Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-24
FACTS AND FANCIES.


President.
Colonel Rothschild has married his
rich cousin.
Colonel Christine Nilsson is singing
for four dollars ticket.
Col. Robert Heller, the magician, has
left Australia for India.
Colonel Prince of Lippe is the wealth
lest ruler in Germany.
Colonel Brigham Young never gave
Grant present in his life.
Col. Victor Hugo is writing terrible
book on :" a terrible year"
Colonel Victoria Woodruff will lecture
in Memphis during the present season.
Colonel Emperor Napoleon has sent
six millions of francs to the Pope.
Colonel Alexis, the royal duke, is in
Washington talking Russian to Colonel
Grant.
South Bend, the sylvan home of Col.
Schuyler Colfax, is to have a brass
foundry.
Col. Anthony Trollope is writing let
tiers to the London Telegraph from Aus
tralia.
Col. Frank Blair tells the Republican
that in the South the negroes steal ad
libitum."
Col. Thomas Murphy is no more. We
may say of Murphy " he is dead" Poor
Toms a-coldl
Col. Junius Henri Brownies Sights
and Sensations in Europe" has just been
published at Hartford.
Colonel Joaquin Miller has not been
acting just right, SO says his divorced
wife, Mrs. NJ NJ. Miller.
Col. Fred Grant says he would give
box of cigars to give an interviewing re-
porter good licking by -.
Colonies Cough and Fitzpatrick are
both out of the lecture business for the
present, on account of the bronchitis.
Colonel Darwin insists in his new book
that monkeys of high grade can laugh,
sneer, smile, talk scandal and politics.
Colonel Beecher declares that "our
greatest danger arises from the indiffer-
ence of the educated and moral voters.
Colonel Victor Emanuel entered Rome
last Tuesday, and was welcomed at the
gates by the heir apparent Prince Hum
bert.
Colonel Fred Douglass ran six hun
bred votes behind the other Republican
candidates for the Assembly in Roches-
ter.
Col Reverdy johnson favors the pro-
posed abandonment by the Democratic
party of the ground it has hitherto occu-
pied.
Colonel NJ. d. Lesseps, in spite of i'll
reports concerning the Suez Canal, de-
clares that he will never permit it to fall /
into English hands.
Colonel Joel T. Hart, the sculptor,
who has resided in Florence, Italy, for a
number of years, will soon make visit
to his Kentucky home.
Colonel Clara Louisa Kellogg having |
sung in Chicago, a reporter states that
her frisky Blackjack must have called /
for an agile organist.'
After the serenade Colonel Fisk was
presented to the Grand Duke, and Of
fered him the freedom of all he possessed
on the American continent.
Colonel NJ Ernst Renan, author of
the Vie de Jesus, has arrive d in Ma
pies with his wife, daughter of the late
AIRY Scheffer, the painter.
A Pittsburg colonel slept sou, IDLY with
a dead bed-fellow the other mig It, being
unaware that the latter had bl own his
brains out early in the evening.
Colonel Charles Sumner declines the
costly gold medal presented to him by
the citizens of Hayti, in recog milton of
his services in behalf of their country.
Colonel Tweed has sold his twenty-five
thousand dollar interest in the Wa shing-
ton Patriot for seven thousand dollars.
The Patriot claims to be the National
Democratic organ.
Colonel ex.Queen Isabellas frequent
indispositions are, says the Epoca, due
to cause, the existence Of which must
be source of satisfaction 10 Her
Majestys friends and well-wisher ).
1t is said that Colonel Robes on Sec
rotary of the Navy, will very shortly is
sue an order Diminishing FIVE more mid
shipmen from the royal academy for
hazipg their comrades.
Colonel Oscar Dunn, the griife- coored
LieutenantGoyern of Louisiana, is
very dead. In lsil he was advertised
as a runaway, and FIVE dollars reward
offered in the Picayune.
Colonel William Rex has caused his
grandson, Frederick William, son OF
the hereditary prince, to be elected col
onel in the regiment of the Imperial
Guard Of St. Petersburg, now doing gar.
rison duty at Warsaw
Colonel Marquette, Captain Of the
Vile de Paris, states that few hours
: after his steamer left France, on one Of
his late trips, child was born in the
cabin. He very appropriately left
mother and child at Brest.
. Col Sir Richard Wallace, in addition
to his many other gifts to charities, and
his labors with the Ambulance Commit
. tee during the late war, has established