Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-10
FACTS AND FANCIES.


usually large wheat crop.
Life is stormy and dangerous voy
age. The vessel we start in-our era
dle-is childhood first rock,-Punch.
The married ladies Of a Western city
have formed a Come.hom husband. Club.
1t is about four feet long, aud has a brush
on the end Of it.
The British Admiralty have ordered
the immediate construction of six steel
corye,tes to serve as cruisers in the
Pacific and Chinese waters.
At the recent session of the Working.
mems Congress, in Paris, q woman was
chosen secretary, and three women made
abe speeches on the subject of woman's
labor and her rights. They were warmly
applauded,
In introducing General Fitzhugh Lee,
who is a famous disciple of the gentle
Isaac, at the Lynchburg fair, the other
day, Jubal Early said that at the close
of the war General Lee had turned his
sword into a fshing.hook.
The paroxysmal kiss" so famous in
recent local legal and ecclesiastical his
tory, finds its co%uhterpartin Mr.. Raspails
book on natural history, where be says
of the spider that its marriage is an act
Of frenzy" the spasm Of a kiss"
1t Is rumored in England that before
Parliament meets again the membership
will have been given up by Lord Bea-
consGeld. Sir Stafford Northcote will
probably be First Lord and Mr.. Ward
Hunt Chhacellor of the Exchequer.
Ga the second Wednesday in Novem.
Der en- oratorieal contest will be held in
Holcombe Hall, LyDchburg, Va, by
representatives of Washington and Lee,
Hampden, Sydney, William and Mary,
Roanoke, Emory, and Henry Colleges,
the prize being a $50 gold medal.
"0h, mamma, that's Captain Jones
knock l know be has come to ask me
to be his wifer' well, my dear, you
must accept him" But l thought yea
! hatel him sol" Hate himl / do--so
much that intend to be his mother in.
law" Revenge is sweet, especially to
women.
A welding occurred a few day arc &C
CorintA, Miss, in which the groom was
q German Catholic, the bride an Ameri-
can Presbyterian, the attendant a Bap-
!. fist, the clergyman an ~Episcopalian, and
the ceremony was performed in the
). Methodist Church, before a mixed as
sembly.
/. An interesting discovery is reported
from Europe, to the effect that a short
way to China has been found around
Sweden and Russia, This discovery, if
true, is all the more singular since the
hope of getting to China and India in
this way has been long since abandoned
as q dream, after the loss of the lives Of
many eminent nsTlgators, and the waste
Of vast numbers of vessels aud materials.
But the great results of this discovery
upon the commerce of the world, if the
news be confirmed, can scarcely be esti-
mated.
Turkish court etiquette has undergone
a great change during the last three
months. First, at q recent interview the
Sultan bowed to Mr.. Forster, M. p, ana
remained standing, looking attentively
in his face during the whole Of the inter-
d view. Formerly the Sultan was invari.
ably seated; a bow was never accorded
even to q Grand Yizier, and the only
u salute eiven was a regard which lasted
about Eve seconds.
Daring the progress of a FIRE in Que
bee, not long ago, two boys, who we're
a watching it from a cliff, lost their bal.
ance and fell over. One of them was
caught in a small tree, and chung there
till he was rescued. He need not have
rs had all that trouble, however, for the
y other one, who tumbled the whole dis
lance to the bottom, about 200 feet, was
picked up unir Probably neither
p one of them will get near the edge Of
s. high cliffs very soon again.
A young man named Collins went to
Cherokee county. Ala, and after making
ne love TO the sixteen-yesr-old bride Of a
ng sixty-year resident, eloped with her.
ng The old man procured a carte de visite
Of Collins, saddled his horse, and for two
years tracked the couple over the States
t. Of Mississippi, Alabama, North and
South Caroline, and into Georgia, where
as he met Collins at Jonesboro aud had him
at. arrested. Collins refused to say where
the wifs was, and was sentenced TO the
I'd chain-gang for twelve monthG The old
&c man is still securing the country il
search OF his {" moor Mary