Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-01-29
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

General Pope and his wife are visiting
the President.
Madame Camilla Urso, with her con-
cert troupe, is at Boston.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention
only cost about 5000 per day.
Spain is nice place to raise chickens.
They have so many coups there.
Boston has just shipped bark with
$40 900 worth of Holsters to London.
Gladstone has created forty peers since
his accession to office five years ago.
Boucicault is going to do up the over
land route to the Pacific for a London
paper.
Owen Hines, the wickedist man in st.
Louis, has died. He left $4,000 in this
cold world.
Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake has COM
pleted woman suffrage novel, Lord
and Master"
Virginia accepts the assertion Of Mrs.
Coleman (colored, Of course). that she
was born in 1851.
Only twenty-three county treasurers
have gone to default in Iowa, and seve-
raj towns to hear from.
Boston's great trouble, says its Mayor
in his inaugural, is lack Of selfconG.
dence. D, come now.
An economical Danbury woman, TAX
ing advantage of the panic prices
Bought FIVE muffs Saturday.
Lord Massey" has crumped from
fashionable society in Philadelphia, and
where he's gone to lord o massey only
knows.
The Lake Champlain Steamship Com
pany as-asked Congress to change the
name of the OaEes-Ames" to Cram
plain"
Mr.. O'Looney has been appointed
Lecturer on the Irish Language, Litera-
ture ald Archaeology in the Roman
Catholic University, Dublin.
On January 9th Cardinal Bonaparte
and his relatives had 500 masses said in
the principal churches of Rome for the
repose of the soul Of Napoleon III.
A California paper, having obtained n
subscriber, records the startling fact in
half Column article, Still Another
Our course Endorsed by the People"
1t is reported that Martin Farquhar
Upper has received a pension of el2O a
year on the English civil service list as
the author of Proverbial Philosophy. "
Higoshi Fushima No Maya, nephew
Of the Mikado. having studied naviga-
ton in England, wants to enter the
Japanese navy to perfect his education.
Friends of the actor ]. X. Emmett
{" Fritz - viii be panied to learn thai
he is said to be permanently incspaci.
tated for the stage by his recent paraly.
tic stroke
A peculiar type of spotted fever RACES
in and around Carrollton, Illinois, and
from it there has thus far been but q
single recovery. The physicians are
puzzled.
A New Haven editor spent last Sun
day in Slawson's and attended church
When the contribution box came around
he was in a doze, but on being nudged
hastily exclaimed, have passl"
Frederick Strobel, a distinguished
musician, fell down stairs at Greensboro
N. c., last Sunday, and was instantly
killed. He was fty-six years old, anG
a native Of Tyrol. His musical talents
had secured him large fortune in Eu
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Some Of the frequent. fires in cotton
aud other factories at the North may b,
explained by discovery made by Prof
Brown, OF the University Of Georgia.
he thinks that fires in gin houses ar,
caused by electrical sparks generated b,
rubber bands used for propelilug ma.
chinery.
History does not detail the dress worn
by Pocahontas when saving the life o
Captain John Smith. An old paintin,
represents her in red stuff underskirt,
beaF-skin kilt, buffalo robe, corsage Gu
Pompadsur, Scotch stockings and beal
slippers, her hairpuifed high with feather
and a ring in her nose.
The Duke Of Edinburgh has been ap
pointed a colonel in the Prussian army
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