Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-16
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


Gymnastic exercises in the lndianap-
oils schools have given st. Vitus dance to
some of the girls. They have been over
doing it.
A California paper says the Japanese
will win universal respect by sort OF
heathenish habit they have OF minding
their own business
High life in New York had wedding
the other day upon the invitation cards
to which were engraved the significant
words No Presents.
A crusty bachelor says that the greatest
organ in the world is said to be the organ
of speech in woman, because it is an
organ without stops.
Boucicault boasts that he has made
$1,000 by fighting the press, and he is
still trying it on with a libel suit against
the Pail Mall Gazette.
Representative Rogers, at Washington,
having opposed the appropriation for the
pay of the female clerks, has been pre-
sented by them with four leather medals.
The will of VIM. S. Baird, recently ad-
mitted to probate in Philadelphia, be-
oueaths $4,000 to various religious and
benevolent organizations in Pennsyl-
vania. ai aahili
Mr. Seward stopped at only four public
houses during his entire route from
Chicago, through California, Alaska,
Mexico and the West Indies, to New
York.
A Salt Lake paper says the mission
aries returning from the East report that
the people do not care much to hear
about religion, but invariably ask if there
is any chance to make money in Utah.
The charge of libel preferred against
the Pail Mall Gazette by Mr.. Dion Bou-
cicault, has been withdrawn by that
gentleman, with the understanding that
public amends would be made for the
printing of the obnoxious article. The
Gazette made proper retraction.
Graus Opera Troupe has gone where
the woodbine twineth.' A Savannah
paper says all the property, wardrobes,
stage property, etc, belonging to the
troupe, and said to be worth S3,000 or
81 900 were seized, and are now in the
hands of a magistrate.
The father of Senator Benton lies OBJ
scurely buried in patch of pines, four
miles west of Hillsboro, North Carolina,
where, says the Recorder of that place,
"the country people daily pass, and little
regard that the father of one of the great
est statesmen of the country lies buried
near.
Ticket sir p said railroad con-
ductor, passing through one of the trains
the other day, to a passenger. My face
is my ticket" replied the other, little
yexed. Indeed" said the conductor,
rolling back his wristband and display
ing a most powerful bunch Of lives,
"well, my orders are to punch all tickets
passing over this road.
A man at Pittsburg confessed to havr
ing committed a murder several years
ago. was arrested and transported sew
eral hundred miles to where the dark
deed was committed, when it appeared
there never had been such murder in
the memory of the oldest inhabitant,
The man wanted some one to pay his car
fare, so he adopted that original plan.
A Connecticut reporter, who recently
attended a wedding, apparently Tor the
first time, writes that when he looked
upon the bride Sin her aweet grace and
with her gentle ways, he felt like going
into the Swallowed gardens Of imagina-
ton and gathering there the rarest roses
Of language-roses half asleep in their
buds and half awake as they swelled to
bloom from slumber-and adorEing her
wedding wreath, already full with the
fblessings and repeated blessings and bri-
DIAL offerings Of loving friends"
Jerome n, Bonaparte, a grandson of
Madame Patterson Bonaparte, of Balti-
more, granddaughter of the great Napo-
leon, and captain in the French army,
arrived in New York on Monday evening
by the steamship Pereire, and proceeded
at once to the New York Hotel Captain
Bonaparte is tall, well formed and re-
markably handsome He is about thirty
years of age, and in the very bloom OF
manhood, He left New York for Balti-
more by the morning train, for the pur-
pose of visiting his relatives in the latter
oity and transacting personal business.