Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-28

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The fiddle has become the fashionable
instrument for young women at New
port.
Ninety-fvs gambling dens are Kept
in New York in open defiance OF the
police.
Elder Knapp has begun preaching the
funeral sermons Of persons sun
living"
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson is dis
coursiug with fery eloqusnce about Chi
cago.
"Enteric fever" having allied the
Prince Of Wales, will soon be a fashion
able complaint.
Harriet Beecher Stowe always get
the Beecber' I'M has taken to portrait
painting.
New York BARRIERS have all they can
do arranging the hair Of society men
a Ia Grand Duke.
The book to which reference is most
frequently made nowaday-the pocket
book.
An old Hoboken woman who peddles
peanuts is worth $4,000, and owns three
houses.
An Oswegan partoOk of fifteen glasses
of gin one evening, and was found
drowned the next day.
A Wisconsin judge was compelled to
sentence his brother to confinement in
the State prison.
The Chicago Common Councilmen
are calling one another liars with their
former nonchalance.
Tiehborne has spent all his money in
the lawsuit, and lawyers on both sides
are now fighting for honor.
Halls Arctic expedition is now en-
joying the pleasure of dog sleigh-rides
within the frigid zone.
Juarez has sent agents to Springfield
to purchase muskets wherewith to kill
off his erring greasers.
The independence Hall Society, of
Philadelphia, has been imposed upon
by forged letter of Washington.
Nilsson has again started the rumor
that after the present season she will
disappear from the stage.
An Indiana miser, worth 81, 25O,O 900,
recently persisted voluntarily from lack
Of food and fuel.
Grace Greenwood acknowledges that
imam is grand creature, even II he is
little stingy about the franchise
There wasn't any trace Of polarization
in the light Of the comet, and so we are
safe for another six months.
A local paper at Alexandria, Mime
sofa, records the fact Of an old man be-
ing severely frozen to death at that
place.
The editor Of the San Francisco
Morning Call had to make a morning call
on a surgeon to dig bullet out of bis
shoulder.
Give me the least grain Of truth for a
basis and ] can ruin the character OF
any woman in the world.-A ST. Louis
Woman.
Cashmere shawls the ladies' recon-
mend to their husbands as pretty arti-
cles fer presents at this season. SenSi-
BILE to the last.
Because the judge would not furnish
the chicken to swear q Chinese witness
in the celestial manner, suit entered in
Colorado fell through
The New York Citizen diseloses that
Msdemoiselle Aimee has had her lovely
face and form photographed in forty-hVe
different positions.
An Illinois preacher lays not up for
himself riches on earth since three sue
cessive thieves have broken through bis
house and stolen.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
having decided that suicide is no; q
crime, those who have committed it need
| moi he afraid IN return
The Rev. Robertw Hatfield says that
Nilsson, Psrepa-Ross, Charlotte Cush-
man and Patti are "a nest Of unelsAn
birds" Mr.. Hatfield is opposed to the
theater and the opera.
1t is the ambition Of every true Phila.
delphian to live long enough to be men.
toned in the Philadelphis Ledger Al
one Of the nine persons who died il
Philadelphia last week at the advanced
age Of eighty"
In California theater, a few night
since, large red spplS fell from the
gallery and struck squarely upon ID,
. bald and shining pate Of . gentleman il
the dress circle, then bounded into the
orchestra and broke a fiddle.
Sol Smith Resell, who travelled viii
and made faces for the Berger family o.
swiss Bell Ringers, vas baptized re
Gently in the Episcopal Church at Can.
ton, Miss, and eontenplsies studying
FOR the ministry. Not loHg ago he vas
10 Ktutseky singing. :" If ever l cease 70
love.