Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-03-10

The Courier-J Journal has the Small
Talk Its - disease quite incurable-
Let the wild reader judge by the babble
that follows. ...,.- .-'....-...q ytf i''s'
A district in New Mexico, noted for
its smiling fields, has been named Col
fax county soi
Z Mary's lamb has turned up in Leay'
enworth advertisement, which thus re-
cords its fate: .saeilqasd2it ngi u.
l.iae Bat Mary, shs has one thought left. ~
yf-s And smilingly asserts, y. $780,
SITS wool Is now wove into six @n1 "a.
y ana 0fWolf& Bfother's shirts. ~ NJ 80
A French correspondent writes from
sBologne:e "ltis utterly impossible for
those who have known France onlyin
her prosperity to picture the, complete
revolntiono Of her sociellife,S'sf M
There is one knockldown argument
for theL acquisition of Sam Domingo:
1t will probablyuenab MS to get rid of
John Pope and some Of the less brilliant
summaries Of the regular army.
II. any man wishes to earn the eyerlast-
ing gratitude Of the community, let him
settle that question OF the rank OF the
naval line and staff. Porter is to the
navy what trichinaisto pork =
EXCUSE my left hand" remarked
Blobbins, as he shook hands with Pig.
Gins ~" Certainly, certainly" replied
Pliggins; II never take umbrage at ma
ture. See Ecclesastes x, b" Blobbins
no longer speaks to Pliggins.
The Boston Post suspends its rule
against publishing champion old people
to say that 1.-THE old lady, who well re-
members the late Hon. 6. W. Washing
ton. when he attended musters in her
town, is extant in New Hampshire, at
something over 100 years Of age"
In the course Of "a labored account Of
the parks in Cincinnati, the Chicago
Republican remarks that they are only
about big enough for a torcblight pro-
cession of tom-cats, three in row, to
march through. They are easily kept
at summer heat with half dozen nom
explosive coal oil lamps ~
Ninety-three burial permits, and only
eight marriage licenses were issued last
week. Gazette. 1t will re-
uuire something more than q Southern
railroad TO save city that exhibits such
statistics. During same week, in Louis
vile, there were seventeen marriage
licenses and only forty burial permits.
The hirsute prejudice fingers with the
Chicago Republican. Says that paper;
/" Darwin says that such of the monkeys
as have long hair on their heads, invaria-
bly, part it in the middle. Which is why |
he remarks, and the reason is plain,
that the hirsute resemblance between
some men and some monkeys is to be |
taken as good evidence of family rela-
tionship." c, - q ~
There is woman living at New Hamp-
ton who enjoys herself more than any
BODY. When she wants to have fun, she
coaxes q strange dog into her kitchen
by honeyed words and fresh meat, and
when the dog gets to devouring the meat,
and thanking her with his tail, and won
lering why there are not more good
creatures ike her in that town, she takes |
4 kettle of boiling water and throws it |
IN the dog, when he goes of, losing faith
IN human nature. lf hsA
Mrs. Stowe says: Marriage requires
10 close an intimacy that there must be
perfect agreement and sympathy; the
over down in the scale Of being one is
he fewer distinctive points there are of
Inference or agreement. Ii is easier
or John au1 Patrick, and Bridget and
Katy to find comfortable sympathy than
I is for those far up in the scale OF life,
chose education has developed a thou.
sand individuals tastes and pecularities.
German union don't develop republi-
.anism to any great extent. A letter /
rom the King of Saxony to Emperor
Wilhelm begins: Most brilliant, most
Zrand and most powerful Emperor
Best friend, very dear cousin and brother
have been imbued with the most pro-
ound satisfaction by the honored letter
If your Imperial and Royal Majesty,
TO me by the Envoy Of your
sminently high Lordship." m
The venerable Mark Twain came 70
Washington few days ago to have Ten
nessee dvidedinto two judicial Districts
Il appears that the city Of Memphis
stands indebted to an estate, Of which he
S an executor, in the sum of three or
'ou- hundred thousand dollars, bnt that.d
owing to the long docket in the Tonnes
zee District, the case is never reached |
for adjudication. He wants the district |
cut into twain" but even the great
humorist sometimes fails in politics, and
after three days hopeless meandering
n that great bodrse Of the capitol, Mark |
gave the town his blessing, and fastened |
o Buffalo. He is said to be writing a |
comic Bible. with Samson for the central
character, and he makes his hero bring
-, A. Louso bttt;no fhA philietinea