Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-11
VARIETIES.

adopt Crisis daughters.
| A Missouri farmer lately paid
debt of $1,000 in silver coin.
A hotel waiter is announced a
always the "coming man."
Peanuts are said to be SURF
cure for the liver complaint.
Bergh is challenged for $1,000
to prove that a cock is an animal
Boston has a new paper for boys
called the Young Sportsman"
A Connecticut railroad is about
to transform a church into depot
Burlington, Vt, is to attempt tc
make paper from pine shavings.
The local matters of a Kansas
paper are headed !" Fights and
Things"
Napoleon is going to stamp the
profile of his sons face on the
French coin.
An artificial stone is being ex-
tensively used in Paris for build
ing purposes.
There are five salmon canning
establishments on the Columbia
river, Oregon.
One hundred and fifty thou
sand bushels of apples were gath
cred in Minnesota last year.
The public debt statement just
issued is to be printed in English,
French and German.
Recorder Curry, of Oswego, has
decided that shaving on Sunday
is not a "work of necessity"
The midwinter view of Niagara
Falls from the new suspension
bridge is said to be magnificent.
Miss JEFF, of Elizabeth, N. j.,
owns up to being an old maid.
She has just passed her 104th
birthday.
In Boston, the Advertiser says,
the " doctors are unusually busy
with the victims of Christmas
gluttony."
Victoria has been to see an old
widow of 101 years, and each
thought the other curiosity.
The New York police comprises
a force of 2679 men, and during
the year ending October 81, made
1908 arrests.
So many men are very "short
about this time, that Tom Thumb
and Commodore Mutt have ceased
10 be curiosities.
The city of Dubuque is raising
a dollar subscription for a monu-
ment to its founder, Julien Du-
buque, who died in 1910.
The st. Paul Press says that
there have been great changes in
the climate of Minnesota during
The past five or six years.
Governor Flanders, of Wash
ington Territory, has vetoed one
hundred territorial legislative
bills, and is still at it.
A German savan has discovered
hat a bed-bug, after having bit
zen three hundred times, begins
% droop and fade away.
Speaking of the holidays, a Ne
Vada paper says: "Pinfeathers,
with q little meat attached, cost a
lollar." He alludes to chickens.
A London thief returned pur-
oined umbrella with this note /:
{ This umbrella has prade hon
ny konshens ever since L stole
lin. w. r."
Offenbach is going to bring out
lis Robinson Crusoe " at Darn
'tadt. His Princesse de Trebi-
.onde " has been very successful
1t Paris.
A servant in Michigan, who
'tole $50, was not held for trial
because she was "subject to fits
when under excitement" Fits of
distraction 4?
An Iowa doctor used the stom-
lch pump for two hours on the
victim of a railroad accident, and
hen reckoned that life was ut
ierly distinct"
A Bible society has been lately
founded in Russia, which has
already distributed 10000 copies
IF the New Testament in the Rus
sian language.
The Duke of Devonshire is
about to construct, at his own cost,
! line of railway from Fermoy TO
Lismore in Ireland. The esti-
mated cost is G12O,OOO.
There are some disadvantages
connected with lynch law in Ken
lucky. Ifyou fail to hang man
thoroughly, he is apt to sue you
for $50, 900 damages.
The wages paid on Mississippi
river steamboats, average For
captains, sl75 per month pilots,
5000 tO S050. first an0;paore eIIn