nother of FIVE children at one birth,
and at last accounts mother and children
we're all alive.
Foster, o. Detroit, who saved so many
lives is calico "home-6red hsro;" but
Lewis, of the Detroit Free Press, every
day at noon, proves that he is home
made bread hero.
There is good deal in name in a
Presidential election. Buck and Breck,
"Tippecanos and Tyler too, are ia.
msus examples, How would these
sound2 Hendricks aud Lamar Blaine
and Bristow."
Mrs General Gaines has arrived in
Washington to attend to the prosecution
of suit before toe Supreme Court. She
says she has been. engaged in litigation
concerning her interests fortyefour years,
and spent three fortunes.
Professor Sumner, OF Yale, undertook
to cheer up Chicago recently with lee
ture on The Benefits of Hard Times,
but the unemployed thousands having
no money to buy tickets, he had to waste
his wisdom on crowd made up Of the
temporarily prosperous.
The earth, in round numbers, is 25,0OO
miles in circumference and 5000 10 diam
eter. The moon revolyes around it at
distance Of 24O, 900 miles. The average
velocity Of the earth in its orbit, is nine
teen miles second. The earth stands
third in distance from the sun, aud is
larger than Mercury, Venus or Mars.
Queen Victoria has revived the duke
dom of Gordon in the person of bis
grace the Duke Of Richmond, who in
herited Gordon Castle and the estates of
the last duke Of that name. Her Majesty
has further signi6ed her pleasure to
raise the Earl OF Abergavenny to the
dignity Of marquisate. to confer an
earldom upon Lord WharacEae, and to
bestow an English peerage upon the
Earl of Erne.
Emily Faithful, in Women and Work.
strongly censures those ladies who force
themselves into court-rooms where men
are undergoing trial for crimes Of blood
aud death. The article goes on to sayt
1T is one Of the ouriosities Of metaphys-
les that there is not unfrequently found
in the Centler natures latent cruelty
that can inaict or endure, and even like
to witness things from which harsher and
sterner natuJes shrink. . ss .
Is there in women, as sex,
anything Of this latent cruelty, this sub.
tie pleasure in the sight or the mental
contemplation Of human woe and weak
ness. that leads them in all ranks, from
the duchess TO the ooster-girl, to endure
any amount Of fatigue in order to be
present at criminal trialsl And,
alas that we should have to cay
it, the more unftfor the ears of women is
the evidence given, the more eagerly do
women, pure-miuded and upright throng
into the court and listen with rapt atten-
ton. Il women, care nothing for the
openly expressed disgust Of husbands
and brothers at their fondneSs for the de-
tails Of crime viii they not have some
respect for themselves, and for the sake
Of vonsnhcoi keep away from such eE-
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