Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-24
FACTS AND PAsClEs.

Oarlyle calls Darwin IN atheist with
very little intellect.
In Norway drunkards are compelled
TO sweep the streets.
Card Of an Ascending dsbtor-"For
further particulars see small bills"
The shop girls of Boston number nearly
one-tenth of the entire population Of the
city.
It would surprise most persons to hear
that Norway now ranks as the third mar
thine power on earth.
A mar in Troy was bitten BY q dog
fourteen years ago, and died recently
with all the symptoms of hydropbObia.
Miss Alice Kingsbury ia cbiseliug her
way to renown az q sculptor in San
Francisco, alter making her mark as an
actress.
Grace Greenwood rode on a COW
catcher for forty miles, aud when she was
helped down it took her halt e day to get
the wrinkles out of her nose.
The great question is at last settled.
A Pennsylvania woman says she can walk
twenty miles a day in mems clothes and
only twelve in female apparel.
A young man on the west side. Chica.
90, has Been jilied by his girl for singing
Meet me by moonlight" Her father
is a S%tockholder IN a gas company.
Miss Ogden, Of Pi,tsburg, a gradu.
ate Of the Philadelphia medical college,
has received gu appointment from The
American Board Of Commissioners for
foreign missions to the missions at Made
"a, India.
Miss Lucy c.. Brigden, q graduate Of
the Aedford (Mass.) high school, has
become hopelessly insane. This high
pressure system Of education is more
disastrous to health than tight laeing
and tissue paper shoes.
She-Now, Charles, dear, do DO sincere
aud tell the truth for once in your life.
Don't you love baby just a little Bit?
He-Well, Mary, l cam say exactly that
/ love the little beggar, out I've a sort Of
saeaking respect for him for his father q
sake.
a C%hinamau, arrested in San Fran
cisco the other day, was found to have
on a coat of mail made Of cloth, cotton
batting and paper, thick enough to turn
a knife or bullet. It also had pockets
for knives and hatchets, and rings to
hang an iron bar on.
Frank said an affectionate mother
the other day, to e promising hey, al
I you don't stop smoking and reading 50
much, you will get SO after a while that
you wont care anything about work
Mother, replied the hopeful, leisurely
removing a very long cigar, II have got
so now"
Strauss will conduct the orchestra a,
the first ball at the Paris opera, which
will take place January Is M. Halan.
zier, the manager, will spend S25, 900 on
. the decorations. Wagner viii in G
measure be followed, as the orcbestr,
will be invisible, though instead of beins
I sunk beneath the floor, it will be posted
. in the highest gallery.
s The recent report Of the French Min
lister of the Interior gives the emigFa
ton from France from 1865 to 1914 a.
> 60, 24O, the agricultural element consti
d tuted 81 per cent aud the average Q
: men II per cent aud Of women 20 pc
cent. During the same period the ins
d migration of permanent settlers, chief,
d by the Eastern frontier, reached SO, OPS
) A Porto Rico latter says: "In
y country of Spanish origin superstition
is a matter OF course. Thus the tempes
! which at this moment devastates thes
splendid fields is not a simple cyclone
1t is the dog Of ST. Michael unmuzzled
3 and you hear along the roadsides de
, spairing cries, San Miguel, amarra t
4 perrol' saint Michael, tic up you
y dogl'
. The Oldest membeg Of tie Englis
: royal family, the Princess Caroliat
hereditary Princess II Denmark, con
pletes, on October 18th, her ~eighty.thir
year. This venerable lady is the grant
daughter Of the unfortunate Once
Caroline Matilda, sister to George III
! and married to the King Of Denmark
IF Christian VII, hut subsequently d
Is yorced, The Queen was exiled to til
town ct Celle, in Hanover, where sh
y died very young,
lie The courts Of Maine have decide
., that you can stop over on a railroa
!. ticket marked good for this day only.
In Burnham vs.. Grand Trunk Railwa
is Company, So Ne, 298, the plaintiff il
I'd formed the ticket agent before pu
y chasing his ticket that be deaired to sto
~ over at an intermediate station; he wa
to informed that he could 90 so; he we
given a ticket marked good for this da
only" he stopped over night, and, n
suming his. journey next day, fare We
on demanded, aud he was elected for r
ne fusing to pay it, held unlawful. II
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