Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-05-24
FACTS AND FASCIEs.
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trapping mere anu tnere.
All Philadelphia brows now bulge.
1t takes Kentucky to put an emperor
neatly uRder ground.
Munich has an institution known rs
A Nursery for Statesmen and Diplo.
matists."
It comes from the Pacific sleeping
coaches that Dom Pedro's respiration is
very audible.
A prominent poulterer in Montreal
was fined $40 recently for plucking a
fowl while ) it was still alive.
A Michigan newspaper reporter de-
scribed a girl whom lie met at a ball as a
" bewitching and graceful little toad"
Baron Simeon Sina, one of the richest,
if not the richest, man in Austria, has
just died, leaving a fortune Of $35, OOO,-
900.
A fash Of lightning at Chesire, Mass,
tore holes in the ground all about a
farmer and the COW he was milking, and
then knocked both down.
A city ordinance in San Francisco
forbids sleeping in a room containing
less than FIVE hundred cubic feet Of air
to each occupant. Twelve Cinnamon
we're some time ago arrested for VIC
lating it.
1t is proposed in Charleston, S. c., to
organize an expedition to discover the
grave of General Moultrie, the hero of
Fort Sullivan, who died in 1906. Al
though buried in the family graveyard,
the remains cannot be found.
Verdi is not so mach attached to Paris
as a place of residence as we're Belliui,
Rossini, Donizetti and Meyerbaer. He
prefers rather to pillow his paternsl acres
on his native Lombard plains and come
home at night with the oxen and wooden
pillow.
The Shakespeare Club of Birmingham,
England, has probably the most extern
sive Shakspearean library in Great Brit
ain. Several valuable additions have
been msde to it during the past year,
and a careful catalogue published ex-
tending to 2l0 pages.
A Japanese editor, on being ordered
to prison: II, untalented mortal, am
ready to 60 to prison. l respectfully
submit to my punishment. Now the
spring is coming, and the flowers Of the
cherry trees on the Sumida river and a.
, Todai are attracting many visitors
: The practice Of scalping is not pecu
, liar to the American aborigines. South
all, in his Recent Origin Of Man.
quotes from Rerodotus to show that the
7. S~eythians uaed to scalp their fallen enc
mics. In the present time the wilC
9 tribes of northeastern Bengal use thu
scalping knife.
Experiments made by the Austrian
u government have showR that up to "i
u twelve knot" speed q stern-propelle,
craft continues to sink below its stand
ing water level, but above that speed i
10 rises rapidly; a vessel at the speed o
" twenty knots" rising extraordinaril
toward the surface of the water.
!. A resident of Texarkana writes to sa.
:, that his town is situated in both Texa
and Arkansas, and that it is near Lou
isiana. The name of the place is formeI
= from the names of the three States; thus
Tsx.ark.ana. The people her deserv
infinite credit for not perpetrating tn
IN customary idiocy Of naming it after som
other town.
A young lady, when invited to partak
eff the pudding, replied: mo; man
IL many thanks, my dear madam. By n
80 manner of means. / have already il
dulged the clamorous calls of a crayin
appetite, until the manifest sense of a
internal f~ullness admonishes my stay
s, my deficiency is entirely and ~satisfa
torily satisfied"
A Paris woman has perfected o ne
method of picking pockets. She ente
the omnibus with a very pretty an
beautifully-dressed baby, seats herse
close to the likeliest passengers, an
e, works under cover of baby's amp
drapery, After succeeding she pinchC
4. the baby, SO that it cries fearfully, an
leaves the omnibus suddenly to bu
nd candy for it.
/, California has $500, 900 acres of whe'
this year, and expects a yield Of $4,000
600 bushels. The sale of agriculturi
in implements and sacks is immense, Il
sS export trade still refusing to ship whe
: in bulk. 1t is said that London unde
writer's are requiring the Baltic shi
masters to take their cargoes partly
sacks, and that the general tendency
maratime practice is against bulk shi
Re ments.
Some Of the honest farmers of We
erD Pennsylvania have been Discovers
=, in the manufacture Of Welt and fox ca
=, from colt hides, on which they cole
large bounties from the local treqsur,
The same result has been reached in
different way by the honest farmers
Central Illinois, who, before the be-