Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-13
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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and dumb " audience"
H. H. Wood, the actor, has left the
stage for the Unitarian pulpit.
A dreadful rumor reaches us that
hoopskirts will be revived in the spring.
The Boston Transcript sees more talk
and longer sessions in the election Of
50 many lawyers to Congress.
The question Of how to live should en-
gage the attention Of preachers, leaving
the theory Of how to die to the doctors.
Lieutenant Cameron, an English ex-
plorer, has recovered a valuable map
and note book DR.. Livingstone left at
Ujiji.
If a ship wreck does not prevent,
Lydia Thompson will soon be back again
with a skirtless crew. We are in the
hands Of Providence.
Mrs. Rousby must be an excellent ac-
tress. She is mentioned as the most
beautiful woman in England. Unfortu-
nately, however, she is married.
A swindler in New Orleans is writing
to our advertisers of " Missing Friends"
stating that he will furnish the address
of their friends on receipt of two dollars.
A Lucas county (Ohio) grand jury
has distinguished itself, and earned The
good will of all the young men in the
community, by presenting church rafies
as an illegality and a nuisance.
Last week a gallant young Kentuckian,
who had resolved to seek death in the
waters of the roaring Ohio, waded in
ankle deep and then concluded to defer
the tragedy until the water got a little
warmer.
General Schenck's new work on
Draw Poker" is enjoying great popu
larity at the West. 1t is used almost
exclusively by the courts in administer
ing the oath to witnesses and swearing
in jurJmen.
The President and his Cabinet are to
be invited to take part in the celebration
OF the Centennial anniversary of the in
surrection at Concord, Mass. The de-
~scendants Of the bauditti who took part
in that memorable outbreak propose to
make a lively day Of it.
The point Of saying depends very
much upon the locality in which it is
uttered. For instance, this extract from
the Boston Post would never be under
stood in St. Louis; THE best thing
about carpets is that you buy them
by the yard and wear them out only by
the foot"
Bayard Taylor pays this just tribute to
the robustiousness Of California child
rem: Nowhere can more rosy speci-
mems of health and beauty be found.
Strong-limbed, ~redblooded, graceful, and
as full of happy, animal life as young
fawns, they bid fair To develop into ad.
mirable types of manhood and woman
hood"
Mr.. Muller, the Russian, who goes with
the expedition from that country to
Northern Siberia, says he expects to
make the tour Of the north pole, and to
find IL mot a point but a considerable
territory. He defines it as a probable
tract toward the whole Of which the in
clination of the needle is the same.
Mrs. Mary Treat, the scientist, has
made the discovery that a common
plant, the Bladdenwort, which grows in
shallow ponds and swamps, is endowed
by the Creator with a regular stomach
and digestive organs. II feeds on in.
sects, and rather enjoys them and thrives
upon them, judging from the luxuriance
Of its growth. This is a feather in
Darwin's theoretical cap.
He was a Californian. He wrote, " /,
William Holmes Marben, Of the city OF
Oakland, considering myself in a sound
state OF mind, make this my last and
only will and testament: My soul to the
God who gave it, my body to the doctors
for dissection or to the grave, and all my
worldly possessions to my wife," and
then went out and shot himself. The will
is not going TO be contested.
Anna Hobbs, a well known minister
of the Society Of Friends, died recently
at the residence of her daughter, in
Spiceland, Ind, aged 96 years. She
was the widow Of the late VIM. Hobbs,
prominently known in the early history
Of the Indiana Yearly Meeting Of
Friends. She had been a minister lol
sixty.two years, and had travelled exten.
/, sively in that service. She was born il
Guilford county, North Carolina, and
moved TO the territory Of Indiana wher
il was a wilderness.