Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-11-02
Miscellaneous Items.

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A fellow in st. Petersburg prison has
gained five roubles damages in suit
against friend who had neglected to
| forward q letter in which he applied fol
the Spanish throne.
A Pasha in Bosnia has made senss.
ton by getting very drunk, thrashing all
his wives and drowning one or two who
ran off to the Russian Consulate for pro
lection.
Mr.. Eliot is the seventh President
Harvard University has had in twenty
five years. Four of tbem-Quincy, Ev.
erett, Sparks and Felton-are dead.
Madame Ratazzi creates sensation in
Paris with her private theatricals. She
has a troupe that plays her original
pieces in a saloon Of her house.
They are finding big diamonds in Aus.
trails. A bank advanced $500 on one
weighing half pound, which has since
proved to be quartz crystal.
A philosophical instrument-maker in
London, states that regular and profita
BILE branch of his trade is the sale OF
spirit-rapping magnets and batteries.
While clerk ia the Boston postoffice
was stamping letter on Tuesday even.
ing, it exploded, injuring his arm se-
verely. The letter contained quantity
of percussion caps.
The New York Herald says that in his
message to Congress, the President will
recommend, in a manner not to be mis-
construed, the recognition of the Cuban
insurgents.
The Sultan is obliged to withhold the
pay of the employees Of his Government
ia order to defray the expenses of Eu-
genie's visit. The London capitalists
have positively declined to advance any
further money.
The aborigines Of Victoria, Australia
now number only 1884. They are well
cared for by the Colonial Government,
whick takes great pains to instruct them
in the arts of the civilized life and edu-
Gates their children.
"You have not one drop of the great
Nspoleon's blood in your veins" said the
choleric Uncle Jerome one day to the
present Emperor. "Well," replied his
nephew, II have his whole family on my
shoulders at any rate"
The S.. Joseph (Mo) Union says:
They have q rev way of making morn
ing calls at Kansas City. The driver
stops in front of honse, knocks, and if
there is no response, hurls a brick
through the window.
There are great numbers of people out
of employment in New York. A busi-
ness house which advertised for porter
last week had two hundred and forty
eight applicants by eleven o'clock in the
forenoon.
North Germany is straining every
nerve to develop commercial intercourse
with foreign nations, and with that object
Count Bismarck has already established
one hundred aud twenty-one new con-
sulates in both hemispheres.
The Anoudaga giant is not the only
man who has been petrifed in that re-
gion. A forlorn widow, now living near
Syracuse, has as parlor ornament the
corpse of her late lsmented, which she
dug up nicely petrifed into limestone
statue after few years of burial.
A msjority of the Chinese women who
now arrive at San Francisco are the
wives Of men already established in the
State, and bring with them their children
aud household goods, and settle down
with their husbands 10 an honest life.
Here is an instance of the way they do
justice in Texas. A black mare was sto-
len from a livery stable, and after search
was heard from in a distant town. The
proprietor afterward received dispatch,
as follows: "Your mare is here; / will
bring her; thief hung"
In Wheeling, West Virginia, the other
day, an artist brought his camera to bear
on well-known topper lying on the side
walk, and soon had him on exhibition in
all the show windows. The old repro
bate, on returning to consciousness,
signed the pledge.
The Pretecfionist newspaper finds it
necessary to print weekly edition, ''in
order to countersct more ehectually the
dissemination of the perni-
cious free trade doctrines of the free
trade press Of the country, which includes
within its ranks most of the IL huentisl
journals Of the United States"
The scale Of penalties in Scotch courts
is somewhat peculiar. In the Dundee |
circuit the other day, an old woman was
sent to prison eight years for stealing a |
petticoat and shawl, and the same pun
ishment was given to young man who |
had murdered his illegitimate child by |
pouring vitriol down its throat
The North German Correspondent |
says that Professor Fsber's |
speaking machine is to be exhibited at
during the continuance Of the |
Horticultural Exhibition.
II is said to articulate various words,
and even to answer questions by simple
sentences with wonderful distinctness.
There is female founding in st.
Louis so beautiful that the person having
he care of her is overwhelmed with
offers to adopt her. he has therefore
decided 10 put the infant up at auction
and sell her to the highest bidder, the
money to be placed in bank at compound
interest for her benefit, and to be paid
10 her when she reaches the age Of
lighseen, '