Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-09-25
Misc eIIaueous Ifems.

An English tradesman, tired of an
nouncing that he is selling of" now ad.
vertises that he is selling on"
A Chicago lady, who edits law jour
nal there, is about to be admitted to the
bar, and will practice law in partnership
with her husband.
The London Spectator sums up Louis
Nspoleon's clemency by saying that he
has pardoned everybody who has done
nothing.
A little Buffalo girl wants to know if
fleas are white-because her uncle told
her that MARY had little lamb, with
fleas as white as snowY
A Japanese stepmother at Alaska
boiled down her husband two children
in hot bath. Her punishment was to
be slowly boiled in a csuldron of oil, to
which each stepmother in Alaska contri-
buted portion.
The Negro National Labor Conven-
ton in Washington, on the 9th of Decem-
ber, is to consider the effect of Chinese
labor upon the country, and whether it
would not be better to prohibit the i'm
portation of Asiatics.
A new style of conducting funerals is
coming into vogue in Hartford, Con-
necticut. Beareri, selected from among
the friends of the deceased, walk behind
the remains, which are carried by per-
sons employed by the undertaken in
charge, the bearers having nothing to do
with handling the coffin.
The most genteel method Of picking
pockets is as follows: A fashionably
dressed lady and gentleman approach
their victim arm in arm. In passing the
lady is pushed against you. A polite
apology is rendered and accepted with
gracious smile. In the course of the
maneuver your wallet has changed hands.
The mosquitoes Of Alaska are most
agreeable insects They distill delicate
aroma when they bite which has the an
r rsthetic effect Of chloroform, and their
bite is not venomous. The tired traveller
courts their music as presage of good
night rest. Mr.. Seward was so pleased
with this product Of Alaska that he took
pains to have some specimens sent to the
Patent Office at Washington.
Paper petticoats having come into
fashion, the following advertisement
thereof appears in England: MADAME
Percsle begs leave to call the attention
of ladies about to visit the seaside to her
new and richly embroidered paper petit.
coats at one shilling each. Each petit
coat contains an installment Of a new
novel of great domestic interest, by An
thony Trollope, entitled Tucks or
Frills.' The story will be completed in
fifty weekly petticoats."
A short time ago a band of gypsy
musicians we're playing before the Neid-
linger Bohnhof in Vienna, directed by
Jose Jerksi, the kapellmeister. Just as
he was swinging high the bow of his |
violin for the finale, he plunged to the |
ground q corpse. The lamentations of |
the gypses was indescribabls. They |
howled like savsges, broke their instru-
ments, and accompanied their old chief
to the death-chamber.
Fraud 10 India has now gone as far as
the manufacture Of wild beasts for the |
purpose of cheating the government.
Premiums are paid by the Indian gov
erament for Staying wild beasts; so tigers,
bears and leopards are made to 60 as far
Is they can. First, the skin is sent in
With skull of wood fitted into the head;
the real skull Is brought for
ward and sometimes, as third resource,
he real tiger or bear is dispensed with,
aud the skull Of hog or jackal is ten
iered, provided with false teeth and COW
red with pig skin, moulded on a real
iger's head. Some of the monsters we're
,easts of straw. The skulls are now or
Tered to be smashed and the skins to be
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