Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-18
MISCELLANEOUS Items.

Baltimore proposes to erect q monu-
ment to George Peabody in Druid Hill
Park, to cost $l5O,000.
A gentleman Of Brussels announces
that he has invented an apparatus by
which be can extract fire damp or any
other vicious air from mines.
2 "You had better lay in your coal soon,"
said Spriggles' wife to him the other
night. when he was starting down street,
aud Spriggles obcyed. he came home
intoxicated and laid in his coal all night.
On the termination of the recent mill
tary maneuvers in Italy the King sent q
considerable sum in money, to be proper
toned as follows to the troops: Privates,
twenty cents each; non com missioned
officers, forty cents each; and one dollar
to each of the officers. ,-~ rs,..
The picturesque way the ladies now
have Of wearing their shawls is very nota-
ble, says a New York letter writer.
What was once commonly very ugly
garment, has by an sdroit change in the
mode of wearing it, become as striking
in effect as the costume OF the Orientals.
A negro girl named Jennie Croir hung
herself on the place of VIM. Winchester,
in Lancaster county, South Carolina, re-
Gently, because her parents opposed her
marriage. This is about the first instance
on record where negro destroyed herself
for love, and as such is worthy of pass
ing notice.
Speaking of the Congressional library
at Washington, q correspondent says:
Not five per cent. Of Congressmen are
readers in the sense of ardent lovers of
full scholarship; not above twenty per
cent. read anything but novels. The Ii
brary, 90 far as Congress is concerned, is
q repository Of novels for their wives and
daughters"
I On Saturday evening last, just before
the train from Richmond reached Fred
ericksburg, the conductor, while going
through the cars, discovered that one Of
the passen gers, q man named Owen Ker-
ney, from Montreal. Canada, was, though
sitting bolt upright, stark dead aud stiff.
he had died so suddenly that his brother,
whose arm was around his shoulder, was
unaware Of his inanimste condition.
II is mentioned in q late letter from
Paris that the private properly of the
Empress, Of which she holds considerable
in various parts Of the city, is being ad-
vertised in The journals for sale, and it is
stated that Baron Jeremy David has
been dispatched TO Holland with three
million franks TO invest on her Msjesty's
account in the Dutch funds Eugenie is
evidently resolved not to be left out 10
the wet when the deluge comes.
A project is now on foot for convert
ing the Royal Colosseum, Regents Park,
London. into an Opera House. There
will be FIVE principal entrances, and ave
tiers of boxes, and to render the oor.
ridors more Attractive as q lounge be-
twesr the acts they will be adapted for
the exhibition Of pictures, which will be
received, if desired, for sale. An impor-
tsut feature Of the scheme is an under
ground commbnicstion between the new
Opera House and the Metropolitan rail-
way.
b A reposssr went TO Interview ex-P -Presi-
deut johnson on the Senatorial question,
and this is what he got for his trouble
"As a general thing, ell men onght 70
m arry while yeung. You see, when We
crov old our tastes and habits become
6xed, and they are hard TO change TO
suit another. / believe. like Franklin,
that matrimony ought 10 be encouraged
Bot at the present day young man vno
has not Inherited q fortune, and VINO
must rely upon bis efforts for every cent
hat he gets. viii end dinieulhes IN the
way.