Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-28
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Story the sculptor, is developing init
dramalist.
Miss Fannie kellogg is studying II
Boston for the opera.
Nine Lind Goldsmith is singing IL
London in aid OF charities.
Butler, our late consul to Egypt, hal
espoused the Carlist cause in Spain.
Kate Field says that society flirts will
religion precisely as it airts with the
opera.
NJ. Charrington, retired London
brewer, has become an apostle OF tenn
perance.
Leon Levi, Paraguayan Minister in
London, is organizing scientific com
mission.
Prince OrlofF, Russian Ambassador to
Paris has received the Order of the
White Eagle.
Brigham shouts, Let us have peace.
That is probably a frequent request in
his nursery.
Nine Parepa Rosa has returned to
England, after achieving additional lau'
rels in Egypt.
Performance of oratorios, illustrated
by tableaux vivants, are the latest mu-
steal novelty in Europe.
An English writer insists that from
the abolition of capital punishment will
date the decline of the British Hempire.
Wachtel has been knighted and made
an honorary member of the Ducal Thea
ter in Gotha by the Grand Duke OF SAKE
Coburg-GOtha.
1t is reported that Sir Michael Costa
will retire from the post of conductor of
her MajeSty's Opera, at Durry Lane, af-
ter the present season.
Ill-natured folks in England, when it
is announced that Boucicault has pro-
duced an original drama, invariably in
quire, Whose is itY
Should the present Parliament be dis
solved, it is said that John Bright will
not again be member, but will with
draw altogether from public life.
Baron de La Suss has returned to
France from New Orleans, where he has
been trying to establish line of steam
ships between that city and Havre.
Bulwer used to say that the English
we're the worst public speakers in the
world, but he failed to add that he him
self was the worst speaker among the
English.
President White, of Cornell Univer-
sity, offers the college crew the best boat
that can be built on condition that liquor
and tobacco be foresworn at the forth
coming regatta.
While with some people books are
among the primal necessities of life, with
others they are mere Injuries; and with
others still they are regarded as neither
necessary nor ornamental.
The marble statue of Giuseppe MAJ
zini, lately set up in the grand court of
the City Palace of Genoa, is the gift of
a private citizen, Bernardo Ruggero, cost
$4,000 and is a striking likeness.
The friends of Henri Rochefort in
Paris are doing everything in their power
to secure his recall from Punishment,
and they have much hope of success.
Rochefort himself is sanguine of an
early return to France.
The Czarowitch is declared to be most
determined of all the Emperor's family
in favor of dispossessing the British of
their rule in India. He swears they
have no right there, but forgets that the
Russians haven't either.
Pauline Lucea has already cleared in
this country, it is asserted, considerably
over 100000. She's Lucca one. No
marvel she thinks of remaining in
land where all her notes are redeemed
at hearing, instead Of sight, in gold.
Rev. W. H. Milburn, the blind
preacher, is said to have obtained a d.
vorce from his wife, once belle of Bal
timore. How can a blind man see his
consort's faults? Under such circum-
stances, what's the use of being blind?
DR.. Holcombe, of New Orleans, thinks
be possesses a treasure worth at least
sl25,OOO in the original picture of Mary
Magdalen by Murillo, which he bought
for 800 from a French exile who
wanted the money in order to get to
Mexico.
Among the presents made to Nine.
Patti at the close of her engagement at
Vienna was a silver and crystal epergne,
a temoignage dadmiration," as the in
scription records, of the subscribers 10
the opera. A still more graceful tribute,
offered by the Concordia Sc .iety of Vi
ennese journalists, took the form of
silver crown adorned with golden leaves,
each Of which bears the name of
character which-Nme. Patti has imper-
sonated in the imperial city on the
Danube.
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