Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-27
FACTS I'M FANCIES.

There are 3ll ,097 volumes and l00,.
OCO pamphlets in the library Of congress.
The only hustle now worn is the long
sleader skeleton, which acts as a train
bearer.
During Christmas week fifty. four
deaths from violence we're registered in
Lo5don.
The largest sugar refinery of Nantes,
France, has stopped work for want of
raw material.
Ole Bull has pitched upon a residence
at Lebanon, Me. His motber.iE-law
lives in Wisconsin.
The Idaho papers are pressing the
legislature of that Territory to pass a
woman suffrage bill.
Several British publicaus have been
ised under the adulteEhtion act for sell.
ing gin extended with water.
The Turkish army, it is reported, is
greatly augmented by constant arrivals
of Polish aud Hungarian volunteers.
In London, recently, a man bespat-
tered by a passing cab sued the owner for
damages, and he recovered a shilling and
costs.
A colony Of Englishmen have started
for Hindostan, that country having
offered extra inducements to immi-
grants.
Over a hundred employees in the Penn
sylvania railroad shops in Altoona were
arrested the other day for working on
Sunday.
The rebuilding of the Tuileries ead
the Transformation into a museum have
been decided upon by the French gov
eminent.
Paris receives $4,000 yearly from
contractors for the privilege of keeping
the streets clean. The sweepings yield
5000, 600.
A sermon in Barbadoes recently was
closed thus: my obstinacious bredren,
find it no more use to preach to you
dan it is for a graashopper to wear knes.
breeches"
San Francisco surgeons are non
plussed over a Chinaman who walked
about several days after bis spinal cord
had been cut in two.
Mrs. General Sherman is at present
engaged in a movement to collect money
in this country to be presented to the
Pope on the 6ftieth anniversary of his
entrance to the priesthood.
lie Pays, Of Paris, recently published
an article signed "Cassagnac," inso-
lently attacking the government and
prophesyiDg the return Of the Prince
Inperial to Francoin three years.
Its announced that carrier pigeons
are to be stationed on Anticosti, the
Magdslen Islands, ETC., TO enable mari.
ners cast away on the gulf of St. Law.
renee to communicate with people on
the south shore,
One person out Of every 259 in Gin
~cinnati dies Of suicide. Six,y.two per
cent. Of self-murderers are German; the
proportion of the sexes is FIVE men to
one woman, and the most popular
method is hanging.
The Figaro announces that NJ. Bar.
tholdi, the French minister to the United
States, who is TO be replaced at Washing.
ton by Max 0atrey, minister to Japan,
will return to Paris to ell an important
post ia the ministry Of foreign affairs.
/ On the occasion of his episcopal jubi
lee the Pope viii name seven or eight
new cardinals, one from France, one
from Austria and one from Spain. AL
the same consistory it is expected that
he will read an eneyclical on the state OIL
the church,
Horace Greeley said that Of The thou
sands he lent the most be ever received
back was a IS note inclosel in a letter,
} and unon tracing cut the writer of ths
letter, he found it seme from a lupatic in
the Utica asylum who never owed him a
cent.
The college Of cardinals at present
consists Of 6lty.six,peubers, distributed
according to nationality as follows: One
Belgian, one Pole, oIe Portuguese, one
:. English, one American, M Irish, one
German, two Spanish, five French, and
the rsms:nin ~forty-two ere either ltali.
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