Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-01

fury and ungovernable passion since he
has handled them.- Connerspille (Ind.)
Examiner.
Rocheforte, it is said, is by birth
Vicomte de Lucay, of family going
back to the Crusades.
General Sherman actually shed tears
on witnessing Miss BAteman's Mary
Warner" for the first time.
Some endorsers to a uote in Maryland
claimed that they we're not liable because
the note was signed on Sunday, but the
Court thought otherwise.
There is but one step from the sublime
to the ridiculous. A local journal thus
describes the effect of hurricane. 1t
scattered mountains, tore up oaks by the
roots, dismsntled churches, laid villages
waste. and overturned a haystack."
4 Trenton paper reports that an aged
couple who celebrated their golden we'd
ding in that city recently, are childless,
but "this deficiency was supplied by
gifts from number of the guests"
The fat men of Springfield, ILL.,, to the
number of sixty-four, held skating
carnival" Saturday night, at the rink 10
that city. Children and thin persons who
could not swim were warned off the ice.
A negro of Patterson, New Jersey, has
gone TO jail for the crime of defrauding
member OF the Board of Education. He
skinned a cat, docked the tail off short;
and sold it to the learned gentleman as
rabbit.
General Sherman has given Prince
Arthur choice of two splendid rifles,
and be selected Winchester repeating
arm, mounted with gold, on which were
engravings of Eve, the genius of liberty,
and General Grant on horseback, besides
being elaborstely chased.
Mr.. Bright has made series of
speeches at Birmingham, which elicits
singular comment from the Spectator.
He is, says our London cotemporary,
"in reality more akin to the old aristo
cratic type of Lord Palmerston or Lord
Russell than to the new intellectual type
of Mr.. Gladstone or Mr.. Lowe"
The majesty of the law was fearfully
sustaised by Lord Eskgrove, who, it is
related, once sentenced tailor for muir
dering a soldier, in these words: And
not only did you murder him, whereby
he was bereavsd of his life, but you did
thrust, or push, or pierce, or propel the
deadly weapon through his regimentsl
breeches, which were his Msjesty's."
1t was Jeremy Taylor who said to all
men: "If you are for pleasure, marry
if you prize health, marry. A good wife
is heavens last best gift to mas his
angel Of mercy; minister of graces in
Vulnerable; his gem of many virtues
his casket Of jewels her voice his sweet
est music; her smile his brightest day."
The French Infant Protection Society,
of Lyons, wishing to encourage mothers
to nurse their children, will give at its
meeting in 1870 prize of $50 to the au
thor Of the best paper on the following
subject: Concerning the influence Of
nursing on the body and mind of the
mother-of accidents and sickness which
follow the neglect of this duty"
Early last spring a number of German
artists living in New York held meet
ing and formed Union Club similar in
character to the celebrated "Society OF
Dusseldorf Artists for Mutual Support
and Aid" The society adopted the
name of The Parlette," and at the be-
ginning numbered but ten members. !
Since then its membership has increased |
to about eighty. Its meetings are he'd |
weekly, at which times lectures and read |
ings are delivered on matters appertain-
ing to art and science, and debates are |
entered into for the purpose OF the i'm
provement aud development Of knowl-
edge among the members.
A Paris correspondent writes: There
was an odd meeting on the staircase of
he Tuileries on Friday, between Dillon
Bsrrot aud the Marquis de Talhouet.
Barrot did not Immediately remember
he new Minister Of Public Works.
Have you forgotten me 2 said Talhouet;
Why, made your bed at Vincennes
Aud so be did. At the time Of the coup
I etqt, when several members Of the Leg
slstive Assembly we're temporarily i'm
,risoned ct Vincennes, Barrot and Tai
louet we're among them, aud they sll
lept in beds on the ground. Bsrrot was
Tsry uuskillful in the duties Of q cham
,ermaid, and bis younger companion in
,aptivity made his bed for him. i can
,rcve to you that I have not forgotten
bat time, said n. Bsrroi. DO you re-
member that large stain Of blood | no
iced on your shirl, proceeding from
light bsyonst wound in the sfm, which
night have been mach more serious had
ioi your cloak deadeuei iis forcer Such /
Fas the meetisr Of these two men eizh-
cen years later, one Of them nov Mn
sier Of ths Expire, and the other visit