Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-25
FACTS AND FANCIES.


ants, IS hares. II rabbits and % part
ridges in four hours shooting.
New York dosent consider it the cor.
rect thing to go to the opera in gorgeous
attire nowadays. Such costumes. they
say, designate only the semi-occasional
visitor.
One Of DR.. D'Unger's children. of
Duluth, got into a Saratoga trunk--just
for fun. The lid suddenly came down
aud the spring lock clicked. Saved by
his sister.
Bret Earte declared at Atlanta, Ca,
the other day, that he did not remember
his own piece, The Heather Chinee. +"
For weak memory, Mr.. Bret. Harte is
peculiar.
1t is not likely that Victoria will peg
out rigt away. Her grandfather, George
III, died at 50; George Nv, her uncle, at
IS; another uncle. the Duke of York, at
a; another, William w. at u; another,
the Duke of Sussex, at 70; another, the
Duke of Cambridge, at &c, and her
mother attained the age of rs.
An Indiana editor who prides himself
on bis descriptive powers says: "Mr.
Weller, of Columbus, was playing with
his pretty little iyory-handled revolver,
when the beauty went off with loud
roar, and Mr.. Weller began executing a
frantic pas de seul, with a bullet hole in
his No 10 hoof. He now has a revolver
fer sale.
Mr.. John Broughsm has published
card in which be respectfully intimates
that henceforwsrd it will be necessary to
obtain his written permission before any
of his dramatic works can be represent
ed, and he wants it to be distintly un-
derstood that he is on the war-path him
self with a sharp knife, relentlessly
determined ia scalp the infringers."
Something new and pretty in glove
buxes is a miniature van (similar to
those used in Paris to deliver packages)
with horse in the shafts and burly-looking
driver in the box-all in papier msche.
You open the door in the rear of the van
and a dozen pairs of nine buttoned
kid gloves greet the eyes. They are
done up in perfumed colored tissue aud
look =" lovely"
A French comic journal represents
the wife of candidate for election as
Deputy rising from the perusal of the
morning newspapers to demand an i'm
mediate separation. What after a
union of twenty years2" exclaimed the
husband. Yes, to be sure. Since you
have come forward, l find all the public
journals agree in giving the worst posi-
BILE accounts of your character and
career"
A man who was laboring under the in
huence of liquor yesterday, opened the
door of the sitting room at one of the
depots and exclaimed: II want to get
married-T m worth million dollarsl"
There were sixteen ladies in the room,
and man who looked around and
watched them says that every single one
dropped her eyes and puckered her
mouth and tried to look loving, includ.
ing two women who we're nearly seventy
years old.-[Detroit Free Press.
George Francis Train and Matilda
Heron occupied box at Daley's Thea
ter in n ew York the other night. Near
by we're Ex-Governor Fenton and Miss
Ada Dyas, swinging an entire peacock
tail for fan. Oakley Hall, the patron
of plays, was there, OF course, and in
one Of the proscenium boxes sat AIDE
laide Nelson, radiant in beauty and
good clothes. while solitaire earrings
big as filberts flashed in her ears, a neck
lace and pendant Of enormous brilliants
filed her square necked dress, and brace
lets glittering on her arms.
One hundred and ten years after her
death, Nine the Marquise de Pompa-
dour has helped to build a church on
Montmartre, in Paris, and this is how it
happens: Able de Menneval, now a
priest, was formerly in the diplom attic
service. One day, at Vienna, he bought
in a curiosity shop a beautiful minia-
ture, Of no one knew whom, for fifteen
francs He put it in his baggage and
forgot it, and, in his travels, the frame
got broken, so when he took it out he
read on the back, PORTRAIT Of Nine de
Pompadour, given to NJ Ksunitz. "
NJ me de Rothschild gave him one thous-
aud francs for it, and that he gave to the
church.
Halloween was celebrated at Balmoral
on the night of November I'd in a very
extraordinary manner There was FIRST
a torchlight procession, in which Queen
Victoria aud Princess Beatrice took
part, and sfterward in front Of the castle
a huge bonfire was lighted. A hobgob-
lin approached. drawing a car contain
ing the effigy Of a witch. and surrounded
by fairies carrying long spears. A magic
circle was formed, and the presiding elf
tossed the efigy into the flames, after
which the numerous company vigorously
danced Scotch reels to the strains Of 9
bagpipe. It was intended to have a ball