Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-19
Stromboli is in eruption again.

Prince Arthur will be twenty IN May.
There are nineteen comic papers pub.
lished in Paris.
The foundry for casting shadows is To-
Gated in the sun.
Congressman Hosg, deceased, left an
estate of one million.
Whether a man chews or eschewS to-
baceo, it is matter of choosing.
The Field of the Cloth Of Gold has
been performed in Shanghai.
Gottschalk left $200,000.
Prince Arthur will return to Boston in
May.
Mrs. Yelverton is reading with success
in California.
Prince Leopold's health is the cause Of
Victoris's anxitey.
Mrs. Stanton's husband is writing
sketch of the New York bar.
A negro has become member of the
Pennsylvania Press Association.
Nearly oil the prominent bellies of
New York boast of having danced with
Prince Arthur.
A conscientious gambler in Chicago
gives ten per cent. of his plunder to the
Orphan Asylum.
The friends of Mr.. Seward, in Wash
ington, will give several public dinners
in his honor on his return to this country.
The new ladies' firm will be bad for the
Wall street fellows. The juoior member,
being o clairvoyaDt, can, of course, see
right through them.
The man who took eighty-seven ladies
to ball in Birmingham, Pennsylvania,
received the prize, gold watch. An
other who escorted filty.feur didn't.
George Sand has q new play in re-
hearsal at the Odeen. with this strange
title: The Other. The authoress de-
scribes one of the characters to be a
grsy-haired Ophelis."
The elegant Duke de Chartres, known
in this country as Aide de-csmp, for q
considerable time, to General Mcclellan,
is now the Master of the Surrey (Eugland)
stag hounds.
The French Minister, Olivier, is occu-
pied with the question of dueling, and
meditates a law to replace imprisonment
by fine of $40, 900. applicable to seconds
as we'll as principals.
A lady having presented herself at the
Empress of Austria's ball in an extremely
low-necked dress, received an intimation
which led to her retirement to her country
seat in Hungary.
Miss Dix says that the dipping of
snuff, which was INDUCED in to fearful
extent South, had greater effect toward
driving women mad, on account of their
more nervous ssnsibilities, than chewing
tobacco had on men, who were of o
stronger nature"
S.. johns Masonic Lodge, No. 8, Of
Glasgow, Scotland, lately celebrated the
eight hundred and twelfth anniversary of
its existence. Il was founded by King
Malcolm in the year 1868, nine years pre-
vious to the Norman conquest of Eng
land.
A number of sportsmeA from Cclum-
bis, South Carolina, succeeded in cap
turing huge alligator in the swamps in
that neighborhood recently. The mon
ster weighs $50 pounds, and is seventeen
feet long. The Phonir says his alliga-
torship is safely housed in Columbia.
The numerous deluded American
heirs" to English estates, who are con-
stantly being heeced by lawyers, would
save their money if they we're aware that
an alien cannot be an heir in England |
when there is no will, and that he cannot |
take real estate, even if left to him by |
will.
The learned Crosby family in New |
England gathered recently in Concord to !
celebrate the seventeen birthday of DR.. |
Dixi Crosby, of Dartmouth College, one |
of the brothers. The original family con-
sisted of seventeen children, twelve of |
whom adopted the profession of the
father-medicine.
Washington society, say the CORE
spondents, is soon to lose from its circles |
a fair devotee, sister of Senior Romero,
who is about to take the VOWS and enter /
the society of Catholic nuns. Miss
Romero is lady of striking appearance,
about nineteen years Of age, aud adds to |
her many other accomplishments that of
being q rare musician.
The late Professor Fsradsy, who was
Of humble origin, said that when bread
was very dear bis mother, at the begin
ming of the week, gave him loaf for
himself, that he might have the manage
ment Of it entirely. he Immediately
marked it out carefully into fourteen por-
lions, one of which he ate each morning
and eveRing, thus leaning his first les
son in frugal economy.
NJ. de Fouvielle, :the companion Of
Victor Noir, who drew but did not dis
charge a pistol at Pierre Bonapsrte, was
so unsccustomed to handling a pistol
that shen in the street be had to ask q
pos,msa 20 uucoek i'll This ignorance
of the use OF firearms wss one reason be /
aid nos hfe on the Prince after be had IN
.reuched himself behind the chair. On |
gsininr the street N. de Fouvielle vas |
asked Why he had not saved bis friend,
and to this ho replied, Il was wounded;
look al my coatf 10 fact. the breast Of /