Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-26
C AND FASCIES.


General T~chernayef has introduced
the Russian word Of command into the
Serbo.Russian army under his orders.
A novel proposal has Just been made
to the Project of the Seine by two engi-
neers, who propose to surround oil public
buildings with asphalt as a preventive
from FIRE.
A retrifed trombone has been found
in the ruins of Troy. It is supposed to
have belonged either to the Italian brass
banditti or to one of the Greek tootelary
deities.- Graphic.
The house in which Keats formerly
lived in the Piazza di SpAgna, Rome,
will shortly be indicated by q tablet
erected under the direction of General
Sir Vincent Eyre.
The rush Of Centennial pilgrims to
NJ. Vernon has so enriched the a%ssooia-
ton as to enable it to pay all its debts
and to leave a handsome sun for the
further improvement Of the grounds and
surroundings Washington Chronicle.
Three natives of India called recently
at BAlmoral and demanded an audience
with their new Empress. They stated
that they had travelled all the way from
Punjaub to lay their grievances before
the Queen, but they we're denied the OPP
portunity.
The sandstone slabs containing the
supposed fossil tracks Of q mar and a
bird, discovered at North Canton, Conn,
are believed to be bogus, as the man who
had them disappeared when a commit
tee of scientific gentlemen agreed to ex.
, anime Them carefully.
The following appearain a Manchester
: Mass newspaper; "Notice.-Has the
Lord Jesus Christ, in this city, a friend
who has to spare, cheerfully, for his
work, $3.50 to 5000? Information de-
! sired this week. The interested only
need address or apply at this Office"
An agent representing several compa
# MES Of English capitalists, has w2itten to
the Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture
/, Statistics end Mines, asking whether OF
O not there are 300, 900 acres of coal land,
IL in the State for sale, and il so. to inform
5 him at once, that bis principals car pur
= chase,
il, A poet has died, leaving property
enough 10 bequeath 4 handsome sum t.
N a university for scholarships. The poe
r, WAS Anastasius Grun, the money va
n 10000 gulden, and he had esraed A. al
lie by his literary labors, He has be
queathed to the same purpose, also, tn
g future income from his works.
to Aftsrreading Governor Chamberlain
y. proclamation to rife clubs, %demandin.
he the surrender Of their arms, the club a
OF Rock Hill, South Carolina, procured
TO- box, placed in it an old horse-pistol,
ost Aint-lock rifle, and on army musket, ani
he shipped it to the Governor, marked c
APP 0. D." The expressage was SIS.
nd A walk through the Vienna Imperil
're Hofburg shows the striking likeness b.
tween the Hapsburgs of to-day and the
ancestors 600 years back. The broa
neither lip of Rudolph, elected Kaiser
the German Empire Of 1875, forms
very marked feature in all his descent
d ants down to the present occupant
the throne, Francis Joseph l. The
pride themselves on an unbroken d
scent Of thirty generations.
Mount Ararat has been successful
ct assembled by Mr.. Bryce. Of Lincolu's Id
at London. This is believed to be eithl
DO the third or fourth ascent, the first ha
I ing been made by Parrot, in 1884, al
the second by Abich, in 1850. III
~ mountain is 1922 feet in height, al
! the last 1000 feet had to be climbed alon
the Cossack escort refusing to 20 turtle
The Armenians Of the neighborhood b
~. lieve the mountain to be Inaccessible
and insist that NOAh's ark still renal.
' upon the summit,