Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The coughing boss is the India
name for locomotive. ala
Queen Victoria invites guests to break
fast at FIVE o'clock pm. p ltfat
Cornelius Vanderbilt had fifteen chi
dren by his first wife, eleven Of then
daughters.
The World thinks that Louis Napoleol
wishes to identify himself with the Mar
seillaise" in order to be considered a
the national him.
A Vermont coroners jury is "of 4
Pinion that the Decest met his dealt
from Violent Information in the he'd
from Unoan Cauze.' tssat
A photographer in Indianapolis ex
poses delinquent customers by displaying
their pictures upside down, aud labelled
Not paid for 9H ~
A young man, near Centre, Alabama
was bitten several times in his wooden
leg the other day, by snake, which wal
subsequently killed.
Dan Bryant has been formally pre-
scented with valuable service of sole
tin at ST. Louis, on the completion Of his
tenth year OF married life. s.
Not having heard from the debating
societies in relation to the conundrum
"Why do hens always lay eggs in the
daytime?" contemporary answers be-
cause at night they are ROSTERS
Springfield, Mass, was left in total
darkness few nights since, in conse-
quence of difference between the Com
mon Council and the Gas Company,
growing out of demand for reduction
in price.
Such is the habit of borrowing money
in Chicago, that the Michigan Central
railroad have two large painted signs in
their depot, as follows: Caution to pas
sengers-do not lend your money to
strangers. i't
Physicians in Augusta, Ga, generally
concur in the opinion that this has been
the severest summer on young children
within their memory, and that larger
number have died than ever before in
one year.
The Cincinnati Times makes this one:
" There can be no doubt that President
Grant is already seeking to conciliate
the Chinese element, His appointment
of Ere Ling Huysen as Minister to En-
gland is conclusive on that point.
Secretary Boutwell, having appointed
Miss Baker chief librarian of the Trea-
sury Department she Immediately
" cooked the goose" of all male assist
ants employed in the library, and filed
their places with females.
A traveller who had crossed the Allan
tic tells story of storm when the rain
poured down in such torrents that the
ocean rose ten inches. There is no
said he, because the captain
kept mark on the side of the vessel. "
Two young ladies" in Randall coun-
ty, Indiana, recently waylaid and sound
" thrashed a young man who, as they
accidentally discovered, was engaged to
be married to both of them. He has
trta fv
An enterprising deputy sheriff, in
Litchfeld county, Conn, recently
seized at grocery store, and removed
With great care, two casks, one marked
bourbon and the other rum, which were
ound on examination to contain eighty
tight gallons of stale rain water.
A countryman walking the streets of
New York, found his progress stopped
~ close barricade of lumber What
s that forY said he to person in the
treet. That's TO stop the cholera"
All have often heard of the board of |
iealth, but ! never saw one before.
Mr.. VIM. Stevens, Deputy U. S. Mar
hal to take the census for the lower
lalf of Carolina county, Nd, has I'M
,arthed two centenarans whilst in the
discharge OF his duty-Jane Hutson,
amiliarly known as jimmie Dublin"
geJ ll6 years, and Ann Murray, aged
10 years. The county record show that
hese are their true ages.
Every French soldier carries piece
t canvas about FIVE feet long by four
road and q stick; when two of these
'ieees of canvas arc Joined together
hey form a shelter; when six are built
d they constitute tent closed at both
nds. The French soldier is thus, for
is house accommodations, independent
f baggage animals.
Rum is making fearful havoc in Alba
y. The Argus says: 1.-TWO limbs of the
Nv, six government officials, one physi-
ian, and nine wives of respectable citi-
ems and mothers of interesting families,
-eFe before the court during the past
lonth on charge of drunkenness.
he disease is spreading to an alarming
xtent
The words which Walter Scott puts in
ne mouth of Jennie Dean, in her adj
ress 10 the Queen, are true as they are
eautiful. When the hour of trouble
Omes-and seldom may it visit your
'ddyship-and when the hour of death
pines, that comes to high and low-lang
nd late may it be years-O, my leddyl
1T is ma what we have done for ourseIs,
ut what we have done for others, that
e think on most pleasantly"
The valuable pine forests Of New Jer
y are likely, at no distant day, to be
ltirely destroyed Every summer fires
reak out, or are maliciously started in
e swamps, and hundreds of thousands
dollars are lost before they can be
nothered. A fire in " the pines is one
the grandest spectaeles, sheets of
anne, from five to ten miles in length,
'metimes sweeping through the timber
nd carrying everything before them.
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