Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-01
FACTS AND FASCIRS.

by Some Other Fellow. "-[Boslon Post.
The eOnvicts in the Massachusetts,
State prison at Boston are now holding
a fair.
Miss Kennedy, a v%iolinist Of seven
years, is delighting the people of Potts.
vile, Pa.
Plant your holiday advertisement ere
it be too late. The plentier the seed the
fuller the crop.
The Photographers Mutual Benefit As
ISOLATION of New York city has 1900
active members.
"How's your husband this evening,
Mrs. Quaggs2' mo Improvement, Doc.
tor, one way or the other"
So far 10000 French people have con-
tribnted one franc each to the fund for
the erection of a monument to Theirs.
Nine thousand rabbits lave been lately
distributed throughout Italy for propn-
CATION, In order to supply fur and food.
AT Pittsburg recently there have been
several large sales OF goods damaged in
the freight cars destroyed by the rioters
in July last.
A Massachusetts man Is on his way
to Florida in . buggy" This may mean
that he has taken q berth in a sleeping
car. -LWorcester Press.
The newest thing in the matrimonial
way is the publicati u OF " marriage in
t%entions" By engaged couples in Boston.
The names and ages ohly are given.
Queen Victoria's name figured in the
Indian famine relief fund list for Sl25O,
and just below it was that of the Baron
ess Burdstt.C outIs (second donation),
$500.
The young mar who took his girl cut
to see the moons of Mars in a looking
glass has been decorated with the order
of the Grand Bounce by her indignant
father. = ANDREWS Bazaar.
There are now in Boston six public
and many more private k~indsrgsriens.
St. Louis has thirty.two that are public,
Chicago has seven, and Cincinnati,
Cleveland, Indianapolis and Nashua, N.
a., one each.
An indignant Spaniard in San Fran.
cisco: Tomorrow, in the Court Polls,
l obtain the vihdicatione, aud prove Sc.
nor FosSas- what you call-the animal
with the ears so long that laughs so
loud-ha-ha-hs."
Among the attractions Of the Paris
exhibition will be performances by the
imperial orchestra from Vienna in the
month of July. The Viennese a~rtistes
will give severel concsrts during their
fortnights stay in Paris.
A Trenton paper says that ten thou.
sand bushels of apples have been
shipped in the last few weeks over the
Bslvidere division, Pennsylvania rail-
road, from Lsmbertville to Moorestown,
where they are canned for shipment to
Europe.
A large firm Of iron manufacturers at
McKeesport, Pa, are putting in a new
furnace to supply gas tor heating their
pudding furnaces. The gas is made of
benzlne and steam, and the new appa-
ratus will produce enough to supply all
the furnaces in the works.
The First National Bank of Mauch
Chunk, Penn, having obtained a judy
ment against John W.. Young, at Salt
Lake, for $l0,474, Marshal Nelson has
seized the Salt Lake museum, and the
horses, carriage and household effects of
the late prophets son to satisfy the
decree.
Saturday, November 18th, was the lO3d
anniversary of the birth Of Mrs. Fanny
Forty, of West Hempfeld township, Lam
caster county, Penn, the oldest per-
son in the county, ard one of the oldest
in the country. She was born Novem.
Der II, A. D, l774, near Mountville. a
few miles frsm Columbie.
A private letter from Augusta, Me-.
written last Saturday, confirms the re.
port that Senator Blaine is fast conys-
lescing. He is able to sit up, his appe.
tite has returned, ana he is in such ex.
cellent spirits that his friends are conf
dent that be will be able to resume his
active duties within a brief period.
Mrs. Mary E. Tillotson has written
for 8 Vineland paper a poem commenc.
ing, Shorten my skirts, mother, shorten
my skirts; I'm f~ainting with wearlness.
dressing like airts." When Mary visited
Norristown last summer her skirts were
short enough, goodness knowsl They
didn't resemble the skirts of a airt to
any perceptible degree; and we hope her
mother will not make them any shorter.
1t wouldn't look well.-[Norr. Herald.
Hon. Henry Watterson, of Louisville,
in an interview with a New York Tribune
man, said the country may as we'll
make up its mind nov to q death strug.
gle with Grant and Graniism three yesrs
hence 1t is such idiotic declarations
as this that upset the longestablished