Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-05
FACTS AID FANCIES.

10000 muskets and several mitrailleuseI
from Prussia.
The comedian Blackstone, at seventy
four, is one Of the most successful man
ayers in London.
The Italians have asked permission O
the New York Park authorities to plae,
a bust of Mazzini in Central Park.
General Newton, who fractured Hell
Gate, is a native of the solid South. H,
was born in Virginia, and served in tn,
Union army.
The heaviest creditor of France i.
Nine. Hurtado, who draws $500, 600 a
year interest. Sir Richard Wallace re-
ceives 5000, 900.
At the conclusion Of the recent per
formances at Baireuth the members Of
the orchestra presented Herr Wagner
with a Steck grand,
Notwithstanding the brilliant oppor-
~tunItles which the present campaign
oilers him, a Mr.. Redstreak is remaining
quietly at home in Philadelphia.
jacques Herne, aged ninety-seven, is
the Oldest veteran in the Hotel des In
va!ides, Psris. He lost both arms and
one leg at the battle OF Waterloo.
The various knitting mills in Troy
have pretty much arranged their troubles
with strikers, aud will probably run with.
out intermission during the fall and
winter.
The agent who -%entices the colored
man over into Indiana to vote, taking
pay from both the medical colleges and
the politicians, must be q very hardened
sinner.
A Richmond gentleman has received
a letter from a Virginian now in Egypt,
stating that all the American officers
now in the Khedive's service are to be
dismissed.
Attorney General Taft does not know
what is in the Declaration OF Independ-
ence, let alone the Constitution. The
declaration does not declare all men
free, as every one who has ever read it
ought to know. Those Of the signers
who we're shareholders were hardly ready
for an emancipation proclamation at the
time they put their names to the great
document. Could anything be more
ridiculous than the misquotation Of such
a paper by an Attorney General of the
United States?
The man at frst supposed to be Tweed's
son, who was reported az being at Vigo,
was evidently the Boss son.in-law, Mr..
McGinnis, of New Orleans. He was the
bridegroom a1d hero Of the famous
Diamond Wedding No. 2" when the
presents 10 Miss Tweed, chiefly from
Tammlny ofieeholders, amounted in
value to more than half a million Of dol
lars. The fair young bride had her shoes
buttoned with diamonds-solitaire of
the finest description. The sandy com
plexion and carroty hair Of the man in
Spain exactly Ct the bold MoGinnis,-
New York Mail.
Medical men ore perfectly familiar
with the extraordinary tendency Of all
sorts Of people to deception, and espe-
cially young women. Every doctor
knows that, FOR the sake Of becoming
objects Of interest and acquiring a sort
Of romantic distinction, young ladies in
vent or manufacture illness, and take
delight in deceiving people. The truth
is that the passion both for h~umbuggiDg
and bang bumbusged is a very wide
spread one in human nature, and there
is NJ impostor, however vulgar and
clumsy, who cannot muster round him a
fair circle Of weak minded dupes or con
federates whose vanity or interest leads
them to cultivate distinction in this way.
DR.. Carpenter.
Miss Lydia Becker, the London advo-
cate OF female suffrage. spoke at the ex-
cursion of the British Association. In
her pleasant little address she conceded
that times were changing a little in re.
gard to the position of ladies at social
gatherings. An improvement had com
mencei. There was a tradition that on
the last occasion when The British Aeso.
citation yisiled Glasgow an excursion
Aad taken place, at the end Of which the
gentlemen had been invited to luncheon,
while the ladies' had been left outside to
dine with Duke Humphrey. The gentle.
men pretended that they had more
pleasure in toasting the ladies' in their
9bsenpe, and hearing them replied for
by proxy, but the ladies' would agree
with her that it was more satisfactory to
be toasted when they we're present, and
to reply for themselves. They would
remember that they could not always
enjoy privileges gitAoet contributing
something to the enjoyment of the com
pany.