Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-15
VARIETIES.

| The weather has been so hot in Texas
that the pop corn popped itself on thu
stalk. The papers tell the story, anc
you may believe it if you like,
A widow, a boarding house keeper out
in Kansas, who entered a complaint
against q boarder, gave her age as
twenty-three, when she is fifty if she is
a day, and the enraged justice dismissed
the case without inquiring any further.
Grace Greenwood says that in Colo
RADIO nature seems resolved to make up
for lost time by producing flowers in
matchless profusion and brilliancy oi
coloring, bnt sends them out in such
haste that she forgets to scent them.
Recently at school in Switzerland,
one Of the under masters, having occa-
sion to punish a refractory boy, was
stabbed by the latter in the head with a
pocketknife, which entered the brain,
and caused his death almost immedi-
ately. il as
The profit on recent ".corner in
wheat in Chicago is calculated by the
Tribune Of that city at twenty-five per
cent. per month on the money paid into
the pool, which was formed about the
first Of August The amount clubbed
was $970, 600, and the variation in the
price of wheat was about twenty cents.
These watering-place gossips are per-
fectly awful One of them writes from
Long Branch that there is trouble brew
ing in the Grant family. She observed
Ulysses himself flirting furiously with
blue-eyed belle at party one evening,
and shortly afterward Mrs. G. had that
same damsel out in a corner of the porch
" giving her talking to. i"
Parties are now engaged in dragging
in the Anacostia river Off the Navy
Yard at Washington for the recovery Of
chains, anchors, ETC., which were depos-
tied for safe-keeping in the bed of the
river in 1914, when the British invaded
the city, A considerable amount of
chain and large anchor have thus far
been recovered, which will be renovated
at the yard.
An interesting case was tried before
an Evansville, Ind, justice few days
ago. A man named Dugan had been
killed by a runaway horse. A subscrip-
ton was taken up for the benefit of the
widow and children. John Dugan,
brother of the deceased, collected the
subscriptions and kept the money,
claiming that his brother was indebted
to him at the time Of his death. On the
trial the widow obtained judgment, and
the charitable John had to disgorge.
While Governor Perham was trans
acting business with State official the
other day, son entered the room un-
and proceeding at once
to his father, asked him rather loudly for
money. The Governor being busily en-
gagged, and wishing to silence his rather
boisterous demands, said to him: MY
son, be quiet; | have no money" The
little fellow placed himself in a theatri-
cal attitude, with one foot advanced and
arms akimbo, and looking his father in
the face, said: "Well this is pretty
how dy edo; Governor of Maine, and no
and went off whistling, with
look of mingled wonder and disgust at
the poverty of the Chief Magistrate.
Among the victims fthe Mobile steam
boat disaster was little Steve Snow, of
whom the Mobile Register thus speaks.
He was for long time employed as
The message carrier for the Associated
Press dispatches, and being compara-
lively destitute, his funeral expenses
we're betrayed by the press and telegraph |
,fiices of this place, and the New York |
Associated Press, Mr.. Simonton, the |
General Agent at New York, having |
Ient dispatch instructing Mr.. Sanford |
o draw upon him for twenty dollars for
hat purpose Poor little Steve was
therefore, decsntly inferred. He was a
fright, quick boy, and we miss his night
y familiar cries of More yet, and
Good night. We trust that his last
good night has merged in bright,
lappy day