Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-06-27
FACTS AND PASCIEs.

The female nine at Vassar call them.
selves the BalLbriggans.
There are 10000 children living on
bOatsin England, who receive no educa-
ton.
a woman in Macon, Ala, had twins
twice, and then triplets, and after the
last lot her husband ran away, and has
not returned.
The Lord Bishop of Newfoundland,
Right Rev, Edward Field, b D. died in
Hamilton, Bermuda, on Thursday, June
9Th, at the age Of rs years.
"0ne New York journal now lying
before us begins a Pittsburg editor.
Somehow or other the veraciiy of New
York papers has always been doubted in
the West.
At the end Of an Indiana marriage
ceremony, the bride advanced gracefully
to the clergyman and requested him to
announce the hymn, This is the way l
long have sought"
A party of naturalists we're very much
amused one day last week by the spec
tacle Of a Wisconsin potato-bug Jerking
an ox-cart around a ten-acre field in
oder to get up an appetite.
Little boys playing ball. Anxious
mamma in distant doorway calling aloud,
Tommy, Tommy" Gentleman calls
the attention of children to woman.
Best boy replies, Her amt calm OF
WEI us don't belong to she"
He was too solemn a preacher; he
didn't suit in Nevada. The chairman of
the farewell committee expressed it we'll;
said he: Nov you can git, pard; we
amt agin religion out here, and it riles
US to see a Teller spilin' it. Git"
A Wisconsin editor illustrates the pre-
vailing extravaganza Of the people of
the present day, by calling attention to
the costly baby carriages ia use now,
while, when he was a baby, they hauled
him around by the hair Of the head.
Governor Irwin, of California, has
taken off from one to four years each
from the sentence of one hundred con.
victs in the State Penitentiary, in conse.
! quence Of the good conduct Of the BODY
. Of c%onvicts at a recent ERE in the prison.
& Lightning which q few days ago struck
! a church in South Manchester, Conn
! completely stripped the boots from three
lads who we're leaning against the build
ing. The lads we're badly stunned and
blistered, but have completely recovered
from their shock.
When Hon. S. S. Cox was locking at
e the great COrliss engine at the Centen-
nial last week, he asked the guard stand
ing near, what horsepower the engine
had. The reply came with an amazed
e look; why, it don't run by horses;
they use steam"
~ The Belle Americana. -Suitor-
!, We'll, l may hope, then, dear, that at
q some future time | may have the happi-
q ness Of making you my wife?' Ameri-
can chsrmer-"Yes | hope so I'm sure,
for I'm getting real tired of suing fellows
for breach of promise of marriage
Punch.
The London Lancet says that Rome
enjoys the best drainage and the purest
water supply in EHrope, and that the
:. cases Of typhus fever which occur there
are, in nearly every instance, due to a
, residence in Naples or Florence, where
= the drainage and water supply are noto-
riously bad.
,e During his trip through Missouri, Dom
n. Pedro stopped at the house of a bloom
d ing matron for a couple of hours, wait
as ing for a delayed carriage, and now that
At proud woman declares that if she is ever
d blessed with another olive branch" It
al shall be named after the Emperor, be it
a boy or a girl.
al A subscription has been opened among
Dr. the students Of the Latin Quarter in
Paris for the purpose of erecting a
S, statue OF Michelet. In q petition ad-
ID dressed to the government on the sub.
e ject they request permission to place
RS the stat1e in one of the squares. of their
particular quarter.
Well dressed London roughs have a
new source Of amusement in the ladies
tormentor," a little tin fountain filed
1t, with so called lavender water, but which
is anything but a pleasant compound.
ne The fun consists in squirting this stuff
~ in the faces of ladies in a crowd, and
enjoying the surprise and disgust.
An expedition under the leadership Of
Professor Nordenskold will start this
summer to explore a commercial route
from Northern Russia to Behring Strait.
Funds have also been contributed toward
the cost of another expedition to ex-
plore the Gulf of Ohio and the sea route
Is between Archangel and the great rivers
of Siberia.
Peanut oil, first made in the South
RS during the war, is now in large demand.
TX 1t supplies the place of almond and
olive oils for various uses, and is lower
in price, retains its purity and flavor for
a long time. and ia less snanantihln N