Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-30
FACTS A ND FANCIES.

Of San Francisco.
Every Norwegian girl must be able TO
bake bread and to knit stockings befo: Q
marrying.
The treasurer at Covington, Ky, re
Gently %absconded, and now the city clerk
and more Of the public funds ere mis-.
sing. d
The present green three-cent postsge
stamp, easy to clean and reuse, is to be
succeeded, in May, by the red stamp Of
sixteen years ago.
The town of Wales, in Maine, by no
means remote from civilization. bas
managed to get along for fifteen years
without doctor, lawyer, minister or
psuper.
In Russia collins covered with pink
cloth are used for children and young
unmarried persons, crimson for m
brown for widows. Black is in no case
employed.
A cove has been discovered on the
north coast Of Australia, where four CT
six wrecks of vessels, all apparently re.
ceHt' and SOM Of them Of American
build, are lying.
10 view of the recent Ashtabula disas.
ter, it has been very pertinently sur-
gested that railroad cars be painted with
iungStste Of soda as a preventive against
destruction by FIRE,
Kate Henderson, one of the contes-
tants in a pedestrian match in Lansing.
Mich, was whipped several times by her
husband to compel her to %contine walk
ing. At length she informed the specta.
tors, and they had her husband arrested.
A silver vein was discovered on tie
premises occupied by the principal hotel
in Custer City, Dakota Territory. To
save bis property, and while the finders
we're cackling over their prize, the land
lord staked off the hotel grounds for a
mining claim.
There are in the national cemeteries
and ir The soldiers lots at Camp Chase.
Rock Island, and Elmira nearly 10000
graves of citizens and Confederate sob.
diers, prisoners of war, whose names are
known about $4,000 of the former and
100 600 Of the latter.
A correspondent Of the Times AYERS
that in Louisiana there we're " fourteen
thousand suppressed Republican bal
lots and all this notwithstanding Grant
sent troops there, and every inspector,
clerk, %canVasser, and constable at every
election precint was a Republican.
The Ashtsbpla disaster has set invep.
tors at work. and a Western engineer
presents a plan for a pOntoon bridge that
will accommodate itself to the rise and
tall OF q stream without altering the
roadway. Floating Ice, however, will
prove too much for such structures.
We have no doubt that dogs, cats, etc
could be swallowed whole By a beacon
strictor. Daring a recent exploration Of
Baxter river, New Gainsa, a beacon.
stfictor was shot, is length WAS fifteen
feet three inches, and a protuberance in
Its body fourteen and q half inches in
diameter @hen cut open proved to be the
body OF a whole kangaroo, OILY partially
dizested.
A very novel and at the same Tine in.
terestlng experiment, according to the
L~ockpOrt IN. ~ papers, is soon to be
attempted in that city BY Mr.. Holly,
successful waterworks pump Inventor.
This experiment is tO heat the whole city
with steam. after the same manner as it
is lighted with gas. Mains are to run to
the different houses, and all the occu.
pant has TO do is to turn on a faucet and
obtain all the heat be wants.
The sorrosful tree is found near Bonn
bay, India, 1t is so called from It's habit
Of blooming only At night. While the
sun is shining, not an expanded flower
ia visible; yet in half an hour after the
sun is below the horizon the tree is full
Of them. There is little beauty in them,
though the odor is pleasant. At sun
rise the petals close up or drop to the
ground. This tree, il would seem, must
have some sort of relation to the night.
blooming osreus.
The armies confronting each other Nc
Waterloo were tf nearly equal strength,
the French numbering from 10000 10
t2,OOO men, mostly veterans, Of whom
$4,000 were cavalry and 2I9 guns. Tie
number Of allies was about 10000 nan.
including 1880 cavalry and 1876 guns.
Tie English contingent mustered a little
over $4,000 men, the Netherlands about
1850 men, sud the rest Of tie Army vas
made mp OF Brunswickers, Haaovefiaps.
and other Germar ,Aoons