Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-30
FACTS AMI FANClES.


President Hayes is said to be a good
bass singer.
The average OAio an keeps his Buck
eye peeled for an Office.
The salary list in New York city ia
over eleven millions a year.
Some of the English papers mention
the new postmaster general as Mr..
MKey.
The Cincinnati Commercial says;
africa produces the most undrsss,d
black kids"
Our soldiers are becoming more cheer
fuls They are approaching the end of a
long March.
Augusta, Ga is to have another cot.
tou factory, with Massachusetts capital
lists as the principal stockholders.
P%appenheim, the prima donna of tie
New York Wagner festival, is an Austri-
an, ard only twenty.eight years old.
Nearly 5000 persons worm out a livirg
in silk manufacture in the State Of New
Jersey. There are $40, OOO, 900 in it.
Is Boston young girls are taking tie
place of errand boys in many cases.
The girls are considered more t~ractsble.
Professor Sehliemann will give an &c.
CONT Of his excavations at Mycsue be.
fore the London society of Antiquaries.
This is an age Of mys ecious disap.
pearances, and every man ought to be
very careful about himself. -[NeW York
Mail.
The report that the Father Of his
Country was petrifed proves untrue.
Late events, however, must have morti-
fed him.
Stephen Decatur, the second American
commodore Of the name, was the author
of the sentiment, "Our country, right
or wrong"
By three majority a woman suffrage
bill in the Massachusetts senate has
passed to a third reading. This is as fer
as the compliment a 60.
Owing to the depression Of the times
many Of the EnglisL jockeys are bscom-
ing sailors. They will probably be known
as Epson salts. -[Hersld P. 1.
IA independent editor is a mar who
will crowd out a new advertisement to
make room for a fresh piece of spring
poetry" says a Southern paper.
President Hayes has a large hand,
plump and firm in flesh and grasp. BE
fingers over a shake, and recoils from Q
fish like palm.-[Chicago Tribune.
The Nevada legislature has passed a
bill prohibiting gambling-on the ground
floor. But it you 20 up stairs there is
no such restriction on a mans rights.
A pert little girl boasted to one Of her
little friends that her father kept a car,
rage" "Ah, but" was the triumphant
reply, " my father drives an omnibus"
The real name Of George Eliot is Ma.
rian C. Evans, the authoresa OF " Adam
Bede;" the real name Of George Sand ia
Nine Dadevant, the authoress Of Con.
%suelo."
General KlapkA's proposition to sup.
ply a force Of Hungarian officers and
priyates to reinforce the Turkish army
has been declined By Redif Pasba, the
Turkish minister Of war.
A Connecticut clergyman preached o
funeral sermon so a~cceptably, a few
years ago, that be has lately received q
beqaeSt Of $4,000 by the will of q
daughter Of The maa be then eulogized.
ltis rumored that q number OF lawyers
are about to organize themselves into Q
company called the National will con
testing company" They will contest
any will, prove anything and take all The
property for their pay.
The latest is the cockroach cure, which
IS within the reach ofthe humblest. Thes,
lively insects are much esteemed by thu
Russians as a diuretic, and a crystsllin,
substance prepared from them, called
an~tihydropiu, is a specific for dropsy.
Mr.. Geaowski has been chosen to exc
cute the marble statue of Sir W. Fair
burn, the great Manchester engineer
The statue will be eight feet in hight
and represent Fsirburn standing Will
papers in his hand, as if delivering al
address to q scientific audience.