Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-28
FACTS AND FANcIEs.

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In speaking or writing, nothing atones
for want Of simplicity.
Said Pasha, son-in.law of Sultan Nah
mond H., has just died at Constanti'
nople.
The Chicago sufferers paid over $4,000
to hear Charlotte Cushman read last
week.
Some one says very cleyerly that the
greatest abuse of our faculties is their
disuse. a
One of the latest patents granted IN
Washington was for an improvement IN
chignons. IS
Maggie Mitchell is the mother of two
bright and beautiful children, like her
self, petite,
The cultivation of peanuts in the South
is receiving considerable attention and
proves profitable.
The tomb of Rachel, in Pere Ia Chaise,
Paris, is e small and very beautiful
Greek chapel.
A Turkish porter will trot along at q
rapid pace, carrying weight of six hun
dred pounds
1t is said that the style of the Spanish
ladies dress has not materially changed
for two hundred years.
The county Antrim, Ireland, is found
to contain vast beds of iron ore OF rich
quality and purity. =
The Russian government is about to
send another exploring expedition to
the Arctic regions.
Vienna is called the Mecca Of music
in Europe, and all artists in this line,
sooner or later worship there.
The entire cost of the Mont Gents
Tunnel was about seventy million francs
France pays about one-third.
A new ballet has been brought out at
Rome, founded upon the Divina Com
media, in which dancing Dante APP
pears.
The Prince of Wales is declared to be
a terrible thorn in his royal mothers
side, Notwithstanding outside show OF
affection.
The colored people outnumber the
white population in South Carolina by
l26, l47, in Mississippi by 81 ,3O5, and in
Louisiana by 2l45.
The beggars at Rome are said to be as
numerous now as they were before the
city was taken possession OF by the Ma
tional Government.
A correspondent from Salt Lake City
says the Mormon girls have the freshest
fairest, clearest and most healthy COM
plexions he ever saw.
The Marquis of Ripon has been unan'
imously elected, for the third time, Most
Worshipful Grand Master Of the Free
masons of England.
John Brougham is said to have written
over one hundred acting plays, not one
of which can be set down as a failure in
it's practical workings on the stage.
Two female students at Liepsig re-
Gently had duel They fought with
swords, one Of the combatants losing an
eye and the other part Of her nose.
A German writer, complaining Of the
difficulties in the pronunciation Of the
English language, cites the word Boz,
which be SAYS Is pronounced Dickens.
The Emperor Alexander Of Russia is
pronounced TO be the most indolent Of
all the European mOnarchs. He is said
1o speak German better than Russian.
The gauge Of the railways in Russia
differs from that Of other countries, as
the Car has no intention Of ever seeing
German cars running as they did in
France, under any circumstances.
Garibaldi. though physically decrepit,
Is not much advanced in years. II we
remember correctly be viii be sixty-fve
years old next July. Heis Sandman
by birth.
The streets Of Paris number twenty
three hundred aid sixty, many Of which
are unrivalled. in point of architecture
and spaciousness, in any part of the
world.
Anthony Trollope is one of the most
industrious literary men in England,
being not only occupied with novel
writing, but also on the London daily
press.
Sir C. W. Dixie, the ultra politician, is
a man Of distinguished ability, wealth
and station, but too rampant even for
the Radicals. Over doses do not cure;
they rather aggravate.
Sir William Boville, Lord Chief JUS
tice Of the Common Pleas, and who
=. ; presided d y Z. the Tichborne trial, is
said to be perfect Dogberry, and the
laughing stock of the English barristers.
Frank Buekland, Of England, writes
to Seth Green, the New York fish breeder,
that he has successfully introduced
American brook trout into English wa
iers. From eggs sent him three Years