Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-11
FACTS AND FANcIEs.

Blaine shows no symptoms Of sun
stroke.
Governor Hayes i~svOrite author is
Emerson.
George William Curtis does not believe
in hOunces.
MaiOr-General George B. Mcclellan
is in Toronto.
Four Cinnamon have Joined a Baptist
Church in North Adams, Mass.
A dispatch from Paris announces the
death of Esnry Jerome Bertini, the
pianist and composer.
The oldest son of Senator H. B Payne,
Of Luzerne, Penn, fell from a tree while
gathering ruts on Wednesday and was
killed.
Ambrose Thomas Hamlet" is to be
produced at Venice, with GRAHAM as
the baritone aud Mile Moisset as
0phelia."
, Fifty thousand elephants are killed
every year to furnish the ivory worked
up in England alone. The best ivory
comes from Zanzibar, the silver.gray
from regions south OF the equator, ana
: the favorite ornamental material from
=. Sian.
Ella Drew, Of Boston Highlands, who
, swan from her row.boat and rescued q
cEild last August, has just RECT by
mail a handsome Maltese cross, Va d the
date on one side, and To TIE heroic
young lady on the other. She has never
r learned who it was she saved.
At the request Of the King of Bavaria,
Wagner's Nibelungsn Trilogy is . be
repeated in Bayreuth next sumr
Wagner has Withdrawn his conssn
have the operas performed in Mlnic-,
Berlin, and Vienna, aud the chief c,ties
Of the German people must get along
without them.
At q London breakfast last season
Lady Sykes, the young wife Of q verv
wealthy Yorkshire baronet Of a FAM
sporting family, wore a skirt of bIack
silk tied back with unusual tigbtnass, a
white waistcoat over an embroidered
shirt front fastened with heavy gold
10 studs, and a green velvet coat made like
: a mans tail coat. Lady Sykes is daugh-
ter.in-law of the "Sir Tatton Of Rou-
cicault's Flying Scud."
9 Few plays have been as variously
:, adapted as lie Process Veauradieux,"
U now running in Paris. 1t is acted in
London as THE Great Divorce Case"
Sir Randall Roberts uses it in Canada as
THE Brighton Scandal" Mr.. DAILY as
Life" at the Fifth Avenue. Mr.. WAllack
at his theaser as Forbidden Fruit" Mr..
Byrne has prepared it for the Eagle as
French Flats" and at the Boston MI.
as scum it is Wanted a Divorce"
In a recent speech the English Bishop
of Manchester alluded to Mr.. Henry
Irving's performances Of Hamlet at the
Princes Theater, Manchester. He had,
he said, learned with delight that II, 900
persons in Manchester had gone to see
Mr.. Irving sct that character, into which
he had thrown new life. Whether Mr..
D. Irving's reading was the true one or not
it was not for him to say; but he knew
!. Mr.. Irving vas a great actor, and it xas
an ennobliug thing to see Hamlet per-
formed by him.
Not long since q number of the Braes
Of Derwent fox hounds were observed to
=, be i'll. Major Cowen, the master, called
al in a competent veterinary surgeon, who
at once pronounced the disease to be n.y.
III drophobis, and the whole pack, consist.
'et ing of t%wenty.three couples, we're de.
stroyed. All the eats in the neighbor.
hood Of the kennels have also been dc.
,od stroyed to prevent the disease from
ate spreading. The Braes Of Derwent ioI
i. hounds have been in existence as an or
ganizad pack for twenty years, ard were
ed. the fastest pack in the North oil England
chs Lsdy Burdett Coutts was invited to
ays attend a meeting to protest against The
he Turkish policy of the English Govern
ar ment. She declined, and added. "The
page Of history does not teach that The
ing execrable deeds perpetrated by the BASH
re- Bazouks are wholly unmatched in wag
ed fare, or by c%ruelties legally inflicted
the upon a dominated people, even IL ca
vas own generation. Nor are there va \.
among ourselves instances of Assault 81
.sr brutal and dastardly that re have n,
ali. need to be careful in speaking Of tn.
ave ferocious and licentiopa acts Of a will
an. soldiery as unparalleled"
ter Three members of the English hu4s
rk- Of Lords within the last six years hay
pts committed suicide. Lord Walainghsm
ed Lsrd Delaware, and more lately Lor.
la RibblesdAle. The last, Lord Russell
the son.in-law, aged forty-seven, was know
/ as as a dissipated man. Lord Delawar
sed destroyed himself in a fit of love-melau
the choly, but Lord Walsingham's sell
s in destruction remains one Of the mo.
The mysterious Of its kind. Within a mont
vie, after the Prince Of Wales had paid hir
pse a visit at his seat ia Norfolk I,ord Wa