Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-05-04
PERSONAL ITEMS.

General Fremont talks OF joining the
army of the Pacha of Egypt.
Mrs. Abby-Sage- Northumberland
son is writing her biography.
A new work by Mr.. Mathew Arnold is
announced, but the title is not given.
Mrs. Fawcett is lecturing in Dublin on
''The Electoral Disabilities of Women y
One of the original Fox Sisters is in
New York giving Rochester knock
ings."
Manton Marble of the New York
World is reported i'll and threatened with
blindness.
Maine comes up smiling with the
champion old lady, one hundred and
seven years old.
The sculptor Mozier has sold his
Prodigal Son to the Institute of Phil
adelphia for $4,000.
Carl Hubner's painting, "The First
Grandchild," was sold last week at a
sale in New York for $l700.
Miss Hosmer is now modelling in clay
full-length figure of Maria Sophia, the
ex-Queen of the Two Sicilies
Mr. Edward Dunbar, the founder of
the Travellers Club in New York, died
recently in South America.
The original Fritz in the Grand
Duchess" NJ. Depuis, is going to London
to fulfill a short engagement.
The name of Johann Gotlieb Christ
Knipfenbausenstein is a new prize for
the Pittsburg directory this year.
An incarnate sneeze called Keshud
Shunder, the head of the Monotheistic
Church of India, is gone proselytizing to
London. .-Neio York World.
The late Rev. Dr. McClintock, says
the Newark Advertiser, lost between
$50, 600 and $4,000 within the last few
years on mining and oil stocks.
Mr.. James Brooks is remodelling his
Fifth avenue residence on very expen-
sive scale. The decoration of his library
alone will cost $4,000
Laland, the French astronomer, often
ate caterpillars and spiders, affirming
that the former tasted like almonds and
the latter like walnuts.
Miss Rye, who brought seventy poor
English girls to Canada last October, has
found good homes for all of them, and is
going back to England for hundred
more.
Mr.. Wake, in the Anthropologica So
ciety of London, has lately read paper
suggesting that the original seat of
human civilization was probably the Is
land of Madagascar.
Miss Matte johnson has married a
very constant lover, who was willing to
forgive her. She made him promise he
would never say Cooke to her, even if
the dinner was spoiled.
The Man Flute is title given to a
certain Don Ferreyra, who is now per-
forming at an Irish theater He pro-
duces all the effects of flute without
having recourse to any instrument what
ever.
A Frenchman proposes to substitute
musical instrument-to be played by the
Jury, and which Geographically transmits
death to the convict-for the guillotine
Combining business with pleasure.
Leo Hudson, with her bare-legged |
horse, is running down buffaloes on the
Western plains. If she shows the pair !
Df legs to the buffaloes that she did, not |
ong since, to the New Albany hGbifues,
he animals will surrender at the first |
ire e.-Neo Albany Ledger.
The Pere Gratry, who has just been
nominated Director Of the French Acad-
my, is renowned for his absence Of
mind. One day when he was going TO
he SOrbonne, where he lectured on the
,logy, he imagined that he had forgotten
lis watch, and took il out Of his pocket
o see if he had time TO go and fetch it.
Isabella wears mourning for her cousin,
Don Henrique De Bourbon. While ad-
niring the goods in a Partisan shop win
low, she brushed against she fresh paint
10 hide her confusion till her carriage
.ame up, she entered the shop, and OBJ
erved to one of the ckefs how grace
ully French ladies made their pur-
.hases. They are compelled 10 in
tate four Aaiestys example, was the
eply. All you ere courtier for the
added the Queen. The
Unhappy are always truthful, +" responded
he chef He received a large order
rom the ex-Queen.-FdriSC Cor.