Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-06-20
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

New York had sixty-one fires in May
Government expenses last month
$l2,O49,2l9. asjatl
The King of Prussia has among his
pets fifty white mice.
Michigan, complains of invasion by a
legion of potato bugs.
The days are six hours longer than
they were in midwinter
~ In Prussia the executioners are on a
strike for more pay.
The final passage of the land bill is
regarded favorably by the Irish press
generally.
A celebrated physician says that it is
cake that ruins the teeth and not candy,
as is generally supposed.
A potato-peeling machine has been in
vented in Europe which peels six hun
dred pounds of potatoes per hour.
The squaws at the Presidents recep-
ton carried off as trophies Mrs. Thorn
tom s fan tassel and the beads from her
sash,
Col. Mosby has written a letter to the
Albany Argus saying that he has no sort
of connection or sympathy with Fenian
raids or Cuban filibusters
Four George Washingtons, six Andrew
Jacksons, five Henry Clays and two
James X. Folks reside in the Louisiana
penitentiary.
A citizen of Indianapolis proposes to
furnish heat to supply all the business
houses and residences of that city, pro-
vided the citizens will erect the works at
cost of about $650,00O.
Brigham Young has issued notice to
tobacco chewers, that if they choose to
chew in a manner disastrous to the taber-
nacle floors, they will be promptly elected
by the gentlemanly sexton.
A water spout recently burst in. Tran
sylvania, by which eighty houses were
destroyed, and the dead bodies of 2l4
persons were found strewed about in the
fields ard taken ont of a neighboring
river.
SO plentiful are the grasshoppers in
Salt Lake City, that the stencil arising
from the accumulation of their dead car
casses is terrible, and is seriously affect !
ing the health of the city.
A precocious boy in q public school
out West, who stands high in geography, |
was recently asked by his teacher where |
Africa was located He promptly an
swered, All over the United States"
A landscape painter at San Francisco
went out in the bay in boat for the |
purpose of making sketch of the city, 4
and was carried out TO sea by the ebb |
tide. An inbound bark picked him up
outside the harbor.
Henry Stanton, the second son of Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who has been
preparing himself for she stage for some
time, in Difference TO the preferences of
friends, viii make his debut in the Lyce-
um next winter. Subject "0ur boys"
No antidote without its bane; no Joy
without its sorrow The transient de
light of an Ohio man ON learning of his
wife's elopement is turned 10 bitterness
by the discovery that the companion Of
her fight is " a kind Of redish molatter
The blonde mattresses at the Sioux
City Hotel refused to trust their sweet
heads near Spotted Tails suite, and the
warriors were served at their Indian meal
by an afrighted bartender, trembling
lest the guests should take him for
tender bar.
The temperance society at Augusta,
Ark, has dissolved By the rules the
we're permitted to drink ale,
bnt one Of them, as he expressed i,
found that beverage bunglesome TO his
stomach and fell back on whisky. The
other members followed his example
The Miners Journal, of POttsville,
Pa, having stated that there was a man