The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-07 00:00:00

FACTS AND FANCIES.

(From. Wilkes' Spirit of the. Times.)
John Brougham, whose tutored mind and prolific pen
are always doing good and making money, has contracted
to write a play for Barney Williams, for which the emi-
nent dramatist and star of the social circle is to receive
$3,000--buyer 30.
The largest organ in the world is in the little city of
Freyberg, Switzerland. The big organ laps over the small
city from five to eight feet in places. It pours out a tem-
pest of melody through a forest of pipes —no less than
7,800. Agreeable things pipes—pipes of wino, pipes of
music, and tobacco pipes. A Teutonic heaven, with a
trinity composed of Ilockheimer, Sillikinick, and Beetho-
ven.

Mrs. and Mr. Florence are still drawing large houses at
De Bar's, St. Louis.
Mr. George Wood, of theatrical fame, has taken a ten
years' lease of the property known as Banvard's Museum,
commencing on May 1. The theatre will be reconstructed
in every respect. Nothing will remain unchanged save
the location. Samuel Colville is associated with Mr. Wood
in the enterprise, and sails immediately to Europe in quest
of novelties and attractions. Mr. Wood has enterprise,
experience, and wealth, and we trust that he will find his
most sanguine expectations realized.
Colonel Fitzgerald, author of "Light at Last," has com-
pleted " Tangled Threads," and "Who shall Win ?" me-
lodramas.

A BAD FALL.—Madame Carlotta de Berg fell from her
horse on Tuesday evening, while performing one of her
daring acts of equitation, and broke her right arm in two
places. She was immediately removed to her residence
on Third Avenue, where it was ascertained that her in.
uries, though serious, were not dangerous.
Under Court News, &c.,
the Home thesew ea
geographically muddles itself : "A
hs thus
head of f "Foreign Gossip,,,
London saving bank established by negroes, collapsed
because the depositces withdrew all the funds to attend a
circus." Of course the London referred to must be on this
side of the water.

Mrs. Laura Leclair Phillips, of Boston, has lately writ-
ten an Irish comedy, which she calls " Kissing the Blar-
ney Stone." If Mrs. Barney Williams or Mrs. Billy Flo-
rence will play the " Blarney Stone," we should have no
objections to "Kissing the Blarney Stone."
The word "flirt" is a corruption of " maffeurette " (my
little flower), a term much in use among the gay gallants
of the Court of Louis the Fourteenth.

We are gratified to learn that our inquiry in last
week's Spirit as to the identity of Bangs has been satis-
factorily answered. Mr. Anson Bangs is an American
iu the City of Mexico, representing the "Mexican and
United 7;States Rallway.'' Now will some one be good
enough to inform us what is the Mexico and United States
Railway ?

" Hamlet," La Nilsson, and M. Ambroise Thomas
are having a great success, and the receipts at present are
11,500 f., and every place, except in the fourth tier, is taken
till the 17th night.
Mdlle. Augustine Brohan has retired from the
stage, years, which will be familiar to
magney, after a careerelderly internaotfio2n7ar
playgoers. Her retiring pen-
sion as an actress of the Theatre Francais is £256.

Dr. Johnson, in spite of the contempt he affected for
actors, persuaded himself to treat Mrs. Siddons with
great politeness ; so, when she called on him at Bolt
Court, and Frank, his servant, could not immediately
provide her with a chair, the doctor said, " You see,
madam, wherever you go there are no seats to be got."
The newspapers are teeming with references to econo-
my in tea by co-operation. Hornistan and Co. have for 30
years co- operated through Agents to supply toa on more
advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; their tea
reaches tha consumer in the same pure state as it leaves the
grower, al it la pecured iu packets.