Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-12-29
G AND FANCIES.

Miss Kate Field is now a regular ION
tributor to the London Times.
Mrs. Barney Williams aud her daugh.
ter Marie, are passing the winter in
Florence.
Francois DidaY, the painter, died at
Geneva on the 18th Of last month, aged
seventy.ive years.
At a recent sale Of pictures in New
York, a small, but characteristic paint
ing Of Rosa Bonheur, brought $1,000.
The experiment made at New Haven,
Connecticut, in substituting naptha for
gas in lighting streets, has not been a
success.
Mr.. Longfellow received frem the Old
South Fair p%ostofice the other day a
letter of admiration Of his work, written
in Japanese.
There is nothing SO poor as a church
mouse, after an unsuccessful season of
fair stews in the church basement.--New
Orleans Picayune.
The secretary Of the treasury at Wash
ington received one hundred dollars last
week in a letter from Waterbury, Conn.,,
| as conscience money.
Mrs. Seguin says applause is the in.
spiration OF the artist. "0ne can feel
it. Not to get it is like pouring cold
water down your back"
A young lady of DR.. Tiffany's church.
New York, has undertaken to build, at
her own expense, a seaside home for
sick children, the first expense of which
is to. be about $4,000.
The captain general of Havana will
give a fete in honor of King AlfOnso's
marriage, the cost of which will be $780,
900. New furniture for the occasion has
been imported from New York.
The holiday season has been a busy
one in New York. One day last week
sixty thousand people-the population of
many a large city-entered the doors of
one New York fancy goods store.
There are over 700 vessels engaged in
dredging for oysters in the Maryland
waters Of the Chesapeake Bay and its
tributaries during he season, and each
one gives employment to a captain and
a crew of eight men.
The very birds give it sp this winterl
A gentleman going TO visit the kennels
of the Queens county New York;
hounds a few days ago, reports that he
saw on the way more than $50 bluebirds
Three weeks ago the bluebirds had all
disappeared. Does their return signify
that the winter is really over2-[New
York World.
Between thirty and forty employees of
the treasury department at Washington,
mostly women, have been notified that
their services will not be needed after
the end OF the month. They were all
placed or the temporary roll for six
months, but as there are not sufficient
funds to carry such a large force longer
the discharges have become necessary.
At a recent meeting Of the American
Pathological society Of New York, the
advantages of phonetic spelling wero
discussed, and in the course of the argu-
ment Mrs. Burns, who had been engaged
in educating the freedmen, stated that at
Nashville she taught the colored people
! phonetic spelling and the result was that
they could read the New Testament in
three months.
There is talk in Germany of forming
five permanent camps for the use Of the
eighteen army corps, two being estab-
lished in Alsace-Lorraine, one near
Sarroburg and another near Mulhausen.
Each Of these camps, rectangular in
shape, would cover two square miles OF
ground, and the cost Of the 100, 900 acres
required is estimated at $780, 900, or
$50 an acre. Adding to Sc, 100, 600 for
the necessary buildings. the total cost
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