Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-21

written.
Ex-senator Wigfall is residing at
Idaho, Colorado Territory.
Chicago Justice has fined Napoleon
Bonaparte SIS for beating his wife.
The only persons who are always grave
are those who are always dull.
Prince Arthur declined dead.head rail-
road tickets on his recent tour.
A Baltimore sportsman is in Jail for
firing at duck and killing girl.
1t is rumored that Head Center Ste
phens is coming to this country again.
A Paris doctor removes hosrseness by
shocking the patient with electricity.
Mark Twain's father-in.lsw presented
him with house and lot in Buffalo.
Theirs, though over seventy years of
age, still ranks as the first orator OF
France.
The gold discovery in Clark county,
Illinois, has broken up a prosperous re-
vival there.
Ristori ia playing an engagement at q
respectable second-rate theater in Flor
ence.
Wyoming offers to send Anna Dickin-
son to Congress, if she will come out
there to live.
Some men wet nurse their troubles with
whisky, and the troubles thrive wonder
fully.
January averaged eight degrees warmer
than any previous January for forty'slx
years.
The employees of the Rothschilds, FIVE
hundred in number, are now all fur
nished with revolvers.
There are announced to be two hun
dred books in existence upon the philos-
ophy of August Comte.
The medical students of Michigan
University are 30 rapacious for Sub
jects that Ann Arbor people don't dare
to die.
Fourteen of the most beautiful shop
women at the Palace of the Universal
Exposition, have been married, in the
course of the last few years, to wealthy
Frenchmen.
The Portsmouth New Hampshire)
Times has seen man wearing the same
stockings he was married in, fifty-four
years ago. His wife has strong grounds
fos divorce.
Alexander Dumas has written start
ling drama" for the Lydia Thompson
Troupe, which the original " blondes
will produce at Nibo's Garden early du'
ring the ensuing month.
The Prince Imperial is to make long
trip through Germany and Prussia, under
the guidance of his military instructor,
early this year. Napoleon will accom-
pany him short distance.
A lady of Dion, France, having been
ordered by the City Council to paint her
house, gave it coat of pink. This she
was ordered to change, and then painted
it red. The Council fined her for in
sulting the municipality" and demanded
q stone color.
A Lynchburg paper is warm in its
praises of new invention which, it con.
tends, will "save one thousand per cent"
of the labor in the manufacture of to-
bacco. That's a saving worth talking
about, if per cent has its old meaning.
On the first appearance of Paradise
Lost" now considered a gem Of the
purest water, Waller wrote concerning |
il: "The old blind schoolmsster, John |
Milton, hath published tedious poem on
the fall of man; if its length be not con-
sidered q merit, it has no Other"
A minister in New England, receiving
q salary of $400 year, wears an over
coat made from cloak he wore in 1884. |
His wife has one cloak only, and it is |
years old. As was the case
with the Israelites in the wilderness, 80 |
it is with them, their garments wax not
old.
RothschiId says: at requires q great
Heal of boldness, and great deal of
caution to make q great fortune; and
when you have got it, it requires ten
times as much wit to keep it. That is
he rub, TO keep it. Not more than
three out Of a hundred do it. The ninety
seven die without making the fortune, or
# made, without having kept it.
A correspondent of the Chicago Re
publican, writing from Denver, asserts
mat Governor McCook's bolduess on the
woman suffrage question has been en-
couraged BY power behind the throne,
in the person of Mrs. MeC., who has
been, aud still is, leading spirit in the
All of the articles in the
Colorado Tribune have been written by
her, and with her own hands she has cir
cslated petition from house to house in
Denver, asking the Legislature to en-
franchise her doWn-trodden sex.
At the residence of Frank Dano, in
Janesville, Wisconsin, few evenings
since, the dampers of coal stove were
left in such a position when the family
retired, as TO throw the gas into the room.
Upon retiring, the ladies found it impos-
sible to sleep, and complained to each
other of feeling strangely. After a while
one Of lhsm arose and went into the room
where the stove was, and fell senselsss
. pom hoor; another, in attempting TO
20 to her rescue. shared like fate, and
tie third had strength enough to reach
the door and call to Mr.. Dano, when she
also tainted. Assistance was rendered
and the ladies were restored to con-
sciousuess. !