Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-20
FACTS M FANCIES.

III me faVl Is TO sing IN LAtricaine
in London this season.
Beecher is lecturing again in Pennsyl-
vania and New Jersey towns.
kellogg has bought a house in Wash.
ington, intending to reside there here
after.
An ex.Alderman Of Rochester says
that a contractor offered him a bribe of
$4,000.
Miss Lizzie Ihling, ziece Of Professor
Wise, announces herself as a profes.
sional aerouaut.
Johann Strauss has left Paris, aud is
now at home near Vienna at work on
his new opera bOufe Tzigane.
Mrs. Dion Boucicault thinks OF making
another tour around the world to play a
series Of farewell engagement.
The manager of La Fenioe, Venice,
has run away in debt to everybody. No
wart in the case as far as heard from.
Philadelphia ladies would like to keen
diaries, bat their time is puuctuated into
little bits by tramps and book peddlers.
The crown prince of Germany pre-.
tends to be q type.setter, but be never
improved his copy with a frst.elass typo.
graphical error.
Charles Fairbanks, of Vermont, has
SIS, 900 to finish a new hall for women
students at Drury College, Springfield,
Missouri.
A few days before the death of Pc.
trella, the composer, his friends in Italy
published au appeal for subscriptions to
relieve bis poverty.
Within a year Tilden has smashed m
another mans buggy, tumbled OFF his
horse into the gutter, and been thrown
from a carriage by a runaway. He
seems to be spelling bis chances for an
equestrian statue.
After Rossini had listened to LA
Symphonic Fautastique," he ssid: Upon
my soul, It's lucky that Belioz never
learned music; what wretched music he
would have written had be known some.
thing about it"
II is a strange law in the order of ma
ture that just as man gets fully de
veloped, experienced and ft to live with,
he begins to drop into painful old age
and the funeral professions that tend to
the mb.-[Chicago Journal.
Some of the Paris papers have become
completely rabid at the news that Nine
Pauline Lucca may possibly be engaged
at the Grand Opera during the exhibi.
tion year. They remind the public that
she is a Prussian, and that she wrete a
volume against France during the war.
A young gentleman Of this city was
taken sick, measuring FIVE feet eleven
inches. When he recovered, after a
weeks Sickness, he measured six feet
and oneeighth of an inch. Theories are
in order Baltimore Gazette. We sup-
pose he was treated with blue glass and
grew-well.
Colonel Gildersleeve is going to pub.
fish a series Of articles on How to
shoot" Every policeman should have a
copy; also families that keep unloaded
guns in the corner, and exciteable sports.
men who return to the bosom of their
homes with one hundred dollar shot guns
at full cock.
Wade Hampton has been married
twice, aud is a widower. He had three
children = two sons and a daughter.
His eldest son, Preston Hampton, was .
killed at Gettysburg, aud the second.
Wade, jr., lives in Washington county,
Miss. His daughter, Margaret, ia the
wife Of Colonel John Hascall, OF South
Carolina.
A mar in Chicago writes to the Tri.
bune hat be lost $500 at several seances
of poker, aud could make no headwav
until he noticed that the lhamb of his
adversary trcmbled when holaina three
of a kiad. Acting on this hint the wri,
ter sailed in aud won $llOO at one sit
ting. Re says it is no use 70 venture on
poker unless you are up in psychology
and a thumb reader.
Lord Brougham's wig, which be wore
as Lord Chancellor, was in 1899 sent by
Charles Sumner, then in England, to
Judge Story, who deposited it with the
Harvard law-school. There it was kept
for many years, and as recently as 1871
used in Boston at an amateur play and
returned, 1t has now disappeared. and
the question in Boston now is, Who is
wearing the historic hair2
Western people are preparing to re.
ceiye the grasshoppers in the most cordial
manner. The latest returns from the
bulldozed potato districts will be laid be-
fore them, a count of all the votes will
be asked for, and there will be no obiec.
ton made to aliuude proceeding. It ia
to be hoped that the members will be
unanimous, and that when the report is
made to congress there will DO no flibus-
tering.
Macaulav hod ovar