Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-07

lively music he was wont 10 give thems
Of the survivors Of the celebrated
Johann Strauss are now left his SON
always in Vienna, and Johann,
whom the Russian government retains
in. St Petersburg.
Saws the New York Mail: The def
milton of wedding, in the fashionable
vocabulary means a grand crisis of
clothes bride, peg on which fnery
of all kinds is hung; bridegroom, a
sober black object following the bride,
of no account in particular, and yet
without. whom there would be no fuss,
aud the fun would not go on"
&. Philarete Chasles, the French crit
ic, writes to the Athen@um Of the pres
ent tone of Partisan society in this buoy
ant strain, Frenchmen are determined
to prove that they are less wounded less
ruined than one would think. When
pleasure calls they hasten to cry out
Present. They boldly answer with the
same eagerness the appeals made to
their cash boxes: Come, how much do
you want2 You, government provision
al, unsteady as | think you, you ask for
two milliards; here are four
An enthusiastic professor of entomolo-
qy. having entertained friend over
night, accosted him in the morning with
the usual inquiry as to how he slept
mot very well. A strange bed, per
haps. But" All" quoth the doc
tor eagerly, "ye were just bitten by
something, ehY Well, to tell the
truth, doctor, l was Just think O
that Bitten, were YEP Now, can you
say that it was anything noteworthy
that bit ye2 peculiar, ehH" Fleas,
think. But such chaps for biting lnevel
saw in my life" :" l should think so, in
deedr with great glee,) they are 81
Gillian aeas. imported them myself
Captain Henry King said in a lee
ture before tie Kansas Editorial Con
yeution: 81 believe in personalities
The journalist is never so powerful a;
when he is personal. To proclaim
truth in a general way is well; but to
give it personal application is immeas
urably better. Archbishop Whately once
said he believed people should go tc
church to be made uncomfortable. And
| hope. ON the same ground, that a
newspaper is q failure which does not
make bad men squirm whenever they
read it. Denouncing knavery in the alb
stract is like tossing pebbles into the
ocean; it is only when scoundrels are
specifically colIared and held up to pub
lie scorn and scofing that the waters are
troubled to some purpose.
You have seen the statement that poor
Matilda Heron, the actress, had lost her
wits while playing an engagement in st.
Louis. They who claim to know declare
that her former husband, from whom she
is now divorced, and who is the leader
of the orchestra in one of the principal
theaters, has driven her to distraction
by every means of cruelty and brutality.
When he married hor she was at the
hight Of her fame, and had handsome
property. This, if report be true, he
squandered, and even forced her to give
up the last house and lot she owned, by
informing her that he had another Wife
and that, if she refused to give him her
final remnant of fortune, he would pub
lish the fact, and render their child lille
climate. Under such threats, tits said
she yielded, and since her separation she
seems to have grown more and more de-
nged.-[New York Letter to Boston
Herald