Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-08
FACTS AND FASClES.

S3 NeAhhS tuN
absence Of materlamilias, sawed Off
the tops of their bedposts for GRO
quet balls.
Owing to the heat grapes are rip
ening in Germany earlier than
usual this summer. The yield
promises to be abundant and of
excellent quality.
Hon. Warren Lorring, of Med
way, Mass, who was the first man
to introduce the late Vice-P President
Wilson into politics, died the other
day in the poor-house.
According to the New York
Times, the expenses of a man of
irst-class fortune and joyial and
conyivial habits in New York, for
one year, are $95, 200.
From Japan comes the intelli-
gence that the workmen employed
in the construction of the Japanese
buildings on the Centennial
grounds have returned home.
The women at Saratoga are bet
ting on the races this year. A lady
correspondent says that these sport
ing danes do "go on about the
horses in a manner shameful to
behold"
A laborer employed in breaking
stone on a roadside in England,
and having a shade oyer one eye as
a preventive, was thus accosted by
a companion 81 say, Tummy,
hast e lost an eyer" "Why," re-
piled the other, 'ha8t e found
one?"
There arrived the other day at
| New York an African ram with
four horns and a fleece eight inches
long. The animal is from the Atlas
Mountains and a few months ago,
it is said, was worshipped by the
. natives of the region as a sacred
ram.
1t is said that before the Prince
of Wales set out for India he was
! placed in a conservatory heated up
. to Indian temperature, to test his
powers Of endurance. His Royal
HighnesS tainted away, but was
more successful on the experiment
being repeated.
Two boys have just been COM
mitted to the Industrial School in
San Francisco for assaulting a Chi.
is naman and stealing his hat from
his head" 1t was shown in the
evidence that one of the offenders
= held the Chinaman by the queue
d while the other took the hat.
q A Paris ieu d esprit: GA Turk
ish friend declares that the Ontrages
r. committed by the Bashi-B azouks
Re are much exaggerated. 4 do not
" pretend for a moment he says,
N that they don't chop up the
q Christians, but the pieces are not
W nearly as small as is currently re-
e ported"
"Dar are" said a sable orator,
y two roads through this world /:
ut De one am a broad and a narrow
u road, dat leads to Perdition; and de
if udder am a narrow and a broad
o. road, dat leads to Sure Destruo-
b. tion." off dat am de case" said a
sable nearer, "dis .%cullard individ-
ual takes to the woods"
a. There is a cabinet at police
y. headquarters, New York, filled
I'D with deadly weapons,burglars tools,
AZ thieves implements for picking
n, locks, and rope ladders, down which
-. conyicts have walked. Each speci-
= men is labeled with the name of the
oU criminal from whom it was taken
he and the crime in which it did serve,
: J Our warriors in the Sioux coun-
try had sense enough to leave theil
" feathers and gold lace at home
me General Terry wears a pair of cor
ne duroy pants, an old blouse and {
The stained, weather beaten Panama
hat General Gibbon dresses ever
to palmer, and General Brisbin covers
or, himself with a suit of blue oyeralls
Writing of a foolish little coun.
Ne tess and other women, a Paris cor
inc respondent says: "Here was tn,
que petite brunette dressed plainly, ye.
~. as she stood she was worth in dr..