Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-05-08
MEORARICs,
FACTS N FANCiES.

For walking on the grass and smoking
in the squares at Philadelphia they
charge S.. This tariff is affixed to the
trees.
Darwin's admirerers in Germany have
maze a present to him of a magnificent
album, containing the photographs of
200 Dsrwinists.
Carolina and Louisiana are to be the
names Of a large number Of fair babies
now on the point of coming into life in
the Southern States.
Newburyport has thirteen hundred
more women than men. 1t is a small
place, and a wedding there creates almost
as much sadness as a funeral.
The number of American students at
the Munich school of painting has been
reduced from about sixty to between
thirty AID forty during the past year.
The London Bookseller says that a
Pollyglot Bunyan is projected to cover
an issue of the Pilgrims Progress " in
every language spoken in civilized coun.
tries.
An oil painting Of Governor Hampton
has just been sent TO Germany TO he
Autographed. More than 5000 copies
have already been ordered by his ad-
mirers.
The Duchess of Marlborough intends
to make it a condition of the St. Pat
rick's balls in Dublin Castle that women
shall wear Irish poplins. This is done
to revive trade in that fabric.
Baron Gustave de Rothschild is deco.
rating his house in Paris with great
s%plendor. 0ne salon, Of light carved
wood heightened With gold, will illustrate
episodes from Tesso's Jerusalem De-
livered."
Live Holsters are the latest imported
edible from the United States to Great
Britain, one steamer having recently car
ried a tank containing 700 A constant
dow Of sea water was kept in the tank
by means Of smell engine.
A witty Freach lady who was an
adopted member of e famous military
corps, when a cigar was lighted in her
presence with the remark, II suppose
they smoke in your regiment p said,
Yes, but not in my company"
The newspapers Of Virginia City, New.
say that Miss Jeffreys-Lewis, the actress,
made engagements 10 dine With thirteen
young fellows in that place on the same
day, and ihen slipped off on a train be.
tore the appointed tine. That was her
idea O. fun,
D. seaafain Irving, who died in New
York last week, was called sometimes
the American MISSIONER" He was
young, ardeut in ambition, almost mas.
terly in technique, and a very notable
c%olorist, though he never aimed at start
ling effects.
seven narrow.gsuge railroads running
from Cincinnati in various directions are
commenced or projected. The billy ma.
ture Of that region gives such ronds
great economical advantages, the cost
being $4,000 a mile, against SEQ, 900 for
the broad gauge.
Captain Burnaby, hero of the Ride
to Khiva," has returned to Constanti-
nople from Kars, and recommended his
return journey to England on Wednes-
day. He does not think either the Rus
sian or the Turkish army in Asia sufi-
ciently prepared for war.
Captain Cameron, the African ex-
plorer, gives a very interesting account
of some African tribes addicted to feed.
ing on human flesh, and who preferred,
for the most part, their fellow beings
when pretty far gone. Not a word is set
down as to salt aud pepper.
Rubens' house at Antwerp is to be-
opened to the public during the approach
ing fetes in his memory. The painters
studio is still intact, and The house is
adorned with numerous pictures BIZ Van
Dyck, Teniers, Rembrandt and Rnbens.
which have never been moved since they
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