Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.

Yellow ivory combs are worn in the
back hair.
Emerson writes three or four words to
the page.
Soft clinGing all wool fabrics are the
most popular.
Parasols will superSede parasolettes as
the summer advances.
Ex-Governor Walker, Of Virginia, is
on his way to California.
Grant to a Pittsburg reporter: II
have nothing to say, sir"
Ole Bulls ~si1-yesr-old daughter is
being educated as q violiniGt.
Tennysou's readings from his "
wrltiDg' especially from Maud" have
been delighting London.
Wade Hampton has been invited to
attend the centennial celebration Of the
battle Of Bennington, Vt.
Kate ClaxtOn is only her stage name.
She is known in private life as Sallie
Msnder. -[6oston Post.
A new opera, by Lecocq, will be pro-
duced at the Paris Varieties in October.
1t is called lie Grand Frederic.
James Gordon Bennett has purchased
a large residence in Paris, and thinks be
will stay abroad for several years.
Fred Douglass is not p%rejudiced
against color. He has appointed his
own sou one of his deputy mArshals.
Norwich Bulletin: THE bashful nan
who asked his girl if her f~avorite bever-
age wasn't pop was referred 10 her
pepper"
A passenger just in from New York
report the streets blockaded with dead
critics, and Joan Of Dickinson still
charging.
The Louisiana commission, observes
the Commercial Advertiser, ''shuu the
quadrOon balls as they would q case of
Dinah. mite"
Miss Anna. Louisa Cary was named
plain Ann Cary when she was baptized.
The middle name has since been inserted
as q stage establishment.
The scheme for employing female
ticket-sellers on the railways of Eng
land has failed, passengers having made
love to them and kept the crowd waiting.
A drummer caused Woodcocks on
toast to be printed on the hotel bill Of
fare where he boarded April l, aud had
the walters serve wooden faucets or
crusts."
Anna Dickinson says she will not
marry until she attains the highest sue
cess. Instances have been known where
women eiShty.ive years old married and
lived happily.
An Iowa iailer didn't believe that a
female could crawl through a hole two
feet square. She preferred liberty to
hustle, and lef; the latter on the floor as
a sad memento.
Elelka Gerster is the name Of a young
woman whom the people Of Berlin, where
she is at present singing Italian opera,
declare to be equal to Jenny Lird and
Madame Sentag.
Spring has come, warm and balmy;
and few men know the luxury oil rising
at FIVE o'clock and putting Cayenne pep
per under the edges Of the parlOr carpet
to keep cut the moths.
Wendell Phillips says he only talks on
the platform, and that when he gets
through he always feels like running out
of the back door. He says that we are
on the verge Of another disuniou.
Vermont personal-If The young man
who sat in the chair where a lady had
left q dish Of maple sugar to cool at the
festival, the ether evening, will return the
saucer be will save himself further inter
ruption.
An unpublished mass, by Mozart, has
been discovered. 1t is claimed to be au
tograph, and was composed for the con-
vent of the Holy Cross, at Augsburg,
about the yeur III. Its authenticity
seems to be undoubted. The Domino
Deus" and the "Incarnatus" are said
to be especially fine.
The death of Sir John Foster Filzssr.
aid reduces the list of British field mar.
shalst to three-the Duke Of Cambridge,
the Marquis Of T~weeddale aud the Prince
Of Wales. Rumor says that it will not
be increased until the Duke of Con-
nRught, the future commsnder.in.chief,