Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-08
FACTS AM FANCIES.

Beecher's prices for a lecture this sea.
son varies from three to FIVE hundred
dollars.
The London Times has sent in all
thirty-seven correspondents to report the
Eastern war.
At the recent term of the Caroline
county (Md.) Court, there was not a
single prisoner awaiting trial.
A mother and daughter eloped with
their lovers from Lsesburg, Ohio, leaving
their husband and father disconsolate.
The first free town library in the
United States is said to have been estab.
lished at Peterborough, N. H., in 1888.
A Boston society resolves that " bust
ness is piracy, government coercion,
and churches brotherhoods Of thieves"
To criticise Theirs, says a Paris cor
respondent. is like criticising an Egyp.
tan obelisk-one is not quite certain
that what he may fancy a defect is not
really an excellence.
Sir Edward Thornton, the British min
lister, will return to Washington during
the latter part of November, to resume
his diplomatic duties. Lady Thoraton
and her daughters will pass the winter
in England.
A Holly Tree Inn Coffee-house" is
shortly to be opened at Easton. 1t is
under religious auspices, and is intended
to abate, if possible, the evils of intern
perance by furnishing coffee and eata-
bles at as low a figure as the taverns sell
liquor.
While laborers were digging a trench
on Washington street, Princeton, N. j.
a day or two ago, for the purpose of lay
ing gas pipes, parts of three skeletons
we're dug up, and brought to the surface.
1t is supposed they were soldiers, buried
during the Revolutionary war.
How lovely in the calm stiffness of
the evening to listen to the nightingale's
MOTEL "Ye'th, he's a doocid fine fellow,
is the nightingale; but l thay bright
des), be must be a beasthtly noo'thance
to all the other little birdth that want to
60 to thleep. "-[Londou Fun.
An Altoona man, aged seventy, has
just Joined unto himself a third wife.
BE realized $4,000 from a policy on the
life of wife No. l, $4,000 from one on wife
No. 2, and $4,000 by the recent death of
one Of his grown.up sons. he finds
marrying and givingi in marriage a profit.
able business.
The Jewish Messenger says: Married
people are examining their collections of
silver, and deciding what pieces they
can, with the least danger OF detection,
devote as presents to their cousins or
friends" This affords another illustra-
ton of the straits to which many people
are reduced by the hard times.
Close to Temple Bar. London, new
law courts and Offices are being erected
which will cover several acres. Within
the past month the masons struck. The
contractors sent to Germany and got
t~wenty.four men. They worked two days
and then couldn't be found. The strikers
had either bribed or threatened them
away.
Professor Wirchow, Of Berlin, ss the
result Of a series Of observations upon
2,ll4,l53 German children, finds that in
Northern Germany children with light
hair, blue eyes and fair skins are far the
most numerous, while the brunette type
preponderates in Southern Germany,
attaining its maximum at the southwest.
ern and southeastern portions.
Many expensive parlor clocks play a
strain Of music before striking the hour,
This arrangement, which seems to be a
refinement on the common clock, ia
really q relic of an old custom. In
many countries clocks we're formerly
constructed to strike the hour twice-the
first time to call attention, the second to
tell the story Of the hour. In the
Basque provinces Of France, and, prob.
ably Of Spain, this double-strikiDg is still
continued.