Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-03
miscellaneous Items.

| 4 shower of gravel is reported to have
fallen during q recent storm on iarM'
near Washington, Iowa. Pebbles were
found afterward where there was uevnr u
pebble seen before.
A Boston paper Of Monday Gays more
| drunken people were seen in our streets
Yesterday than on any other Sabbath
within the memory of the Oldest inhabi-
tant Yet Boston has u prohibitory Jaw
| The reception of the Empress Eagenie
at Constantinople will be on scale oil
extraordinary magnifeence. The hey,
-elerbey palace, the finest and largest OF
the summer residences of the Sultan, 10
being repaired for the occasion.
A man has been visiting Van Vert
county selling silk dresses worth $50 for
$40. All he asked was 81 down, and the
balance when the dress was delivered.
Strange to say he found number OF peo-
pie green enough to be taken in 81 worth.
A New York correspondent says that
in a recent sermon, Henry Ward Beecher,
in making the exhortstlon to his audi
ence. said: when you are in Rome you
must do as the Romans do; and when
you are in He'll you must do as the He'll
ties dol"
An elderly man, named Edward Hal
min, of Black Rock, New York, fell over
The embankment at Niagara Falls, near
Table Rock, Monday, distance of o
hundred and eighty feet, and was in
stsntly killed and dreadiully mangled.
A most ingenious piece of mechanism
has been completed and patented BY Mr..
B. W. Ogburn, of Mecklenburg, Virginia.
1t is scale which, in weighing seven
teen and a half pounds of sugar, at six
teen cents pound, points out what the
sugar comes to. So of any article or
any number of pounds, or any price.
A man who owes bill in London can
now pay it in four hours by simply going
to Wall street and purchasing docu-
ment known as "cable transfer, de-
vice born of the great Atlantic telegraph
enterprise, whereby the equivalent OF the
money which he gives in New York Will
be Immediately delivered to his creditor
in London.
A letter from Rio Janerio says that
owing to the bad reputation of nitro.
glycerine small quantity in the arsenal
there was ordered TO be thrown into the
bay. Six ten-pound cans were put into q |
boat and taken out about two hundred
and fifty yards. The first one thrown out
exploded on striking the water, and the
conclusion set off all the others, and oil
the crew, seven persons, were killed.
"Guignet" states in Les Mendes that
butchers meat may be preserved in hot
weather by placing it ia large earthen
lars, putting clean heavy stones
upon it and covering it with skim
milk. The milk will become sour,
of course, but may afterward serve |
as food for pigs, and the meat will be
found to have kept it's natural primitive
freshness, even after eight or ten days.
Railway accidents bring out heroic
traits of character. Last Saturday two |
disasters occurred. one in Connecticut,
and the other in Vermont In one case
a damned brakeman, hanging by the |
knob of a car door, said to the brother |
brakeman Who came to his assistance; |
"Dick, if any one else is hurt worse |
than I am, help him first" In the other
case, the fret words of severely injured
engineer were: "Are any of the passen-
gers hurt
A correspondent of the San Francis
co Chronicle, writing from Yosemite |
Valley, says that be jields the palm to
women for hardihood and endurance as
explorers. They climb higher, ride
harder, get wetter, scream louder, eat |
more turkey and drink more stimulsnt |
than most men. You should have seen,
he says, our San Francisco school mis-
tresses ride Riding thsir horses over
boys, in bogs, down precipices, across
rivers, sstride, man fashion, pantaloons,
hair hying-thus did this branch of the
public school department disport them
selves. They burst their conventionsli-
ties. The inner spirit of feminin:ty, |
crushed and smothered az it Is BIZ the
conyentionslity Of the city, is entirely |
free in the valley. As for the men, | |
blush for my sex. They crept along after
those girls ike G lot of COWS. In plotting |
the girls about they became lost, and re-
manned lost. We met one wet and dis
NAL wretch coming out of the storm of
mist, just above the Vernal Falls. He |
hsl BECOME partly depented BIZ the |
whirl snd uprdar through which he had |
passed. During the period of observa-
ton be did nothing but merge and emerge |
in aimless goings and comings after girls |
through that chronic rainstorn,