Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-23
Miscellaneous Items.

The latest novelty for the stage-Self'
acting Plays.
1t is proposed to give banquet to Mr..
John Stuart, in lsris.
A boy, ten years old, recently had de-
lirium tremens in Richmond, Indiana.
In Cairo, on the 9th, somebody stole a
lamp post, weighing one thousand pounds.
Jean de Vries, the leading betting man
in Paris, has often 100000 stsked.
1t will be twenty eight years before the
fourth ofJuly will again fall upon Sunday.
Within the last ten years the number
of thesters in London has been nearly
doubled.
The failure of the crops in Norway and
Sweden is sending many emigrants to
| America.
Louis Napoleon is said to be interested
in the tunneling of the Channel He
wishes to walk off some fine day, with q
carpet bag, perhaps.
1t cost just two hundred and eight dol.
lars to try a negro at Columbus, Georgia,
for stealing a chicken valued at thirty
five cents.
A New York cotemporary thinks that
this hot weather the feelings Of the per.
sons removing the distractions from
He'll Gate must be terrible.
There are only two daily newspapers
in Massachusetts which advocate the
prohibtory liquor lsw--the Boston Trap
eller and the New Bedford Mercury.
Jacob Limbert was buried at Dayton,
Ohio, last week, and at his funeral were
present his eleven children, his eighty
five grandchildren, and his twenty Eve
great grandchildren.
Bull Mountain, near Romney, N. H.,
! is supposed to be in volcanic condi-
ton, as rumbling noises have been heard
in that neighborhood for some time past.
The Congressional Committee Of Ways
and Means have gone on their frolicking
tour as far as Oregon. Bills for their ex.
penses continue to arrive at the United
States Treasury.
The Cincinnati Times says Secretary
Fish will find it as difficult to preserve
a strict neutrality in the Cuban business
as he would to balance live eel on the
top of his venerable proboscis.
Visitors to Atlantic City make fiddling
crabs tipsy, and then amuse themselves
by watching their antics. A piece of
bread soaked in whisky and water attracts
them in myriads from their burrows.
France is declared to be in critical
situation. 1t would be laborieus task
to compute the critical situations she has
been in since Napoleon III ventured |
upon his coup detat. Somehow, though,
nothing serious comes of these perils.
The United States frigate Sabine sailed |
from Roston on Saturday afternoon, for
Portsmouth, England, having on board |
the graduating midshipmen of the class
of 1862. They are sixty in number, and |
are being educated in seamanship
An exchange thinks it would require a
celestial prize-6ght between Achilles and |
Hector, viewed by all the Olympian
deites from Jupiter to Momus, to lift the
once manly art of self-defense from
the pool of trickery, swindling, vice and
rascality where it now drags out fitful
and shameless existence.
The new fractional cErrency will soon
be ready for distribution the ten cent
note ip stead of being ornamented on the
face, as now, by the head of Washing.
ton, has the bust of a woman, supposed
to be the Goddess of Liberty. The fif.
teen cent notes will have on their face
the figure on the dome of the Capitol
Fessenden's head will be taken off the
twenty-five cent notes and that of Wash
iugton substituted. Spinner's bust will
be taken of the fifty cent notes and be
replaced by that of Lincoln's.
The fox says the grapes we're sour when
he couldn't get at them, and many people
follow his example. Some unfortunate
individual condemned to city life during
the summer has gotten up the following
story "A family in Philadelphia, when
the neighbors are going into the country,
secures the same result by cheaper
means. The parlors are closed, carpets
taken up, gas turned of, cheap crookery
used, aud by the use of plain food, fire.
queDt baths, candle liaht, and other dis
confts, persuade themselves that they
aye enjoying season in the country"
They have been three years boring an
srtesian we'll uear St, Louis. The depth
reached is ssa2 feet, or only l3S feet less
than three-fourths OF mile. But no
pure water has been reached at that
depth, and it 10 nov proposed to plug the
hole up and lose 266, 900, the cost so far,
The boring was done at the rate of about
thirty feet per month. The artesian well
ct Grenoble, in France, is one of the
most famous in the world, aud was begun
in 1888 with the expectation Of reaching
water at depth Of not aoFe than twelve
or fifteen hsndred feet. In lS4l, at
ispth Of 1892 feet, water was at last
found, and has flowed ever since al rate
Of FIVE hundred tbaasand gallons in
iwenty-feur hours. There are numerous I
Rells in other parts Of Europe and also
10 this country, but the deepest one in
he world, except that now under consid-
sration, is at q sugar refinery in ST. Louis.
begun in the spring Of lS49, and con-
.inued until 1854. when the work stonnsd
1t the depth of 2l99 feet The suRpiy OF
water procured is comparatively small in
quantity, aud strongly ippregnstsd With
Iulphur,