Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-11-04
Il. WHITMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor
FACTS AND FANClES.

A Chinese Embassy is shortly to visit
London, Paris and Rome.
Kaulbach left some very obscene pic
lures among his artistic treasures
Many Of Garibaldi's former officers
and soldiers are fighting in the battles Of
Herzegovina.
Francis Joseph plays on the fiddle and
tells his privy councillors and ministers
that such is the best way to while away
the heeting hours.
Queen Isabella son, the present King
Of Spain, has sent her lover, Marfori,
who came poking about Madrid from
Paris, in to compulsory Punishment
The War Department at Rome has ap.
pointed Colonel to inspect all the prin-
cipal manufacturing establishments OF
arms in Europe and the United States.
The Emperor of Japan has just had
the life portraits Of himself and wife
painted and put up on the wall of his
imperial palace, like other civilized po-
tentates.
A black pelican measuring nine feet
across its outstretched wings, has been
shot near Denver, Col. Denver should
adopt the pelican for its crest, for it can
drink more and say less than any other
bird.
Professor Geddes, of Aberdeen Uni
versity, has formed new theory of the
Homeric poems, which is that the
"Iliad was enlarged out Of lesser
poem, Of which Achilles was the special
subject.
Now that foreigners are at last allow
ed to travel in the interior Of China
what splendid new field is thus unex
pectedly opened for the life insurance
lightning rod and sewing machine men
of America.
| Signor Salvini has taken unto himself
second wife, his original sposa having
died some time ago, and is passing the
| the honeymoon in Florence. 1t was an
English woman who braved an alliance
with the great 0thello."
| Africa annually consumes 100000 bot
ties of champagne; Spain, 100000; Bel
gium, 100000; Italy, 100000; Holland
100000; Germany, 100000; England
| 100000; Russia, 100000; France
100000; and North America, 10000,
600.
A Frenehman has discovered way O
making black paint from smoke. HI
projects shower of water into thu
chimney, by which the soluable case
are taken up and the impurities precipi
tated into reservoir which empties int,
q cistern, where the mass is collected.
The press of Florida is demanding
some restraint on the reckless destruo
ton Of game by tourists, who spen'
months in indiscriminate slaughter fo
no other purpose in the world than to say
when they go back home that they ha'
bagged so many hundred birds, or sho
7 SO many deer
EdGlish and German authorities hav
lust discovered that French cooking
the best in the world, not excepting tn
: kitchens of 0ceanica; and moreover
' that French women dress with NOR
: taste and originality and economy con
bined than their sisters across the chan
. mel and the Rhine.
( Two punches Of grapes we're exhibite
: at the recent fruit show at Edinburgh
Scotland, one of which weighed twenty
six and quarter pounds, and the otht
= twenty-five pounds. These are believe
to be the largest bunches Of grapes eve
i grown in Britain, and probably th
n n largest ever grown.
L The following simple precaution
!; suggested by Western exchange; ]
retiring for the night spread newspape
~ ~ loosly upon the stairways and in front
the doorways and windows. The mott
produced at the dead Of night by treadir
= on cracking newspapers, or attemptir
to move them from the pathway, be u
Il burglar ever 80 stealthy and expert,
RS RS sufficient to give ealmost any sleep
A. notice of the presence and whereabou