Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-02
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

New York complains of several raids
by mosquitoes.
Question for oculists: Did the Egyp-
tan ophthalmia originate in the cataracts
Of the Nile2
A man in Oshkosh, Wis, has invented
parlor grindstone Now, what will he
do with III
Hon. Horace Greeley is said to have
recently experienced u change of hat for
the third time.
II is said that il takes ten mea nearly
year, working steadily, to finish o
handsome camels hair shawl.
Dickens used to accuse people who
criticised his paudy waistcoats Of inter
fering with his vested rights.
An Irish statistican estimates that
weeds cost that country nearly So, O0O, 0Oo
year. This doesn't include widows
weeds.
A New York paper concludes a long
obituary notice with the announcement
that several deaths are unavoidably
deferred.
A temperance barber is said to have
located in Meredith Village, N. ii. lie
is called temperance = because he uses
no bay rum.
The French steamship Pereire arrived
at New York last week in eight days and
eleven hours from Brest, the quickest
trip on record
Celery salad is said to be the most
healthy salad that can be eaten, ana rs
given as cure for jaundice, neuralgia
and nervous diseases.
Mosquitoes were almost unknown IN
England a few years ago, but now they
thrive there as well as in the backwoods
of America.
The announcement is made from
Washington that the Commissioner OF
Agriculture has gone into the country to
see how it looks
The Hudson river between Troy and
Albany is to be dredged out and lined
with dykes by the State of New York,
to improve the navigation.
A St. Louis minister prayed in his
Church that "the wicked game Of base
ball, and the Devil tattoo, called Shoe
Fly, may speedily spend their force,
A patriotic Frenchman in St Louis
has given forty acres of land to the
French sufferers by the war. 1t is to be
disposed of by the rafting process.
Mommsen, the historian, pronounces
absolutely worthless the Leignitz
manuscript of Livy, recently discovered,
and of which so much has been heard.
From Milwaukee we have the intelli-
gence that Baron Won Schlager has Civ
en- an organ-grinder emphatic orders not
to play the Marseillaise =" under his
window.
Cyrus H. Mccormick, the reaper
maker. has contracted with Alvin Clark,
of Cambridgeport, Mass, for the manu-
facture of $4,000 telescope, which he
will probably present to the University
of Virginia
The public buildings of Paris, espe-
cially those having fine carvings on their
exterior, are cleaned by directing upon
them Jet Of steam, by means of which
all impurities are washed of in very
short time.
Toillustrate how rapidly cities are built
up in the West, it is related that trav-
eler once lay down on the prairie in
Kansas to sleep, and in the morning
found himself in cellar with i've
story building built over him.
Count LaGrange's racing stud is to be
sold at auction in London next month.
1t includes the famous Gladiateur, which
has won for his owner $40, 900 in stakes
alone. American turfmen are urged to
procure this splendid animal for the
United States.
The Jewish Messenger, abiding to the
strenuous endeavors of the police to pre-
vent the spectators from selling tickets
in front of the New York theaters,
wishes they would devote some of their
valuable time to the tract distributors,
and prohibit them from thrusting their
doctrines in the faces of peaceable jew
ish pedestrians
1t is thought that in the event of Rome
being left to the Romans, the Pope will
establish himself at Ayignon, where they
want him, and where the Popes lived
from 1906 to 1876; although the offer Of
the English Government to protect him
on the island of Malta will be first ac-
cepted in case Of an invasion.
An old widow named Hackert, sew
enty-fve years of age, who accompanied
the Prussian army in 1913 and 1915 to
France as cirdndiere, has again been
permitted to accompany her old regi-
ment, the Thirty-ffth Brandenburg, at
her most urgent request. The soldiers
call her the Mother of the Regiment.
Another fatal Alpine accident is re-
ported. A few weeks ago Mrs. George
Marke fell into creyasse in the noun
tains near Chamouni, and up to twenty
four hours after the occurrence she had
not been found. The lady was on
wedding tour in Switzerland when the
accident took place. 1t is supposed to
have occurred on the Mer de Glace, or
at some Of the glaciers near.