Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-01
FACTS AND FANClEs.

NoIJ "uete III Atay ohalis are eaten,
at Rome badgers are reckoned adeIicacy
and at Nice foxes are exposed for sale in
the market.
A partisan sheet in Wisconsin says
Words ending in 'esty,' are very dis
tasteful to Republicans. Examples
Honesty, amnesty"
The Princess Beatrice looks scorn-
FULLY at pOverty-stricken suitors of noble
birth. She does not wish to be under
stood as standing in the way Of Ameri.
can girls.
The demise of the wonderful Ohio
knife-swallower and ~naiLconsumer is an
nounced. He did not die Of dyspepsia,
bat fell into a tank and was drowned.
The San Francisco Journal of Com
merce estimates the wheat crop of Cali
fornis at q value of $26, 900, 900, aud,
what will surprise many people, the gold
and silver crop at a million less.
Mr.. Falk, the Prussian Minister Of
Education, commissioned a Bavarian
professor, Mr.. Won Raumer, of Erlangen,
with the task of drawing up rules for a
reformed German photography.
Here follows Julian H~swthornes de.
scription Of the Saxon women Mas
sive are their legs as the banysn root;
their hips are as the bows Of a three
decker; backs have they like derlicks;
rough hands like a pile. driver"
Mrs. Partington attended an auction
sale of household goods, but forgot her
pocket-book. She remarked to Ike ON
her return home that when she saw
things she needed put up for sale the
unfolding tear would start
Little Alice was crying bitterly, and
on being questioned confessed to having
received a slap from one of her play
fellows. You should have returned
it" uuwisely said the questioner. ooh.
returned it before" said the little girl.
A Brooklyn girl recently experienced
religion" under one of Talmage's ser
mons, and the next day ordered a new
silk dress, hat, etc., and then, after put
ting extra %Htufing in her hustle, informed
her mother that she was prepared for her
religious duties, aud never intended to
miss a Sunday at church when the
weather was fine.
Annie T. Smith, a lady who has made
the subject a study, says that the strong
est argument for co-education is founded
upon the na~turalness Of the association.
and the greatest benefit is expected to
result-namely, the softening of the
r%oughness Of boys, aud the moderation
Of the over susceptibility of girls to the
Influence Of the opposite sex.
Mr.. VIM. L. Burt late postmaster of
Boston, employed about thirty women as
postofice clerks. He says of them:
The women have proved far superior
to men in looking up mis-sent and mis-
directed letters, and in making returns
to the Dead-Letter Office. They have
also proved entirely reliable. There has
.
not been q single instance in nine years
where the account OF any woman have
shown a deficiency of one dollar in the
Boston postofice."
j. NJ Hutchings, Of Yosemite, has dis
covered in the heAd.waters of Kern river.
10000 feet above the SEQ, a new and
beautiful fish, which he named the
golden trout" Its color was like that
of>the gold Gsh, but richer, aud dotted
with black spots a quarter Of an inch in
diameter, and with a black band along
its sides.
Professor Haeckei, writing of German
war civilization, says: The stronger,
healthier and more spirited a youth is
the greater is his prospect of being killed
by needle-guns, cannous and other SINH
lar instruments Of civilization. The
more useless, weaker or infrmer the
youth the greater is his prospect of
escaping the recruiting Officer and OF
founding a family"
Because his Christmas clippers didn't
fit, an indianapolis man attempted to
cremate his wife, the donor, in an old
fashioned brick oven. She resisted sue
oeSsfully, and in her turn caused the old
gentleman to take a seat in a tab Of boiL.
ing hot water. He has reelined on his
stomach for the laat two weeks, and the
slippers viii DO large enough by the time
DO Is able to wear them again, as HIS
usual weight is already reduced about
Que .haM
Mrs. Abrssam Lincoln is spending her
time very pleasantly at Springfield, ILL.,
aud seems likely to entirely recover from
her recent attack. a short time ago she
presented to Jesse X, Dubois, Of Spring
Seld, one of Mr.. LincOln's most intimate
personal and political friends, a gold.
headed ash cant inscribed Cut from
the birthplace Of A. Lincoln, and pre-
scented by DR., j. H. Rodmau, Of La Rue
county" The zane was presented to
President Lincoln during his lifetime.
Marwood. IAe English hangmaD, has
discovered that when he places his knot
under the chin Of his victim and makes
the fall ten feet, the desired result follows
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