Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-15
FACTS AMI FANCIES.

California.
Jenny Lind says her husband is a sin.
cere Christian.
W. P. Balch, a Boston -four merchant,
has a stable of lO7 trotters.
One of the English papers remarks
that winged words must be pigeon Eng.
lish.
The HindOOs have 49, 900, 600 gods, or
800, 600 times as many as there are Bos-
%tonians 10 Boston.
1t is the woman who yanbs her CATERS
of with a bootjsck who knows her rights,
and knowing, dares maintain.
Kate Claxton's route through the
country is said to be carefully marked
on insurance maps now. -[Commercial
Bulletin.
Mr.. W.. Il. Smith stated in the English
house of commons hat the total ex-
penses Of the Tiehborne prosecution
amouted to E6O.O75, or about $780, 1915.
The new invention of the military dis-
tance-fnder is not considered of much
account in Switzerland. The Swiss
think the instrument will have to be per-
fected.
The young widow of Commodore
Vanderbilt travels in her own palace
car. She has just returned from the
South, and the coach was filled with rare
flowers from hat section.
After a wedding ceremony on one oc.
%casion, which occurred in a Boston
parlor, the husband whispered to his
b%rand.new bride, as they approached the
door; Mary have you got any email
changer"
War maps are q good thing in their
way, but we really need a guide book to
inform US how to get around some Of
the Russians and Turkish names without
having the skin rsked of the tongue in
turning sharp corners.
To the cultivated and naturally deli.
cate musical ear there is nothing more
disagreeable than to have a hand.organ
woman pause in the middle Of a bar to
let 60 Of the crank and replace a hair.
pin. WORCESTER Press.
The New Haven postmaster recently
read with horror and dismay the follow.
ing advertisement in q local paper:
Any person having five to fifty loads of
manure to dispose of will please send
word or drop it through the postoaice.''
The pitcher of a Peoria baseball club.
who was put out Of the crack nine be.
cause he was too small, sat down on a
base and wept for three hours and a
half that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
Little pitchers have great tears"
[Hawkeye.
Disraeli, it must be remembered. il the
Blaine of Europe-always ready to ring
the bells at midnight if he can make
q point in politics. Boston Transcript.
The Transcript should reflect that Dis.
raeli is now an old man, and may not be
able to stand the shock OF this compsri.
son.
Madame RatAzzi, widow Of the lannon's
Italian prime minister-she was a Wyse.
B%onaparte by birth, and a De Solins by
her first MARRIAGES. about to marry
Senior L. De Rutti, who is a Spanish
deputy, an engineer, a wealthy land pro-
prietor-and only thirty.three years of
age.
Sometimes Mr.. Gushing is spoken Of
as old but be shows nc signs Of il. and
few young men would move with such
activity. From an ocean voyage he
reached New York one day; was in New.
buryport the next; and the third day on
his way to the capitol [Newburyport
Herald.
General Leslie Combs has been giving
the Lexington Press a recent incident Of
his life in the year 1913. The general
should tell the Press man how he used IN
sit on the banks Of primeval salt water
in the Ohio valley, catching trilobitey
with a pin.hook or shooting the bound
Ing ~mastadon.
f. d, Squibb, Of Brooklyn, has given
the University Of Virginia a full eouip.
ment for a gymnasium. During the last
year that institution has also received in
trust a gift of $lOO. 900 from Samuel
Miller, Of Lynehburg, Va, for the estab-
lishmsnt of q department of science and
practical agriculture.
Edwin Adams is little stronger now
than he was some weeks ago, and prc.
poses to pass the Snnmsr months in one
OF the villages Of Alameda or Marin
county. probably at San Rafael, in the
latter, where the atmosphere is belmy
and of uniform temperature. He may
even appear again on the stage.
Prince Arthur, of England, has a
lively wit Mr.. Hem, a son of the great
Irish lawyer, asked the other day at
Dublin to be introduced to the Duke Of
~Connaught, because, he said, his son bad
sat next His Royal Highness when both
passed their examination for the army.
was then" observed the Duke, be