Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-06
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

327 SOY iamllies.
James Fisk, father Of the late Prince
Erie, has arrived in St. Louis, and is
said to be full Of business.
Biornson has no idea of bringing out
a colony from Norway, but thinks he
will come over in year or two himself.
Marchetti, the author of Ruy Bias,
has lust completed new opera, Gus
tavo Wasa," which will be produced at
Milan.
A Liverpool hospital refuses to ac'
cept gift of $1,000 until the donor
gives his name. Not every one wonld
be so particular.
California papers won't publish the
Governors message on account OF ITS
length. 1t makes nine columns OF solid
nonpareil.
General Burgoyne's surrender is to be
commemorated at Saratoga by monu-
ment 80 feet square at the base, 10 at
summit, 23O feet high, and at cost OF
100000.
H. W. Beecher says there is about as
much religion in the act OF putting a
horseshoe over the door for good luck
as in putting a gilt-edged Bible on a
certer.table for the same purpose.
Mathematics is a delightful science.
A Maine woman ate gallon of oysters
the other day for 800. After de-
Quoting Ss5 for funeral expenses, how
much did she " clear?
The British Quarterly Review recently
rived at the conclusion that one inven-
ton to which America may lay lndis-
pntable claim is that oil tarring and
feathering as punishment for offenders.
The Democrats of Kentucky have
hoisted their flag and called out their
ROSTERS over the FINAL deliverance Of
the State from debt and a surplus OF
$3.50, goo in the treasury.
1t only costs SIS so to call the Mayor
OF Green Bay a royal son Of a gun,
and if yon want to roll him in the mud,
they will make it as low as cosisten,
with good local government = Detroit
Free Press.
The Irish emigrants in America have
forwarded to ireland dnring the past
twenty.one years sums o! money aggre'
eating more than was raised in Ireland
by tax for the relief Of the poor, by
fl $50, 900 sterling.
The deficit in the administration Of
the Vienna International Exhibition
amounts to 100000 forms. The est
| mated cost provided for by the Parlia
ment Is, 100000 noriEs; the actual ex
pensa turns out to be l9,70o,0o0.
| 1t 60 be noted that ont of the list o.
complaints made BY ladies' about ser
wants, one complaint is unsyeFssl, Gnl
| is almost always made in the same Ian
guage. They will have the last word.
| This is a peculiar feminine grievance.
The Indiana Historical Society ha
appointed a committee to consult Gov.
Hendricks upon the expediency Of re
moving the remains OF President vii
liam Henry Harrison from North BEND
to the Tippsoapoe battle ground.
The Mohammedan gentlemen Of In
dia are about establishing upiversitie
at Calcutta after the model Of those q
Oxford and Cambridge. About 5000
was subscribed when the subject wa
proposed, and money is being rapidly
collected
1t isn't worth while, under all circnm
. stances, to express your sentiment
!. freely, unless you banker after martyr
! dom. While Lydia Thompson wa
. capering in St. Louis theater ID
other night, fellow in the audienc
: shouted, Bully for you, old tow top
Good Lordy, look at her kickl" an,
they put him out.
Professor Huxley, as Lord Rector O
!; the University Of Aberdeen, proposes t,
drop the study Of botany aud zoolog
!. from the medical curriculum and t
i make the student pass whatever exami
!. nations may be required in those studio
t on his entrance to the University. Il
also desires to make the study Of &c
!. man or French compulsory, replacin
! Greek, which is to remain one Of th
optional subjects.
There are 4 good many people who's
. hostility 10 capital punishment Is abou
{. as earnest as that Of Western editor
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