Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-11-23
The beautiful snow is in seaso

Inc Deautllu-l snow IL III season.
Silk velvet is now made from cats
hair. 4att{uffff Wt
The railway disaster season is open
ing well. So sFraHf 'iHaitn.
Texas has raised potato weig hing
thirteen pounds. 5 5as.n
Female yote-distributors is the latest
dodge in Boston,.
There are 7O,O000O0 acres of unoccu-
pied land in Texas.
A bank is to be established at Fort
Garry, in Winnipegdom.
Wilkie Collins is dramatizing his cele-
brated novel, NO Name"
In order to be fashionable in Detroit,
you have to wear two watches.
Misfortunes never come singly. Ma
poleon's mother-In-law has turned up.
The champion memory man OF Iowa is
one hundred and four years old, and re-
members his third birthday.
The Lord Chamberlain has forbidden
the dancing of the can-can at any of
the London theaters.
A spiteful Cinci-nnatian says that a
grain elevator was taken as model for
the new Central Christian Church in
Chicago i'+.'
Looking at the, aurora bor,ealis," is
the excuse heads Of families and young
men give now at breakfast for being out
late the previous evening.
i A large number of dress-makers in
Boston were subpnnaed as witnesses in
the famous suit, in that city, about tn e
disputed dress-mal1ers bill. They wer,,
all in the court when the earthquake
took place, and some of them tainted.
A Jerseyman who has a Chinese SER
want complains that the heather will
worship an old brass andron when the
family gathers for prayers, and the other
morning offered up before it two dead
rats and burned llaif joss stick.
An English w ritter thinks the Ameri-
can early potato es will come to an end
ere long for Az each new variety is
claimed to ripper ABOUT ten days earlier
than any other, the time between plant
ing and digging will soon be used up.
At fair in New York q young lady
described as IAN heiress, beautiful and
accomplished, offers herself to be ratified
for-"no married man, or bachelor over
thirty-iire, to be permitted to ia Ike tick
ct. She. says she is convinced marriage
is lottery, and wants to prove it.
A, German ma med Hirch, employed as
a clerk at San rancisco, committed sui |
cite by blowing his brains out with a
d.erringer pistol, on the Sd inst, while
in state of dependency brought on
through his failure to draw prize in the |
Mercantile Library lottery of that city.
A town in Wisconsin recently held a
afford $500 to buy fire engine. A
week after the meeting circus COM
pany went there ancl took away $4,000.
The local paper remarked that their peo-
pie were circus-goinS community, and
not an engine-buying one.
The Manchester papers describe new
instrument of torture which has been set
up at several works in that city, and is
intended to arouse the workmen from
their slumbers. This American devil
is set to work at halfpast FIVE every
morning, and it wakes up everybody
within two miles. The American devil
IS hHoNh w itS hOhus 40 a S0Som
gong.
An old Hudson Bay settler having read
an account. of the Jersey woman who
travelled all the way to China in quest Of
a husband, writes to say that the young
women who marry the officials Of the
Hudson Bay Company have TO endure
much more hardships in their efforts to
get mated. The courtships are generally
done by clergymen, who select women Of
good moral character from their Aocks
and forward them to the distant settle
ments, where they meet their future
lords for the first time, and are disposed
of half an hour after arrival.
The Rhine is now a German river.
The surrender Of .Neuf Brisach yields the
last Of the Germs,n fortresses upon that
river, and there are now only three
French strOngholds left in Alsaee and
Lorraine. These three are Bitche, on
the frontier Of Rhenish Bavaria Phals-
bourg in the Vosges mountains, and
Belfort, in the department Of Haut-R Rim,
some miles from the Rhine. The two
FIRST named are absolutely impregnable
to assault, and can only be taken BY the
slow process Of starvation, though a
small force can MASK them Belfort IL
said to be stronger than Strasburg, but .
that too can be masked or hanked and :
left behind.