Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-17
FACTS AND FANCIES.


81, 1000 to the Washington Monument
Association.
A rabid dog, near Hartford, in a run
Of ten miles bit thirty-one dogs, and all
have been killed.
A Paris gardener hung himself from
q weeping willow, his feet touching clus-
ters of immortelles.
Mrs. Meyer, of Strausstown, Pa, who
is eighty years Of age, walked seven
miles to lead a dance.
Santa Anna was younger than we sup
posed. but he was wise enough to buy a
monument for himself and keep it handy.
When the Newark, N. j., police picked
up Mary Bavior for begging, they found
$4,000 in her garments. Her fine was
$50 so.
1t is estimated that this hard.up and
impoverished country burned $40, 600, 900
worth Of fireworks and other stuff on the
Fourth.
1t may be interesting to agri~culturists
to know that this is the centennial year
Of the introduction Of the Hessian fly
into this country.
The Louisville Ledger perceives in
Hayes letter of acceptance 1.-THE re.
spectacle stupidity of a respectable acct
dent who means to do right"
In France, out of a population Of
3 5000, 900, only two millions live on the
revenue OF accumulated wealth, the bal
auce depending on the produce of labor.
The island of Barbados is in a bad
condition. The population is too large,
there being but half an aero Of land 10
each person, and no ource Of wealth
but agriculture.
The members of .three churches close
to the beer garden which 0fenbsch
opened in Philadelphia, are trying,
through the courts, to compel a closing
OF it on Sunday.
The Professor Of Medicine at King
College, London, recommends to a tota'
change Of diet without the aid Of medi
cine, as an eficacious method of treat
ing nervous diseases.
DR.. J. R. Nichols, a Boston chemist
says that he has never found a trace o
stry chime in whisky, and that tits
mistaken notion to suppose that it il
ever used by distillers."
The new Sultan, on taking possession
found nineteen hundred cooks in tn.
, palace, but for certain Oriental reason
confined his diet to boiled eggs until h
reorganized the kitchen bureau.
If gold should decline in value lk
: silver, Rothschild would want the Anne
leans to pay their bonds in gas stool
d and, unless watched, his agents migi
J, quietly secure the necessary Legislature
People may say what they pleas
about Grant, but it is true that the for
decorations at the White House hay
, never been what they were before Il
: bios o. Babcock was forced into
cruel exile.
n Mr.. Benham of Madison, Ind, notice
6 a large snake coiling around the bong
of an apple tree in which a pet dove We
rearing her young. He killed the snakI
and in it the dove and her brood wei
s found still alive.
Sothern has stopped his engagemer
in Philadelphia, though the city will g
! ways be a sunny spot in his memor,
Nobody from Calcutta need ever try
tell the biggest story about the thermou
= eter when he is around.
Punch has a cartoon representa-
Jonathan and John Bull tearing
n pieces the E~xtradition Treaty, and Ju
tice interposinE with the words, Sto
gentlemenl You've both Of you tt
many rogues loose to do without that
n The opposition papers are willing
give Lieutenant Fred credit for the on
IS fight be seemed anxious to participa
1t in. That was when he led the attack
n West Point Cadets against Smith, Il
a colored member Of that institution.
Boston Post.
The Monument of Victory erected
Berlin, Prussia, the pedestal of whit
was dedicated about five years ago,
. now nearly completed. 1t is believ
N that it will be finished on the anniversa
re of the birthday of the Emperor William
father, which occurs August 3.
ut When Mrs. Smith, of New Bedfol
Gang in "Ruy Bias" at the Theatre Be
mi, Sicily, "she was called before t
curtain sixteen times, seventy.ive be
De quets were thrown to her, and eight
s. tie birds let Loose in the flowers" T
ly appearance of zone manager in the
OF statistics would outweigh the other
ures.
A New Haven carriage maker h
:. just finished a cabriolet for a missiona
in India, with an extension top, so Il
:. it can be converted into a covered cou
N at night. 1t will be drawn by sacr
white oxen; a box for the driver is p
vided where the whifiletre usually is, a