Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-07-22
GENERALITIES.

A Long Branch belle dresses eight
times day, and dashes along the beach
behind four different teams during each
twenty-four hours.
II didn't like our minister's sermon
last Sunday" said deacon who slept
all through the sermon, to a brother
deacon. Didn't like it, brother A?
Why, / saw you nodding assent to every
proposition of the speaker"
The Dundee Courier states that the
other day lady appeared with feather
trimmed costume, quill fringe; her par
asol was made to match, and the chapeau
was composed of ostrich and vulture
feathers, done off with marabout, the
center ornament tiny humming bird
In the crown of the English Empire
there are more than two thousand and
five hundred larger and smaller dia-
monds, one very large ruby, seventeen
saphires, eleven emeralds, four smaller
rubies, and two hundred and seventy
eight pearls. Next to the Russian crown
it is the most valuable in Europe.
This is the view which the New York
STAR the workingmen's organ, takes of
Boutwelrs financial policy: Boutwell,
sits securely at Washington, squeezing
the hearts blood out of the workingmen,
and once month he exhibits with glee
the barber's basin into which he has re-
ceived it, exclaiming triumphantly, See
how they bleedp"
Nathaniel Wilson, the renowned Civ
ing skeleton" died on Friday last, in
Boston at the age of thirty years. Dur
ing childhood he was rugged and healthy,
but when in his sixteenth year signs of
wasting away and loss of flesh COM
menced to appear. Although he was
great eater, he, at the time of his death,
weighed only sixty pounds. His disease
was an affection of the right lung,
A lady, at Winsted, Connecticut, was
struck by lightning short time ago,
and lay several hours apparently dead,
so that nearly all of her friends were
prepared to have her buried. Her
brother, however, insisted upon waiting
iand working for her resuscitation, and
his faith was finally rewarded by her
complete restoration to life and health
During her trance she distinctly heard
the remark of friends. that she was I'M
questionably dead
A hard character was arrested the
other day in Chicago and taken to a
photograph gallery in order that coun-
terfeit presentiment of his features might
be obtained for the adornment of the
Police Headquarters, and the informa-
ton of the police officers The culprit
objected, however, to be taken even by
photographer, and smashed the camera
Finding the supply of instruments on
hand too great for the success of that
proceeding he took to smashing his own
face, and soon dis6Gured it beyond all
recognition.
Travellers on their way to Lake George
were somewhat startled in Glen's Falls
the other day, by seeing some fifty well
dressed negroes crowding into the
coaches that we're to convey them to the |
lake "Where are those fellows going?"
asked passenger. "To the Fort Will
liam Henry Hotel" was the answer.
" What do they entertain negroes
there?' Certainly they do" Let
me out here" said the passenger excl
tedly; "TlI be d-d if / go to any hotel
where they entertain negroes. " Those
are the walters of the hotel, said the
agent; and the passenger subsidized
The arrival of the author of Lothair
at Windsor Castle, on the occasion of the
late State breakfast, is thus spoken of by
a newspaper correspondent: Poor Mr..
Disraeli and his wife, the Countess of
Beaconsfeld, were among the first to ar
rive, and had to put up with a small open
hack carriage, which had hut very sorry
hood over it. Fortunately, the author Of
Lothair " (by the way, what financial
success, but what a social blunder that
book has been-his best friends hate him
or it) had with him large Va,er-proof I I,
,oat, by WHICH lis Wife and himself COW
,red themselves from the rain as well as
hey could" i