Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-05-05
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

THE authorities of Boston have order
ed the taking down of all swinging
signs.
A GENERAL rise in the price of corks
is announced, growing out of the troub-
les in Spain.
A RAILROAD is to 6e constructed from
Naples to point near the crater OF
Mount Vesuyius.
IT is said that an ex-English officer
who once out-ranked Sir Garnet Wolse'
ley in his own regiment is now repor-
ter on a New York evening paper.
Coon manners" says Swift, is the
art of making those people easy with
whom we converse; whoever makes the
the fewest persons uneasy is the best
bred man in the company.
The Sultan has conferred on Sir Sam
uel Baker the insignia of the Imperial
Orders of the Medjidie and Osmanle of
the second class, and Queen Victoria
has given him permission to accept and
wear them.
The London correspondent of the
Dundee Advertiser writes: Town is
laughing very heartily over Dean Stan
ley's text when he preached on Friday
to the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh.
1t was Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do. y"
Sorosis is going to wrestle with the
cremation question. A resolution is up
for discussion to the effect that under
proper ceremonial law, cremation does
not conflict with the funeral rites of the
the church, and is not antagonistic to
the sectarian theory of the resurrection
of the body"
SIR GARNET WoLsELY has stepped
over the heads of l65 seniors to the rank
of Major General. The same gazette
that announces Sir Garnet Wolseley's
promotion, also gives notification of
that of Col. Maclagan, Royal (late Ben
gall Engineers. Major-General Macla-
gan has superseded 235 seniors.
ADooToR ran needle into the head of
a Duluth man, with the view of ascer-
tanning the effect of electricity upon the
brain pulp. After puncturing his skull
seventeen distinct times, he greatly en-
couraged the suffering victim by saying
that he could continue the experiment
with better success on his wife's emery
bag.-Brooklyn Argus
ACCORDING to information received by
the Russian GolOs, the Khedive Of
Egypt has found his latest acquisitions
upon the Upper Nile so greatly to his
taste that he seriously contemplates the
conquest of Abyssinia and Ethiopia, in
order afterward to proclaim himself Sui
tan of Egypt The Viceroy is said to
be encouraged in these plans by one of
his generals, who is of Christian and
European origin, and was formerly in
the Turkish service.
THE funeral of Mrs. A. NJ. Fitzhugh
took place in Alexandria, Va, on the
goth ult. Her will bestows the bulk of
her property on the children Of Gen. R.
E. Lee, relative of her husband. She
was worth 5000, 900 in bonds and Stocks,
besides large landed estates. Gen. titz-
hugh Lee gets part of the Richland es-
tate and $4,000. The remainder Of the
Richland and Arkindale estate is divi-
ded equally between Gen. Lees four
brothers, Henry, Smith, John and Dan
iel. Charles and Eliza Carr each re-
ceive $4,000.
A NEW way of proposing marriage is
reported, and we give the facts for the
benefit Of those interested. A gentle.
man attended fair held in this city re,
Gently and fell in love las gentlemen
sometimes do) with demOiseHe in the
in the floral temple He bought ten.
dollar basket of flowers, and handing
her a fifty-dollar bill, said: IF you
don't give me the exact change, I'll mar.
~ you" The blushing maiden handed
him back thirty dollars (she was proba.
bly, confused), and he remarked; 81
thought so ~ Cards will be out early
next weekl-N Y. Mail
The discussion of the cremation ques.
ton in England has led to another prop
osition for disposal Of the dead. A wri'
ter in enc of the Manchester papers
suggests "aquation," as he calls it OF
the burying Of the dead far out at sea.
He concludes thus: There is no vio-
lence here. The idea is maritime, and