Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-24
miscellaneous Items.

lislts tnS Coupuscri 10 "fiipS hio
tory of music. aod ai1a
The centenary Of the birth Of beethoven
occurs in December next year.
Wagner, in his judaism in Music"
calls Ofenbach "a calamity"
Gen. Lew. Wallace, of Indiana, is
making an extended tour in Texas.
John Brougham is meeting with great
success in San Francisco. ...
Napoleon pays Lincoln the compli-
msnt OF imitation. He is reminded of
q little story" Bans taai
james Fisk, jr., has given Miss Ida
Lewis perpetual pass over his Sound
steamboat line.
The Princess of Wales is again in that
interesting condition so common with
her royal mother-in-lav.
Mr.. William Chase, of Concord, Vt,
has shot eighty-eight woodchucks this
season, tbiriy-eight of them In one day.
Rev. 7. L. Campbell, of the Baptist
church in Middleton, Ohio, has just
preached his fifteenth anniversary SER
mon.
The MINNESOTA State Horticultural So
ciety has received the knee-bone of a
huge mastadon, found in the Niobrara
river, in Dakota.
Hop raising along the valley of the
Androscoggin 10 more extensive this sum-
mer than ever, the farmers still holding
on in hopes Of higher prices in the future.
The New York papers say that lad
sixteen years old was arrested for refus-
ing to support his wife, girl Of fourteen.
They were married year ago.
4 penny bearing date Of 1870, and the
profile and the inscription of George the
Second, was recently found in the gar
den of Mr.. VIM. W. Smell, of Vassalboro,
Maine.
A citizen Of Belfast, Maine, who had
not seen his son for eight years, and sup
posed him dead, recognized him as one
Of the acrobats in a circus which ex-
hibited in that city last week.
There are s., ls5, 658 80 deposited in
the Five Cent Savings Bank of Boston.
The deposits in four days recently
amounted to Sl42,46l, and the total
amount deposited within the year was
s3,3245 SIS.
The children in Windham county, Con-
nectieut, are put to work when quite
young. and it appears by the report Of
the Committee on Education that the
average school attendance in that county
is less than Eve per cent
An exhibition Of postage stamps is now
being held at the Hotel des Mennaies, in
Paris. England makes the best show, as
she has thirty-four colonies. each with q
different design. The United States
comes next, the artistic designs on her
stampa having beautiful appearance.
Mr.. A. d. Hagar, State Geologist, will
soon place several hundred young sal
mon in the tributaries of the Winooski
river, near Montpelier, as the beginning
Of an attempt to restock the river with
Ssh, which were once plenty and excellent
in it's waters.
A Paris letter says fast actress visited
the Chsrentoa mad house few day ago.
She asked one Of the patients: what
brought you here2" He replied: An
internal woman like you " She ex-
claimed: why, really, that man is not
so mad as people pretend he is."
Mrs Kolb, who recently died In Madi-
son, Morgan county, Georgia, left an es-
tate valued at $780, 900, almost ell Of
which is bequeathed 20 the Ordinary Of
the county. in trust, for the purpose Of
educating the poor orphan children Of
the county.
Mrs Dietz, of WabAsha, Minnesota,
was bitten by rattlesnake last week
while picking strawberries, receiving the
wound in the calf Of her right leg. She
had presence Of mind sufficient to tie her
garter tightly above the spot and set a
little child TO sucking the poison out, and
escaped with little stiffness ia the limb.
A wording was once visited, in hi.
illness, by g vell-mesaing. bot dolorouI
clergyman, Who disfgured his eounte-
nance end wore a face Of perpetual
mourning. As his sad visage appeared
in the doorway, the sick man started M
and exclaimed; why what's the matieri
You look as if your religion didn't sgrss
with you !"
General Sylvsnas TLsyer, Of the clasi
Of 1907, founder Of the Thayer school al
Dartmouth college, has just given the
=cademical department Of the college tue
sum Of $1,000 for the foundation Of two
prizes, TO be conferred Annually on mem.
bers OF the Sophomore class. The fret
prize is $40 aud the second so. both "a
be gwen for excellence 10 analytical
geometry and calculus.