Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-12-04
FACTS AND FANCIES.

It is estimated that Paris has 10000
dressmskers.
In Norway drunkGrds are compelled
t. sweep the streets as penance.
Beecher and Tilton rode from Boston
to Maine in the same palace car, last
week.
DR.. Holland will oblige many readers
Of bis new story if he will kill off Mr..
Montgomery Glezen as early as he con-
veniently can.
Princeton College, in a circular to
Harvard, Yale and Columbia, asks them
to send delegates to Sprinfgeld, on the
23i, to ioem an International Football
Association
The Returning Board at Texas baby
show refused to act until they were
granted ten mi6utes to get out Of the
way of the mothers b,fore the opening
of their sealed verdict.
Fish are very plentiful in South Lick
ing this fall, aud angling ia very fine,
says the Cynthiaua Ky } News. This
comes from having an effective fish law
for the protection OF fish.
A boy in Carson City, Nevada, having
the other day insulted a party of Indi-
ans, the latter built bonfire aud ro sted
HIM over it till he received injuries which
R's supposed to be fatal.
The great maritime canal connecting
Amsterdam, Holland, with the German
ocean, was opened November 1t il
sixteen miles long, and has at the see
end an harbor covering $50 acres.
Great Britain is transferring her Gus
tom for tea to India more completely
year by year Last year 25,OOOOOC
pounds were imported against lS,OOO,0 0OC
the year before; the value Of the 1871
import being e2,2OO,OOO. =
| When a weak and trashy actress lkr
Janauschek is here, the Harvard studen
stays at home and minds HE books; bu
when q great and classic artist like Sol
dene appears, he improves the opportu
nity.-BOstOn Transcript
"E. Marlitt," the German novels
most widely read in this country, is eK
ceedingly deaf, and is one OF the mos
reserved and retiring Of persons. Sh
has hardly an acQuaintAoos In the littl,
town near Gotha, where she lives,
The Plains of Abraham have beel
leased to q private association, compose
! Of the leading citizens of Quebec, who's
intention is to lay out the ground as {
driving Dark, plant trees sSd etberwis,
embellish it, SO that it may eventually
become the public tark of the city.
An organ for List has just been fin
ished by an Eastern company. Although
small. it is said to have wonderful musi
cal capacity. 1t has been constructed
in some respects upon new principles
some OF the features having been sug
geSted by the great musician himself.
A naturalized Chinamau voted in Ii,
Fourth ward, San Francisco, on election
day. When challenged by the inspecto
he took or his bat and swore in his vot
like a Christian. The spectators wer
very anxious to know bcw be had voted
but he evidently regarded it as an impcr
/ tant State seers! aui answered no quel
tions.
Can it be true, as some aver, that tn
good old days are dead aud gone; tn
rich coloriug has faded ont of the war
and wool OF the past, and yet we rejoic
that it is still trle that pretty womal
cannot ride by her lovers side through
tunnel without emerging in a hat lha
! looks as if it had tesn struck b.
lightning1 Ceutennislite, VII! pleas
answer.
Patrick Donshoe, who for the last fort
' years bas been the publisher OF the Bel
ton Pilot, has obtained his discharg
from bankruptcy In his failure he CAV
up everything to his creditors, not eve
q reserving for his family house to liy
! in, The only branch Of his business LEI
. him is ths foreign exchange and passel
Q ger business, which be 10 nov earryin
j. on at the Pilot building,