Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-09


Useful marriage-Being welded tc
ones business.
Old maids are described as "emberG
from which sparks have fed"
There are 10000 clergymen in the
United States.
The latest notion of Paris paper is
to offer wedding rings to all new subscri-
bers.
Every man, woman and child in Amer.
lea uses on an average 500 matches q
year.
Mrs. Edmonia Highgate (colored) fig.
ures in the Boston Woman's Rights Con.
vention.
Relspsing fever has appeared at Irving
ton, Red Hook, and other places on the
Hudson.
An English journalist paid forty dol
lars for copy of the Marsellaise the
day of its seizure.
There is not member of the Wiscon-
ain Legislature who can claim that State
as hin birthplace.
Women can now acquire q medical
degree in France, Russia, Switzerland,
Sweden and Scotland.
La Marianne, the secret Radical socie-
ty, is said to number 100000 members in
Paris and $4,000 in Lyons.
A LONDON omnibus company carried
twenty million of passengers during the
first six months of 1869.
A law allowing theatrical and other
amusemens on Sunday has passed the
Legislature of California.
The wife's inability to make good
bread is ground Of divorce among the
Arabs.
In Wsldeck, Germany, man who
takes license to get drunk, can't obtain
a license to get married.
A lady in Wilmington, North Carolina,
complained to her physician the other
day, that she was troubled with Irritation
of the heart.
The Louisville Journal calls it "ro.
mantle business change" when fellow
failed and ran away with his chief clerks
wife.
An accident occurred on the Vicksburg
and Meridian railroad on Monday morn
ing, by which an engineer named Hor-
ton and fireman we're badly injured.
A Miss Lucy Lee advertises in a Mis-
sissippi paper that she is of good birth
and education, and is willing to marry an
eaitor-believing herself able to support
one.
Statistics show that in Lsudon alone
100, 900 railway servants, 20, 95l postoffice
officials, 24000 cabmen and omnibus
men, 100000 publicans and beer-shop
keepers, and many other classes are re-
quired to work on Sundays.
In Kansas City ESQ the Times says) |
there is calf with seven legs and eight |
hoofs. Four of the seven legs are on the
ground, and three off; that is to say they
are short legs. The calf is only three
months old.
A prominent citizen of Adrian, Michi-
gan, lost bis pocket-book, containing
$500 When the finder, young mar,
returned it to him, the overjoyed citizen
offered the young man cigar for his
trouble.
A difident lover went to the town clerk
to request him To publish the hanns of
aud, finding him at work
alone in the middle of ten-acre field
asked him to step aside q moment, as he
had something particular for his private
ear.
A college professor encouraged his
geology class TO collect specimens, and
one day they deposited piece Of brick
stresked and stained, with their collec-
ten, thinking to impose upon the doctor.
Taking up the specimens, the professor
remarked: "This is q piece Of baryts
from the Cheshire mines," holding up
another, This is piece of feldspsr from
he Portland qusrries, and this" coming
10 the brick, is pioce of impudence
rom some member of this class"
A husband at Syracuse the other day
vas seIzed with q desire TO surprise bis
wife BY an embrace from behind. He &C
,omphshed bis brilliant purpose, throw
ug bis wife into violent and dangerous
its BY the snddenness Of the seiznre- II
8 believed, however, that husbands can
continue 10 embrace their partners with
,ut fatal effects BY approaching from the
ront and proceeding With caution and