Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-11-15
FACTS AND FANOIRs.

Sb""0 hSS a~OanuOheu rlOrloa
and her orange groves, and is living in
Hartford.
Victor Hugo is worth $500, 900, and
wears an old soft black hat with a hole
in the crown.
General Sheridan is going buffalo
hunting on the plains with divers As.
TRANS Of most mountainous rank.
Whitehall Times: Sewing bees are
nice to make clothes for heather out of
the characters Of those not present"
Gounod has just written a new comic
opera. Its title is "a Year at London"
and the third act is said to be something
exquisite.
0Donovan Rossa has now collected
S2O,55S for his secret assault on Eng.
land but dread of the impending blow
is not apparent across the water.
Throughout election day the United
States war vessels Canonicus and o.
sipee lay at anchor at New Orleans so as
to command the principal streets.
The Forrest mansion in Philadelphia
(not the Forrest Home for actors) is to
be sold by the sheriff. Ii was converted
into music hall, but aa such did not
pay.
Dom Pedro and DR.. Schliemann ara
going together to visit the excavations
in Asia Minor-where Contemplation
prunes her rufled wings, and the free
soul looks down to pity kings.
Auguste Felix Duvert has just died at
Paris, aged ~eighty-two. He was the
author Of many of the most popular Of
French vaudevilles, as lie supplice de
; Tantale," "Riche d'Amour," aud the
like.
! Balzac, in his prime, produced 378
columns of feuiileton for the French
newspapers in one month. These col
umns represented FIVE different novels,
o and he was correcting the proofs Of two
4, others.
The Eastern college presidents have
cut a sorry figure in politics this year.
AS they have never known how to govern
their Schools it is hardly to be supposed
that they could know much about govern.
ing a nation.
DR.. Camsro Cabrsl, a Portuguese doc
tor, has extracted eighty needles from a
girl of sixteen who had contrived at
b different times to swallow them, and at
length found them highly inconyenient
companions.
9 Mrs. Maggie Van Colt, the evangelist,
is in Baltimore. Her whereabouts half
the time seem to DEFY telegraphic intel
y ligence. Concluding this paragraph,
: she is probably converting sinners in
New York or elsewhere.
a funny dog story come from Dion,
France. A dog passing before the sbcp
window of his master, a glider, saw there
q picture representing the latter sitting
with q dog whose head lay upon bis lap.
Fariously jealous, he burst through the
glass.
There is a demand for some con-
"
t%rivanee that will soften the sound Of
snoring on the sleeping cars, the racket
gu of the trucks not being sufficient to
AT overcome the horrible nasal concert
that frequently takes place in a crowded
coach.
at. Her Majesty Queen Ranovalomsojaka
OF Madagascar, has notified tho sellers
Of liquor in her dominions that they vii
. be held strictly accountable for the fruit,
of their traffic. The test CT drunken
ness is ability to pronounce the Queen'i
name,
u A few years hgo the woods and gras.
of on Lookout Mountain caught fire. A
10 one time the entire top was all ablaze
and afterward the flames crept below tht
=, precipice, literally rendering the famou.
spot a pillar OF cloud by day and of FIR,
by night.
rth Referring to the very lengthy and suc
NO c%essful season o; the Two Orphans an,
{ Our Boys, at Philadelphia theaters,
contemporary suggests that the Boy
marry the Orphans end leave town on
wedding tanr, so that some new play
''r may DO presented,
md The COuatess Of Cardigan has had he
low yacht painted light blue, with a singl
band of silver running round it. 1t
!, also French polished, and the masts al
white as paint can make them. 1t We
ca from the deck of this vessel that ht
lie ladyship (who sings and plays the guita
rs, charmiDgly) ssrenaded the Princess
o Wales and was politely requested t
move on
,yy. Mr. Bayard Taylor says he entertain
tho a high regard for the successful par
r.f grapbist, but cannot fad language suH
GENTLY harsh to condemn the wouldl
nts funny writer whose "fna" consists
eet making light Of the suferiDgs of other
and The practice Of ridiouling mothers.i
We law he condemns as a bad one. Al
Sc that people agree With him was show
nv the a~pDlanse that mai this se,ten,