Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-02-14

have only limited sale.
The Psrepa-Rosa troupe gives New
York opera next month.
The publication of Mayne Rsid's On
icard is to stop. II don't pay.
The University of E Edinburgh has five
lady students Of medicine.
Mark Twain was married to lady Of
Elmira, New York, last week.
Napoleon has immense estates inSpain,
not meaning the proverbial chateaur en-
Espange.
An eccentric young woman in st. Paul,
Minn., plsyfully bit off her lovers thumb
in tiff they had the other day.
Levassor, the French comic actor, has
died of cancer in his stomach at the age
of sixty-two.
Judge McKetzie, of Canada, for GER
tain legal work for our Government, pre-
sents bill of $4,000.
The Louisville and Chattanooga rail
road wants Gen. Robt. K. Lee for Presi-
dent. He has college on his mind, and
don't want to shoulder any railroads.
A paper in Indiana, commenting on
the high price of eggs, think that hens
could make piles of money now by pay
ing strict attention to business"
A Western paper says Olive Logan
needs no introduction to its readers, as
she is as well-known as the Cardiff
Giant. She is better looking than the
giant, and can strike an attitude, which
be can't.
A preacher out in Iowa, who cast of
the sock aud buskin for the gown and
cassook, astonished his hearers, the other
day, by announcing that his text might
be found in Proverbs, Acts iv., Scene 8.
Governor Curtin, Minister to Russia,
is home sick, and don't want to serve
his country any longer. He wants Grant
to give his present back and take his
confourded commission. He says Penn
sylvsnis is good enough for him.
Prince Arthur actually put golden
guinea in the oontribution-box at Wash
ington church. The papers don't say
whether the deacon put it in his pocket
and replaced it with greenback.
Philadelphia clamors for an enlarge
ment of the intellectual calber of its
members of Congress. If you could only
get a few dried apples into their heads,
and wet them, the thing might be ac-
complished.,
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion, of New Bedford, have a gymnasium,
and refuse to let Unitarians swing on
their bars and hang on their ropes. They
use none but orthodox dumb-bells,
Batavia has secret order of Guinea
Witch" which many think can make a
man sicker on initiation than the Sons Of
Malta ever did. They are going to have
a charity ball for fun.
Queen Victoria has neuralgia, which
shifts its locality in way to cause much
alarm to her physicians.
A Georgia writer says that ingratitude
"faIls like drop of acid into the milk of
human kindness, and turns it to acrid
clabber."
When the long handled collection-dish
was passed around in Boston church,
little girl reached out fer some popcorn.
She thought the deacon had corn
pepper"
Cleveland medical students snatch
body before it has been in the ground
long enough to get accustomed to the
climate. The only way to keep body
down is to bury it in burglar-proof safe,
and throw the key into the lake.
Robins innumerable are perched upon
the cane and bushes on the cliffs of Cum
berlsnd river. Their roost extends from
Orders ferry to Rock House bottom,
distance of three miles They can be
picked off their roost by hundreds, and
persons 20 distance Of ten miles to fill
their baskets with poor robin redbresst."
The London Times has gone to finding
fault with the American Congress. 1t
this blasted British blowhard has got to
that depraved state when it thinks our
American legislation open to criticism,
it had better suspend. Congress fallible
The idea
1t is said that the cause of Mra. Stoves
aud Mrs. Hookers refusal to edit the
Revolution, was Miss Authony's refusal
TO chaDge the name OF tnat paper. Il Iou1
the way Miss A. sticks to her own maiden
surname, it is to be inferred that she is
constituiionally opposed to changing
names.
DR.. Virchow, of Berlin, recently sd-
dressed to the Prussian Minister of Pub
lie Education a report on diseases iuci-
dent to, and connected with, German
which apparently are not
we'll ordered. The report shows that in
the neighborhood of Breslsz seventeen
per cent. Of school children suffer from
! shor.-sightedness. In the "Gymnssium,"
tbirty-two per cent. of all the students
suffer from the same disease; while the
sight Of sixty eight out of every hundred
scholars at the University is impaired. !
Headache and congestion Of blood to
he head are also common, and affect |
girls much more frequently than boys.
Bad ventilation and the use Of iron 4
stoves are supposed to be responsible for
these latter disorders. Curvature Of
spine, which invariably commences in
pupils between the ages Of six and four
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