Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-26
FACTS AND FAvcsss.

ave- 4 suo"er Is the name OF g
new brocsAs silk.
An oil well in Butler county, Penn.
elects explosive balls Of FIRE.
One acre in $4,000 of Florida land is
said to be good for something.
The real name of the new minister to
Berlin is James Baysrd Taylor.
March came ia like a Iona British
lion, says the Worcester Press.
Garibaldi will be the guest of Victor
Hugo during the Paris Exposition.
ITO let" is blossoming finely in Roch.
ester N. Y, according to a local paper.
Mobile policemen get fifty dollars a
month, and the chief fifteen hundred a
year.
The debts which Victor Emanuel left
behind him arc reported to amount to
$500, 900.
Mr.. Charles O'Conor, of New York,
has given one hundred dollars to the Y,
NJ, G. A. of Nashville.
a negro teamster in Nashville declares
that he must either give up driving mules
or withdraw from the church, the two DO
sitions being incompatible.
Iowa is one of the greatest States in
the country for leed, aud more ten-ctnt
pieces are taken up in church collections
there than any place in the Union.
Sitting Bull has written to President
Hayes saying that he will come in and
surrender himself if the government will
agree to try him by a Galssburg jury.
An Alabama Judge has decided that
any n who sets a spring gun does so
at his " peril, and is to be held re.
sponsible for any damage done, even to
trespassers.
Mias Thomson, the scotchwoman who
lately shod her horse with gold, has been
placed in q British asylum for the insane.
She is the daughter of a former civil
official 10 Dumfries.
Plus TX had a curious habit of writing
the clauses of his will on separate sheets
OF paper, just IS the idea struck him.
These sheets, eleven in number, were at.
tacbed to each other by a silk thread.
Dean Stanley, Of England, is in yerv
delicate health, and had to stop In the
middle Of a lecture which he was deliy.
ering in London the other evening. and
have his manuscript read by some one
else.
The German universities cost the State
Just 81, 100000 a year. This is the exact
amount charged for them in the budget
OF the Empire, and the money thus spent
is divided amongst 1900 professors.
People should look out and not be
taken in by the counterfeit trade dollars
now being emptied upon the public.
They are easily detected, being nearly
twenty grains lighter than the genuine
and slightly smaller.
1t is proposed in Boston to obtain leg
i~slation rendering the tickets of one
horse railroad corporation good in the
cars of any other, after the St. Louis
plan, at a uniform price of FIVE cents.
The companies favor the project.
Pending the Pspal election a telegram
from Rome, in the Paris Pays, gravely
said that the Conclave, before electing
the pope, awaits the American cardinal,
McClosky, who is expected on Friday,
and who dispOses of sixteen votes"
An old student of List says that the
master is very much imposed upon BY
people, who, making use Of q letter Of
introduction, perform once or twice in
his presence, and, having received a sug.
gestion or two, advertise the fact that
/, they have been his pupils.
You can not rake in any ducats by
selling your old silver teapots and bat
: tered spoons to the government, for John
r Sherman says he won't purchase silver
. in lots Smaller than ten thousand ounces.
So if you haven't about six or seven
hundred pounds of the metal you must
i hold OF to it or sell it to private individ.
5 uals.
A naughty German arose in a Buffalo
temperance meeting and said: "Shen.
tlemens and ladies', you will see the tenn.
, perance beebles have put a blue ribbon
on me; | am going to wear it; and
| guess now | will take a drink" With
; that ne drew an ominous looking black
bottle from his pocket, removed the cork
and in the presence of the entire horror,
: stricken assemblage, took a long, deep,
3 thick aud wide pull at the nozzel. II
! was an awful example.
An American is an individual whc
. cans things. Peaches, oysters, cherries
8 beet, peas, lsbsters, soup, strawberries
tonatoes-in fact, everything cannabl,
is canned. Now, Americans are send
ing b]oneless ham in cans to hungry
e Europe,and still later turkey and CHECKER
, have been canned successfully and sem
I to England. 1t is expected that roasI
{ beef and plum pudding will shortly b.
put up ia tin, and the British lion viii
then have nothing to do but open CAM
and let digestion wait on appetite.