Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Parton is going to write up the Cuba
war.
Little Minnie Warren is reported hope
lessly i'll.
Mr.. Dickens made $4,000 by his las
series of Loadon readings,
A French playwright is dramatizin
the Mordaunt divorce case. yrls
The English novel, "Cometh up as
Flower" has been cut down as a weed
There is a postoflice in Cass county
Indiana, called Hen-Peck Of course i
has a postmistress.
There were but little over two hundre,
and fifty dwelling houses erected in New
York city last year.
An Indianapolis schoolboy has beer
punished by being compelled to write tn,
word COW five hundred times.
George Eliot win have new poem
several hundred lines in length in the
April number ofsMacmillan's Magazine
The King of Prussia has $4,000, OOC
private fortune, the Queen Dowager 81 :
1000, and the Crown Prince $780,
900.
Some South German papers mention
rumor that General Sigel will shortly
return to his native country and remain
there
DR.. Charles Mayer, one of the most
eminent German poets, died on the 2Sth
of February, at Tubingen, in his eighty
fourth year.
The young Grand Duke of Alexis, of
Russia, " the best looking Prince in
Europe is expected to visit the United
States the coming summer.
Mary Clemmer Ames wants to know
who'll love her when her head is gray?
" Perhaps" says the New York Globe,
she will dye before that time"
An exchange misprints the title of
Mr.. Beadle's forthcoming book on Utah
as "The American Taints and their
Territory" which hits 1t to I.
1t is estimated that over hundred
young ladies are at present studying law
n this country. Probably they will all
become mothers-in-law one of these days.
Hon. Charles A. Washburne, late Min
ster to Paraguay, is in Boston, to ar
'ange for the publication of book which
lie has nearly completed, ON Paraguay.
A troupe of real Andausian ballet
lancers will appear in New York on the
10Th instant, on the boards of the Tam
nany theater. Some of them are said
o be famous in Spain for their beauty
md grace. 3l AtA .aisaatta
The American colony of Paris has
ost bright particular star" in the
,erson of the pretty Elizabeth Field, |
laughter of Hickson w. Field, jr., of |
Jew York, who married, on the I'd inst,
young Roman gentleman, with the
ounding title of Prince de Triggiano
Fears are entertained in Liberal circles
a Germany that an attempt will be /
lade to poison the celebrated Catholic /
heologian, Ignatius Won Doellinger. !
'anatic priests in Old Bavaria denounce
i'm in unmeasured terms for the deter
lined stand he has taken against the |
esuits,
a poverty stricken Frenchman, being
reused by his wife one night with the
ry: Get up, jacques, there's a robber
D the housed calmly answered.: Hush!
on let us disturb him. let him ransack
ne house, and if he finds anything of |
alue, Wen then get up and take it
way from him.
A correspondent of the London Daily /
says Adelina Patti narrowly /
scaped death while returning from st. /
'etersburg. The car on which she was |
raveling took fire from the stove while
he train was in motion, but fortunately
he flames were extinguished in time to
reyent any serious consequences.
Schtchue Fleghie, commonly called
hoo Fly, was an African chieftain who
xported niggers to this country early in
ne seventeenth century. He made an
1effectual attempt to climb one of the
lips in the year 45, and was immortalized
y Longfellow under the name of "Ex-
elsior," and finally brought into notice
y Dan Bryant, under the obscure title
f Shoe Flyl'
The most excitable member of the
TtnCn OtHdtc 10 HOW hO OlHtI IMAM Jut
1t Prince Plon-Plon Whenever he is
resent at Sitting be takes the utmost
interest in what is going on He claps
is hands more loudly than any other
enator when the sentiments of the
peakers please him, and he Kisses and
lamps his foot when he is displeased.
Ie and Durny, the ex-Minister of Public
are said to be the two most
beral members of the French Senate.
Fechter, on being solicited by several
rench gentlemen to give a representa-
on in French, at Boston, replied in the
blowing gushing note: Dear Com
ides-Here, as in France, in the Old
Torld as in the New, were it even in the
Their world am always yours. promise
Boston, not only my presence on the
age, but, better still, that OF all my
lends and of the friends of my friends
/ the boxes. Amen. Gu. FEcHTER'
t this mark of condescension the Cour-
er des Etats Unis is greatly gratifed