Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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New York dandies are now accused o
wearing monogram garters. Lie y,
The number of Mormons who practice
polygamy is said not exceed 1000.
Meetings are still being held in Utal
to protest against the anti-polygamy bill
Count VALDEZ, aged l05, is occupied
inpainting a picture entitled "Absinthe.
Figaro proposes to go down by the
Z" sad sea waves to try and cheer them
up little.
Boxes containing twenty-five straw
berries, are selling in New York for fifty
cents box.
De Murska sings in London this month.
She is the handsomest of the operate
blondes.
A sister of General Thomas married
DR.. Gamaliel Bailey, well known as the
editor of the National Era ofWashington.
Mrs. Somerville, the well known au-
thoress, is now in her s8th year, and re-
sides near Genoa, in the enjoyment of
good mental and bodily health. ~
The first number of new religious
journal, La Concorde, of which Pefe
Hyacinthe is the chief editor, appeared
April LIST. Are the day and deed CON
nectedY
A writer in the Graphic says that "a
woman will always love the nearest man
of suitable age, after fashion, if she has
never seen any more attractive speci-
mems of masculine humanity.
Among the deaths announced April
LIST. are those of ex-Mayor William Y.
Brady, of New York; Seth Boynton, the
inventor; and Rev, Archibald G. Foss,
prominent divine Of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
Mario has had great success in st.
Petersburg this season At the conclu-
sion of a recent performance of Les
Huguenots, he was called before the
curtain twenty-five times, and was pre-
scented with gold crown, a massive gold
plate and silver epergne, besides innu-
merable bouquets,
Austria possesses a costly staf-l69
superior field officers in active service,
and 379 on half pay. Among the former
are three marshals, seventeen generals
of artillery or cavalry, fifty-fve Of in
fantry and ninety-four major generals.
The retired list consists of thirty gene
rails of the above named category, l48 of
the second and POI of the third
The Matrimonial Coolie says: Great
change has come over our people,
Amusements multiply and press. Young
people have taken out license against
their parents. Parents are getting rath-
err afraid of their boys and girls. Home
is a convenient place to have, and the
father is the banker, and the mother is
the mistress oflaundry women and cooks,
but the home is gone.
A lady writer in the Boston Post is
severe upon female clerks, and remarks;
"The rudeness and ill-breeding Of
majority of girls behind the counter are
becoming almost unbearable, and / am
not surprised when | hear ladies say
they prefer some store where they en-
ploy male clerks, nor employers when
they tell me they prefer male clerks to
female, because they please their custo-
mers better. Girls themselves are shut
ting avenues of labor to their sex by
their manners toward those whom they
serve, and all the work of refnrmers will
do no good until the girls learn to work
with them, and deserve what they de-
mand.'
The capital stock of the Pullman Pal
ace Car Company is now So 100000,
with cars running over $1,000 miles of
and employing 5000 men-not
counting the artisans at the shops and
To meet the growing
business of their recently extended OPP
erations 100000 more stock was issued
and Immediately all taken by the stock
holders, who have ordered $500 id
ditional shares. About 100000 of the
stock is owned by New Workers and an
equal amount by capitalists in Boston
All this comes from the original capital
stock of 81 900, 600 which the organiza-
ton started with only three years ago.
Who says the American people do not
the luxury of riding and eat
ing and sleeping In palace earsf