Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-06
FACTS AND FAxCIES.

Matthews and David Davis are all grad
yates Of Kenyon College, Ohio.
Lillian Ashworth, John Brights pretty
niece, q large landholder and leading
woman ~suffragist, is to be married.
Boston abused Upper, but after be
has written his lode to the Hub" he
won't owe that city anything more.
Secretary R. W. Thompson is the
author of a book, "Papacy and the
Civil Power he is also an Unsuitable
smoker.
The German emperor has finally re-
fused to accept General vol Stoch's res
ignation as chief Of The German ad-
miral,y.
Miss Anna Dickinson bought upward
OF 300 books relative to Anne Boleyn"
when she was writing her drama on that
subject.
Johnny Blow, of St. Louis, who has
been following Mrs. Oates around with
oaers Of marriage, has returned home.
He feels BLOW par.
Lsuro Rossi, the emineat composer,
gave the initiative to raise a subscription
to erect a at Naples to the
memory of Thalberg
Fiske Mills, the sculptor, son of the
sculptor, is a confirmed woman hater.
The complaint was brought on by uure-
Quilted love for Winnie Ream.
Dom Pedro's stay in Florence was in.
%cidentally extended by an eclipse of the
moon, which also came handy for getting
some new hinges on his trunks.
Your noble and genteel city" is
what the president Italian Centensial
commission calls Philadelphia in his
letter Of thanks to Mayor Stokley.
Diamonds are going oat of fashion,
and o there will be nothing to distin-
guish a Niagara hackman from an ordi.
nary capitalist Il Worcester Press.
The author of Home, Sweet Home"
never had q homei and George McDop-
aid, vino has eleven children, is the
author Of Annals Of a Quiet Neighbour
hood"
The present style Of weather calls to
mind the remark of q sable brother, that
he had most alters noticed if he lived
lro de month Of March he lived fro de
year"
Robert Browning is to make q new
translation Of the Agamemnon of Es-
chylus for illustration, with photographs
taken from DR. Settlements treasures
at Mycere.
Father Hyscinth, acting on the sug.
gestion Of the Temps, has determined 10
corfne his lectures to morality, for
which, under the French law of 1863, no
official license is needed.
The country singing-schools are clos.
ing up their affairs, and the young man
who hasn't settled the question with her
will have to hold over until another
winter Fulton Times.
John 0. Breckenridge, son of the late
Vice President, will be married on the
18th of April to Miss Louisa, second
daughter of Lloyd Treyis, the w~ell-known
capitalist Of San Francisco.
The static of William Wheslwright,
unveiled at Valparaiso last month, COM
menorates the man who established
steam navigation, railroads, and gas
companies in South America.
Orders have been given by the Rus
sian government to the manager of the
Imperial Iron Foundry at lula to con.
struct without delay 10000 iron huts for
the accommodation of troops,
All the world is a stage, and the most
of the passengers are obliged to go on
foot up the hills, and to pry the wheels
out Of the mud. The stage is generally
stuck In mud when it is not going up
bill.
Parson Newman can't understand how
he was dropped without even a cabinet
meeting. He is not in the least sur
prised to hear that the Washington mon
uuent is sinking \ Cincinnati Conner.
cial.
One of the rarest books printed in the
nineteenth century is the first edition of
the Book of Mormon" published at
Palmyra, N. Y, 1880. Lord Macaulay
tried in vain for years to procure a copy
of it.
Half the fools in the United States
think they can beat the doctors at curing
the sick; two.thirds of them are sure
they can beat the ministers preaching
the gospel; aud all Of them know they
can beat the editors running the papers.
"a want long felt" says the San
Francisco Chronicle, has at length
been filled by the opening of q new
drinking-saloon on Montgomery avenue,
at a point where Eve doors interviewed
without such au indispensable convent
ence."
Its all very well" remarked a red-
nosed man in a bad hat and an ulster of
tina v~;ntaga of ~. ";tie OF varr Ill