Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-30

Ole Bull is back again from Europe in
violent health and jerks powerful bow
STILL
The Pope is said to have looked pale
and aged the last time he was seen on
Advent Sunday.
Chingmankoopingchap has played
out" in San Francisco and lied to the
mountains of Hepsidsm" in Germany,
where the whangdoodle mourneth."
Praucer, the club autocrat, ssys pretty
Viennese actresses are now pelted with
fruit instead of flowers, but thst be can
bring down his game better with cold
potato.
Parties having surplus capital which
they desire 10 invest in q newspaper may
be Interested in knowing that M Vile
messant wants to sell half of the Figaro.
Three hundred thousand dollars is the
price.
Mr.. Crabb Robinson, 10 bis diary, de-
scribes Psganini, the king of yiolnists,
as he was when be saw him. His figure
and face amount to caricsture. he is a
tall, slim figure, with limbs which remind
one of q spider; his face very thin, his
forehead broad, bis eyes gray and pierre
ing, with bushy eyebrows, bis nose thin
and long, his cheeks hollow, and his chin
sharp and narrow. His face forms q
sort of triangle. His hands the oldest
imaginable, fingers Of enormous length,
and thumbs bending backward.
Ex-Governor Briggs, during the latter
years of his life, never wore dicky, and
this was the reason: Ga one occasion be
met an old college chum who was 10 the
habit of drinking to excess, aaa ne re-
monstrated With hin. The inebriate,
who was q man OF brilliant talents, re-
marked: Judge. if you leave off wear
ing those beautiful dickies of yours, /
will leave eff drinking whisky" Done"
said the Judge, and from that day to the
day be died he never wore linen above
his stock. And his friend, it shepld be
added, also kept ii: agreement to the
letter.
Don Piatt has discovered a new kirk
10 protection, and proposes to protect Ia
Dor IS we'll as manufactures. The pau
per labor of Europe comes in COMPETE
ton with American labor, and the Don
proposes TO impose q prohibitory tariff
on foreigners, which will leaEe American
laborers masters of the field. The afgu.
meut is ga good in the case Of muscle as
it is for machinery, and we commend it
to the prsyerful consideration of Yankee
manufacturers who run their spiDdles
almost entirely by the employment Of the
psuper labor Of Europe &c il comes to
our shores, while it is green and before j;
becomes educated up to the point OF get
ting as well paid as American labor.
Mr.. Dickens new story, Of which the
first part will be published in March
next, will, it appears, be completed in
twelve monthly parts, instead Of 10
twenty, hitherto the invarisble limit Of
his stories published in this wsv. The
London Daily Neios says: "Rsaders
sot curious in calculation are perhaps
not aware that such novels as Nicholas
Niekleby aud David Copperfeld' con.
tain considerable more than twice the
amount of so ordinary three-voiame
story Twelve monthly parts, even II
they have no more pages than usual, will
compose story much larger than the
longest Of SCOTS novels, so that il will
only he, as compared with himself, that
Mr.. Dickens will fall shoyt Of what may
be called fall ueasure. II is announced
that the parts will be illustrated this time
by Mr.. Charles Allston Collins, Mr..
Dickens son-in-law, who, though he
began life as au sriiet. in Ice footsteps Of
his DISTINGUISHED father, is best known
to the public as an esssyisl sad novelist"