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

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The Viceroy of Egypt intends having
a foreign legion, consisting chiefly of
Frenchmen, to be in garrison at Suez and
Ismail, the special duty of which will be
| to guard the canal and Isthmus.
Illinois this year elects no members Of
the Legislature, but delegates to the Con-
stitutional Convention instead. The
women suffrage people are working hard
/ to get their principles into the conven-
tion, and the temperance party will Wig
orously contest the selection of delegates
on prohibitory grounds.
| A Western paper is responsible for the
following: 1t is said that a cup of coffee
is sure barometer, if you allow the sugar
to drop to the bottom of a cup and watch
the bubbles arise without disturbing the
coffee. II the bubbles collect in the mid
die, The weather will be fine; if they ad-
here to the cup, forming ring, it will be
rainy; and if the bubbles separate with
out assuming any fixed position, chang
able weather may be expected.
| A French writer, just returned from
Italy, gives the following dismal picture
of the actual condition of Garibaldi ::
" The General is reduced to skeleton !;
his features are wizened and contracted
/ / found him lying on divan, and suffer-
ing horribly from chronic rheumatism.
The ex-Dictator, bent over like the lean
ing tower of Pisa, is but shadow of his
former self. 1t is difficult to recognize
the lion Of the republic in this forlorn and
hahhiin0 old man ~
Within the space OF one block at De-
troit, Que day last week, there were at one
time one-legged soldier grinding an Or
gan; one-legged soldier holding out a
cigar box for pennies; q one-armed boy
grinding another hand organ; a de-
formed boy asking for charity; q half
breed Indian exhibiting a decsyed leg,
and soliciting aims; a young lad asking
for FIVE cents to buy loaf OF bread for a
rheumatic mother man with both feet
off, looking hurt if the eoppers did not
fall into his hat; and lad leading an old
man from store to store, TO collect money
TO support him in bis blindness.
A French paper tells this story: x, a
man on whom fortune had not smiled,
married rich heiress, Miss D., against
the will of her brother, gentleman in
high position. Since his sisters mar
riage, d. will not recognize either the
wife or the husband. One day be met X
who came up and offered his hand.
Never" replied the implacsble broth
er-in.law. How You refuse your
hand to me ?" said the late bridegroom.
I understand why you should not like
to speak to your sister, who has made |
bad match, but what reasons have you |
for bearing such grudge against me,
since have made an excellent one 2"
The ice factory at New Orleans con-
sists of six rstorts of chemical freezing |
mixture. From these six retorts six pipes |
descend to six huge chests, which chests
in turn radiste severally off into four
compartments. In each compartment
are long, thin tin cases, seven on one
side and eight on the other This making |
a total of ffty.six cases in box, and |
there being four boxes to q chest, and six |
chests to factory, il follows that, at full |
blast, this Southern ice factory can turn
out thirteen hundred and forty-four cakes
of ice eighteen inches long, twelve broad
and two thick, at the completion Of each |
process.
The New York Tribune, which has a
knowledge of such matters, deprecates
professional office.seeking, and says:
There is one class of men who fight,
trick, puff, blow, sound their own horns
sonorously and sweetly, intrigue, button
hole, vsylay, bribe, bully and bluster,
lie, fawn, fatter and fume, and for the
sake of getting place for which they may
not be at all qualified, make themselves
unmitigated nuissnces. There is another
class of men who stay quietly at home,
shun all contact with their fellow,citisens,
denounce ell politics ss humbugs, and
all politicians as corrupt; who are ele-
CANT, accomplished, sensitive, honorable,
but who hardly ever take the trouble TO
vote, aud are mainly intent upon preserv-
ing their nice nobility. Having q dis
taste for public affairs, they leave them
to those who are willing, perfectly willing,
to manage them for consideration. We
hardly know which Of these two classes is
the most dangerous to the public veal II
a msjority cannot find the happy medi-
um, good government, at least, is impos-
sible"
A Paris correspondent writes: z" Let
me tell you of catastrophe which hap
peued recently in the Bois. One Of our
best internstionalH gentlemen riders
vas taking his pleasure there-such
pleasure, that is to say, as may be had
10 Victoria at 2f f5c. the hour. Calmly
on good things 10 general, and
bis next good thing ia particular, be
vent nooving up and down the shore Of
the great lake. Suddenly his eeuyey-
auee halted and reused him from bis rev.
erie Looking up, be saw bis steed-a
proud animsl-consUuing something.
What do you think il was2 Why, only
The straw-eolored chignon of the lady in
the Victoria in front Of him. Picture
the face Of the victim aud the look of de-
testa.i0A which she bestowed. After ell,
be vss not to blsnei nor indeed, was
lhe horse. II ladies will have straw
colored tresses, they really must be pre-
pared 10 be eataa Mp alive BY ignorant
horses vhich have. perhaps, been kept q
little short, and see the tempting bait
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