Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-10-29
FACTS AND FASClES.
X. wMlTMORE,
Publisher and Proprietor

tanned the will Of John II. Comfort, Of
New York, bequeathiug a fortune Of
$4,000, 900 to his only son.
An Indianapolis philanlhropist dis.
tributes barrel Of apples to the jail
prisoners every day, aud wishes he could
live near the penitentiary.
What does Good Friday mean2'
asked one schoolboy Of another. "You
had better go home and read your Rob
inson Crusoe,' was the withering reply.
Increase Mather wrote 8S books, and
Cotton Mather wrote 387. In their
stormy times there were no big daily
newspapers to write communications to.
Mile Natalie Won Kesco who is to be
married to the Prince Of Servia, was re-
csived by that dignitary on her arrival
at BelgraGe, and thence proceeded on
her way to Bucharest. The Prince &C
compsnied his fair hancee as far the
frontier town OF Baziasch.
Nine. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt has
been sojourning at Carlsbad, Austria,
and correspondent writes: Her coun-
tenanee, no longer beautiful, seemed Ia
me to be plainly marked by sorrow, sad
ness and care. Could this be the same
Swedish nightingale whom | had seen
tripping upon the stage, gorgeeusly at
tired, in all her youth, power and beaatyT
Themas Carlyle loses nothing Of hi,
raspiness of manners in his old age. III
recently dined with a neighbor, and wal
so annoyed at the table by loqusciout
busybody, who discourSed on art, that he
refused to enter into conversation, and
at the cpd of the dinner suddenly sale
| to his host: For heavens sake, pu
me in room by myself, and give me {
pipe"
For the year 1875, $lO6,9 has beef
collected for Moravian foreign mission
in the American, British, and German
provinces; aud the disbursements have
reached $lO3, 500. Besides this, S25, ,96I
has been collected to pay of forms
debt, and the new year has begun with
balance Of $4,000 in the treasury. Th
number of missionaries employed is 3Se
there are 90 stations and 10 out-stahSn
and 67, ,795 perOonG are under the care o
the missionaries.
Again the.tatlling Vassar girl is telling
tales out of school. After the recen
exposure of smashing" which means
that masculine girl is petted, treate,
and coddled by the more womanish, W
have now the story that the girls hav'
midnight frolics, euchrs playing, moon
light sled rides, runaway tramps over tn
country and private tbsstricsls, at which
says the tattler, With the aid OF falls
mustaches, whiskers, burned cork, wigs
etc, we are enabled to get up YER
respectable men,"
In Ceylon, says the Methodist, larg
apes are now regularly employed to pa
coeoanuts. These animals are inn porte
from Acheen in patches, aud are marcl
ed around the plantations by thei
owners, who let them ont on hire.
line is Grst attached to each Of thes
peculiar laborers. and be Is then sent u
a tree, where he is said to select sIltahl
fruit with great discrimination, and I
twist the nut round and round until
falls to the ground. Each suecessiv
fall Of a nut is hailed by the hairy worke
above with a jump and Q ehuckle {
: satisfaction.
Some OF the American painters wh
have been residing at Rome and Par
!. during the last decade have returne
home with the impression that America
| cities afford better markets than q
= Europe-lor them. The trouble wit
L our artists is, that after acquiring a
!, that is good for them across the waite
" they will presist in idling out Of the
= element, initiating Europeans, and cop,
ing Cupids and Angles, VOnuses al
Madohnas, when by coming home the
: might strike an original vein and pro-
byit Painting over the red brick hopS
L Of this continent would be better thI
e being the.milliOnth man to make the Ia
/. and worst cory Of a great Raphael or