Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-03
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

St. Louis is making sewer investments
Of $25, 900 month.
Never 20 to church with cough, and
disturb the rest Of the congregation.
Nearly all the towns along the Hudson
river are visited with fever this autumn.
Richard Wagner, the composer, was
married on the 25th of August to the
wife Of Hans Won Bulow.
The venerable Charles Tappan, Of
Boston, who is over eighty years Of age,
has just returned from tour OF Europe
A society for the encouragement of
young men desiring TO marry. is organ
izing among the young ladies Of Ron
dout, N. \.
Norfolk, Virginia, has revived the oys-
ter that il takes six men to swallow
whole. The one in question was twenty
two inches long.
Admiral Porter has written letter to
Secretary Robson asking to be relieved
Of further duty at the Navy Department
on account of i'll health
Olive Logan 8, brother, DR.. Cornelius
A. Logan, has just been elected to the
second highest post among the Odd
Fellows Of the United States, that Of
Deputy Grand Sire Of the Grand Lodge.
An English antiquarian has diseov-
cred series Of documents that reveal
the long-hidden mystery Of the Globe
and Blackfriars theaters, and show that
Shakespeare was never proprietor IN
either Of them.
Some Illinois parties had the impu-
denee TO ask the Patent Office to patent
a process for making cheap butter,
by adulterating it and working it over
with various additions. II is not sur
prising that the application was rejected.
A gentleman residing at Utica declares
fhaf. on a recent occasion, while walking
alorr The track Of the New York Central
railroad, he was struck by the COW
catcher, thrown into the air, and caught
in coming down by the fireman, who held
him fast until the engine was stopped.
Never enter sick-room in moment
OF perspiration, as the moment you be-
come cool your pores absorb. Do not
approach contagious diseases with AN
emptv stomach, nor sit between the sick
and the FIRE, because the heat attracts
the rapor Prerentiyes are preferable to
pills or powders,
The shipment Of sunpowder and other
military stores k'om Montreal continues
and Ia q short time the chief city Of the
Dominion will have to rely for its defense
upon the bravery Of its volunteers and
the military genius Of its Minister OF
Militia
Rear Admiral S. II. Stringham, who, a
few DAYS ago. by order Of the Secretary
Of the Navy. wes relieved from duty as
Port Admiral of New York, has in con-
scauence Of remonstrancc signed by
the leading merchants of that city been
reinstated by the President, who tele-
graphed TO the Secretary 10 suspend the
order until further advised.
Henry Clay used to say that there were
three classes OF people with whom It Is
never safe 10 quarrel. first-ministers;
for the reason thai, they could denounce
me through the pulpit. and had none
through which to reply. Second
editors; for they had the most powerful
engines from which they could every day
hurl wrath and fury upon me, and had
none through which to reply. And,
finally, with women. for they would have
the last word anyhow.
The Italians can thank the Pope for
iheir conquest Of Rome without blood
shed. Alier the Kings troops had en-
Tered Roman territory. his Holiness said
to his military advisers; II the Italians
attack Rome ] will be my own general
The gates shall be locked, and II they
enter Il will nave 70 be by violence, BY
breaking down the gates No blood shall
De- she'd AZ ihc doors Of the Vatican;
and II they are pleased to enter as
burglars and robbers they may