Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-28
Miscellaneous Items.

A recent Invention that has been pat
ented is head rest, attachable to pews,
and called the snorer's companion.
The ten dollar notes have view of the
Capitol building in the center, and on
one side portrait of Jefferson.
Archbishop Spalding is of the opinion
that the Ecumenicsl Council will con-
sumo six or eight months in its delbera-
tions.
The negro walters at the Tontine, New
Haven, "struck" Thursday because q
white man had been appointed head
waiter.
Monogram wells are now the latest
wrinkle among New York fashionable
young ladies. Those of fawn color and
gray are most in vogue-the monogram
being embroidered in colors in the CEN
ter
A Washington correspondent reports
that an agent of the Rothschilds is ex
pected there soon to offer the Govern
ment loan to any amount at four per
cent.
Mrs. Stowe is going to law. They say
son and daughter of the Honorable
Mrs. Leigh are about to sue her for SLAM
deripg their mother. Mrs. Stowe must
change the venue from civilization. An
uuprejudiced Jury cant be had here.
The Rev. Mr. Bartholomew, of Auburn,
New York, has been offered a salary OF
seven thousand dollars year by church
in Boston. Of course Mr.. Bartholomew
no longer thinks sweet Auburn the love-
liest village of the plain when Boston
comes in with ca amount of loveliness
that large.
The New York Tribune says of Mr..
Johnsons defeat: IAN ex-President de.
| feated for Senator, and defeated by the
kind Of people that seem to be uppermost
in Tennessee, is sight for gods and men.
To be beaten by Cooper ia like being re-
jected by a lady who prefers your vaetl."
/. Somebody is Of the opinion that both
Bonner and Dexter are humbugs. An
exchange says: The friends of Lady
| Thorn doubt the various runors of great
trotting feats done by Dexter in private,
say that the Lady ia ready to meet Dex'
ter 10 public either for money or charity,
and that until the challenge is accepted
she must be considered the fastest horse. p"
M. s. Belden, the csrpet-bag Attorney
General of Louisiana, is likely to grow
rich by his office. If he fails, it will be
through no fault of his. He has a salary
of $500 year and is allowed COM
missioa Of three per cent. on all the
money be collects. He recently defended
a case involving $4,000 600. and, as he
wen il, he claims the three per cent on
tia amount-$75, 600. The case was
one in WHICH a certain tax was resisted
on the grouBd.of It's uuconstitutiousliiy.
J II Mr. Belden gets few such fees, be
win probably have an opponent when he
runs for the Office again.
The New York Times pays this tribute
to q voman who doesn't attend womans
rights conventions and get has done
something worth living for. Mary
Somerville is a name which the Sorosis
nav we'll be proud of-ss proud as the
tssrmsns are Of Baron Humboldt. This
phenomeaSn pf her sex, in her eightieth
year. lately paohsned an abetruse and
admirable work on Molecular and Micro
scopic Science, reviewing and criieising
the most recent researches and discov-
cries Of the philosophers 10 the world Of
nature. her masculine brain has been
wonderfully Disciplined by exercise, and
i still iu good working ordes, lie that OF
Humboldt at her age, and her mind re:
sambles bis in the great purpose OF
observing and proving instead oftheoriz-
ing and making systems. When she
dies she will leave 8 void which no one
else Of Der sex can readily supply"