Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-08-31
FACTS Ann FANCIES.

western nOOuluIuS bnlilh sOaplnS
abroad tracks fine sport.
Long Branch consumes over two
thousand pounds of fish daily.
Wisconsin produces 800, 600
bushels Of cranberries annually.
Salem, Mass, pays the workmen
IN her streets but one dollar a day.
There is half a million dollars in
vaults Of the su~b-treasury at
Boston.
An English nobleman at Sara
toga has three rooms, a valet and a
secretary.
Boston is to have a new social
club, which will be known as the
Marlborough.
Experiments at the torpedo sta
ton at Newport, R. l., have been
suspended until further orders.
VaSsar College is to have an ele-
vator, and the fair students won't
have to walk up stairs any more.
A variety actor at Los Angeles,
CAL, whilst practicing somersaults
the other day, fell on his head and
broke his neck.
The Danbury News thinks the
sublimity of moral heroism is vol
unfairly to pick out the poorest
ear Of corn in the dish.
It is now said that Thackeray
withdrew from the staff of Punch
rather than agree to assaults on the
character of Napoleon III.
A Baltimore retail dealer in coal
oil has been fined for selling an ar
ticle twenty degrees below the stan
dard of ignition by the law.
The municipal council of Paris
propose to change the name of Rue
Meslay, in which George Sand was
born, to that Of Rue George Sand.
The New York World thinks
fashionable ladies should be CRATE
full to King Canute, for it was he
who originally ordered the tide
back,
Valuable dogs don't live in New
ark, for out Of a total of 1000 ca
mines received this season at the
pound, less than 100 have been re-
deemed by their owners.
"This is not a dynasty" says
Senator Dick 0glesby, referring to
!, Grant government but there was
never yet an administration showed
such a proclivity for dying hastily.
1t is cad to see a man who has
waded through gore to rescue his
+ country from the grasp Of the ty-
rant so subdued after marriage
that even the flies take advantage
=, of him.
There is a man at Long Brancl
. who reads the paper, takes lunch
and smokes while swimming among
. the breakers. But he doesn't ligh.
the match on the seat of his panta
: loons.-- Worcester Press.
!. KuDosophy, the science of doc
= is the new word coined in Germany
aud the new branch Of learnin.
1 that is Illuminated by the eruditio.
of that country. A work on tn
! subject has just been published Il
. Stuttgart.
An old apple tree at York, Me
d which was brought over from Eng
o land in a tub in 1929, and Dor
fruit until within a few years, ha
y been cut down by its owner becaus
people trample down his grass il
le getting to it.
~ Some light tin pans, set up 0
i edge to dry in the sun at Bridge
id hampton, Long Island, the otht
day, reflected the heat with sue
intensity as to set fire to the 70,
% of a building upon which the sun
rays were focused.
The Councilmen of Virgin
>, City, Nevada, have won the graf
n tude of the canine race by enactir
a law imposing a fine Of not lie
than one dollar, or more than fly
II. upon any person who may be four
"backiug a dog up to a tin can
Bishop Coxe's daughter, who "
recently married at Buffalo, receiv,
VI from her husband $1,000, 900
e. bonds as a wedding present. O.
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