Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-12

the downfall Of the empire and the reign
of Communism.
1t has become a question whether Ba-
yarian beer or Beethoven's sonata in A
major caused Bismarck to assent to the
German war of 1866.
Miss Nellie Thurston is engaged to
make balloon ascension this fall at 1.-THE
Antwerp New York; Union Agricultu-
raj Society's grounds.
The Duke of Edinburg has been "a
wooing" to Sorrento, Italy, where the
Empress of Russia and her daughter
resided until several days ago.
Joaquin Miller is to marry an English
lady, daughter of Sir T. D. Hardy, of
London. She will be Mrs. Miller No. 2,
not counting the Modoc belle.
Detroit holds up for admiration and
imitation boy eleven years old, who
can keep so still that even the doctor
can't tell whether he's alive or not.
Reading, Pa, lately Witnessed the as
cension of a paper balloon carrying its
maker, one Donaldson, above the clouds
and ten miles to leeward when it landed
him in safety.
NJ. Ulrich de Fonville, the editor of
the Union Republicaine of Dieppe,
France, has been fined and imprisoned
for advocating the assassination of Don
Carlos if found upon French territory.
The monument to be erected over the
grave of Fanny Fern will consist of an
Italian marble pedestal on a granite
base. The pedestal is to be surmounted
by Roman cross ornamented with fern
leaves.
There is young girl in Brooklyn who
for long time has supposed herself to
be dying of love. but council of emf
nent physicians pronounce it to be dys-
pepsia.
Commenting on the reported attempt
to kill the German Emperor at a review
at Insterburg, the Berlin papers say that
not only was his Majesty not shot at at
Insterburg, but no review was ever held
there.
Mile Nelly de Malamarre de Treby,
who has just taken the veil in France,
got much celebrity during the late war
for having stabbed a Prussian officer
who had entered her fathers chateau
and insulted her.
Last week writing match came of
in Oshkosh between Robert Sawyer, the
court reporter, and r. =. Daniels, of
Oshkosh. The match lasted ten hours,
and at the conclusion of the contest
Sawyer had written 1900 words, and
Daniels IL, 400.
An almost incredible paragraph is cir
to the effect that Sergeant
Bates is actually-after all he has done
for his ungrateful country-reduced to
the humiliating necessity Of working for
a living just like any ordinary private
citizen.
A little more than a week ago some
demented newspaper correspondent in
Danville, N. H., divulgel the fact that
no insurance agent had ever visited that
peaceful town, and now no citizen can
take walk without heading procession
Of them.
The Pail Mall Gazette says good
naturally: "The Americans seem to
be hard at work reconstructing their
navy, though it is difficult to imagine
why they should take so much trouble
when future differences can be so easily
adjusted by arbitration"
On recent trial in South Wales, to
test the validity Of will, it was proved
that in 1861 the testator became i'm
paired in intellect 70 such an extent that
he went to the pOstofice with a postage
stamp on his forehead and requested to
be sent by mail to place he mentioned.
Two important witnesses in the Itch
borne case have recently arrived in
London, one the veritable Thomas Cas-
trO, With whom the claimant alleges he
stayed for some time in South America.
and the other an elderly lady named
Mrs. Hayley, with whom he lodged in
Valparaiso.
Since the discovery Of the Bender muir.
ders, there is not q Chicago drummer
who travels who has not been in the habit
Of dining at the Bender mansion fire.
quently. The reason they escaped is.
that when the fatal hammer tap de-
Icended on their heads It was like brain
ng a sponge or India rubber ball
A young officer at the lava beds re-
'eived a letter full Of affection from his
lance, the concluding words Of which