Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-01
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A Cincinnati child tied Grape on the
door knob, TO see IL the carriages would
come to take them out riding, as they
did the family across the street.
The Oldest Methodist church in Amer
lea is the Old John Street, in New York,
which has just celebrated its lO4th ami
yersary.
Diamonds in the London market have
fallen in value thirty per cent, owing to
the great quantity offered by refugees
from France. nf luii .tlAI
The suggestion has been made, in
view Of the high price Of butter, that
some one shall devise good vegetable
oil which may take the place, upon the
table, of the product Of the churn.
"Is my wife out of spirits2' said
Jones, with sigh, as her voice of tenn
pest gave warning. Quite out, sir, in
deed, was the servants reply, " for she
finished the bottle this morning"
A census-taker in rural district in
Missouri reports two pair of twins born
in the last three years to happy couple
named Woodbine, Thus is at last found
Mr.. Fisk's favorite place where the
Woodbine twin-eth. - ''-
The daughter of an ex-collector Of
New York received $4,000 worth Of
gifts at her wedding, last week, among
them being country seat on the Hud-
son. thoroughly furnished, a check for
$4,000, and coffee pot of solid gold,
costing $1,000. t....
tits said that every New York hotel
has its free list, just like place of pub
lie amusement One hotel is said to
have free guests who cost the proprietors
about $25, 900 per annum, and, although
they maintain this burden voluntarily,
they cannot give good reason for it.
Military men have discovered a new
remedy for intoxication which, we be-
lieve, !" is not down on the books 1t is
nothing more than raw potatoes, which
are cut up in slices and eaten without
salt. An ordinary murphy" it is said,
will cure the most obstinate case in half
an hour.
The whole number of copper and
nickel cents now accumulated by the
several postofiices in the country, is esti-
mated at 40,00O,000. 1t seems that when
those base coin get into the postoffice
they stick, and cant be gotten rid Of.
The postmaster of Louisville, KY, has
100000 of them.
The wife of manufacturer in an in
land town, whose daughter was about TO
be married, sent notes to her friends re-
questing that, if they intended to make
presents of silverware, they would send
the money instead as she was about to
visit New York, and would prefer to buy
the articles herself, " for twill be so nice
to have the things match, you know"
L'Echo de la Frontere, of Lille, states
that the Prussians arrested a Mayor of
village near Epinal, because he refused
to yield to their demands. They tied
him hand and foot, and laid him in
meadow, where he remained in this state
all night in the rain The Prussians told
him that they would shoot him the next
morning, and they carried out their
threat at daybreak.
A petition has been presented TO
Queen Victoria signed by more than
250O women and girls employed in the
art of bookbinding, setting forth the
great loss and privation they suffer by
the stoppage Of the trade in prayer
books and church services in conse-
quence of the withdrawal of the Table of
Lessons bill last session. They pray
Her Majesty to cause it to be reintro-
duced into Parliament at the earliest
possible period. .r.
Just as traveller was writing his
name on the register of .Leavenworth
hotel, a bedbug sailed and took its way
across the page. The man paused and
remarked; I've been Bled by st. Joe
fleas, bitten by Kansas City spiders, and
interviewed by Fort Scott gray-backs,
but I'll be id if / was ever in a place
before where the bedbugs looked over
the hotel register to find out where your
room was j i'-
At the recent type-setting match at
Toledo, Ohio, between Wall, of Toledo,
and Barber, Of Cincinnati, the trial
began at 2 pm. with nonpareil type.
Wall set 1898 ems in two hours and forty
minutes, while Barber set 1864 ems. Re
suming work again at eight o'clock with
brewer type, during one hour Wall set
1860 ems and Barber 1863 ems Wall
was declared the winner by 4l6 ems,
Mr.. Barber is, we believe, the expert
who challenged any compositor in the
United States to set type with him for
from 500 to $1,000 side.
A German paper says at the sortie
upon Bagneux, before Paris, on October
II, Prussian trumpeter found French
signal book and tried. to sound the
French signal Of retreat. He succeeded,
and in the most terrible drift of bullets
he took up position within the French
first line, hiding himself in a garden
house, where he was at any moment ex-
posed to be discovered and killed by the
enemy. There he sounded his bugle with
such force and persistence that a num-
Der Of French buglemen soon answered
with the same signal, and the whole
French detachment, that until then had
courageously advanced, began to retreat
The Prussians Immediately closed upon
the retreating force, which, on this retro
gade movement, lost upward Of three
hundred men killed wounded and prison
ers. The valiant trumpeter's name is
Fred /. Freund, from Damn, in Pome-
rania.