Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-21
Miscellaneous Items.

ton crop this season.
Red satin shoes and no stockings is the
court dress of Paraguay.
Crocheting and love-making are fash
ionable industries at the seaside.
Panthers interfere with the blackberry
ingin Missouri-they pick off the pickers.
The Nashau IN. q Almshouss con-
tains three paupers, and last year cost
| $l0,5O0. p
An Englishman has been fined for cry
ing " Bravor" at the conclusion of the
chants in church.
A Boston tavern announces, "No IL
quors sold over this bar till after the No
vember election"
Mount Whitney, in California, $4,000
feet high, is said to be the highest peak
in the United States.
A "gay and festive youth" ofthe age of
l02 years, has been arrested in Hudson
N. Y, for drunkenness.
An army officer sent to Athens, Ga,
to inquire into certain alleged disorders,
reports finding nothing to call for mill
tary interference.
The Hungarian soldiers are working in
the harvest fields, their employers pay
ing the Government fifteen cents day
for the wear of their clothes.
Among the distinguished foreigners to
whom rumor attributes purpose Of visit
ing the United States are the tenor Wach.
tel and the Empress Eugene.
An English thief recently swallowed
one hundred thousand dollars worth of
diamonds in Palermo. An emetic con-
cealed in glass Of beer surprised him
into rendering them up
The Governor of Florida has issued a
proclamation fixing the second day of
November next as the day on which
popular vote shall be taken to determine
the proposed cession of West Florida to
Alabama.
During The recent freshet in Conpecti-
cut, Waterbury editor telegrsphed
another at the scene of action, "Send me
full particulars of the food" The an
swer came, You will find them in Gen
esis."
The world is on the tiptoe of expecta-
tion. The Boston Journal says: Bos-
ton has surprise in store for the people,
which will eclipse even the Peace Jubilee.
1t may take two years to perfect il"
The grand jury of Richmond county,
Georgia, has made presentment charg-
ing that the gross abuse of the psrdoning
power by Governor Bullock renders all
effort to rid the county of the criminals
with which it is infested unavailing.
A boy having com mplained to his father
that Bill had thrown the Bible at him,
and hurt him on the head, the father re-
piled "Well you are the only member
of my family on whom the Bible ever
made the least impression"
The century plant in Rochester is now
nearly sixteen feet high, has fifteen arms
or flower stems, the largest of which is
one foot. There are over one hundred
buds already formed, and many more
will probably appear soon. All these will
in time become blossoms.
The landlady of hotel said to
boarder: "Look o'here want you to
pay your bill, and you must have
asked you often enough for it, and | tell
you now that you don't leave the house
until you have paid it" GOOD" said
the lodger, "Pll stay with you as long as
/ live"
A course of lectures by prominent
"agitators and reformers" is one of the
summer entertainments OF Boston. The
first is on Temperance and Moral Re.
FORM" by William Lloyd Garrison" and
the second is to be given next Sunday by
Miss Ella E. Gibson, Chaplain of the
First Wisconsin heavy artillery"
The Northwestern Christian AdUo-
cate, in an article to show that the art
of crutch.making has been carried to
great perfection" cites the increasing
demand for Pulpit Cyclop@ has,
"Skeleton Sermons" Pulpit Themes"
"Pulpit Germs" and other similar books
whereby preaching is made easy.
A memorandum, found upon the per-
son of the late DIR. Cruickshank, who was
surgeon of Rsjah Brooke, of Sarawak,
contains the following philosophic senti-
meut: "Some men are bora vsgabonds,
some achieve vagabondage, and others
have it thrust upon them. | may char
acterlZe mysei rs One VI tno inoe S'aeS.
There is story of an old hunter, who
came into Chicago one day, and, after
wandering about for while, looking at
the public buildings and other improve
ments. got into q chat with one Of the
inhabitants, in the course Of which he
mentioned to him that he had once had |
chance to buy all the ground that the |
city was built upon for q pair of old |
boots. "And why didn't you buy it 2
well, hadn't the boots just then"
was the old mans reply. 4
The President has in several instances
recognized the claims of women to the
Offices at his disposal. For instance, he
appointed the widow Of an old and much
esteemed army officer postmistress at
Leavsnworth. On the FIRST of this month,
Mrs General Gates, the window Of the
late General Gates-one Of the Oldest
and worihiest officers Of the old army
took possession Of the postofice at Fort
Hamilton, n Y. and has since dis
charged the duties Of that Office 10 ami /
versal satisfaction.