Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-09-28
FACTS \ FANCIEs.

They say Bret Harte's play resembles
a dime novel struck by lightning.
An oyster swells for thirty seconds
after it begins to boil, and then it begins
to shrink.
Mrs. Florence keeps her stage ward
robe insured for $25, 900, which is much
less than its real cost.
Dartmouth College has received in do
nations during thirteen years $96O,5OO,
one halt Of which is now available.
The Princess Constance Bonaparie,
daughter of Lucien, Prince Of Canine,
and a u of the Sacred Heart, has just
died at Rome.
The Prince of Wales private Score.
tary, Francis Knollys, has been made a
c. B, so as to reconcile people who
don't get the Bath to their lot.
Mrs. Margaret j. B~reckiuridge, widow
Of the celebrated Rev, Robert Breckin-
ridge, Of Kentucky, is building a church
at her own expense in Madison county.
1t is a good sign, when you go into a
young mans room, to find a well thumb
ed bible lying upon the table. It is a
sign tina: there are pious servants in the
house.
Nothing gives a man a clearer idea Of
the distinct spheres which heaven has
appointed to the sexes than to fall of a
step ladder with a bucket Of hot soap
suds in his hand.
Mr.. ThuIlow Weed was paid his quar-.
terly pension of $24 as a soldier of inc
war of 1872, in New York on Wedues-
day, aud as usual, gave it to Captain
Lshrbush, the centenarian veteran.
George Eliot's G~randcourt, one Of the
critics says, lis the most irredeemGbly
hateful creature extant, aud points " a
keen satire the old p%roverb that decla
a reformed rake makes the best hus-
band"
The nan who made the fifteen con-
s%ecutive bulrs-eye shots at Creedmoor is
| said to be as shy and retiring as a girl.
L. They thiHk he could hardly be induced
to pop the question at less than a thou
sand PAGES.
The King Of Dshomey wears a claw.
hammer coat, buttoned up the back, aud
his best soldiers are Amazonian women.
England . proposes to thrash him, but
France will probably use them for an
opera bouffe.
Of S%trakocsh's opera troupe now sing
ing in Philadelphia, Belocca is Russian,
Persiani is Italian, Nine Palmieri is
English, George a. Comfy is American,
Brignoli is Italian, and Preusser and
Henne are German.
1t always does have a depressing effect
upon a mans affection for mans faith
full friend" to fondle a loving, long
haired dog that has just returned from a
difficult expedition under the street car
stables after a rat.-Hapkeye.
A tremendous Amen" from his vast
congregation followed Surgeons pray
er, the other day, that the Turks might
soon be driven out of Europe, and the
whole of the Mohammedan power awept
y away from the face of the earth.
Miss Bella St. Clair, a young lady aged
twenty-three, has completed the feat Of
walking 1000 miles in $50 hours, which
she commenced at the North Woolwich
Gardens on the 25th Of July. 1t will be
seen that she had two days to spare.
The artistic career cf George CraiA.
. shank probably exceeds in duration that
= OF any other artists, living or dead. It
is now s%eventy-seven years since his FIRST
publication, and he still continues to
6, draw. His collected works are now on
j. Ell ibition at the Aquarium, in West
minister.
A great number of the articles in tho
Philadelphia Exhibition are sold, and
q will be removed by the owners on Nc
"a vember 10th, the time set for the close of
II the show; and most of the exhibitors
will exercise their privilege Of then tax.
N. ing away their property. Consequently
II the display, if prolonged, would be very
B meager.
re In Algeria there is a river of genuine
nc ink. 1t is formed by the union of two
streams, one coming from a region of
~. ferruginous soil, the other draining a
n peat swamp. The water of the former
+ is strongly impregnated with iron, that
of the latter with gallo acid. When the
two waters mingle the acid of the one
oe unites with the iron of the other, form
Ie- ing a true ink.
'S' Buffalo Bill, the Indian scout, who has
. reached his home, Rochester, N. Y,
.. speaking Of General Crook and Terry
v. difference in temperament, said to a re
Il, porter a few days age: General Crook
slept on his blanket, made his own coffee
and broiled his own bacon. General
Terry had q bed brought with him, a por.
~ table cooking range, and an extension
nv table. We could not travel fast enough
III to catch tAe Indians, as we would break
the dishes"