Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-29
FACTS AND FANCIES.

The last rose of summer-zeros
Won't cardinal color be fashionable
again now2
John of Gaunt paid his head gardener
$l.20 a month.
France is organizing a regular postal
service of carrier pigeons.
millions for the Fourth of July, but
not one cent for the Centennial" is the
motto of a Dubuque paper.
The National Butter and Egg Associa-
ton refused by a close vote to condemn
the artificial coloring of butter.
Annie Howe, who eloped with her
lover in Montreal the other day, was
bound. to be married Annie Howe.
When Agassiz was pressed to deliver a
lecture for pay, he replied, 81 can not
afford to waste my time for money"
A contemporary boasts that he "can
stand on his intellectual capital" We
suppose he e that he can stand on
his head.
George Sand is said to have declared
her intention to write a novel on the
Beecher trial. She calls it a profound
spiritual tragedy"
A discriminating clergyman in Rich
nond, Va, concludes his prayer with
God bless our whole country-from the
Potomac to the Gulf"
A Richmond darkey swallowed eigh-
teen brass buttons on a wager of twenty
FIVE cents, but the coroner made an wen
two dollars out of the job.
That law in Vienna which forbids ar
lists to recognize applause ia the thea
tiers is no nonsense. Lucca has been
fined fifty forms for violating it.
The translation of the Hneid, which
Mr.. William Morris is engaged on, will
be line for line with the original, and in
rhymed fourteen syllable metre.
Tom Hood speaks of a bird buildingi its
nest upon a edge over the door of a doc
tors Office as an attempt to rear it
young In the very jaws of death.
The Kansas man who saved twenty
nine persons from a burning conl-min'
is not attracting the attention that 1
milder winter would have insured fol
him.
The election of Dumas to the French
academy has called up the remark o
Guizot that the members of the academy
who were not historians were Bohe
mians.
A Detroiter says he don't find fault
with the capital prize in the Louisville
lottery being reduced to 800, 900; wha
hurts him is the fact that his ticket dit
not draw it.
The manual labor which the Speake
of the House of Representatives perform
is considerable. The board on whicI
Speaker Blaine raped had to be renewe,
several times during the session.
A wealthy P~hiladelphian, who die,
recently, stipulated in his will that hi
nearest relative should assassinate tn
obituary editor of the Daily Ledger if h
made any remarks on the subject.
That was a triumphant appeal Of a,
Irishman, who, in arguing the SUPERIOR
ty of old architecture over the new, said
Where will you find any modern builc
ing hat has lasted as long as the al
cient2'
Mile. Ghinassi, a young ballet CIR
amuses the Parisians by entering a Gag
, containing a lion, a l%ionesG, two hyena'
A two jackals and two bears. She kick
J the lion, sits upon the lioness and feed
the bear with %violets.
"How is your church getting on2
asked a friend of a rigorous Scotchmar
i; who had separated in turn from the Kirl
/. the Free Church, the United Presbyt
rians and several lesser bodies. Pre-
q ty weel, pretty weel. There's nobod
(; belongs to it now but my brother and m
: self, and I'm nae sure of Sandy's SOUND
Q ness"
The late Emperor of China, short
before his death, was anxious to hay
' his portrait painted, but as the artist wi
only allowed a few transitory glances
the Son Of Heaven" for fear his hur
BILE (albeit celestiaD vision should
~utterlydazed it is to be feared that the q
i curaey of the likeness must be som
(, . what dubious.
3 Arsene Houssaye, the French aut'ac
gave a masquerade at his rooms in Pa.
recently, and it is described in tb e new
II papers Of hat city as a brillian'y and b
affair. Lord Lytton, the Rothchil,
Dumas, and a lot of counts and baro
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