Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-12-02
Queen Victoria is very fond of music,
and employs some 6rst.rate instrumental

performers,
L man in Hamilton "ssssed" Valan-
dighsm and shook his fist under the
martyrs impassive nose.
A Newark editor laboriously calculates
chat New York, sixty years hence, will
have ten million Inhabitants.
Josephine Brown, the widow or mis-
tress of the late Joseph Brown, the
Canaan child murderer, has married
James Fl. Noble, Of Hartford.
Thomas Marston Beare, the chief busl-
ness man of the Astors for the last twenty
five years, died in New York last week
'of consumption. He leaves handsome
fortune. .i.4 s.s.e,- asr
= Of Ben Wade a Massachusetts paper
says: THE bluff Ohioan is handsome
man, with q pure and Christian speech,
but he hasn't much logic in his brain,
and very little clear perception of busi-
ness matters"
The bachelors of Sioux City, Iowa,
had something they called thanks
giving dinner. They struggled with frag.
ments of gutts perchs gobbler, laughed
in hollow tones, and returned to their
lonely dens with an Indigestion.
Judge Baldwin, of Nevada, who was
killed in the railroad collision on the
Western Pacific Railroad, neglected to
wind his watch, aud so missed the train
be intended to take from San Francisco.
His life was insured for $4,000. a. 2
I, Sala says hehates "the perfect man."
He remarks: II wear clothes, and
sometimes even run in debt with tailor.
Aud when ! 60 out to dinner with Perfect
Men, / refrain, so far as am able, from
bowling, or leaping, or gnashing my
teeth" "'iiH fY'a
Tilton is lecturing about "The Amcri-
can Woman" Rsferring to the argu-
rent that the Bible was against her en-
he said that ''it (the BIZ
ble) was interpreted on both sides of
every gu estion, and thus that it proved
too much or too little
One of the tables in the fair held in
Baltim ore last week, in aid OF the lnebrl-
ate Asylum, had q large landscape
painting, donated by Colonel John, R.
Johnson, the quondam Cincinnati artist;
Iributed by ladies in Cincinnati.
The latest fashionable color in Paris is
called Eau de MI (water of the NIle).
1t is a mixture of gray and green, which
gives satin the eppearsnce OF Rowing
water. Whether it has any resemblance
to that of the Nile is rather doubtful bu t
The Nile, Egypt and the Suez canal a,e
n axu q n Tho M .Nafn.
. Among the wounded BY the terrible
railroad collision in California was Seth
Bromley. brother of the editor of the
HartfordfPosf. He was caught in a
light place. his foot smashed so that il
had to be cut OF, and, in order to extri-
cate himself from the ruins, he was
obliged to cut his clothes of his body |
with his pocket knife.
Tho w...;a -a.do,. oe IL.
Roston Gon,,,n,,.,sop5 pr;,as aan
"a; aar of ,Sa re@nIss s"n,v nS, :, ~
49, IA f-;a5J or a;aa ras,a.dar 49, m .sas |
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go - s. rs.hans [ M sbsn anv o,ha.h;a os;o;.I o
o demoralize the service. he said that |
ne had uncommon luck In gambling
having won in single season over fortv
boussnd dollars"
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=. Anthony, and then returned to Red
RIVER, He is said to have decided liter
Try talent H
Longfellow, while in Florence, recently
purchased for presentation to the library
If Bowdoin College, his alma mater, the
work of Petrsrch, Dante, Ariosto and
rssso, of the famous Pisa edition, and
lad them elegantly bound at Rome, in
'ellbm backs, gilt. He also obtained
Iolune Of Greek poetry, Anacreon and
,appho folio, bound in the same style, as
Testimonial TO bis instructor, the vener-
bile Professor Alpheus S. Packard.
David Nevsom. of Salem. Orepon. is