Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-29
FACTS Ann FASCIES.

Mr.. Blaine decides hat be viii have
no time TO lecture.
Miss Fanny Davenport will act in Eng
land next year.
The public schools Of New York city
are ev%ercrowded,
Two buttin' kids-A young goat fight.
IN. Y. Advertiser.
General Schenck is living very quietly
at his house in Washington.
About sixty Indians are still prisoners
in the fort at St. Augustine, Fla.
scarfpins of silver, in quaint devices,
are the latest iastenings for ladies' scarfs
and wells.
Theodore Tilton has SO many engage-
ments that be lectures every evening
except Sunday.
Bishop Littlejohn is to preach the an.
niversary sermon before the Berkely
association this year.
A handsome new aquarium, to cost
about 500. 900, is to be placed in the
Geological Garden in Cincinnati.
"0uly the female mosquito bites;" but
they average n~inety.niue females out of
a possible hundred. Worcester Press.
Three sportsmen in McDufRe county,
Ga, have caught this season sixty.eight
coons, eleven foxes and seven wild cats.
The patronage Of the Church OF Scot
land has fallen into the hands Of its fe-
male members, who casts "a. 900 out of
10000 votes.
The Oldest ex-member Of congress now
living is said to be the Hon. Artemus
Hale, of Bridgewater, Mass. He is
ninely.6ve.
The prospect for the successful curing
of this years tobacco crop is very fat.
tering, and the crop is said to be an un-
usually iDe one.
Ex-Secretary Chandler owns a farm of
1850 acres in Michigan. 1t has cost
about 800, 900, and is just beginning to
pay expenses.
According to the Burlington Hawkeye.
public opinion in Iowa is beginning to
demand the re.ensctment of the death
penalty for murder.
Professor Marsh, of Yale College, has
been requested by Barnum to 60 to Col.
orado and interview the stone man re.
Gently discovered there.
The importantinformatio is conveyed
to a grateful country that Hon. D. N.
Lockwood, of New York, lis called the
handsomest man in congress"
There are GAG prisoners in the Ken.
lucky penitentiary, 9l8 of them miles.
OF these, five are preachers, three are
compositors, and only one is an editor.
A Richmond paper reports that Miss
Lizzie Van Lew, late postmistress of that
city, has associated herself with a bust
ness man in the manufacture of plow
points and castings.
For a wager of fifty cents a young
Canadian turned the MINDLESS lifting a
sluice gate, a task usually requiring the
strength of two or three men. A short
time after he said to a friend: IL have
killed myself for fifty cents" He died
in about ten days.
Mr.. Henry James, jr., will present the
counterpart of the American" in a
novel to be published in the Atlantic
during the coming gear, called THE
European" in which national contrasts
OF character win be presented with an
American background.
Mr.. Beyard Taylor is giving his series
OF lectures on German literature twice
a week at the Lowell Institute. The
tickets Issued by the Institute-l2OO in
number were ali taken twenty minu.s.
after the distribution began, and a verv
large number of applicants were unable
o obtain any.
An Oregon paper has this decidedly
personal item; "A great lot of younr
ladies' welcomed General Sherman at
Albany The old warrior vent right in
and kissed the whole of them, while his
son, a cOwardly young fellow who had
never been through the wars, stood back
and looked s~heepishly on"
The New York World has had a libel
suit; Alfred Speir sued it for $4,000.
and a jury gave him six cents. Speir
put up q fimsy house at Passaic, N. ]
which fell and killed several people. and
the World characterized his condaet as
rascality," from which opinion he was
foolish enough TO dissent.
Mrs. General Fremont, known in old
days as Jessie Benton, will contribute to
The forthcoming number Of Harper a
paper, giving her California and other
early experience OF twenty years ago,
She will give glimpses of scenes Of still
earlier days in st. Louis, Washington
and New Orleans, when she was known
as the daughter of the great senator.
A cable dispatch has been received bv
Alfred Joel, business manager ior Mr..
Max Strakosh, from Colonel M4plesou,
informing him that NJ me Marie Roze had