Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-09
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

The brain of Agassiz weighed oS.4
ounces avoirdupois.
Cotton manufacturing is steadily in
cressing in the Southern States.
1t is said that before states were in
vented people multiplied on the face of
the earth e
There are about forty-eight deaths by
violence daily in this country, a stats
tican tells us.
Mr.. Robert Browning has still another
poem in press, which, it is said, will be
Greek play in modern dress.
1t was an expressive remark of a
practical man regarding the woman of
the period recently; She don't know
enough, sir, to bile water.
An old lady in Washington was re-
Gently heard to observe, ON taking up
the morning paper, II wonder if any
body has been born that | know"
An English grammar appears to be
needed in the West Virginia Legislature,
which lately passed an act to prevent
the owners Of hogs from running at
large
The happiest fellows in any college
are in the Sophomore class at the Wes-
leyan University. which embraces four
young ladies'. They all believe in free
press.
The Hakaik, STEAMBOAT journal with
large circulation among the Turks,
has Just been suppressed by order Of the
Turkish Government for an article on
the recent events in Arabia.
The British settlers Of Virginia are
preparing to celebrate the birthday of
Queen Victoria, May "a, in Richmond,
with a banquet, at which Sir Edward
Thornton is to be asked to preside.
A British national expedition to the
Arctic regions has been petitiened for in
conjunction by the Royal Society, the
British Association for the Advance
ment of Science and the Royal Geo
graphical Society.
II am very weary of life-bury me
deep on the hillside" wrote a young
man in Dubuque; but they pumped him
out, and that same night he went to the
circus and laughed till he cried at the
antics of the trick mules.
Mr.. Robert Buchanan says of his great
countryman, Thomas Carlyle, that bis
influence has been thoroughly noxions,
and that he has supported every kind Of
tyranny and three great lies-the lie Of
the South, the lie of Jamaica and the
lie Of the German war.
The dramatic works Of Thomas Hey
wood viii shortly be published in six
volumes, uniform with the works OF
Chapman and Decker, which appeared
last year in London. This publication
will complete the round of modern edi-
tons of all the Elizabethan poets be-
longing to the Shakspearean circle.
The Victoria Magazine says that Ger
many stands lower in civilization than
any European country except Turkey;
for in no other country does woman
occupy so ignoble and servile a position.
In England women are treated with re-
spec.; in France and America they are
worsbipped; in Germany they are simply
utilized.
Another History Of Jesus has been
translated from the German Of DR..
Theodore Keim and published in Lon
don. The book is thoroughly German
in style. exhibiting the profound learn
ing, wide generalization, scepticism as
to facts and powers Of analysis belong
ing to the greatest German critics. The
translation is Dad.
Says Nilsson Your criticts are not
really bad, you know, but they are not
catholic. The school in which they are
bred Is necessarily one Of very limited
observation. Your good singers ali 20
away to Be educated. Why do not your
critics2 You would value them 50 much
better when they came back cultivated
and competent" Gran
An exchange says "A good hearted
but partially deaf old lady is much dis
turbed By the talk about the Kickapoo
Indians. She doesn't ses why anybody
should kick poor Indian" We don't
either; but 1t voaId be legitimate pro-
eedure to kick poor puuster-snd how
the PerpetratOr Of this joke has managed
70 escape thuS far. without getting his
coat tail full Of boots anazss us