Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-03-09
FACTS AND FANCIRS.

Mr.. Bennett is spending this month
ia Algiers.
Ex Governor Wells is peeriug around
Washington.
Archbishop Pureen once published a
Pennsylvania paper.
Some man cut in colorado is trying to
cell L'ncoln's oil walnut bureau.
TIE Due d'Aumals will exhibit next
month his magnificent collection Of Me.
lures, comprising 1858 paintings of vari-
Gus schools. TAe exhibition will take
place at his hotel in the Faubourg St.
Honore.
Augustus Lumley, who has succeeded
Spencer Lytfletoa as marshal Of cers-
monies to Queen Victoria, is a natural
son Of the late, Earl OF Scarborough, ard
one of the best known men in fashion,
able London.
1t has been found that Peter the Great
once edited a newspaper. The details Of
his editorial career are not given, but it
may be presumed that the paper soon
petered out. Probably the society gossip
wasn't up to the mark.
The poet who wanted to be a Granger,
aud wrote Beneath the tall tomato.tree
Id swing the glittering hoe" was no. 50
badly informed as he seemed. Mr..
Scott, of Los Angeles, Cal, has a tomato.
vine twenty-five feet high.
Mrs. Joaquin Miller, WAC has Just
married Mr.. 7. E. L. Logan, of Port
land, Oregon, wrote half the poen.s that
appeared in her first husbaud's book.
She is nine years older than Mr.. Logan,
who is twenty-five years Of age.
Mary Clemmer thus vindicatss Judge
Black: Somebody calls him stern.gis.
aged-how could somebody A pair Of
kindlier eyes, a pair faller Of sunny
humor, never twinkle 10 ambuscade than
those of the great jarist OF Peansylya.
MIA
Two girls who stole a dollar from an
Italian in New York have been seat TO
the State prison for one year each. At
that rate the man who steals a hundred
thousand dollars ought to go into seclu-
sion for at least a year and a half, but he
doesn't usually.
Two Baltimore men bet $1,000 on the
result Of the presidential election, and,
being unable to amicably agree which
had won, the case was taken into court.
Then the district attorney took posses.
sion of the stakes and turned the money
over to the city treasury.
Eleven signals are employed OF each of
the new weather o~bservatories on the
German coast to give the requisite storm
warnings. Single aud double cones,
pointed upward aud downward, ara ar
ranged SO as to indicate the quarter from
which a gale is expected, and various
flags are used to SHOW in what direction
the wind is likely to shift.
The gardener of the University of Der.
lin has made the discovery that hyacinths
may be propagated by their leaves. He
cuts them close to the bulb, places them
in a saucer, aad covers them with a thin
layer Of sandy leaf mould. The saucer
having been placed in a greenhouse, the
extremities Of the leaves will begin to
turn dry 10 about eight weeks, a sure
that bulbs are growing out OF them.
The present cabinet in Turkey is quite
a literary party, consisting OF the re.
naming colleagues of Fuad and Ali
Pashas. Besides Munif Pasha, it in
Ahmed Ye6k EGendi, historian
and numismatist; Ahmed Jeodet Pasha,
mollah, the historian af Turkey;
Kadri Bey, now Pasha. the rival and co.
Of Munif Pasha in the educa.
tional cause; aud 0hannes Efendi Cha
mich, the best writer in Turkish among
the Armenians. These are all practical
statesmen, and from early life have been
the leaders of reform and intellectual