Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-16
FACTS AMI FANCIEs.

thC AuNiuuh'
Hog cholera is prevalent in Cumber.
land county, Penn,
Numerous new salt wells are going
down at Saginaw, Michigan.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad has
just uniformed its conductors.
Altoona boasts of a canary bird patri-
otto enough to whistle Yankee Doodle.
Browning's translation of " Agamem-
non will be published in the fall.
A colored female Methodist preacher
is conducting r%evivals in the Carolinas.
The amount of ab4ted taxes in Rah-
way, N. j. for the past ten years is
81, 463. 900.
The construction of an elevated rapid
transi; railroad on State street, Chicago,
is talked of,
Atlanta, Ga shipped a few days since
asbestos to Geneva, Italy, and Auckland,
New Zealand.
Bath, Maine, has adopted the plan of
making tramps pay their board by sweep.
ing the streets.
One OF the trained nurses in Bellevue
Horspital in New York is a graduate of
Vassar College.
The largest salmon caught ia the Col.
umbia river, Oregon, this year, weighed
sixty. five pounds.
London has contributed SIS, 900 and
Boston has contributed SIS 900 to the
st. John relief fund.
Boston Is to have a aud dog show,
commencing on the 81 Of September,
and lasting Tor a week.
Neorassans are trying TO obtain Eng
lish aparrowS from New York as grass.
hopper extermluators.
By a new law a marriage license is
necessary in Illinois, whether the bans
have been published or not.
Tidings for the Smith family-sir
Bernard Burke has discovered that the
name was originally Smith.
The St. John Daily News has recover.
ed rom the effect of the FIRE, and made
its temperance in its old size and
shape.
a cooperative store at Bowling Green,
Kentucky, has declared a dividend of
five per eentum en- the past six months
business.
One OF the Boston street railway com.
panies has on file six thousand applica.
tionS for the positions of drivers and
conductors.
The New York Sun thus disposes of a
new Mazsppa: "She is a shapely woman.
with pronounced autumnal legs, a come
ly, inexpensive face, singularly awkward
manner, and an inaudible voice."
A Missourian is trying to prove that
Marshal Ney never was executed, but
escaped to America, settling in North
Carolina. 1t is not the same Missourian
that undertook to establish that Lord
Bacon was Shakespeare, He got dis
couraged.
The shot that dangerously wounded
Miss Howard, Of Boston, at the Dump.
lings, 1900 yards across the bay from
Fort Adams, on the Fourth, proves 10
have been fired by one of two fort SOL
dierS, who disagree as to which fired the
last time, when the young woman fell.
When travelling by rail the Gear sends
ahead a pilot locomotive, Half an hour
after The imperial train starts a wreckiug
train follows, to be on hand in case of
accident. Twenty minutes behind this
is a train with the imperial suite, and
lastly an escort Of three hundred sol
diers.
Oxford gave Cambridge q bad drdb-
bling at the annual cricket match last
month. The number Of persons who
paid for admissions on both DAYS was
2l,912, Dat of forty.ihree matches that
have been played between the Universe
ties, Oxford has won twenty.one, Cam
bridge twenty, and 1.-TWO have beer drawn.
1t is said that there.is an indescribAble
change in Adelina PATHS appearance,
and even in her mode Of singing her
voice seems fuller and richer than ever
in the lower notes. She has lost much
OF her arch v~iyacity and gayety. She
has grown thinner, and her face is worn.
She looks, in fact, as if she had suffered.
|-lNew York Herald,
An eminent French physician saws
that the decrease of dyspepsia and bill
GUS complaints in Paris is owing to the
increased consumption of apples in that
city, which he afirms is an admirable
PROPAGATE and tonic, as we'll as a very
nourishing and easily digested article of
food. The Parisians devour one hum
dred millions of apples every year,
Among the noted people at Ems, two
weeks ago, we're the emperor Of Ger
many; Krupp, iks gun manufacturer;
Wagner, the composer, and Grossi, the
actress The emperor's apartments are
simply one floor Of one wing Of the
Kursaal, and for these he pavs 400