Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-26
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

Ane russian army numbers 1890, 900
men, and includes 2OO,O 900 Cossacks.
Madam George Sand has turned her
glass and is running ont a new story.
1t is judicially decided in Berlin that
there are no privileged Communications
between Journalists and persons from
whom they receive secrets to be publish
ed as news.
In Paris the police have suppressed
speculation in tickets for the theatres;
all persons offering tickets for sale on
the streets are invited by a polite officer
to accompany him to the nearest station.
at tape souper of actors and actress
es in Paris they toasted the mother of a
charming artistic because she had
Drought her daughter" they tsasted
another mother because she had sent
hers.
The average income of the French
Government from the tax upon success
sions to property is 5000, 900 francs, but
tor this last year it is II, 900, 900, SO much
buster than usual has death been among
the rich.
1t is rnmored in diplomatic circles in
Berlin that the German Government,
DESTROYS not to lose sight of the new
military organization in France. has
sent a number Of superior officers to Pa
ris, charged with giving it the fullest in.
formation as to the progress Of that or
ganization.
Golden hair is common with the bar
maids Of London. 1t is produced with a
powerful solution of chemicals, making
q very beautiful tint, and a stink intense
enough to knock over an Egyptian pyra-
mid The introduction of the dye has
given a healthy stimulus to the manufae.
ture of patent clothespins.
A French Christian brother, returning
from a mission to the Caspian Sea,
brought with him a plant said to be an
intallible remedy for scurvy. DR.. De-
meaux has presented a report on its
merits to the Academy of science, from
which it appears that the plant can be
aeelimahzed in Europe, and will prove
OF the greatest value.
Neat advertising. There have often
been found in Normandy, Maine, Apion.
and Brittany buried treasures of coin.
deposited there by the English, it is
thought, when they left the country,
some centuries since; and now it is said
that a manuscript has been found indi-
eating all the points where treasure was
buried, and this is to be published in the
Catholic Review.
Two Englishmen, in search Of sulphur
on the island of Dominica, West Indies.
have discovered, eight or ten miles in.
land, in the crater of an extinct volcano.
a boiling lake. 1t is half a mile wide,
and two miles in circumference, and
even at the shore the hand cannot be i'm
mersed in the water without pain.
At Pompeii they recently found a GU
rious record. 1t was scratched on the
stucco of a kitchen wall, and has been
thus translated: I" Lighted the fire,
cooked his meals, and swept his house
for him $4,000 times to this day, and he
refuses to take me to the circus.n Be-
meath this, in a different hand, is writ
ten; Women are never satisfied
There is a dog This trivial phrase
used by an instructor Of actors in
Paris as the vehicle of an important les
son. He taught them to give it in the
n of various Impressions, as fear Of
the dog, love Of the dog, contempt for
the dog, establishment, reglJt, etc, and
so exhibited that it mattered less what
words an actor had to give than how he
gave them. isay
Bald-headed men are only living a lit
tie in advance of their time. According
TO Darwin, we are indebted to our risky
ancestors the ape, for our hair, ard men
long beards and prolific scalps have
no reason to feel that they are partieu-
larly superior to their less lovely fellow.
men. 1t may be extinction to the bar.
Der business and a blow to human vani-
ty, but the coming man is to be bald
headed.
Arrsb, me darlint," cried jamie
0'Flannigan to his ~loquacious sweet
heart, who had not given him an oppor-
tunity to get in a word edgewise, during
a two hours ride behind the little bay
nags in his oyster wagon; ARE ye afther
known why your cheeks are like my
ponies there2' "Shure and it's because
they are red, is itY" quoth the blushing
Bridget. Faith, and a better raison
than that, mavsurneeu. Because there
is n o them aich side of a Vaughn
tongue"
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