Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-11-10

the first merchants in Philadelphia.
This incident is one of the most singular
in the history Of Mr.. Girard, and no less
in the annals of dreams.
Spurgeon has grown puffy and inelas-
tic.
The ideas of one age are institutions of
the next
What is home without a sewing ma
chine2 Shiftless.
Coal mines are now being worked in
seven counties in Kansas.
The Earl of Winchelsea was recently
adjudged bankrupt, in London, on a
tailor's claim of $500.
Over five hundred Assistant Assessors
of Revenue have been already dispensed
with, mainly in the South and West.
Mr.. jenkins, a member of the English
Varuna, off the coast of Florida,
Figaro says he has reflected good
deal on the lapse of ages, and prefers, on
the whole, the age of seventeen.
An American traveller says that when
Rev, Mr.. Spurgeon, of London, gets ex-
cited he "howls like wilderness.
Josh Billings says; "When a feller
gifts agoin down Hill, it duz seem as tho
everything had been creased for the
kashun."
Imposters who pretend to have lost
limbs in the recent battles on the Con-
tinent have already made their appear
ance in England.
When a man and woman are made one,
the question is, which one2 Sometimes
there is a long struggle between them
before the matter is settled
A young man was found drowned at
New Orleans. The papers do not give
his name for fear of shocking the sensi-
bilities of his parents, who are absent
from the city"
ave will put both your pictures in the
same hall, but one will have to be near
the door, said the hanging committee of
the Exposition to Courbet. "As you
please, replied he; "but if you do, the
entrance will be crowded" ;"
A Scottish nobleman one day visited
a lawyer at his office, in which at the
time there was blazing fire, which led
is @ as h hot assam as an so t sHor should SCs bee
my lord" replied the lawyer, "as it is
here | make my bread"
Two young hopefuls hurled stones at
the costly stained-glass windows of the
Presbyterian church in South Bend, In
diana, damaging them $3.50. A few days
ago the Episcopal church was served
likewise. One youngster now confesses
that he has broken 1000 panes of glass
during the season.
Two young clerks in New Haven,
blessed, unlike most clerks, with but ht-
tie to do, got into discussion the other
day as to their relative physical ability
to labor, and ended it by trial at street |
cleaning with hoes. They attracted such |
a crowd that the police interfered and |
ended their harmless sport.
A notification has been issued by the |
authorities of Jeddo to the
effect that all children between the ages
of eight and fifteen must attend the gov
ernment schools that have now been |
for their benefit. There are
six such schools in different parts of the
city, and, if these are found inadequate
to the requirements, others win be
opened.
A gentleman Of San Francisco. who
has been and is identified with the for
warding Of Chinese laborers to the
States, says that the total
number Of Cinnamon sent across the
continent is now about 1000. They are
engaged in railroad work and on rice
and cotton plantations, the wages being
BIG to $50 per month, gold, board
ing themselves, or SIG to SIS, receiving
rations.
The Rochester Chronicle says. at is
told us, on good authority, that Cristo-
pher Bush, who lives a mile and half
rom Parma Centre, has not tasted food
in thirty-seven daysi Mr.. Bush is eighty
four years Of age, and is subject to fits
lf arrangement Thirty-seven days
,ro he refused to eat, and all efforts 10
persuade him to take any kind of food
IRE unavailing For the first few days
.fter he commenced his remarkable fast
he drank water occasionally, but for the
past fourteen days or more he has re-
used to drink.
The best that can be done for illegiti-
nate and abandoned infants, the Medical
Gazette thinks. will ultimately be found
N the adoption Of the cottage system"
n the abandonment of large asylums
md hospitals, and the erection, in their
ltead, Of numerous small and inexpen-
i've structures-little sanitary villages.
70 10 speak-in the pure air beyond the
.itv limits. The Cottage hospital at
England, has been found to
york admirably in the case Of sick
,dults, and similar plan for the rearing
II infants, and the Nursery and Childs
hospital, would incidentally reduce the
Iealh rate among the little ones taken
n charge. !.