Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-23
PERSONALITIES.

Jenny Lind's sen is an officer in the
British army, and her two daughters
are both married.
The last census of Paris shows that
there are 5927 Americans residing at
the French capital.
William Henry Hurlbut expects TO
start a daily newspaper OF his own in
New York next year.
Mr.. Bryant, the poet, is to be hon.
ored with statue in Central Park,
New York. The statue will be in
bronze, life size, and cost about $2O,-
600.
DR.. Frank Hamilton asserts that
the advantage Of sea bathing is chiefly
in the exhilarating effect Of plunge
in water of saline coldness, the sup
posed medicinal properties OF the water
being nonsense.
Flowers from the Executive Man.
sion are, it is said, daily sent by ex>
press to Miss Beckwith, at New York,
to whom the President has sent them
almost continuously from the time he
met her at New York last summer.
Modieska's husband, the Count Bo-
zenta, took out his first naturalization
papers in San Francisco last week. He
| is so charmed with America and the
American people that nothing, he
Gays, could induce him to return to
Europe. ~
1t is said that when the present
| President Of the French republic was
christened, his sponsors bestowed on
him the strangely promiscuous and in
| definite nomenclature Of Francois
Judith Paul. But he calls himself
simply Jules.
AS a rebuke to the Trustees OF
| Harvard College, Governor Butler,
accompanied by his staff, will attend
| the commencement of Williams Col
lege, on July 4th. The honory degree
of LII. D. was conferred upon the
| Governor by Williams in 1864,
Mrs. Mackay, the wife of the bo.
nanza millionaire, is accompanied
wherever she goes in public by a pri'
yate detective. The duty of the
hireling is to screen the diamonds
that they shall not dazzle the eyes OF
nersons with light purses and lighter
fingers.
Mrs. King, an English dress re-
| former. in n recent speech breathed a
| wish that Mr.. Worth might be
| drowned in the Seine, remarked that
a fashionable woman was smiled at as
| people smiled at the antics Of 3
drunkard, and summed up the greater
part of the sex as pack OF "incurable
dress maniacs. %
General Shegmap's eldest son, Mr.
Thomas Sherman, who began studying
to be priest of the Order OF Jesuits
| five years ago, and who spent his
! novitiate in England, will soon leave
| Woodstock, Md, where he has been
! for some time, and after visit TO his
| mother will go to the Western prov
ince to which he belongs, and will
teach there.
Mrs. Bell, wife of Professor Ora
ham Bell, the electrician, was one Of
the deaf pupils OF DR.. Gallaudet in
| Washington, Professor Bell first met
| her at a reception Of the college, and
| so expert was she in YeR9ipg speech BY
| the motion nOf her lips that they con
verSa1 together for some time without
his Discovering her infrmity. AT
last, WaISipg through the popserva,
1 tory, where some Of the Chinese Ian
terms had gone out, he made some re-
mark requiring an answer. But none
| was forthcoming, it being not light
enough for her to see the movements
Of his lips. He repeated the remark,
| and agpin got only silence for his
answer. Mysti9ed, he soon escorted
her back to'the pSrlof, aud then, in
| the brilliant light, asked her why she
had not answered him; but his amaze,
ment vas rsdoubled teniold at her
ready reply; Ut haSe neVeF heard a
sound in all my lita."