Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
.delina Patti has a quinsy.


Rosa Bonheur is seriously i'll.
Rochefort is to be married to the
daughter of the late NJ, Proudhon.
Fanny Janauschek will play in April
and May at Hamburg and Berlin.
There are more Jews in the city of
New York than in the Holy Land.
The Vermont bar-keepers are to hold
a convention.
Parsons bronze statue of the late la
mented is on its way to New York.
Miseonstruction- Getting up" a
young lady in the height of fashion.
A new kind of intoxicating liquor has
been distilled from tea.
Boston has fined man three dollars
for attempting to kiss a lady in the
street.
The husband of FIVE wives, all living
committed suicide at Elliottee, Minn.,
last week.
If letter postage lis reduced to one
cent, there will be two sent where there
is one sent now.
Iowa has been compelled to discharge
lady" teacher in one of its public
schools for drunkenness.
A Washington correspondent says that
Kansas is the Pennsylvania of the West
"a rotten Commonwealth.
Gen. Butler has at last paid the $500
to Joseph Ames for his picture Of Miss
Butler.
The real name of Rudolphe, the bill
liardist, holder of the diamond cue of
America, is said to be Peyraud.
At Covington, Georgia, when a man
gets drunk his head is shaved by the
authorities Most of the citizens wear
wigs.
Hon. w. f. Chandler, ex-Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, is candidate
for the United States Senate from New
Hampshire.
One of our religious papers has
figured out Jobs wealth (who was said
to be the greatest man of all the earth J
to have been but S370,000.
The Prince of Hohenlohe has worn for
twenty years on his left leg golden
bracelet, in fulfllment of promise to
some foolish girls
Miss Sibelia I. Baker, of Minnesota;
Miss Jennie G. Brown, of Illinois, and
Miss Jennie l.. Henderson, of Missouri,
graduated recently from the Philadel-
phia Medical College.
King Louis, of Bavaria, dislikes to
ride either on horseback or in carriage,
and boasts that he can walk from Hohen-
schwanger to Munich quicker than any
of his subjects. s
The King and Crown Prince of Prus-
sia are noted for their penuriousness,
and the Berliners say that the young
man wears his uniform till it is thread
bare, and then has it made up for the
little princes.
General Horace Brougbton and Mr..
Spaulding, the Enrolling Clerk Of the
Texas House, are charged with purloin-
ing $l30,000 from internal revenue
funds.
At bal mdsgue given by the Princess
Barberini, in Rome, for the benefit OF the
night refugees, some members of the
demi monde, who had paid twenty francs
for their tickets, slipped in under cover
of their masks, and their presence be-.
coming known, all the Roman princesses
instantly unmasked.
Lady Franklin arrived at Rio Janeiro
on the 4th instant from England. Al
though now nearly eighty years old she
is upon a trip to the Pacific coast, she
having heard that some one living in
Vancouver's Island is in possession of
letter from, or regarding, Sir John Frank
lin, which he will not deliver to any one
but herself in person.
The long forgotten, but once famous
Nicholas P. Trist, who irresponsibly ne
gotiated the treaty which closed the Mex
lean war, has turned up again, as a me
morialist to Congress, for compensation
on account Of his important diplomatic
services aforesaid. Mr.. Trist has been
living in comparative obscurity and pow
erty for many years past.
A few days ago some leading politi-
clans called on Governor Hoffman, and
after some conversation one of them
said: "Well; Governor, if you won't do
what we want you to do, you shall not be
Governor lot stCOnu ltflui hNall ooS~ic
Won of that" Very well, gentlemen"
reioined Hoffman, in his usual quietway,
q intend to be Governor for one term,
at any rate"
A recently published life Of Bismarck
saws that one day, in Berlin restau-
rant. the young Count heard a person
near him talking in very abusive Ian
guace of a member Of the royal family.
Springing 10 his feet, he cried out to the
scandal-monger: Quit this rooml IL
YOU are not gone before ! have finished
nv beer. / will break the glass on your
headim Then he sat down again, and
sipped his beer calmly. The other party
10 the quarrel waited in defiant attitude.
When the Count had swallowed the last
drop of his beer, he rushed - his adyer-
sarv. beat down his guard, and smashed
the glass into a thousand pieces on bis
head. The man fell to the hocr The
COun; turned % the waiter. asked calmly,
" How much 10 pay for the beer and
the broken glass paid the amount, and
sauutered out Of the room.