Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-26

log eight or nine volumes.
Gail Hamilton is writing the Blot
ting Papers " ia Harper's Basar.
Milwaukee drank last year &c. .204 COL
mugs of lager beer.
The new French Ministers are mostly
very wealthy. and all except one are bald.
Bismarck has recently lost great deal
of money by unlucky corn speculations.
An Iowa man recently swallowed q
needle, and it was pulled out of the back
of his neck four days after.
A Boston paper thinks that naming q
row of lots in suburban cemetery after
a physician was in questionable taste.
II was JeBnie June's husband, Mr..
Croly, OF the World, whom the amorous
parson Cooke assaulted.
Miss Johnson was great sdmirer OF
Cookies preaching. In fact, she was
completely carried away with him.
There's live Count now serving out
term in the Columbus penitentiary for
burglary. Don't all rush ct once, ladies.
Surgeon Nelaton says that fifteen min
utes' ride on horseback would kill Nspo-
leon and Rochefort offers to furnish the
saddle-horse free of expense.
A clerk in the Brooklyn postoffce got
dead sure thing" on a contract by
stealing all the other bids as they came
to the office.
1t takes q British soldier just eight
months to get furlough if everything
works favorably.
1t is said that Lydia Thompson pays
the members of her troupe more than
any manager in the country.
Ten thousand Philadelphians have pc
titioned the Legislature tor law limit
ing the number of passengers in a street
car to thirty.
The English papers have accounts of
a recent wedding with seventeen brides
maids, four clergymen, and three bands
of music.
Two banking houses in an Iowa town
are said ITO put on city airs" because
they announce their business hours from
nine am. to four pm.
A small boy in Clinton, Ohio, ate a
piece of candy that he found on the street
and died the next day of poison by
strychnine. l
The Rev. VIM. G. Browning succeeds
the recreant Cooke ss pastor of the Sew
enth street New York; Methodist Epis-
copsl church.
A Baltimore tailor worked all day
Sunday to get a swelrs suit done, but
failed, and the swell had him arrested
for breaking the Sabbath.
The fashionable wife Of our day is a
good deal like q mosquito in your room
after bed time. You never can exactly
tell where it is by its song, and you are
ever in agony of suspense as to when its
bill is going to be presented.
General Smith, while delivering one of
the long, prosy speeches for which he
was noted, said to Henry Clay: "You
speak, sir, for the present generation,
but speak for posterity." "Yes," said
the great Ksntuckiau, "and it seems you
are resolved to speak till your audience
arrives"
An important physiological discovery
has just been made by q young mau-
namely, that the pulse of young ladies
generally beats stronger in the palm of
the hand than at the wrist. As to more
females, even little boys know
that the palm of the maternal hand beats
awful strong.
Ulrich de Fouville, one of the actors
in the Paris tragedy, wes in this country
and served in the Union army during
the war. He was an aid-de camp to
General Custar in the Shenandoah Val
ley campaign, aud was afterwsrd trans
ferred to the typographical corps, serving
under r'General Warren to the close Of the
war.
We know not what q day will bring
forth. We can become familiar with a
landscape; we know where to find the |
and the shady ledge, where the
violets grew in spring and the sassafrss
gives forth its odor; but we never can |
become familiar with our life-laudscspe
We never can tell where we shall come |
upon the shady dell, or where the foun
iains will gush and the birds win sing.
The French Ministers Of State dwell 10 |
handsome official residences, and changes |
IN the Cabinet indict upon them the in
sf moving at very disagree
sble seasons Of toe yeas, besides the
rouble and loss in moving their personal
sfecis. The retiring Minister occasion
lily has no private residence in Paris,
md the new officer arrives before the old
,ne has gone, and then the previous in
,umbent is obliged to hide himself away
n the garrets while the newcomer takes
possession Of the grand apartments. 1t
: asserted that the Duke de Morny re-
used TO exchange the position Of Presi-
lent Of the Corps Legislatif for that of
Minister OF fke Interior because be had
uss arranged handsome collection Of
Chinese curiosities in bis official resi-
lence, and feared that tie valuable vases
nirht be lost aud broke in the removal.