Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-14
FACTS AND FANCIES.

new loTk restaurant.
Dom Pedro was married at seventeen.
Always in a hurry.
Paris is crowded. There will be a
regular autumn season again this year.
Twenty thousand dollars will be the
cost of n piece ia the display of fire.
works at Delhi, upon the occasion of the
proclamation of Queen Victoria as
Empress Of India"
R. H. Ranney, an atheist, was buried
in Boston the other day with peculiar
services. Mr.. Abbott, Of the Index,
read selections from the Thoughts of
Autonius."
10 Wyoming Territory the officers
wives aud laundresses attached to the
regiments can vote, not being sworn in
to the United States service" but neither
officers nor soldiers can do so.
The Sheriff of Santa Clare county,
Cal, had twenty eight applications from
persons out Of work for the job lashing
a cOlored man in the Jail, sentenced to
be whipped Tor beating his wife.
-Four hundred thousand pounds Of
mustard seed we're harvested during the
summer in the Salinas Valley of Cali.
fornia, where Chinese farmers make the
cultivation of mustard their sole pursuit.
1t is nov proposed to introduce into
Ireland the narrow gauge railway sys-
tenn, being well adapted to many lccali-
ties there where vide gauge heavy lines
would be impracticable or too costly to
prove remunerative.
Arthur French, whose grandfather was
aid ae.camp to Queen Victoria's father,
whose uncle commanded the Sixth Ora
goons, and whose father was an Irish
country gentleman, died lately in Lon
don from exhaustion and starvation.
A Sacramento boy believed that an
t other boy shotgun was not effective at
long range, aud as proof allowed himself
to be shot at from a certain distance.
The entrance Of a handful Of shot into
. his skin convinced him that be had been
!, mistaken.
NJ. Marchal, a French naval officer,
estimates the relative strength of the
= war navies Of the European powers as
follows: If England be represented by
4 1000. France will be represented by 767,
q Germany by 334, and Italy by 255. The
a Turkish feet comes next, and the Rus
- sian, which Stands at 1873.
1t The women Of Germany held a general
l. congress at Frankfort in the early part
t. Of October, Eight reports were pre-.
d scented for discussion, including such
le subjects as prejudices, reform in women'a
education, woman in the family, the
literature Of youth, obstacles 10 the ex
y tension of woman's sphere, woman'I
r social influence, etc. There was much
n talk, but little action.
'e A French ship of 1000 tons burden i,
u loading with wheat at San Louis 0bispo
Cal. Two vessels have already beer
n loaded with wheat at San Pedro, aud al
II other has just arrived there to take il
u cargo. These three vessels have a ton
D. mage of $3.50 tons, and yet their com
ct bined capacity will not exhaust the sur
Ct plus wheat crop this year of the vale.
Of San Fernando.
Every young man in the Sioux natior
m carries q pocket mirror, either of glas
backed with quicksilver or of som
shining metal; but an Indian maid
not permitted to look at q reflection {
st her face, even in the brook, for this
Ve the masculine privilege. Almost ever
r. thing the Sioux brave owns is "waken,
or sacred; but nothing that the squa'
possesses is 30 esteemed.
The valley Of the Pc, embracing Pie,
us mont and Lombardy, is a marvel Of 81
c~essful irrigation. An agriculturi
authority estimates the irrigated suriat
we at 100000 acres. The increase on Il
b rental produced by irrigation is, at a vel
rA moderate estimate, $4,l5O,OOO a yea
rss The length Of canals of irrigation
Lombardy, including the great lizes 81
their irst.class branches exceeds 45I
~, miles.
OH Cider plays q great part in a Normi
Of wedding, Ayouug girl is seated upon
the full cask and sis must drink both t
ASA fret and the last glass il contained
order to be married within a year. 1t
fortunate for thegirl that she is not co.
tho PEELED to also drink oil the cider in t
q If eask between the FIRST and last glass
Tho Before tho job was half completed Z
/, Of would be apt to indulge iu eneh "
de- hilarity that her chances % getting
Isa. husband would be damaged fore,
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