Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-08
FACTS AND FANCIEs.
Mazzini died very rich.
The Utes are being vacciuated.

The brother Of dear old uom hughes
is i'll at London,
Garibaldi is enjoying visit from the
Duke Of Sutherland.
A Plain6eld, Ind, man has been bald
ever since he was born.
The cost of the illustrations of the
Dore Bible was fl5,000.
A Connecticut man builds carriages
made wholly from india-rubber.
Sweetening ones coffee is generally
the first stirring event Of the day.
Mrs. Scott-SiddOns will not lecture the
coming season. It's just as we'll.
Halfmourning is popularity known in
Pennsylvania as Pittsburg sunshine"
The Russian language is, by ukase,
made compulsory in the schools of Po-
land.
POOH Who cares for Beecher," says
Fanny Fern; / used to go to school to
his sister.
The Aberdeen cab drivers have struck
for an advance of wages from lis. to
Dos. per week.
Hamtramck is the euphonious name
of the locality which Detroit will convert
into park.
1t is computed by an English journal
that London will contain 5000, 900 of in
habitants in 1900.
The French press unanimously ap-
prove the abolition of passports between
England and France.
The storm signalman on top of Mount
Washington holds the highest office in
the gift Of the nation"
The Stockton California Insane Asy-
lum has female patient whose insanity
was caused by tight lacing
An exchange says: Jennie Pettis of
Burlington, Ia, has added herself to the
list of female Demostheneses.
An Irish editor says he can't see no
earthly reason why women should not be
allowed to become medical men.
Strikes are chronic in England, where
the laboring classes seem to be ON
strike about fve-fifths of the year.
Detroit is to have ball at which none
but blondes are to participate. A puny
editor says they will trip the light fan
tastic tow.
Victor Emmanuel is said to be the best
public speaker, oratorically, of all the
potentates in Europe-manly and self
possessed.
When the Harvard Advocate talks
about the leather-covered sphere and
its attendant attractions" it refers to the
game Of base ball.
The horrors of the famine, not yet en-
tirely relieved, in Persia, have never
been fully realized in this country, or,
indeed, in Europe.
The marine forces OF Prussia have
for years been awarded prizes for marks
manship, and are believed to be the best
sharpshooters in the world.
A law of Pennsylvania makes the
taking of money at the door Of theater
on Sunday illegal, wherefore it is inva-
riably taken at the window.
A crusty old bachelor says that love
is a wretched business, consisting Of
little signing, a little crying, little
dying" and a deal of lying.
Logan, the author of the Scottish
Gael and other works, has just died in
London. He was a native Of Aberdeen,
and nearly ninety years Of age.
Thirty-seyen Republicans have been
elected to the Spanish Cortes, the most
prominent of whom are Senores CASTELAR,,
Orense, Margall, and Figueras.
A middle-sized boy, writing compost
ton on Extremes" remarked that we
should endeavor TO avoid extremes, es-
pecially those Of wasps and bees"
The famous Mer du Glace on the sum-
NIT of Mont Blanc is diminishing in
size. Its hight has been reduced one
hundred feet in the last twenty years.
An ex-Tribune proof-reader says: If
Horace Greeley had written the inscrip-
ton on the wall in Babylon, Belshazzar
would have been good deal more scared
than he was.
The Chinese seem still impressed with
the idea that the missionaries are in
conspiracy to poison them. Physicians
and missionaries are the same to the
Celestials."
Alexander Dumas has made some
very profitable speculationS since the
Franco-German war, and is now consid-
cred one of the richest literary men Of
his age in Paris.
II is said that drainage has been car.
ried to such extent in the rural districts
Of England, that whole counties shed
the falling rain ike the roof Of a we'll
slated house.
Spain, while vainly trying to put down
republieanism and liberty in Cuba, can
hardly keep up the form of monarchy at
home, where every prop Of the throne