Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-04
FACTS AND FANCIEs.

hrs. Croly has been reelected presi.
dent Of the New York Sorosis.
A brother OF George Fox, the clown,
is a member Of the Massachusetts senate.
1! begins to look as though President
Hayes will have to reconstruct his csbi-
net within a few months.
Liabilities, s24O, 900; no assets" He
lives in Louisville. BE ought to earn
something for the State by picking
oskum.
Australia, if we may credit the St.
Louis Republican, is a place where one
kangaroo up with the country to ad-
vantage.
Lougfellow possesses a bit Of Dante's
coffin, aud a cane made from the spar of
the ship on which the Star S~paDgled
Banner was written.
The jsweled dagger that Henry Of
France and Navarro wore at his mar
riage with Marguerite has just been sold
in Paris for s25OO.
Sydney Smith said "a Bengal tiger
with bis tail in the air is much less
dangerous animal than an honest man
with good intentions"
Di5interested generosity YES eonspieu.
GUS in the case Of the Bosten girl who
raised a subscription for a letter carrier
aud her married bin.
A California paper says that the water
in a we'll lately sunk on the Colorado
desert, within fifty miles of the river, is
too salt for domestic use.
San Francisco has thirty millionaires
who talk of forming an association for
the purpose Of devising a form of will
that cannot be contested.
The town OF Hanover, Mass, has just
voted that every able-bodied man and
woman shall have an opportunity to
work out their highway tax.
John Hooper Carbines, late master of
the British brig Thurmathia, has been
sentenced to fourteen years penal servi.
tude for w%illfully running his vessel
ashore.
A fourth Canadian claimant TO an
Euglish peersge has come to light in one
Mr.. G. j. French.D alzell, who is seeking
to establish bis title to the earldcm and
estates Of "Carnworth."
A womsn-Margaret Draper, Of Bos-
t~on-conductei the first newspaper in
America, so says Boston authority. The
Declaration of Independence was printed
by Mary Catherine Goddard.
The President and four of his cabinet
Sherman, Schurz, Devens and Key
wear full boards. Two-Evarts and
Thompson-vesr none, and one-Mc.
CrarY-wears q Henri.quatre tuft on his
chin.
Rossini, Handel, Psganini, Chopin,
Mendelssohn, Dunck, Charles De Beriot,
Czerny, Vieuxtemps, Cramer, Mettei,
Grety aud Pacini, all celebrated must
clans, we're born liz the month Of Feb.
ruary.
a new paper, in an obituary notice OF
a subscribers SOD, says: He was an
uncommon smart boy. He had a little
too much curiosity, perhaps, or be would
not have peered SO fatally into his
fathers gun"
Who drives fat ken should himself
be fat" Mr.. Buscbmau, the leading
cattle dealer Of Holland, who arrived in
this county from Rotterdam on Friday
to buy American cattle for shipment,
weighs abou. four hundred pounds.
Captain Lam, commander Of the
Glasgow weasel Blair Drummoud, has
been presented with a gold medal by the
President of the French republic for gal.
liant exertions TO rescue the crew Of the
Victorine, Of Bordeaux, wrecked in Feb.
ruary last.
OF course Sir Rowland Hill has the
credit for originating the penny post;
but a Scotchman named Stevens now
claims that he, and not Sir Rowland,
was the author of the system. In 1884,
be says, be submitted the plan to Lord
Althorp, whose private secretary was
then Sir Rowland, who cribbed his
scheme and got the credit for it.
A young woman recently established
a real egtato agency in Chicago, aud
Melted $500 the first month. On the
same street is the Office Of Miss Ellen
Culver, for eight years the Chicago man
ager of the large real estate business
done by the Baltimore millionaire, Mr..
Hall. Miss Culver has 300 tenants in
charge, and collects her rents promptly,