Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
Corn in Florida is tasseling.
Charleston is luxuriating in green pea

Corn in Florida is tasseling.
Charlestonis luxuriating in green peas
Columbus, Ca, has $500 taxable dogs
Washtub Simmons is the name of
black Mississippi legislator. .
Prince Alfred has made a lucky
mining speculation in New Zealand
A Georgian lately paid for bushel of
meal in gophers; and received three
mud-turtles in change.
Theodore Tilton is going 20 print ten
copies of the Independent on white satin
for the crowned heads of Europe.
Huntington County, Pa, has gener-
ously increased the School Superintend-
ent's salary fifty cents per year. making
it $500 so.
Thirty years ago keg of butter was
let down in Pennsylvania well to cool
1t was taken out recently and found
sweet.
Mast, the artist whose political cartoons
in Harper's Weekly are strong point in
that paper, is a Bavarian, thirty years of
age.
An astronomer predicts the coming of
comet this year, of such brilliancy that
night will be turned into day, and gas
companies will be ruined.
A woman in Berlin has devoted her
life and means to schemes for the educa-
ton of the cab drivers in that city. She
desires to make them intelligent enough
to be honest.
A Michigan farmer who insulted a
resident of Jackson, in that State, one
day last week. was strack by him on the
side of the head with the palm of the
hand, and fell dead
The West Point Factory, on the Chat
tahoochee river, is now in full operation,
with 1852 spindles and forty-eight looms.
1t is making yarns and osnaburgs, and
employs about fifty hands.
Mining in the Taylor shaft in Northern
/ Illinois Coal and Iron Company, at La
sale, was interrupted few days ago in
consequence of extensive fires produced
| by spontaneous combustion.
1t is said that the Emperor of Russia
has repeatedly had attacks of delirium
tremens. During these attacks he is
always tortured by the belief that he
murdered his father, Nicholas, and pois-
oned his oldest son.
Young Stone, an-American, has prick
ed with his rapier nearly all his fellow
students at Heidelberg, and the Univer-
sity authorities have been obliged to shut
down on his dueling. This Stone is evil
dently hard one
A sitting-room, two or three bedrooms,
with use of kitchen without attendance,
can be obtained at Brussels for $25 TO
! $2S a month; a servant TO cook and at
| tend for So; servant merely to do the
housework can be got for 50.
Albert Richardson Beecher Colfax,
according to the Worlds correspondent,
is the name which the unfortunate son,
recently born to the ex-Smiler Schuyler,
is doomed to wear through life. Why
have we no law against such beastly
cruelty to helpless infants2
A clergyman, in a recent sermon, in
New York, quoted an anecdote Of an old
merchant who instructed his clerks:
when a man comes into a store and
talks of his honesty, watch him; if he
talks Of his wealth, don't try to sell him;
if he talks of his religion, don't trust
him dollar.
There are west of the Alleghanies 300
Presbyterian churches, aid 2,200 minis
tiers, leaving 500 churches quite unsup-
Piled There is an annual increase of
about l50 churches, while about 70 licen-
tiates enter the field annually, partly
balanced by a loss of 40 annually by
death.
The Utica Herald, discoursing Of the
arrest of q Harvard students, who passed
the night in a station house, says that
the vagaries of students have been too
patiently borne by residents in the
vicinity of colleges. A few applications
of law would do more to prevent the re
currences Of outrages than all the
warnings and rustications il is in the
power of Faculties to administer.
A monstrosity of the sheep species
exists on farm at Richmond, Missouri.
The body and head seem TO be shaped
naturally, hut instead of four legs,
nature in this case has doubled herself
by supplying eight; a pair Of legs are
attached to the under middle portion of
the abdomen, and the remaining three
on the side, two before and one behind.
The left fore leg is forked at the knee,
with two distinct hoofs.
At one Of the recent concerts at the
Tuileries, zone Of the most beautiful
women Of Paris attracted much atten-
ton by the Empress conversing with her
for some time, and on her returning to
her seat all eyes were turned upon her.
The lady, accustomed TO this homage,
thought il was as usual paid TO her
charms. But suddenly she discovered
hat one Of her beautiful eyebrows, made
Of ten, mad dropped u her lap, and tha,
this it was which attracted so much at
tention. She tainted, Of course, and no
doubt viii take better care in future Of
her fxings.