Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-16

recently
Sabine county, Illinois, has only one
piano in it, and the instrument is packed
away in a garnet.
AS far north as Detroit there are la
dies who visit the menagerie and ask to
be shown the Cundurango.
A man in Detroit who uns uccessfully |
attempted to kill himself by taking poi
son, has been fined FIVE dollars.
An Indiana butcher claims the cham
pionship," and says he can kill and
dress an OK in seven minutes.
An indignant gas consumer says that
there is no use in abusing tn gas com
panies, for they've always a vile retort
ready.
The armies and navies in Europe are
said to contain at present 5, l65, 300 men,
5l2,294 horses, lO,224 field guns and 800
Mr.. Stanley, the baritone English
opera-singer, now in New York, is out
in a card defending the character of the
Prince of Wales s4N
Young ladies viii now hesitate before
rushing into matrimony. 1t is getting
to be the thing to present the bride with
sewing machine.
An old lady, being tainted with pur-
chasing young and poor man for a
husband, justified herself by saying that
it was not good for man to be loan.
An admirer and reader of the late
Charles Dickens went into one Of the
Buffalo news depots, the other afternoon,
and asked for the Mystery of Edwin
Booth"
A California photographer agreed to
furnish half length picture of coun;
tryman at half price. When he deliver
ed view of the sitter from the waist
down rusticus became profane.
The recent disaster to the Arctic whal-
ing feet suggested to the San Francisco
News Letter an explanation why ships
are called she. It is because so many
of them are abandoned.
Kind hearted mammas, who will soon
make their selections for Christmas gifts !
for the children, will be delighted to
learn that New York doll-maker has /
succeeded in producing little darlings at
a value of $500.
A Kentucky girl says that when she
dies she desires to have tobacco planted
over her grave, that the weed nourished
by her dust may be chewed by her be-
reaved lovers. There is poetry in the
idea.
A perfdious paragraphist on the New
York Post says: a. Swiss gentleman
fancies he has invented a piano which
is played by electricity-when plenty Of
performers cannot touch the instrument
without shocking every one who hears
hem"
An epoch is a fixed point of time from
which dates are numbered or a new
computation begins. 1t is, therefore,
he commencement Of an era. Thus
he era of the Mohammedans dates
rom the epoch of the hegira. or the
Eight Of Mohammed to Medina
The Danbury News speaks Of a de-
ecied individual who asked the editor
What the charge was for inserting a no
ice Of the death Of his wife. On being
old that it would be done for nothing.
lie Frightened up considerably and OBJ
Ierved that death had been robbed Of
ialf its terrors."
A Norwegian lady has arrived in Mil
yankee with some twenty Of her chill.
lren. She says there are 50 many acci-
Tents she didn't think it safe TO bring
hem ell on one boat, as in case Of
vreek she wouldn't have any heart to
commence life in a new country. She
Expects the rest OF them shortly.
The receipts Of the suez canal during
be nine months (January to Oetober),
s7l, amounted 10 7,736,O00 francs
gsinst 4, 446, 900 f.-ancs for the same pc
iod last year. The receipts must, how
yer, be doubled 70 cover the expense OF
-orking and mainienanee and the inte-
est on the oblig atoms
When Madame Schneider was engaged
,r an opera bfuffe season recently, the
lanager den,urred to her exorbitant
rms, remarking that her income would
E higher than that Of a Marshal Of
rance. Well, then said she, let a
.arshal Of France sing for you.
The four once famous Rsvel brothers,
abriel, Antoine, Franco Sc and Jerome,
e nov living quietly nea Paris. They
e said TO have lost 3 goot ! deal Of Their
operty during the Fl tuco-German ?
", but they stili have q bundance 70 :
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