Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-06
Il. wHITMORE.
Publisher and Proprieto
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Longfellow is seventy years old,
France is shipping as potatoes in re-
turn for cur potato bugs.
They who live in blue-glass houses
should not throw sapphires.
Five Of the ROthschilds serve on the
Paris committee Of the exposition.
Even Fernando Wood has lost his
pluck. What the country needs is men
of iron.
Watterson calls Hewitt a bobolink,
What pet name will Dewitt bestow upon
Watterson?
Come into the garden, Maud, is su-
perseded by Come into the White
House, Fraud"
Mrs. Rebecca Anderson, aged liz, was
baptized by immersion in a Brooklyn
church last Sunday.
Victor Hugo heads q committee in
France to obtain subscriptions for a
statue to George Sand.
Mr.. Froude, the historian, has accepted
the nomination of the lord rectorsbip Of
Glasgow University at the next election.
Colonel George S. Bangs, the patron,
if not the inventor, Of fast mail trains,
10 the latest candidate for postmaster
general
A Miss Forney, a North Carolina
bride, dropped dead from heart disease
in the middle OF the ceremony one nigh
last week.
The Grand Dukes Alexis and Coustan
tine attend church every Sunday in New
York. A good practice for young men
if they are dukes
1t woald be impossible for Alexis and
Aimee to agree, as long as one retainr
his big bull terrier and the other her
small black aud tan.
Blue Jeans Williams, governor o,
Indiana, lately entertained a dozer
ladies at one time, and is now considered
to be qualified for the Office lie fills.
It has transpired that a portion of tht
Russian feet was sent to this country foi
the purpose Of providing place o
safety for the grand dukes bull terrier.
! The Cleveland ladies who want to vote
have resolved that they will not trat'
with merchants who refuse to sign pc
tition in favor Of sixteenth amend
msnt
Bertholl Auerbach, the German nov
elist has a brother living on Long Island
He is physician, and has been ava!
from home only two days in thirty.thre'
years.
Mary Clemmer in describing tho elec
torsl commission, says. Bradley looked
out either way OF bis very high nose, aut
neither eye could tell auy tales on tAt
other"
The Czarewitch, tie eldest sou of thu
Russian emperor, is spoken of as man
of extraordinary physical Vigor He has
been known to twist silver roube like
a corkscrew ia his powerful fingers,
The New York Times ISau Francisco
correspondent showed up the shoddyits'
on Mob Hill in that city, and one of the
infuriated Pacific Railroad Cfeiuses has
started a new Mob Hill under the CORE
spondent's hat
Lord Lyttou has made failure as gov
erner general in India, as most people
expected, and is coming home on tn,
official plea OF ill.heahh. Lyitoh bal
too much talent aud not enough sense
for such place
The Invalide Russo declares tSst tn,
conquerOr Of servia was not Abdul Perrin
Pasha, but Arthur Campbell Pasha, mill
tary agent Of Great Britain, who, with a
staff Of six English officers, was the rea
leader Of the Turkish troops.
Alexander Balm, who invented the elec
tro.chemical telegraph, and vino first de
vised method of controlling s numbe
OF clocks by electricity, received small
pension from the British government
watch, however did net prevent hi
dying Of. poverty month ago in Glas
gov.