Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A bronze statue is to be erected to
General Rawlins in Washington,
There are now seven sovereign princes
of Germany travelling in Italy.
An American lady is reported as hav-
ing just bought bonnet in Paris for
$3.50.
Mrs. Chang, the wife of the Chinese
giant, presented her husband with son
at San Francisco on the Fourth.
A man in Augusta, Maine, having a
quarrel with neighbor, displayed his
Intellectual and moral peculiarities by
cutting the throat ofhis neighbors horse.
A man passed through Council Bluffs,
Iowa, day or two ago, on his return TO
Missouri, after having tried to live in
Minnesota. Don't like it up thar, y
said he. Have nine months Of winter,
and the rest Of the time its id late in
the fall "
my boy" said a clergyman, "don't
you know it is wicked TO catch fish on a
SundayY But haint sinned much
yet, said the boy, without taking his eye
from the float; hahn had bite.
At Cincinnati one of the singers of the
recent Sengerfest, being shown about a
deaf and dumb asylum by his entertain
ers, sat down and fell asleep. Being
walked by an attendant, he ordered four
beers and was elected.
The rage for Staying dogs has broken
out in Washington, and the Mayor has
issued a proclamation breathing out
threatenings and slaughter against all
unmuzzled CANNES, without distinction
of sex, color or previous condition.
Employer to new clerk -" Well,
Sniffles, have you posted the ledger?"
New clerk-"Y eth, thir, I've pothted the
ledger; but lor thir, it wath too big for
the letter-box, and ! had to take it in
thide the poth Office,
A journalist who has been spending a
fortnight in the White Mountains, says
he has enjoyed himself very much, hav-
ing fallen into six rivers, sprained his
ankle, skinned his face and neck, and
broken three ribs the first nine days.
A farmer in Michigan, in his eager
ness to slay the bugs, forgot the rest of
the animal creation. He Amounted his
potato vines with rat poison, and the
next morning found all his cows dead.
The luckless boyines had been in search
Of forbidden fruit in the night.
A teacher, wishing to explain to q lit
tie girl the manner in which the lobster
casts its shell when it had outgrown it,
said What do you do when you have
outgrovn ypnr clothes2 You throw them
aside. don't your" ooh, nc" replied
the little one, we let out the tuoks"
An American, making the tour of Ire
land, stepped into a school of forty
children, in the Black Valley, and, in
the midst Of his talk with the children,
asked them what they expected to do
when they became men and women, and
with one voice they responded, go to
America"
A countryman having purchased a
gallon Of mountain dew, for want of a
more business like label wrote his name
on a common playing card. which hap
pened to be the seven of clubs. and tied
it to the handle Of the hottie. A wag.
coming along and observing the maneu-
yer, remarked: That's an awful care
less way to leave that liquor" Why
so2 said Tom. Because some one
might come along with the eight of clubs
and take it. Tom seized the handle
and bolted.
The great rose show Of the season
took place recently in London. The ex-
hibiti0n was a complete success, some
eighteen thousand visitors being present /
Several hundreds Of varieties Of roses
we're shown, varying in color from pink