Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-23
FACTS AND FASCIEs.
The pay.ternaI dollar is the last.

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1t is announced from Madrid that l5,-
600 soldiers will sail in August for Cuba.
Over 5000 immigrants have arrived in
Manitoba since the opening Of naviga-
ton.
There used to be q man named Gen.
Pleasonton and a theory called blue
glass"
The Duke of Wellington used to say
that the battle of Waterloo was "a
big fight"
The Berlin Official Gazette publishes a
decree prohibiting the export of horses
from Germany.
The "regular-made" undershirt may
fairly say with Hamlet: "Seamsl l know
not s0amsi"
A new ST. Louis ordinance forbids the
sale of intoxicating liquor to persons
under eighteen years of age.
A man who had a Frenchman to teach
him the cornet always referred to the in
s%tructor as his French tooter.
Paris is troubled, and may again see a
directory, but it's no use trying to COM
pete with Chicago in that line.
Physicians state that secondhand
furniture stores spread infection by ex-
posing old mattresses and bed clothes.
More than 5000 packages Of choice
Orange county butter were shipped to
Europe by steamer recently from New
York.
A little New Hampshire girl poured
ammonia over her clothes, and her lungs
we're SO affc cted by inhaling the fumes
that she died.
The French mint has struck 10000
frapes worth Of centime pieces in bronze,
each representing about the twelfth OF
an American cent.
There is no picture Of Gail Hamilton
extant. No artist can take the portrait
Of a person whose tongue or pen keeps
going all the time.
Richter says: mo mar can either
live piously or die righteously without a
wife. Suferings and severe trials puri.y
and chssten the heart.
Two little boys quarrelIed over a game
Of marbles in Weldon, N. c., and one
drew a pistol and killed the other, The
Oldest was only nine.
A vessel is on her voyage from Sydney
to London, carrying a cargo Of fresh
meat, and considerable interest is felt in
the success of the experiment.
The first contract for railroad iron, to
be delivered at Rio Janiero, since the
%rivival Of trade in Brazil, has been re-.
ceived by an American house.
Chicago's aldermen are agitated by a
resolution offered by one Of them and
promptly tabled, that they refuse to be
deadheads on the city railro .ds.
The French crops are reported to be
good, especially in Genital France, round
Blois. The harvest promises to be bet
ter than for the last sixty years.
A well-known FISHERMAN of Bayonne,
N. j., has just returned from England
after having planted a large crop of
American oysters on the Thames.
The mints, exclusive of that at Carson
City, New, has coined the past year
S7l 900. 900, which is $4,000, 900 more
than the coinage the year previous.
So May guests were at a London
wedding recently that the ceremony vas
repeated for the diversion of those who
had not witnessed the first performance.
There are now over 100, 900 head of
cattle in the immediate vicinity Of Dodge
City, Kan. The Texas drive at Dodge
City this year will run close on to 2OO,-
600.
Trouble, like a strong electric light,
casts another color over the formerly
dark scene, and we discover what we had
forgotten. Trials work q degree of ten
derness Of spirit, and SO make sin con.
s%picrous to the weeping eye and to the
troubled heart. Many a man, when in
great trouble about other matters, has
also begun to be in deep distress on ac-
count of in.-[Spurgeon.
One Beers, of New York, is threatened
from Texas, For some time he has
been advertising a cure for opium eat
lag, and was applied to by Mrs, Greene,
Of Montgomery. He sent her a box of
pills, with directions, which she followed,
and in ~forly.eigbt hours she was dead
From every part of the Lone Star State
comes q yell for vengeance on Beers,
Ond it is not improbable that Texas will
send a requisition for him. Beers claims
that his remedy was elicacious, as the
patient hasn't taken any opium since
taking the pills.
A man in England wanted, the other
day, to register a certain Greek word as
q trademark for an ink which he manu-.
featured, but the registrar refused on the
ground hat "a mere word could not be
a trade mark according to law, which
defines it as "a distinctive device" etc.
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