Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-24
FACTS AND FANClEs.


Mckee Rankin paid 50, 900 for his new
play, written by Joaquin Miller.
This Archdeacon of Totues (Eugland)
says that the diocese of Exeter is larg,r
than the Holy Land.
Since 1873 the Consolidated Virginia
mine has yielded forty million dollars,
nearly one.half Of which was gold.
Herman Lovingood, Of Ebert county.
Georgia, aged one hundred years, re-
Gently Joined the Methodist church.
Lovers in Georgia demonstrate their
perfect union Of thought and heart by
sopping their potatoes in the same plate.
A Tennessee paper has discovered that
rum costs the country 5000, 600, 900 and
the clergy 5000. 900. whereat a p~rofaue
cotemporary cries for the adjustment
Of the latter, on the ground Of economy.
The sheriff Of Santa Clare county,
California, had twenty-eight applications
from persons ont of work for the JOB of
3 lsshing a colored man in the Jail, SEN
fenced to be whipped for beating his
wife.
}, Crowd at the station waiting for late
/, train; affable young man accosts gruF
old gentleman: 'Sir, l think | have had
the pleasure of meeting you before.
Your face looks familiar" Old gent:
Does, Ell? So'll yours fore y%ou'er's
+, ODDS | am
la a recent essay Professor Fiske says:
: neutrality-suspicious. is a progress
6 sive stripping off Of the old idea of pur-
pose and replacing it by the conception
: Of physical agencies The reader can
see how a word looks with a hustle Of the
:. period on.
Papa" said n clergyman's FIVE year
old bay the other day, was John Cal,
vim a Democrat or a Republican,"
why, my son?' Because, I heard you
tell Mr.. - what Calvin said about cleo.
ton" That boy will be found in Con-
d gress some day.
{ The old courthouse in R~appahaunock,
Virginia, in which John Waller, Robert
Ware, John Shacklsford and James
Greenwood were, in l774, arraigued for
preaching the Gospel contrary to be law
of the colony, is to be converted iutJ a
Baptist church.
A French translator is said to have
translated the poets exclamation,
Hail, horrorsl hail" into How DO you
do, horrorsl How do you do?' This is
no worse than the Germans translation
Of S~hskspeare's IAN hail, Macbeth
into ALE Hagel, Macbeth
The Polish citizens of Poseu recently
petitioned the Emperor William that
h. Polish might be retained as the official
language in that province concurrently
with German. The German parliament
had forbidden its use, and the Emperor
declined to interfere with its decision.
1t is reported that Mr.. Emerson has a
hearty Saxon liking Tor strong language.
81, An acquaintance says that one day as
be stood talking with him on the street
s, they overheard a passing stranger inter
a resonant oath, which did not, however,
triae with things sacred. Said the Con.
cord sage, quantity: That sounds very
; fructifying."
Edwin Landseer once sketched Pa
ganini, and Of this sketch it ia said
u. Zone might suppose that tits a carica
ture of the violinist, ont it really is no
so; he was a strange looking man at al
times, but when at work with bis instru
ments his excitement OF times was suci
that in appearance and manner he wa.
Of as one half demented."
i Belknap, on his return to Washington
found himself, by a strange chance, tb.
has sole occupant Of the hotel bus will
eat. Hester Glymer. They were once oil
friends and classmates at Princeton Col
iIy lege. Not a word was spoken by eithe
az. of them during the ride. They stud
ously avoided looking at oae another
Bslknap, for the first time since hi
"acquittal By the Senate, looked em
!. barrassed at the awkwardness Of tn
r. situation.
An interesting dog case has recent
been decided in the Westminster (En!
: to land county courts. A postman, Will
tier delivering papers one morning in Jul!
OF was bitten by a dog, aud was unable t
tle work for a fortnight. AS soon as he n
covered he sued the owner Of the dog f
e to damages. The character of the dog We
be the pivot on which the evidence turned
Two constables gave him a bad one, an
anu. two a good one. The judge seemed
tant share the %postman's prejudice again
s by the animal, for he finally directed II
ems jury to assess the damages.
,nts, A Paris landlord, not being able
the aqueezs rent out Of one of his tenant
Ter a recently made a visit to the 9th aoc
a Gv' and caught him in the act of concealir
! in something under the tablscloth. n
poor lodger finally yielded to threats al
IN showed the landlord a bank note Of ff
ort " francs, which he had been copying, "Yt
etter ~scoundrel, SAID the landlord are u