Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-03-13
FACTS AND FASCIEs.

in Washington Territory.
"That leaf from last years alma
nae" is the Boston Herald's epithet for
Aleck Stevens.
Strange that game should be so dear
when the efforts of every sportsman are
directed to bring it down."
A boy W Fillmore county, Mimi, was
lately sent to Jail for eighteen days for
trying to boss the school.
The number Of hogs slaughtered in
Cincinnati up to January 7th is 54l, 76r;
same time last year, 527,9l6.
One Of the jurymen in the Tichborne
case lost $4,000 by dishonest cashier
while he was engaged upon the case.
When piece of ostrich feather is
found by wife in her husbands beard
no one can blame her for being down on
him.
A New York dramatic critic recently
said there were acres of silk and
pounds of diamonds" present in the
house.
A kind lady in Danbury recently gave
beggar half dozen paper collars,
with the advice to turn them and chalk
the edges.
The Missouri papers say that hemp
crops in that State being no longer
profitable, the farmers are turning their
attention to jute.
A thief in Virginia was recently al
lowed to choose between thirty days
Imprisonment and twenty-five lashes,
and chose the latter.
An exchange says the proprietors of
Philadelphia sample rooms " charge
all persons opposed to the centennial
ten cents more per drink than other Gus
toners.
Princess Louise wouldn't go to the
big wedding at St. Petersburg because
her husband, the Marquis, didn't have the
necessary ancestry to entitle him to a
seat at the Emperor table.
In 1889 Lord Macaulay wrote: I" Mr..
Gladstone's style bears remarkable an
alogy to his mode Of thinking, and, in
deed exercises great influence on his
mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though
often good of its kind, darkens and per-
plexes the logic which it should illus
trate. Half his acuteness and diligence,
with barren Imagination and scanty
vocabulary, would have saved him from
almost all Of his mistakes. He has one
gift most dangerous to q speculator--a
vast command Of "a kind Of language,
grave and majestic, but Of vague and
uncertain import"
A correspondent OF the London Tele-
graph writing from the Gold. Coast, says
that when Sal Tooti, the founder OF the
Ashantee empire, fixed upon Coomassle
as his capital, he rested under tree
whilst his temporary palace was build
ing; hence the name, which signifies
under a tree. The trunk thus hon
ored has become almost sacred in Ash
antee eyes, and strong superstition.
had grown up concerning 1t. On Janu-
airy 9Th, having long been decayed, 1t
fell, and dire representations were
whispered. No one dares to touch it,
and it is still lying across the street.
Lemontinia Smith died at Wolyer-
hampton, England, a few weeks ago.
She was famous Gypsy oracle, such as
would have specially interested Mr..
Borrow or Leland. More than one
hundred Romanychals, representing all
the tribes in England, attended the
funeral. Returning to their encamp-
ment a grand ceremony of cremation
took place. All the wearing apparel,
trinkets and domestic articles belonging
to or in any war used by the dead
woman were solennly burned or other
wise destroyed. Lemontinia Smith
seems to have taken poison, ard her
husband, Loyell, expressed his readi-
ness to give e20 for the two basins in
which she had mixed the fatal draught,
but which had been retained by the
analyst.
France is troubled just now with the
discussion of a nice question. The
Chinese museum, q valuable and unique
collection made by the French army in
the China war. was presented on their
return to tho Empress Eugenie. The
query now is, was the present made to
the woman or the sovereign is thep prop
erty private or public2 The empress
was exceedingly generous to the troops
employed in China, sending them large
quantities OF lint, brandy, cigars, and
other comforts, and paying for them out
of her own funds. Her friends now
claim that the Chinese knick-knscks
were given as a token Of gratitude to the |
generous woman. On the other hand, |
the commission holds that an army |
could make such present only to the |
sovereign, and, the sovereign being de-
posed, il belongs to the country. The
gallautry of the French will incline them
10 adjudge the present to the widowed
and crownles Eupenie