Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-10-09

as n delicate attention, or the reverse, to
offer a shoemaker sherry cobbler? b
A carriage maker thinks " the elliptic
steel springs" are about as healthy
mineral springs as there are.
Chemists say that linen can be CON
yerted into sugar. A young bachelor
says he has seen the sweetest kind oil
sugar-in linen. a
A local journal states that in town
upon the Hudson there has been discoy-
cred young ladies society having Tor
its motto, "Flirt on, hirt ever.
The New Orleans Times says of that
young lady whose dress resembled Are
tic moonlight that she was so brilliant
"you could see to read by her. -
The pews of some Of the churches
ought to rest on pivots, so that the oceu-
pants could see who comes in without
straining their necks.
Choirs are always hard to be suited.
One in Maine refuses to sing unless the
people will keep the dogs still that they
bring to church with them.
In a Islander suit in Ohio the defendant
got verdict by virtue of the Judge
ruling that the words were not SANDER
GUS since they had their origin in
propensity to find fault with anything
and everything. 10"
1t is stated that before hanging man
in Louisiana they let from fifteen to
forty reporters for the newspapers in
terview him for three weeks. The
poor fellow is then not only perfectly
willing but anxious to be hung.
The "Abyssinian stretch" has super
ceded the Grecian bend and the Kanga- |
roo droop among the bellies of fashion.
1t is supposed that this will have short
run, as the Madagascar hutter" and
the Fejeean sprawl " are waiting to be
adopted.
The Evening Post asserts that Hoyle'
the apostle Of whist, under the old dis
pensation, is said to have died full of
years and Of honors.' ;" This is not
true. He has merely fallen asleep, wait
ing for the last trump World.
1t is curious fact that while we are
striving to induce China to accept our
civilization, our best men are endeavor-
ing to have the Chinese system of max
ing civil offices the prize of candidates
who successfully pass a competitive ex-
animation adopted here.
An unsophisticated Norwegian in
Northern Iowa, put a pound of gun
powder in his coat-tail pocket the other
day, and after taking hearty smoke put
his pipe in on top of his powder. AL
though it didn't quite kill him, he has a
sweetheart who mourns over his awful
end.
Olive Logans routes with her Nice
Young Men will be in Pennsylvania,
Delaware and New York in October;
in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York
and New England in November; in
New England, New Jersey and New
York in December; in New York, Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Illinois in January,
and in February and March in the West
and South.
A good story is told Of a popular rail-
road conductor, recently chosen deacsn
of church in Mississippi. A few Sun
days after his appointment it became
his duty to assist in taking up collec-
ton. He surprised the congregation by
starting out with the Characteristic
ejaculation, Tickets, gentlemen" The
contribution that day was unusually
large. ft
A mother in the rural districts lately
gave her FIVE year old hopeful an outfit
of fishing tackle. Soon she heard
shout from Willie, and running out
found one of her best hens fast winding
up the line in her craw, whittier the hook
had already preceded it. Willie, OBJ
serving the troubled look Of his mother,
quietly remarked: Don't worry, |
mother; guess she will stop when she
gets to the pole l1
Mrs. Margaret J. Brown was elected |
engrossing clerk Of the Senate last Mon
day. She is Nashville lady whose
husband was Killed during the war and
left her two little children TO support. !
Mrs Brown is the first lady who was
ever elected to I'll public Office in this
State. Mrs. Haskell, the present State
Librarian, was appointed by Governor
Senter to Gil vacancy, and she has
made, 1t is said, the best officer that ever
held that position.
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