Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-19
FACTS AND FANCIES.

school for training nurses to be employed
in public ins ttutions.
"At Berlin" says Taine, music is
listened to in a silence like that of a
church; in Paris it is laughed at. -
The first railroad in Prince Edward
Island was recently opened for traffic,
aud the first train took ten hours to
travel lO3 miles.
1t is the wear and tear on the female
intellect in the matter of deciding upon
the arrangement of the new bonnet that
is filing so many graves for the daisies
to grow upon.
A pious young widow in Milwaukee.
speaking qf a handsome young fellow
who lives in her neighborhood, says: II
feel set back a year in my religion every
time / meet him"
Mrs. Fowle, about forty years old,
rowed to Bath, Maine, from Westport
Maine, in a skif, a distance of nine
miles, did her shopping and rowed back,
arriving home in season for dinner.
There are times when all OF woman S
selfpoSsession aud dignity are required.
That is when she shows her first baby, a
hair-lipped one, to an old beau whom
she had Tilted for the sake Of her.present
husband.
Donna Maria, wife Of Alfonso, is said
to look the very reverse of the savage
Amazon she might be supposed from
accounts current about her. She is
slim, fair.haired, and has lively dark
Blue eyes.
In addition to the active exertions
that have recently been made by the
British government to place Gibraltar
and Malta in the most efficient state for
defense, both fortresses have been sup.
piled with grain sRd other provisions
sufficient for seven years consumption.
Erecthess " Is the name of Swim.
burne's new dramatic poem, advance
quotations from which have been sent
over from London. Like ATLANTA in
Calydon,", which gave him his first ex.
tenaivs reputation, it is dramatic in
form, being modelled on the Greek
dramas, of which tbs chorus is a con
spicuous part.
On one block in the western part Of
Detroit, says the Free Press there are
eight ladies who won't go to church on
Sunday because ninth lady has an In
dia shawl and they hayes't And the
lady who has it won't 90 because there is
no chance for her to show off the shawl
before the eight, whose feelings she well
understands.
A Manchester firm, which takes all its
employees for days trip to the seaside
during the summer, decided last year to
visit Blackpool, tits the general custom
of the workers to have dip in the sea
before beginning the usual amusements
"Eh, mon, how dirty ye arel" said one
hale Lancashire lad to his fellow bather.
missed the trip lest year." was the
lAconic reioinder.
A life of General TJ. jackson, By
Mrs. Sarah N. Randolph, author of the
Domestic Lille of Jefferson" will soon
be published by q Philadelphia house
Mrs. Randolph, it is said, has had the
assistance of Mrs. Jackson and other
relatives and friends of General Jackson,
in the preparation Of her work, which
will, therefore, contain a much fuller and
more accurate history OF bis early and
domestic life than any biography yet
published.
The London Standard prononuces
William Morris translation of Virgil's
Eheid "a very hard nat to crack -
characterizing its style as one full Of
archaisms, and furnished with rhymes
which to the common ear are no rhymes
at all-7ahd, after pointing out many
errors and infshcities in the rendering
of 6ne passages from the original Latin,
it says in conclusion; ut wants alike
the scholarly accuracy which marks
Professor Comington's, and the FIRE snd
visor which proclaim the Lays Of An,
cisnt Rome to be the proper model for
a poot who contsmplAtes a translation Of
the Eneid."