Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-11-20

safe for an unprotected man to pass
through there.
1t is said that A. 7. Stewart eats about
dozen oyster stews a day. The boys
in the store call him regular Oyster
Stewart.
A Miss Balm, of Montreal, has sued
her lover for what she calls extras.
She says she will explain when the trial
comes on.
The best toast that we can remember
is the following Connecticut, the
Nutmeg State, where shall we find a
greater2"
When Mrs. Moore, of Indianapolis,
thrashed her husband, that afflicted
man took keen revenge by calling her
"the bride of lam a-Moors."
A lady editor in Wisconsin advertises
in her own paper for a husband. She
says he must be printer and possess
means sufficient to buy a new press.
One of the ceremonies attendant upon
a state banquet with the Lord Mayor of
London, is drinking from the loving
cup" which is passed from guest to
guest.
A victim of Greeley's handwriting
says: "If Horace had written that in
scription on the wall in Babylon, Bel
shazzar would have been good deal
more scared than he was.
pat, who is this Nilsson we hear so
much spakin about in the newspapers
Don't you know, Mike2 Why its that
ould sea devil, Nilsson, that fit the bat
ties of the Nile, to be sure"
An English woman, wanting to show
her appreciation of her minister's ear
nest and forcible action, remarked, He
knocks about pretty tidy in the pulpit
for an old gentleman"
The reformed women are to have a
grand convention in Washington, on the
10th, 18th and 18th of January, for the
purpose of getting Congress to declare
that all women are men under the Con-
stitution.
The river is going up and coal is
coming down. Now the discontinued
will become cheerful, housekeepers will
stop grumbling, and our daughters will
cease the folly of playing poker where
the draw is poor.
Two rustics came into village tele-
graph Office to send dispatch. As they
left the Office the gong of an adjacent
hotel sounded for tea, whereupon one OF
the pair went into the air several feet,
exclaiming, "By Jerusaleml There it
goes, Jiml"
Some one told Jem Mace that he
should make innumerable conquests
among the fair sex because of his stall
wart proportions, where0n the great
boxer replied my eyes, if l wanted
to make the women spoon on me I'd go
and be piano player"
Mrs. Woodruff, in expectation of the
next Presidency, is trying to devise
some appropriate dress for a woman TO
wear in accordance with this new and
unprecedented position. To show her
gratitude to her biographer, we would
suggest Tilton hoops.
On the afternoon of the day on which
President Grant kissed the thirty girls
at Bangor, Me-, Julia Dow, of that city
was arrested for being intoxicated on the
street. Her excuse was that she was
one of the kissed girls. and never could
stand the smell of whisky.
Mrs. Livermore thinks Horace Gree
ley is dumb fool with his idea of lock
ing his daughters up in cloisters out oil
the way of men, and said she couldn'
forbear telling him it was a great pity he
was not on hand when God made the
world. Mrs. Livermore forgets that Mr..
Greeley is a selfmade man.
An applicant for the position of do
nestle in Danbury family, was asked
if she understood how to use kerosene
Her reply exceeded the most sanguint
expectations: use it, is it2' she ex
claimed in a tone of reproachful expla
nation; give me a can Of karyosan'
and 1 never ask for the lift of Shawn.
She was not engaged.
A literary scandal has just been mad'
public in Prussia. Herr Won Muller
the pious and popular Cultus Minister
sued for damages the editor Of volum'
Of early amorous poems which he 9TH
minister Of Worship had written an'
desired to suppress. The damage
awarded we're fine of only fifty thalers
As eight editions of the obnoxiou
poems had been sold, the editor wa
ab.e to pay it.
A correspondent of a New York pape
relates the following touching anecdote
81 found a cOckfeaeh struggling in
} bowl Of water l took half q peanu
, shell for boat. put him into it an
gave him two wooden toothpicks fc
! oars, and left him. The next morning
visited him, aud be had put piece
] vb;t. cotton thread on one Of the tsotl