Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-26
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

Ayoung Engiishman at SImla has ab.
jured Christianity aud become a Hindoo
in religion.
Excuse me, sir" was the remark Of
a burglar caught opening a safe in a
Whitehall store.
The Paris Figaro advises its readers
to distrust the "isir-complexioned wo.
men with wide mouths"
Richmond has contributed more money
to the Custer monument than any city Of
the North except New York.
A wealthy San Francisco widow has
pleased herself aud shocked her friends
by marrying her coachman.
A society has been formed in England,
the object Of which is united prayer for
the protection Of animals from cruelty"
New York "old clo'' dealers keep suits
of secondhand mourning, which they
rent to poor people to year to funerals.
A new fruit has been discovered in
Queensland, Australia, combining the
favor of the pineapple and the pear. 1t
is thought to be of Mexican origin.
Nine out of ten Of the S%erviaus, it is
said, refuse to have an English surgeon
operate on them, even though they know
death will be the consequence of their
choice.
In q temperance parade at Portsmouth,
N. a., the other day was a w~agonful
of young ladies, bearing a banner with
the strange device: "Teetotaler, or No
Husband
A German baroness at Lake George
Was very much surprised when a lady
knocked at her door aud asked for a pat
tern Of her black silk overskirt. She
didn't get it.
An unfortunate Brooklyn i'm
AGNES that her neighbors are blowing
souls into the bodies Of drowned persons,
aud she has complained to the police
> about the noise they make.
The family of Sir Isaac Newton Is
represented by the Earl of Portsmouth,
whose ancestors married a daughter Of
e the philosophers niece; and a mass Of
manuscripts have been preserved.
The tallow tree is a veritable fact. It
= lives in China, and yields an oily sub.
stance resembling tsllow, and which an-
swers well as a substitute for it. The
tree is Of only medium size at maturity.
Imagine the feelings of q Hartford
man, who, starting in a hurry for a pic
mic, took the wrong basket, and found
when he got there that he had brought
along a litter of kittens instead Of his
lunch.
Nobody is quite so conspicuous this
year as the ofioe-holder. A Cincinnati
organ makes a paragraph about how
Postmaster Wahle aud Mail Agent John.
son drove out with the Presidents mo-
, ther the other day.
A surface is said to be level when at a
r~ight.angle with a radial line extending
IS from the center Of the earth; the natural
level, however, is curved and concentric
with the earth's surface, as, for instance
the surface Of a large body Of water at
rest.
A fat French lady despairingly says:
" | am so fat that | pray for disappeint-
ment to make me thin. No sooner does
, the disappointment come than the mere
expectation Of growing thinner gives me
such a Joy that | become fatter than
lie ever"
le Custom does not wither nor old age
stale the infinite variety Of Parson
Brownlow. Yet his style is becoming
! mellow and his voice strikes q pathetic
1, minor key. Getting up on bis legs with
). difficulty, he alludes to the Hamburg
secession Democracy" and
remarks that November will hurl this
nefarious, God forsaken, hell-deservinp
y old party to that political perdition which
=, it really deserves. = Graphite.
Nine Annette Essipof, the Russian
pianist will visit America this season
Is, Last year Nine Essipof gave concerts
Ell. ia London, which we're very successful,
She is q native of st. Petersburg, aad
nd studied the piano-forte in the Conserva.
RS, tory in that city during Anton Ruben.
be STEMS dictatorship. Nine EssipoH
ST plays from memory, and her repertory
includes more than tive hundred pieces.
She plays the best works of Bach, Han.
o. del and Chopir.
If Father Tom Burke, the great Domiui
le can preacher, seems to be in a fair way
Of entirely recovering his health anC
strength. BE has returned to IRELAND
from the Eternal City, having stopped
r. on the way home in France, where HI
f. preached several times, and always t.
VI large and delighted congregations. Tn,
a p%anegyric Of St. Dominic was preached
tie by him at the church of his order il
On Dublin, and he is described as beirI
he grand as ever" On October 9Th, tn,
VS. feast of the dedication of Ireland
.as churches, he will preach the dedicator,
he sermon at the new church in Belfast.
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