Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-19
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German boys have no public games.
0ne,6fth Of Norway is under tim
Der.
There are 1900 journals published
in the United States.
Virginia has now 2,49l schools in
structing lOS,O74 pupils.
A Japanese geographical society has
recently been founded at Yeddo.
An exchange says that chickens can
be bought in Florida for four cents
apiece.
A bill is before the city council of
Victoria, British Columbia, prohib-
iting the herding together of China
men.
The number Of foreign firms engaged
in commerce in China is 35l, and the
total foreign population 1914,
The British national lifeboat insti-
tuition has 800 boats and spends about
100000 annually in rescuing, on an
average, 1000 lives.
A Pittsburg physician has a bed of
mushrooms growing in his cellar, from
which he keeps his fable almost con-
stantly supplied.
Two hundred and thirty-six of the
Gloucester, Mass, fishermen have
gone to the bottom of the sea during
the last twelve months,
Eugene Sue, the famous author,
was IN elegant dandy, but frequented
the vilest haunts to study the manners
and slang of the people he delineated.
AT Cheyenne recently, a coroner had
to hold an inquest in the case of a
woman, and empauelled a jury of six
women. This is said to be the first
female jury on record.
A Russian officer has invented an
ingenious system of night signals on
vessels by lightning, by means of
refectOrs, the smoke of chimneys. A
code explains the means of the divers
colors.
A handsome and thrifty hickory tree
over n hundred feet high, at Madi-
son. \. j., was a sapling planted on
the day of the Inauguration Of James
Madison as President, and in honor of
the event.
A boy of Baldwin township, Pa,
disagreed with his father and went to
live with his aunt. The father has
sued his sister for damages incurred
BY the boys absence, which he esti-
mates at IS per week.
Providence is happy because her in
genius mechanics have devised and
perfected an auger which bores ten
inch holes through a platform of hard
pine timbers, four feet thick. The
thing was never done before.
A Chester woman, trying to save
some turkeys that we're on the rail-
road track in front Of train, had to
jump for her own life and was so near
to death that her dress, catching un-
der the wheels 0 fthe locomotive, was
tore from her body.
Fred Douglass continues to speak
senslbly on the negro exodus from the
South. he says emphatically that all
organized effort Of the North designed
TO prompt aud promote further STAN.
pede Of this sort should at once be
diicountenanced.
A young wife 10 a c%olliery village in
England assists her husband in black
smithing. and makes 5000 rivets a
day, besides doing her housework.
She IL described as being sedate, we'll
spoken, has a low. sweet voice and fair
complexion and hair.
The shrinking Of the water 10 Tu.
lare Lake, Cal, has uncovered a pre-
historic settlement, stone buildings.
traces Of canals once bordered with
planted trees, and other evidences of
occupation by an unknown race. being
clearly defined as the water subsidies.
One Of the marked effects Of the
revival in business is the employment
Of an unusually large number Of chill
dren in the Massachusetts, mills. This
fact keeps the police busy in prosecut-
ing owners who are violating the com.
paratively new law which defines the
conditions under which the children
may be put at such work.
A letter addressed to Mrs. Lucy S.
smith, Bangor, was further marked
thus: Please give this to the carrier
that goes on the second street from
the river, that runs parallel with the
river, between the drawbridse and the
next bridge above, as | don't know
the street myself, but | was told that
1t Tss handy about there, and oblige
a stranger.
At a recent marriage at Groton.
Tompkins county, N. T., the bride. a
poor, hard working girl, paid for the
groom's clothes in which he was mar
rled, as veil as the entire expense of
the wedding. The only difference
between the marriage in low life aud
some OF those in high life is a question
Of time the bride in the latter cases
footing the bills after, instead Of before
the ceremony.
The celebrated pigeon roostin Scott
county, Indiana, is now, as it has been
Tor seventy-fye years, the ioost Of
millions Of pigeons. They rs away in
the morning to their feeding grounds,
many Of them going to such a distance
that they do not return until midnight.
The timber on thousands of acres
covered by this roOst is broken down
badly, large limbs being snapped off
like reeds by the accumulated weight
OF the birds. Thousands arc killed
nightly, but the slaughter seems 10
make no dimuuition in the vast crowds
that congregate there.
The Waynesboro (Ga.) Herald has
a correspondent who is remarkably
tough. He says that in 1870 he had
his right shoulder broken. After that
be bad his left shoulder broken.
About three years ago he received a
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