Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-02-27
FACTS AND PANCIES.


The constitution is played out.
The Prince Of Wales has had his fam.
lily reysccinated.
Don Piatt will have to join the Mollia
Maguires. Bottom Herald.
"Sir James Gordon Bennett" ia what
the Paris papers have got to calling him
now.
The salary of the president of svit.
zsrland has been increased from $1,000
to 81 ZOO a year.
Alexis buffalo hunt, which was to have
taken place in April, has been indef-
nitely postponed,
The Sacramento Bee is anxious about
the spread of opium smoking among tha
white people in that city.
Lucy Stone thinks the goveruo. Of
Connecticut is worth all the other thirty.
seven governors combined.
Some one says that the dramatic ia
distinct from the l~iterory faculty. Amsri.
can dramas seem to prove it.
The S%hakspearean performances of
Miss Ueneyieye Ward in French, at
Paris, are attracting great attention.
The Rotbchilds have taken their an.
nual account Of cash assets and can Gg-
ure up only So 400 600, with no liabilities
to speak Of.
An old gentleman in Georgia recently
had six grandchildren horn to him in a
single night, Affairs are too one-sidsd
in that State.
1t is a queer sight, that of q Boston
girl and her beau at eyentide trying to
look at Venus through the same tele.
saope.-NeW York Herald.
Six rich farmers OF Greene, New York,
gave a grass widow" a calathumpian
%serenade, aud 10Y a jury says they mast
each pay her $500 for the sport.
There is a society clamor in Washing.
ton to have the Goddess Of Liberty on
the dome Of the capitol gilded and TO
alter the fashion Of her chifFure.
We suggest the couplet from Butler as
a motto for the electoral commission:
is not the high court ofjusiiee sworn
10 Judge that law that serves their turn?"
A systematic Maine editor, noticing
the marriage Of a contemporary, remarks
of the bride: she will do the State a
service if she makes him a better aud
more truthful man."
The immense arm OF Bartholdi's co.
lossal statue Of Liberty" will be raised
to its place in a few days. If Liberty"
is able to strike from the shoulder, now
is the time to try her muscle.
AT the recent drawing for the class of
1876 in the French militia, Louis Bona.
parte, the Prince Imperial, was one Of
the conscripts whose names we're in-
Scribed in the first reimbursement Of
Paris.
The prices paid for college rooms at
Harvard are nearly four times as large
as those at any other college. The in.
come derived from the rent Of rooms in
one building alone at Harvard is almost
equal to the entire receipts for rental
from all the rooms Of Yale.
Lieutenant Watson, of the Uoitsd
States army, has received the decoration
of the fourth class Of the order OF merit
from the Japanese government in &C.
knowledgmeut of his services as a
colonel in the Japanese army in the ex-
petition against Formosa in 1874.
A Chicago merchant, who eyi iently
knows more about grain and PORK than
foreign affairs, was asked in Iroy yester.
day what he thought oS the " Eastern
question" He hesitstol a nomen and
then said, with a wise air: well, lam
a Western man" lie evidently meas
to stand by his section.
A gentleman in San F~rancisco, whose
Chinese cook left him, was unable to re.
tain any OF the numerous q JOHNS for
over a day, until he induced one Of them
to e%xplainthat somea apparently meaning
less strips Of red paper on the kitchen
wall contained the Chinese, inscription,
Boss oma long time tongue. Muchee
jaw, jaw
Mrs. Robb, Of Corpus Christi, is fairly
entitled to her name Of the cattle queen
Of Texas. She owns $4,000 acres of
land, inclosed by twenty-thrse miles Of
on which Ii, 1000 beevss are fat
tened annually for market. Her hus.
baud, who died some years since, refused
$4,000 for ore brand Of his stock,
hss since han la-r.iy ;,..a.a1