Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-29
FACTS AND FANCIEs.


Mrs. FOulstOne, an English lady re-
Gently deceased, has left to her country
an annual income of sll 500 toward e
ducing the national debt.
No, sir" said a w~earylooking man
on a street car to a gentleman by his side.
II wouldn't marry the best woman alive.
Iy been a dry goods clerk too long for
that"
After a Delaware girl had lowered her
self from the window to elope with a
young man, he backed out because he
was afraid of the ministers dog.-De.
trOit Free Press.
The University Of North Carolina will
be revived this year. A faculty is to be
elected in June, and the institution will
be opened to students on the first We'd
nesday in September.
Brother Sherman ~escortiug Sister
Woodruff into court must have been q
pretty sight. The brothers s~pectacles
were doubtless dimmed with tears, while
the sister simpered sweetly.
On dit, that at sarrelouis, in France
a baby was born which lived less than
one day, and in that short period in
formed the good people about that 1875
would be a good year, but 1876 a bloody
one."
The Scotsman says that a remarkabIe
connecting link with the last century
has been broken by the death of a we'll
known ~inhabitsnt of Dumfries, John
Brodie, at the age of ninety-six. Brodie,
when a boy. was in the habit of running
with messages for the poet Burns.
A hardware merchant, who observed a
boy looking sharply at some garden tools.
asked; Bub. if l should present ysu
with a hoe, would you go home and make
a garden2' mo sir" promptly re-
sponded the boy, "Pd sell it to the man
living next door, and buy some circus
tickets"
A New York correspondent Of the
Springfield Republican has made a dis
covery. He writes: "The conductor Of
the horse-car in which l rode assured m
in confidence Of his reasons for believ-
ing Mr.. Beecher guilty. As you 60 up
in the social scale the number who hold
the other opinion increases"
The Khedive of Egyptis making great
military preparations. There are SOL
dlers everywhere, says a correspondent,
camps and drilling, and the bugle note
in the air. The army is estimated at
100000 men, and it is believed the Khe-
dive means to annex the equatorial re-
gions Of Africa to his dominions.
Everybody now writes his memoirs
and why not kings and ex-kings2 ANA
deus is trying his hand at it, and il be
writes frankly he can make a very inter-
esting contribution to the political his
tory Of Europe in general and Spain in
particular. Recollections 0! a King"
will be the title of the book, in the pre-
paration of which his accomplished wife
Is assisting him.
Daniel Webster, writing of the science.
of politics, in 1880, said For my
part, though like Investigations of po-
litical questions, | give up what is called
the science Of political economy There
is no such science. There are no rules
on the subject so fixed and invariable as
tia ttheir aggregate constitutes a science
believe ] have recently run over twenty
volumes from Adam Smith to Professor
Dew, Of Virginia, and from the whole. if
we're to pick out with one hand all the
mere truisms, and with the other all the
doubtful propositions, little would be-
left"
It is known by comparatively few peo-
pie that LinGley Murray, the author Of
Murray's English Grammar, was born in
territory How included in Dauphin
county. The place of his nativity was
Swarta township, which then constituted
a part Of Lancaster county. Lindlsy
Murray realized a competency in New
York, partly as a barrister and partly as
a merchant. The necessities Of health
obliged him to remove to England.
where he spent the last forty years Of his
life at Holdgate, near York, a feeble in
valid, but resigned and happy. (.
Passages between judges and lawyers
being of interest just now, we give this
little story from the Paris Temps: The
scene is in one Of the eourt-rooms Of the
Palais de Justice. The advocate who
appears at the bar has a pair of silky
m%ustaches Of most provoking effect.
Maitre X" says the presiding Judge,
II believe your attention has already
been called to the fact that the rules
forbid the wearing Of a m~ustache."
Monsieur lie President answers the
other promptly, II have never believed
that the awnrd ne ;~nat;oa -a-u