Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-01-30
FACTS AND FASCiEs.

Seal-skin Boston bags" are the newesI
convenience for ladies' shopping excur
sions.
twenty-five glass blowers from Eng
land left Philadelphia for Ohio on last
Saturday.
New Haven, Connecticut, has a Pare,
pa Rosa Club" a musical organization
composed of young ladies.
Four sisters, at Paulet, Vermont, were
married in one day, recently, and all
started off together for their wedding
trip.
Kentucky has a young thing, n Mrs.
Eversole, who is n~inety.fOur years old.
She has lived Eversole long, and may
live Eversole longer.
A good idea. Rev. Robert Collyer ad-
vises that two cords of wood be kept in
the back yard as q sort Of judgment day
for tramps. Why not add s~treet-corner
%loafers and dead. beats in generally
MISS TabithA A. Holton, who has Just
been admitted by the Supreme Court of
North Carolina to practice at the bar of
that State, is the daughter of a clergy
man, and is only twenty-five years old.
Hereafter the Western Union Tele.
graph Company will charge as part Of
the message the word collect" on all
dispatches not prepaid. On a dispatch
from New York to San Francisco this
will make a difference Of thirteen cents.
The inhaling Of gas as a remedy for
whooping-cough is being tested on a
large scale by Portland (Me.) children
at the gasworks, and, according to the
testimony Of physicians, complete cure
or permanent relief is felt at the first
trial.
The long delay of congress in provid.
ing for the due representation Of our
country at the Paris Exposition is bear
ing fruit. Only $500 square feet are at
the disposal of our commissioner, while
he has received applications for four
times that space,
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The corners stone Of the erecting shop
oil the engineering department in the
n%avy-yard at Washington, D. c., is a
huge mass Of metal, weighing FIVE tons,
obtained by melting down counterfeit
plates and dies captured by the detec.
tivss Of the treasury department.
A number Of pbilanthropic people Of
New Brunswick, N. j., are very indig-
nant at mild sort of hoax practiced at
q Of the county institutions. Public
notice was given that a waiffound in the
street would have to be provided for by
the county unless sympathy should in
duce some private individual to take and
req it as his OVID. Several persons
called, one or tive with the intention of
adopting the wait, and were shown q
kitten. The authorities considered it a
very good joke.
Ii has been generally supposed that
the 26-inch telescope which AlVan Clark
& Sons, of CambridgepOrt, are construct.
ing upon the order of Mr.. Cyrus q. Nc
Cormick for the Washington and Lee
University of Virginia was about COM
pleted and ready to be shipped; but, in
fact, it will not be completed for some
six months. The reason Of this delay
is the failure Of the university to provide
an observatory. The other institutions
of learning in Virginia are aware of this
failure on the part Of the Washington
aud Lee University, which is supposed to
result from lack of funds, and are com.
peting before the legislature now in ses-
sion for an appropriation sufficient to
construct a suitable building for the &C.
commodation Of the great glass.