Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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The Duke of Edinburg is said to be
at st. Petersburg.
A young Georgian spent two bales Of
cotton for a masquerade ball dress.
Mrs. Agassiz has been at work for
years on her history of her husbands
life.
High, Low and the Wisconsin Bish.
opric" is the heading of leading article
in the Chicago journal.
Marshal Canrobert has declined to
come forward at Bordeaux as a candi-
date for the National Assembly.
A New York dramatic critic recently
said there were "acres of silk and
pouds of diamonds" present in the
house.
Count Chambord has written a long
letter to NJ. Laurentie, editor of l. Union,
Of Paris, thanking him for his lifelong
devotion to the royalist cause.
General Banks has a lecture on "The
Duration of the Republic, in which he
predicts that within the lives OF his
hearers there will be men worth $780,
100000
An amateur of painting was being
shown over a collection by friend.
The former mistook a picture of Dore
for one of Tissots. Tissot," ex-
claimed the amateur confidently.
'Tisn't SC" replied his friend. Here
ended their friendship.
Punch says the habit indulged in by
some young men of wearing a single eye
glass stuck in one of their eyes, indi-
Gates not defective vision, but mental
deficiency. Snag says that Punch's ex-
planation is toerably correct, but that a
better one is that the single eye glass
fools are fellows of one eyedea.
Chief Justice Waite was on the floor
of the Senate few days ago, and was
introduced to most of the Senators by
Senator Sherman. Secretary Delano
gave a dinner to Mr.. Waite the same day.
The guests were the President members
of the Cabinet, Associate Justices Of
the Supreme Court, and Representatives
Gunckel and Sherwood, of Ohio.
Two thousand dollars seems to be a
pretty steep price to pay for a rooster,
but such was the amount paid to Ira
Bachelor, of Mount Crawford, Maine,
for his black Spanish rooster called Gen.
CASTELAR,. The purchaser, Mr.. William
G. Davis, civil engineer on the Portland
and Ogden railroad, considers him the
best game bird in this country, he being
the only one Matched from dozen eggs
brought from Matanzas, Cuba.
At the Southwark Police Court in
England, the other day, Thomas Brooks,
a soldier of the Twelfth, foot was ar.
raigned. 1t appeared that he had fright
ened a number of women and children
by being dressed as gorilla and jump.
ing off walls and running up and down
waterspouts in his costume. The pris-
oner said friend gave him the dress to
have a spree with at Chistmas time, and
he only did it for fun. Mr.. Benson, the
magistrate, told him that he must find
bail for month and give up his goril,
las dress.
1t is related that in certain town in
the northern part of Maine the people
were holding meeting, when the pas
tor remarked that if any present had
or friends in distant lands,
prayers would be offered in their behalf.
No sooner was the sentence complete
than a simple looking individual arose
and thus addressed the pastor, | would
like you to pray for my brother. He
went away two weeks ago, and | havn't
heard from him since. don't know
jest where he is, but you need not pray
below Bangor"
A Paris physician relates the particu-
lars of a curious case he has under his
charge. 1t is that Of a young girl,
eighteen years old, who is afflicted with
what is termed nychatopia, that is to
say, she loses the faculty OF sight in
and RECEIVERS it in darkness.
Although her eyes do not present any
special morbid character, she is forced
to keep her eyelids closed during the
day, and to cover her head with thick
veil. On the other hand when the shut
ters Of room are Theoretically fastened
she reads and writes perfectly in the
deepest darkness. She feels no pain be-
yond slight lassitude when the solar
light strikes her visual organs.
NJ A. Trognon, formerly tutor of the
Prince de Joinville, is dead NJ. Trognon
remained steadfast in his allegiance to
the Orleans princes during the Empire,
and it was under his name that the
Prince de Joinville published in 1868,
in the Revue des Deux Mondes, those
celebrated articles on the campaign of
the Potomac and General Mcclellan
which at the time were translated and
in this country, and which,
with the work Of the Swiss Colonel Le-
Compile, will always remain as the i'm.
partial testimony of accomplished and
disinterested foreign witnesses to the
genius and services Of a commander, to
the Importance of whose work his own
countrymen are still very far from rem
dering even bare justice.
Michelet in that singular medley Of
science and romance, of philosophy and
sentimentalism which he calls l. Amour
utters some startling SEN
tences. For instance: There is moth /
ing low or vulgar in woman; Every /
thing is poetic. Generally she IS sick |
from love; man from Indigestion. Moth |
ing is more curious than a reply which |
she often makes, and at which men |
laugh. What causes your headache /
your toothache your colic2 Not be- /
ing loved enough. If you retrace, ob- |
and patiently, the lite OF the |
invalid. you viii find at last that the /
Affection of the chest or the stomach or 4
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