Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-28
FACTS AND FAsC1ES.


'AoJOf mooIei Ol Olnclnnau, ID an les
teresting workingman, and be has 500
dog.
A poison that kills a dog in five min
utes after it touches his tongue is in use
in Boston.
A firm in Newburgh is shipping lawn.
mowers to England and Germany. The
orders are large.
The late Mrs. Trotter, of Cambria,
Penn, being %childless, reared twenty.
nine poor orphans.
Will you Joaquin to my parlorY is
what the girls say to Miller since his wife
has married another a
1t is not always possible to be born a
loafer and to run the politics Of your
ward. -[New York Herald.
Tive prominent Canadians have 10 re-
fused to accept the title Of Sir" offered
them by the British empress.
No port so small now as not to be able
to trade with Brazil direct. Richmond,
Va, has just dispatched two briggs to
Brazil loaded With flour, petroleum, and
clothing.
Two New York juries have failed to
agree as to which should pay for broken
water pipes, the landlord or the tenant,
so that both these worthless are on q kind
Of strike.
A man in Cardiff, Wales, having
stabbed his wife, the other day, she
FASTENED to a doctor, who dressed her
wounds, but finding she had no money,
undressed them again.
Boston ia to have twenty-five free pub.
lie concerts this summer. Three of them
will be given on the commons on Sun
days, the others on week day evenings
in different portions OF the city.
The skeleton of the United States
ship California, built eight years ago at q
cost Of 81, 900. 900, lies out at Hunters
Point, South San Francisco. The wreck,
ers are gradually tearing it to pieces.
A h~igh.toned New York woman won't
button her wi CATERS, because it's low
business. But she might elevate it con
siderably by putting her foot on the
mantel pirce when she buttons her shoe.
P%Ierrepont, glancing over the hews
from America-"W nowl A wioll
a wumpusl "a webelhoul Aud in the
Nawth, too, You knowl How vewwy I'M
fortunate that Genewal GwGnt is out Of
the countwyl"
The Duke Of Acsto, at one time King
Of Spain, was so affected by the loss of
his wife that it is thought his mind is be-
clouded TO some extent. This disease
from the same cause is not common
among the kingly ones Of Europe.
A New York magistrate has Just de.
cided that the employment OF deputies
by the licensed dog-catchers OF that city
is illegal, and that persons acting as such
deputies are liable in damages for any
injuries they may do to dogs they take up.
The city editor of the New York
Herald the other day put his head into
the local oom and exclaimed: "Ho,
Patl" whereupon thirty.six OF the re-
porters stopped writing the word "hol
caust and said, "Yis, sOrl'-[Chicago
Tribune.
In some sections Of Lancaster county
the potato patches are fall of dead Eng
lish sparrows. The theory Of their
Wholesale destruction is that the birds
eat the Colorado beetle which has been
destroyed by Paris green, and are thus
poisoned.
General Nepokoichitzky, Of the Rus.
sian army, is sixty.fonr years old. He
is a Pole, 1t is not a little remarkable
that the two officers in this army Of the
highest rank, after the grand duke, viz:
General Nepokoichitzky and General
Liyitzky, are both Poles.
We were shown a few days ago, by
Mr., JOAN Better, an eight-Ieaved clover,
found by him in his yard the other day.
This is certainly a curiosity. The spec.
linen before us is perfect, there being
eight fully developed leaves on n single
tem.-[Wrightsville pa Star.
A sudden draught Of hot mir is re
ported to have passed through a cotton
field and pehch orchard in Western
Texas, a few days ago, scorching and
killing every green thing it touched for a
! space of one hundred and forty yards
vide and four hundred yards long.
Recently Mr.. MiIlais, while engaged
in painting a mouutain torrent in Scot
land-a landscape since sold for 5000
Guineas-was so absorbed ia his work AS
to be unmindful of the sudden rise of
the water, and had barely time to escape
by climbing some PERCEPTIONS rocks.
A temperance sanitary colony has
been organized in Fresno county, Cali.
tornia. The membrrs pledge themselves
to preserve the sanitary condition of the
colony by maintaining the purity Of the
air, to sell or make no intoxicating
liquors. and to belong to no secret organ