Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-17
FACTS AND FANCiES.

Flora Temple is not dead, but she is
thirty.one years old.
Sir Shaw Stewart has been reapppoint-
ed grand master Of the Masonic order in
Scotland.
In a French family WHO work at a mill
in Slltersville. R. L, there are four pairs
Of twins.
The shop girls Of Boston number
nearly one.tsnth of the entire population
Of the city.
Fope PiusIX has ustfounded a bone
for old men in SiniEaglia, bis native
town, in Italy.
The best blankets in the United States
are manufactured by the Navajo Indians
Of New Mexico.
General Leslie Coombs, of kentucky,
who is about e~ighty.fve years old, Las
just married a lady Of the same age.
President Smith, of Dartmouth Col.
legs, has resigned the presidency of the
New Hampshire Agricultural College.
Spread of American ideas. Young
Arabs now greet the traveller in Egypt
with the familiar salutation, Black your
boots2'
Mrs. Boots. OF Philadelphia, has run
away from her husband, and a aippant
go it, Bootsl' arises from the thought
less crowd. 1io7.l
The Rev, Mary Pomeroy Glendenning
is still in Henry, Illinois, and last San
day announced that his next sermon
would be to young ladies. ~ Chicago
Journal.
The Alexandria Gazette says chat the
influence Of ths whipping post as a pun
ishment for petty crimes has been go
beneficial in Virginia that its use has
spread to nearly every county in the
State. a.
Aaron McKenny, a citizen Of saco,
Me-, celebrated the ainety-ninth anni-
versary Of bis birthday, a few days ago,
by saving and splitting half a cord Of
wood. Only half a eord-thanks for
the novelty.
Is there no remedyY Must an honest
aad religious oyster continue to be the
dups of designing church committees
who drag him around from year to year
and sell his bathing water for twenty Eve
cents q dish.
Many a farmers hoy goes into some
CRY and struggles along until middle lie,
with nothing to show for his labor except
tina. be has thoroughly learned that a
hslf-starved lawyer is less to be envisd
than a well-iei farmer.
Bijou Heron aud Mabel Leonard, who
play the children in Miss Moulton, made
Clara Morris a New Years present Of
their ponraits, and czech received from
her q ring.
Mrs. Ford, widow Of the governor Of
Ohio, is a clerk in the treasury depart.
msnt. She is a strikingly handsome
woman aud was highly educated aqd
reared in aflusnce.
The recently exhumsd body Of an ole
woman, who died twenty years ago at
Lacopis, N. H., was petri6ed, though
the body Of her husband, which lay by
her side, had turned TO dust.
Wool growing Is very profitable in
Georgia. 0ne sheep owner has a flock
Of $500 sheep, which cost him annually
aboat fourteen cents a head, while die
yield Of wool is about three pounds each,
worth thirty cents a pound.
A New York critic says Clara Merris
studies her death scenes at the hospitals.
If she wants to get up a real, genuine,
giltedged, creamlaid, diamond-pointed
expression OF agony and apprehension
Hhe should study the face Of a man
reaching for q soft corn with the heel Of
his razor.
A very singular and distressing acct
dent occurred at Palmyra, Mo-, recently,
which resulted ID the death Of 6 little
child Of Mr.. Hickman. Itbad been left
on q bed by itself, and in trying to get
Of, slid between the rail and tho foot.
board, while the body hung'dowa. When
found, It was entirely dead, having been