Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-05


The New York Star is responsible fo
the statement that all Englishmen pas
thirty are bald, and the badness gen
orally strikes in.
OF the late election Colorado edito
writes: "Chaffee's majority is 1892, o
just one hundred less than Christophe
Columbus discovered in America. "
Numerous papers are advising ladie
to wear suspenders. Isn't it little pre-
mature to urge such costume until the
get the IS to wear with them2
Quite a number of Queen Victoria
Sixtieth Rifles having INDUCED in the
improperly of getting married without
leave, the British Government now re
fuses to furnish free passes for theil
wives from Canada to England.
At the East Bridgeport Connecticut
Cartridge Works, the female operatives
were frightened by the prediction of an
explosion. On the appointed morning
many of the girls refused to go to work,
and some lost their situations in conse-
quence.
A gypsy came to Brigham Young with
pony for sale. why, the beast is half
starved" said Brigham, running his hand
over the pony's side. "You can count
his ribs" That's more n chap could
do with yours, retorted the gypsy.
Kate Field was hissed, and some of her
audience left, while giving them her Dick
ems discourse in Portland, Maine. Rea-
son: She was elevating him to the skies
on the ruins of Scott and Shakespeare
both of whom she demolished for the
purpose. iih'
A Pittsburg man had toe cut off by
a street railroad and recovered five hun
dred dollars, and is now standing around
the track to get another cut off. He says
he can start q pretty fair grocery with
the proceeds of another toe.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, was conside-
rably agitated the other night at the dis
covery of colored individual flirting
with white ladies at a masquerade ball.
As soon as his real complexion was
known, he flirted down stairs in charge
of policeman
At New York wedding the groom
forgot the ring. The traditional curtain
ring was unavailable and matters we're
at stand-still, till an ingenious lady
cut off an end of one of the brides curls
and framed out of this ring, with which
he marriage was consummated.
A fine old Illinois gentleman in the
,alsboose at Cairo brought about his re-
lease by making his cell vocal night and
lay with hymns, and declaring he had
preached the gospel forty years. Half
an hour after his release he was laying
about him in q levee saloon swearing
hat he was "half hoss and half alliga-
.or, and that he could outrun, throw
lown and whip any man Of his age and
inches in the State Of Ealinoy."
1t is customary in Massachusetts, 10
open the sessions Of the Supreme Court
With prayer. At the recent term In
the clergyman in attendance,
lfter asking Divine fayoE and guidance
or the presiding Judge, proceeded to
earnestly implore the Lord for similar
blessings upon the Judges wife and
that they might be spared in
ife and in health during his absence
md that, at the close of the term. he |
night be once more restored TO the |
,osom Of his family. As the presidipe
Judge was never married, his feelings
Turing the service may be Imagined.
The "Hesleged Resident" who sends |
laoh interesting letters from Paris to the |
london Daily News, says in recent
Il dine habitually at a |
,ouillion. There horsehesh is eaten in |
he place Of beef, aud cat is rabbit. Both,
However, are excellent, and the former is
! little sweeter than beef, but in other
espects much like it; the latter some
hing between rabbit and squirrel, with a |
Iavor Of all its own. 1t is delicious. I /
those who have cats with
proclivities, instead Of
rowning the kittens, 10 eat them, either /
mothered in onions or in a ragout.
hey are capital eating When I return
, London l shall frequently treat my
Elf to one Of these domestic animals.
nd ever feel grateful 10 Bismarck for
aving taught me that cat served up for
inner is the right animal IN the right
lace"