Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-23
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

, err of Chappaqua."
There is nothing that needs to be said
in an unkindly manner.
A son Of Daniel Drew drives the finest
team at Long Branch.
Those who live for something usually
find it is something to live.
Mr.. Frank Mayo is now the manager
of the Rochester Opera House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault will
spend the summer in this country.
A. I. Stewart threatens to build a
white marble hotel at Saratoga.
Prince Frederick Carl of Prussia de-
MES that he is coming to America.
Olive Logans new lecture for the
coming season is on Successful Peo-
ple."
Mr.. .Kreisman, American Consul at
Berlin, is about to make a short visit to
the United States.
There are seventeen newspapers IN
Japan, the youngest one having been
started in April.
In New Mexico, a recent vote on es-
tablishing free schools stood 81 for and
5O76 against.
He who receives a good turn should
never forget it; he who does one should
never remember it.
Their way of hurrying up the actors
in Washington theaters is to throw
young kittens on the stage.
General and Mrs. Fremont, will, as
heretofore, spend portion of the sam
mer at Mount Desart, Ne.
An exploring and sketching party will
start from Boston for the interior of
South America in the fall.
Professor Agassiz has found a striking
resemblance between Patagonian seem
cry and that Of the Alps.
In Australia, spring begins August 20;
summer, November 20; autumn, Febru-
airy 20, and winter May 20.
What with the political campaign and
the agricultural fairs the fall is to be
busy season for newspaper men.
"They fred two shots at him" wrote
an Irish reporter. The first shot killed
Kim, but the second was not fatal.
Louisa Muhlbach is writing hstori-
cal novel about certain incidents in the
life of the Turkish Sultan, Abdul Medjid.
Sportsmen, spectators, habitues Of
the turf, and promiscuous crowd gem
orally, are now concentrating at Sara
toga.
Kate Fields, in her recent letter from
Ems to the Paris Register, says her
countrymen and women are making fools
of themselves there.
Mr.. B. Pomeroy is a clergyman at the
Round Lake camp-meeting. 1t may be
necessary to say that B doesn't stand
for Brick in this case.
The notorious bond robber, Dutch
Heinrichs," has gone crazy at Sing-Sing
prison, and is to be transferred to the
insane asylum at Utica.
Governor Jewell has purchased the
interest of j. H. Bromley in the Hart
ford Evening Post. and Mr.. Bromley re-
tires from the paper.
1t is said that DR.. Swinburne, ex-
Health Officer Of the port of New York,
is to take the place of DR.. Morris as
Sanitary Inspector Of that city.
A street temperance speaker, in Al
bany, clothes himself in a white gown
reaching about his neck to his feet,
with sashes of red and blue about his
shoulders.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, after
their professional tour around the world,
have arrived in London. Mr.. Mathews
will not appear on the stage until octo-
Der next.
The Christian Register says Strauss
4" is SO evidently inspired. so utterly abb
sorbed in his vocation, that it was
enough to make Puritan caper, and
set Quakers to Waiting"
Mr.. W. ]. Florence proposes to return
to the United States in the latter part OF
August. He will bring some novelties,
and will go starring. His wife viii re-
main in Europe for year or two of rest
and study.
A professor Of the art Of selfdefence,
lately arrived here from Europe, fur
nishes his pupils with a pocket appa-
ratus for injecting vitrol into the eyes Of
assailants. On the platforms Of horse
cars this will be invaluable.
During the 3ls years following the
Of Hispaniola $1,000, 900, 900
worth of gold was poured into European
Mr.. Thomas Hankey, writing
in the Economist, says that an equal
amount has come to Europe since 1852
So.
what is that, children" asked
young pastor. exhibiting to his Sunday
school a magic lantern picture Of poor
sinner, elinging to the cross towering
out Of stormy waves in mid-ocean.