Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-06
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

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fountains within her limits.
Queen Victoria tips one hundred
ana eighty ~pounds.-BOston Post.
Last summer was the hottest we
have had for about seyenty-6ye
years.
Speculative uptown lots in New
York have decreased fifty per cent.
in value within two years.
Macon, Ca, had a smart shock
Of earthquake the other day, and
shortly thereafter the clouds u.s.
semed a coppery hue.
Wagner's tickets were 1926 each,
and it is not yet ascertained that
any entelprising reporter sent in
an application for seventeen.
According to the recent report of
an English mining engineer, the
mines Of North Carolina are super
ior to any on the continent.
Happy New York has within a
radius of one hundred miles forty
nine summer resorts which are daily
accessible by steamboats, leaving her
wharyes.
The Texas Senate has passed a
bill approrriating $4,000 for a
painted portrait of General Robert
E. Lee, to be hung in the Senate
chamber.
The fertile Hungarian novelist,
Moritz Iokai, has published the
enormous number of one hundred
and sixty volumes but, not salts
fed with that number, is now COM
posing two new romances.
In a recent trial at San Francisco
a witness, upon being sworn to tell
''the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth" said, 81
can't tell the TRUTH" and inconti-
nently retired from the stand.
A Vermont son said at his mo-
theirs funeral that he and his father
were very much obliged to the peo-
pie who came, and ''we hope the
time is not far distant when we may
do the same for you"
An eminent New York physician
attributes much of the prevalence
Of diphtheria to the common prac-
tice of turning down the wicks Of
kerosene oil lamps until they emit
a strong smell Of oil.
Thousands of cords of timber are
annually used in the manufacture
OF cotton Spools, one mill in Maine
having turned out no less than 500
cords of wood for the purpose SO far
this season.
1t was an absent-minded Chicago
t man who, on his way to the bank
!. to make a deposit, stopped to mail
a letter, and instead of dropping it
, in the box dropped his handbook
and its contents into it instead.
Near Petersham, Conn, reside a
community of twenty Fullerites.
whose belief is somewhat similar to
> that OF the Adventists. They live
: on 1arlnaceous food, dress plainly
t and profess to have direct divine
guidance.
7 In consequence of their refusal
| to submit to the new Russian law
: in the fermer kingdom of Poland.
{ by which all the officers of justice
a are bound to learn Russian, one
thousand officials have been dis.
e missed from their situations.
t A Wisconsin school-teacher haC
revenge when the Board cut heI
+ salary down. She whipped every
scholar in the school, destroyed
: four maps, carried off the keys
and in the lawsuit which followed
e she beat the Board badly.
" When a woman gets into a Grove
/ she always carries her para8ol in tn
most awkward position possible
: and as her wrath rises with ever,
revolution she is obliged to make
it is a fine study in phy8iognomy +
watch her face when she reache
"
the period Of greatest doubt as t
whom to hit Brooklyn Argus.
@ The Charleston Courier has mad
the astounding discovery chat ther
d are two distinct breeds of mosqui
E, toes. one Of which comes in tn