Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-22
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

A girl that has lost her beau may as
we'll hang up her fiddle.
Gambetta is about to start on peliti,
cal tour through France
Some men, like pictures, are filter for
corner than full light. Seneca.
Good works are like dewdrops--they
fall silently, but who can tell their eifect1
Russia has now in circulation in her
territory s25, OOOO 900 in paper currency.
The Prince and Princess Of Wales are
on their way to Cannes, in the South OF
France.
An English traveller speaks of seeing
wild coffee tree in Liberia, seventy-fve
feet high
Circasian girls are very plenty and
cheap in the market Of COnstantinople
this year.
The greatest beer-drinking city on
the face of the earth is said to be Mu-
Mich in Bavaria.
The frequency of cases of smallpox
in Paris is exciting general alarm there
among foreign visitors.
The license to carry or use gun costs
ten shillings in England; the license to
kill game costs f3.
There are 599 railway companies in
Great Britain, so of which are in Scot
land, and IS in Ireland.
Christianity makes few proselytes in
India, though missionaries have labored
there for more than a century.
Queen Victoria has granted from the
civil list pension to the widow of the
late Mark Lemon, editor of Punch.
A mob was not long since dispersed in
Dublin by the FIRE engines playing upon
them. Hydropathy in liberal doses
Chester is the Oldest city in England,
and, according to Sir Thomas Elliot, it
was built by great-grandson of NOAH
A gushing foreign letter-writer speaks
of a lady wearing quarts of diamonds,
more like diamonds of quartz, we should
say.
Buenos Ayres has by no means recov-
cred from the fearful ravages Of the yell
low fever which decimated the popula-
ton last year.
The French hulks at L0rient are
represented to be vile places of conhne-
ment, so unhealthy as to show remark
able mortality.
Travellers represent thai living in Paris
costs to-day nearly double the sum re-
quired for comfortable food and lodgings
FIVE years since.
A very large percentage Of theoficers
in the Russian army are Germans. State
ments set the proportion as high as three
fifths of the whole number.
Musical boxes are coming into fashion
again, and we find them concealed in
chairs. albums, cigarcases, work-boxes
and all sorts of unheard- of places.
Mrs. Malaprop is anxious to know
whether this Don Juan question be-
tween England and America has any
thing to do with poor Lord Byron.
How is this7 Are we to prohibit po-
lygamy in Utah and permit free love in
Massachusetts, Is justice amenable to
latitude and longitude7
An enlisted soldier, under ordinary
circumstances, can purchase his dis
charge from the British army for ESQ;
not in war time, however.
German bankers have again taken
their accustomed places upon the French
Bourse, business interests before ma
iional considerations.
In the little town Of Everton, near
Liverpool, England, there is a cast-iron
church one hundred and nineteen feet
long, and forty-eight feet wide.
Playing the harp is getting to be a
very fashionable accomplishment espe-
cialIy among young ladies whom nature
has gifted with handsome arms
A man in Boone county, Kentucky.
devotes himself exclusively to the study
Of Greek, while his family is destitute Of
the common comforts Of life.
A celebrated writer says that, if one
could but read it, every human being
carries his life in his face, and is good
looking or the reverse, as that life has
been good or evil.
The marriage Of two sons Of the sec
oRd wife to two daughters Of the third
wife of the same man is curious event
which is said to have occurred in Essex
county, Virginia.
A private letter from a friend now in
Naples says that begging is positively
reduced to science here; lazy genius
aud the Lazzaroni have elevated it to
one Of the fine arts.
The lifelong, but, for France, over
ardent republican, Blanqui, when asked
at his recent trial where his usual resi-
dence was, replied, My usual resi-
dencel' am usually in prison.
The citizens of Moscow are busy pre-