Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-05-24
FACTS AND FANCTEs.

Union.
Wen take a little more coloricin onrs,
Mr.. Prob. Boston Nevs.
They allow a man to eat in his shirt
sleeves at the leading Buffalo hotel.
A painting by Titan is said to have
recently been discovered at the Hague.
A thief il New York recently swaI.
lowed a $lOO diamond ring to avoid de-
lection.
You can't go through the art galleries
and museums of Rome without paying
your way now.
Darwin's income is $4,000 a year.
That's what comes of having a monkey
for your ancestor.
A Western paper very irreverently
says; "A new mind-reader has set up in
Philadelphia, where the work is light"
The U. S. Circuit Court of Wisconsin
has decided that maritime liens on yes.
sells have a priority over the claims Of
mortgages.
Ida Greeley had the good sense to mar
ry a Kentuckian instead of an Italian
Count. She deserves a bouquet of genu-
inc bluegrass.
The St. Joseph mo Herald says an
actor played a new role in Kansas City
a few nights ago. he rolled over one Of
those bluffs.
The cattle trade Of Texas is extending
so rapidly that the practice Of killing for
hides and tallow, it is thought, will soon
be abandoned.
DR.. Hammond has found that a frog
can live without brains. But SO can a
Philadelphia editor. Let the doctor give
US something new.
Nothing is so sensitive as a mothers
ear for the wailing infant, unless. per
haps, it is a wife's nose for whisky.
Washington Capitol.
In Clinton, Indiana, the women still
keep up the crusade, and pray out Of
town every ~adventurer hardy enough to
attempt to open a saloon.
The ish-wOmen of Boulogne presented
Paul Boyton with a bouquet. They do
the same to almost anybody who ven
lures within ten feet of them.
A Terre Haute Ind lady is prepar.
ing a lecture upon THE CONFORMATION
of Love" Of cours she will make out
the shape of the article a-lip-tickle.
Time softens all things" except the
young man who parts his hair in the
middle and whistles in the street cars.
Nothing can make him any softer than
be is.
The house in Mexico that Macmillan
confscated and gave to Bazaire, is
shortly to become an American hotel,
and then perhaps somebody will be
found who can keep it.
San Francisco proposes to obtain its
drinking water from the Calaveras river,
about fifty miles in the interior of the
State. The cost of supplying the water
will exceed 81, 200, 900.
The character of the French people 10
exhibited in the fact that while there are
only ifty-six journals devoted to amuse.
ments, there are no less than sixty-three
periodicals devoted to law alone.
The Able Duchesne is about to pro-
coed from Rome to Naples, to collate a
manuscript by A~nastasius, the Librarian,
which is, excepting that at Lucca, the
Oldest and most perfect known.
A boiling lake has lately been disoOv-
cred 10 the island of Dominica, or Dom
Unique, one of the lesser Antilles. The
lake is situated in the forest-ccyered
mountain back Of the town Of Roseau.
1t is $500 feet above the sea, and is said
to be two miles in circumference. The
margin Of the lake consists Of beds of
sulphur, and its overflow finds exit in a
waterfall Of great height.
The recent celebration of the four-hun-
dredth anniversary of the birth of Mi
chael Angelo would have been a proper
occasion to give him the correct ortho-
graphy Of his name. He was christeued
Michel Agnolo BuOuaroti, and he should
SO be called, and not Michael nor Michel
Angelo, as the English do, in imitation
OF the French, who persist in writing his
name Aichel Auge.