Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-03-26
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

One of the New Orleans street rail
ways pays out silver in change, =
! General Mcclellan. il is said, is to be
come the President Of the Atlantic ane
Great Western midway.
In Brooklyn they have been throwing
bars Of soap instead Of bouquets at
danseuse.
The trustees of n Buffalo church found
SO in silver in their contribution boxes
last Sunday.
AT the last fashionable Hotel de Vile
ball, in Paris it is estimated that the
ladies present wore 1900 pounds of false
hair.
In williamsburg, Va, last week, q
horse threw two young men, who had
mounted him in frolic, and killed them
both.
One of Mrs. Stanton's sons is haunting
his mother and sister that they must yet
awhile stand outside and see us men
run the MACHINE
Recent statistics show that in Scotland,
out of 666, 1856 houses, 246,60 had only
two rooms, and 226,723 but one room,
and 1864 had no windows.
o The male students of the Indiana Med
ical College have given one of the lady
students gold-headed cane. The ques-
ton now ARISES; What will she do with
it?"'
The Indianapolis Journal states that
they put ten dollars worth of silver on
the coffin of Boone county man who
ate six. dozen hard-boiled eggs on a
wager.
A wonderful genius has arisen in
France, who pretends that he finds in
the human foot the index of all the
passions and frailties Of our nature.
DR.. S. p. Townsend, the well-known
maker of sarsaparilla, who for the past
ten years has resided in Feltville, New
Jersey, where he possessed some eight
hundred acres of land, died at his home
on Tuesday last.
The proprietor of Turkish newspa-
per published in London was arrested on
a charge of libeling the GrandVizier. He
said that Ali Pasha was an oppressor,
and by the law of Islam, any patriotic
Turk ought to kill him. Journalism in
London is a perilous pursuit.
Princess Metternich lately appeared at
a ball in black tulle, with the very fash
idnable scarf sash of black gros-grain |
thrown over the skirt much below the /
waist. In her hair a diadem of diamond |
leaves with toquet Of black velvet, a
white and black plume down the back of
her hair.
A Pittsfeld Massachusetts, man lost
his hammer. He gave one of his boys
sound thrashing for losing it, Not long
after the father found the missing ham
mer where he had left it. Never mind,
said he, trying to console the boy and
his conscience, whippings never come
amissl"
1t is stated that there are more Israel
ties in New York City than in the Holy
Land, or in all Syria. There are about
seventy thousand in that city, and this is
larger number than now in
habit the Scripture lands above men
toned. Of that seventy thousand there
are not one thousand that can justly be
called poor, while the majority are heavy
owners of real estate, and also the most
active and enterprising of our CONNER
cial people.
A story has been going the rounds that
the principal currency of Denver is
Chinese coin; .whereupon the Pueblo
Chieftain perpetrated the following.
The Chinese coin circulating in Den
YER is simply loose shirt buttons rubbed
off the Denverites by the Celestial
washerwomeH, They are carried around
by the men in their pockets, because the
Denver women, since they have got
female suffrage on the brain, won't sew
them on again.
An episode occurred in the Iowa SEN
ate on the 9Th inst. Soon after the SEN
ate was called to order the doorkeeper
" Message from the House,
and Miss Mary E. Spencer, engrossing
clerk of that body, appeared and mod
estly said: "Mr. President" That
officer replied Miss Clerk" and Miss
Spencer proceeded to read, in q clear
and distinct voice, a message from the
House in relation 10 certain bills which
had passed that body. AT the conclusion
Of the message the Senators approved
Of this first official act performed by
woman in the Iowa Senate by general
clapping of hands.
Tho woman who cowhided Gray, the
New York banker, writes to
The New York Sun that she is not his
q Birdie" but that Birdie" was clerk
in the fourth auditors department of the
Treasury, while the writer was employed /
in New York. She says that she cow
hided Gray because no DETAINED her
character in Washington before the au-
by that means throwing her out
Of situation. She also says that there
was no improper intimacy between her
and Gray, who has not gone to Omaha,
but went to California bys rail, took the |
steamer in open daylight, Ind sailed for
China.