Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-26
A Great Thinker.

son of the Emerald Isle wished to
present a parrot to an intimate friend.
he accordingly called on dealer, who,
having lust sold his last parrot. persuaded
Mike TO buy an owl which he claimed a.
belonging to rare and valuable species
of parrots. Mike paid three dollars for
the bird, and Immediately marched on
with it to the house of his friend, who
was highly pleased with it. About four
weeks after, Mike again called to see
what progress the Polly made. And
how does she spaik?' asked Mike. She
don't speak at all-niyer a word since
the day You brought it. Mike was off
in iiffy to ask the dealer why the bird
didn't speak. "She hasn't spoken one
word as vet said Mike as soon as he
could gain breath. oh, replied the
man of business, with cool Indifference,
shes not a great speaker, but very
great thinker" Mike left nonplussed.
The Laconia Democrat says that a
couple recently married in Clifford, n.
H., after two weeks experience Of the
sweets of matrimony, have dissolved
partnership, without the Intervention OF
a court. She said she wouldn't live with
him. and he said he would give her a
hundred dollars to quit She took the
greenbaeks and went
By the bombardment of Strasburg one
of the most exquisite specimens OF
Gothic architecture in the world is i'm
periled The noble cathedral with its
delicate and marvelously beautiful splre,
is exposed TO the enemy's fire. tits not
to be supposed that this superb edifice
will be wantonly damaged, but expert
ence shows that prominent religious edi-
fees have not usually escaped intact
during bombardments.
The Cincinnati Gazette says: " The
Times, yesterday evening, had news that
was news. King William and several
high Prussian officers and General Sher-
idan had been captured by the French.
This excites grave solicitude for the fate
Of Mr.. Halstead, of the Commercial,
who, according TO his dispatch of Sun
day, was on the battlefield with King
William and Sheridan, receiving his
baptism Of fire, where the carnage was
thickest. and where the dead consider
ately piled themselves in heaps, and
who probably filed his pockets with
spent balls, and whose tranquility, like
that of the Imperial infant, must have
caused such weeping among the Prus.
sian soldiers as to exhaust their internal
fluids and aggravate the deprivation OF
their accustomed lager.
A Tribune correspondent writes from
Mayenee: The French caution against
journalists has had its effect here, and
as yet have only heard Of two passes
being given-one to the Tribune CORE
spondent and another TO DIR. Russell.
He has had the assurance TO paint on
the cab, OF drosky,' as we call them
here, he has hired-'Dr. Russell, Times
Correspondent, Haupt-Quartier, Armee
Corps. be made a triumphant process
sion through Mayence on Thursday, aud
excited no small merriment among the
officers. The last line, 'Armee Corps,
without any number, quite upset even
German gravity. There are eight army
corps. 10 say nothing Of three armies
scattered from Hanover and the Rhine
to Saxony and Konigsburg So il is
somewhat doubtful where DIR. Russell is
going 70 carry his brilliant pen and his
huge amount Of baggage.