Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-09

mistress at Bradford, Va.
Olive Logan is going to intrust her
happiness to one of the despised male
sex next Christmas.
Able List talks Of turning Buddhist,
because the Pope went to sleep under
the performance Of his last fantasia.
Ex-senator Gwin, of California, well
known as the Duke Of Sonora" has a
promising gold mine in calayeras
county.
Utah may have its plural wives, OBJ
serves Mr.. Quilp, but other parts of the
country have very singular ones.-BOs-
ton Post. st2
Qui Vive, the new Communist paper in
London, is edited by NJ. Vermerch, for
merly editor, in Paris, of the notorious
Pere Duchene. ~
A Poughkeepsie landlady is in de-
spair. Her six boarders stow away two
hundred and thirty cakes, ordinary size,
every morning.
A recent visitor to Mr.. Carlyle's study
says that an earthquake might turn it
upside down but could not add to its dis
arrangement. ~.
The article on the Commune in Paris
in the current number Of the Edinburgh
Review is by Mr.. steigand, who was
shut up in the city during the siege.
A Kansas City hack-driver has fallen
heir to sz,eOOOOO in England, and
wants to borrs fifty cents until he can
see Redhanded Mike.
Tennyson, in his latest idyl, The
Last Tournament furnishes motto for
Mrs. Woodhull:
free love-freO held-we love but while We
may"
Massachusetts tobaceo-chewers don't
appear to enjoy many privileges. A
Taunton man was fined six dollars for
splitting on a church carpet.
The poets of Louisville, Ky, are just
now having an excited contest to see
who shall get the contract for writing
played-out carriers addresses.
Two of the lady medical students who
have been studying in Edinburg are
about to be married-one Of them to a
well,known Scotch newspaper editor.
Colonel Chesney is about the most
successful author of the day. The
seventh hundred thousand Of his Bat
tie of Dorking is now selling in Eng
land
shuyaloff is the name Of one Of the
officers of the Russian feet He eouid
have done excellent service on Memphis
sidewalks during the recent snow
storm.
The best way to find out is to put "a
ring on it, was the blushing reply Of a
young woman to the remark Of her lover
that he hoped her hand was not a
counterfeit"
A lady, whose husband was suddenly
killed by the falling of a railroad bridge
with a train upon it, actually wept her
entire sight away in two weeks from the
fatal day.
NJ Jules Favre is about to publish,
under the title Of Rome and the French
Republic" volume Of diplomatic dis
patches relating to the fall of the tenn
poral power Of the Pope.
1t is understood that Mr.. Kinglake
has deferred the publication Of the con.
GLIDING volume Of his History Of the
Crimean War until the absorbing in
teresi excited by the Franeo-German
war has subsidized.
A novel published some time ago
under the title Of "A Visit to Ny Dis
contented Cousin il said to be written
by the Right Hon. j MoncrieG. FOR.
merly Lord Advocate for Scotland and
now Lord Justice Clerk.
The Queen Of Holland lately did We
suyius the honor Of visiting It in a sedan
chair II offered her summit hot,
but she declined its proGered " drop Of
the crater having brought her own
supply Of porter.
A young lady in a California skating
rink was astonishing a crowd Of people
with her excellent skating, when she
stumbled and fell knocking out all her
teeth. It is eonsoling to know that they
were false ones.
Stephen Pearl Andrews suggests that
the absolutoid and absiraetoid elemen-
tismus Of being echoes or re-appears by
analogy within the relatoid and oonere-
told elaborismus This fhould be gen
orally known.
Herr Kaih, he German saEsnt, in .
work recently published. shows that
there was a total eclipse Of the moon
coneomitantly with the earthquake that
occurred when Julius Cesar was assassi-
mated. on the 18th Of March, B. c. a.
Howard Glyddon." literary maiden
o. fancy free, doesn't approve Of early
She isn't more than forty