Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-23
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

matte critic.
Nine. Sass is filing an operate Ell
gagement at Madrid.
Henry Dickens, son Of Charles Dicl
ems, is studying law in London.
Valuable brine springs have been dis
covered in Howard county. Mo.
Bismarck is member of l4l Germal
societies in different parts of the world
The old gold coin of Prussia is to b
collected and withdrawn from circula
ton.
Eussis has in addition to her army il
the field an effective reserve force $50,
900 strong.
General Sickles has had son born al
Madrid, who has been named Edwin
Stanton Sickles.
A young lady at Cory, Pa, had her
speech frightened from her by runaway
team recently.
An association of Hindoos is to be
started at Bombay to encourage the re-
marriage of widows.
The wind was so strong in Iowa that it
lately blew mans eye out. The optic
was glass one.
Edmond About is about to publish a
complete edition of his writings at his
ewn expense.
An ill-used husband in Minnesota has
applied for divorce because his better
half beats him.
A California heiress, Miss Cox, is said
to be confined in the Blackwell's Island
Lunatic Asylum. el
General Hancock, the new commander
of the Military Division Of the Atlantic,
has arrived in New York.
At the last hanging in Pennsylvania
a Miss Cady asked permission to adjust
the fatal moose with her own fair hands.
Mrs. Ezra Cornell has paid Miss Vim
ME Ream $1,000 for bust Of Lincoln
copied from the horrid statue BY her at
Washington. fH
At Elmira Female College the fair
"sophs" have interdicted the wearing of
false hair and bustles by the fresh
women.
The name grass widow" is of French
origin. 1t is derived from the French
grace" and originally meant widow
by courtesy.
Mrs. Millins Faircloth, Of Mitchell
county, Georgia, has reacted her one
hundred and sixteenth summer, and is
still sprightly and in good health
The Hon. Edward Lytton, son Of Lord
Bulwer Lytton, has been appointed |
First Secretary of the British Legation
at Paris.
In England there are $50 persons liV-
ing having shares in the Government
Tontine lottery scheme of 1888. Their
ages average 30 years.
The Yale exploring party, under the
leadership of Professor Marsh, has re-
turned from its Rocky Mountain trip
laden with specimens"
The Rev. E. W. Hitchcock has &C.
cepted the permanent pastorste of the
American Chapel in Paris, Of which be
has hitherto had provisional charge.
Mrs. A. Whipple, of Portland, Column
bia county, Wisconsin, died suddenly
from the effects of pairing a corn too
closely.
Luda Showalter, a resident of Terre
Haute, Indiana, is commissioned a no.
tary public, the first woman so appointed
in the State.
Mrs. Melissa Dawson, a well known
and highly respected old lady Of Owen
ton, Kentucky, was burned to death one
day last week.
A Mrs. F. G. Drake has the contract
for painting the swords manufactured at
the Springfield, Massachusetts, ,'armory,
and gives employment to several girls.
A colored female preacher in North
Carolina was unfortunately caught steal
ing cotton the other evening, and her
exhortations will now be confined to
narrow limits.
Japanese :paper-work is the latest re.
creation and amusement for ladies. A
vast deal Of tissue paper, paste, scissors,
paints, and an enormous amount Of
patience is all that is required.
While two young men and three young
ladies we're crossing the Chattahoochee
river, above Columbus, Georgia, the
other DAY the boat capsized, and the
three ladies were drowned.
The great advantage Of Minnesota as
a resort for invalids is the equability Of
its climate, which, at last report was
maintaining a strikingly equable tenn
perature Of twenty-five degrees below
zero.
Two young American ladies recently |
hled the unprecedented petition to be
allowed to sleep in the lighthouse at
Leith' Scotland, for one night, TO the
abject bewilderment aud astonishnent
Of the authorities.
The name Of Edwin Stanton was not |
tao popular during its possessor's oficial