Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-11
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Florida exported over $500, 900 worth
of oranges during the past twelve
months.
Spurgeon has been compelled to quit
work and go to the south of France to
restore his health.
The income of the Peabody Education
Fund, which in 1876 was 300, 900, in
1877 was but 100000.
A convention of State agricultural So
cietieS will be held in Washington on the
third Tuesday Of February.
The Crown Prince of Austria, after
his tour through Scotland, will visit Ire
land and the principal manufacturing
districts in England.
The New Haven Conn School Board
has substituted the telephone for the
present bell uystem connecting the board
room with the school.
Somebody thinks DR.. Hollands last
poem is almost intoxicating in its
beauty" A sort of Holland gin, we
suppose. Lowell Courier.
The fishermen of Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, were great losers during the
late storms, which carried away their
travis and other fishing gear.
Miss j. NJ. Kimball, of Concord, N. H.,
has been appointed clerk Of the recently
organized tax commission. She has been
acting as assistant State treasurer.
The Berlin Geographical Society,
which was founded by Alexander Won
Humboldt and Karl Ritter, will celebrate
its 6ftieth anniversary on the 18th Of
April next.
Burnet Lambeth, late chief of the bu.
reau of agriculture of the Centennial
exhibition, has. received a diploma of
membership from the Royal Academy Of
Agriculture of Sweden.
Mrs. Bliss, the mother Of the late P. P.
Bliss, died recently, at her daughters
residence, in Towanda, nine miles from
Rome, where the monumen was erected
to her son last August.
James R. Osgood 4 Co. and Hurd &
Houghton have formed q copartnership
under the name of Houghtou, OsCood &
Co thus uniting two of the Oldest pub.
fishing houses in the country.
A Harrisburg paper, answering a cor.
respondent OF a question Of etiquette,
says; When a gentleman and lady are
walking upon the street, the lady should
walk inside Of the gentleman"
Miss Hanlon, a sister of the Canadian
oarsman, offers to row any in the
United States or Canada for q purse Of
$500 over a three'mile course. 1t is said
that she can defeat her brother in a mile
race.
Coasting is now the f~avorite amuse.
ment among the young people of the
country towns, and the local papers re.
joice in plenty Of items about broken
heads, fractured limbs and frightened
horses.
The city council Of Jacksonville, Flor.
ida, has passed an ordinance prohibiting
any vessel exceeding FIVE tons burthen
remaining at any public slip in the city
for a longer period than six hours in the
t%wenty.four.
A year ago a schoolboy in Cayuga
county, New York, careIesoly broke a
pane Of glass valued at ten cents. Three
trials of a suit have resulted, the last de.
cision reversing the other two, and Civ.
ing a judgment of 1913.
Mr.. Donald G. Mitchell has been Of
fered a position on the commission to
the Paris Exhibition, and Captain James
b. Eads, the builder Of the Mississippi
jetties, has been appointed honorary
commissionary for Missouri.
The Portland (Me.) school committee
has passed an order requiring the princi-
pals Of the various schools to report
every month the number of pupils on
whom they have inflicted corporal pun.
ishment and the reason therefor.
The London Diapers Company own a
house in Lombard street that in 1868
rented for e25 a year. The ground was
rented last year for CO. 600 a year, and
the tenant, after spending elO, 600 on
the building, got back 81, 1000 in rents.
The late George Bemis, of Newton,
Massachusetts, bequeathed $50, 900 for a
protessorship of International law at
Harvard College, 500, 900 for increasing
the library Of the Boston Atheueum,
and 5000 for a statue of President
Quincy, OF Harvard.
Some amusing errors in Wilkie Col
Inns last story. The Duel in Herne
Wood" have been pointed out. The
scene is laid in England in 1917, and the
characters make use of railroads and
! telegraph lines, although Reitber were in
use at the time Of which the story
treats.
Brumidi's sketch for the categorical
fresco Of War" for the dome of the
capitol, represents Freedom striking
dowa the enemies of the republic"-the