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

Down East the fashionable thinS is n
sheet and pillow-case party.
Paris ladies now wear the same style
of hat that was worn one hundred and
five years ago.
The recent fire in Canada travelled
across the fields, in some cases, at the
rate of mile in five minutes.
George NJ. Patchen, the well-known
trotting stallion, died few days ago at
Whitewater, Wisconsin.
"Why is it, husband, that whenever
we send for pound of tea or coffee TO
the grocery man it falls several ounces
short2" "0h, it's just weigh he
has.
Machinery has recently been invented
in England which weaves from the hair
of eats and rabbits sort of velvet tissue,
distinguishable from silk, but not inferior
in fneness and beauty.
An Albany damsel asked one OF hire
fellow-boarders, stylish dry goods clerk,
at the breakfast table: =" Why is your
mustache like my back hairy de
blushingly gave it up, when the answer
caused him to blush still more: be
cause it's all dorm
A Young couple had been married by
a Quaker, who, after the ceremony, re-
marked: Friend, thou art now at the
end of thy troubles" A few weeks after
the Young man came to the minister
boiling over with rage, his wife turning
out regular vixen. Il thought you
told me | was at the end of my troubles.
$50 did, friend, but did not say which
end"
A minister out West vouches for the
following: A Kansas girl was standing,
hand in hand with her lover, watching
the incoming of the first train on new
railroad The locomotive was quiet I'M
til it came into the depot, but when the
whistle blew, as the engine wasstopp!lng,
the girl burst out with the exclamation,
"Why, lal she came plum in afore she
belleredl
A recent visitor from Hartford to
Martha's Vineyard camp ground, who
had been suffering from the exorbitant
charges made for everything during
meeting week, such as "a day Tor
rooms, 81 for breakfast, etc, was stroll
ing past the societies tent (which encir-
cled the tabernacle) where meeting was
being held. just as he was passing one,
the voice of an exhorter was heard.
"Salyation's free, salvation free. he
stopped at once and said: I'll take
some of that: it's the only thing I've
heard of since I've been here that /
haven't had to pay big price for.
In Indiana Quaker maiden, who had
reached the age of sixty, accepted,
matrimonial offer from man who be-
longed to the worlds people and the
Presbyterian church, and began to pre-
pare for her wedding. As usual, dele
CATION of Friends from her meeting
waited on her and demonstrated with her
for marrying out of meeting The bride
elect heard the visitors patiently, and
said: Look herel I've been waiting
lust sixty years for the meeting to marry
me. and if the meeting don't want me to
marry out of it, why don't the meeting
bring along its boysY" That seemed to
settle the matter.
The statement that Jennie June has
eight children, which has been going the
rounds of the papers, is contradlcted by
the lady herself. She writes: Now,
have no objection to eight, or even six
teen children, if / could support them,
and society sanctioned so large family,
but New York objects to children as
strongly as Boston, and the reputation of
having eight would destroy my character
with the landlords Of the quiet houses
and all respectable servant girls, if It
should happen to get in New York
She begs, therefore, that the
statement may be corrected by substitu-
ting three instead of eight.