Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-11

There have already been published
eleven last poems" by Alice Cary.
Boston is worried about its census.
With all the annexing of towns and
cities, it will not show over $50, 600 popu-
lation for Boston.
A sour old bachelor made the remark
that girl who is now termed beauti-
full blonde would few years ago have
been called tow-head.
A saloon in Kansas City displays the
following in large letters: "Meet
friendly; drink moderately; pay on de-
livery; part peaceably; call again cften.
The effort in the West to raise money
for monument to Gen. VIM. Henry
Harrison, at North Bend, Ohio, his old
family residence, is likely to prove a
failure.
Mark Twain says: "I have seen
slower people than | am-and more de-
liberate people than am-and even
quieter and more listless, and lazier
people than / am. But they were dead. 7"
An editor once wrote notice of a
Columbus business college, while pub.
fishing a paper in Xenia, Ohio He
spoke of well-deserving institution, and
of course the compositor made it hell
deserving"
A Lockport dog got needle fast in
his tongue, and the animal was chloro-
formed in order that the needle might be.
extricated. The surgical operation was
a success, but the chloroform killed the
dog.
A Scranton, Pennsylvania, temper
ance society pays for all the liquor ten
men can drink if they will inform on
the man who sells to them. An aston
ishing number of men out of work are
looking after these situations.
The annual income of the Peabody
educational fund is about one hundred
and twenty thousand dollars. Ten
thousand dollars are deducted for con-
tingent expenses, and the remainder ap.
propriated for educational purposes.
There is remarkable collection of
dark-colored slabs in Canandaigua on.
Y. cemetery, marking the graves of the
three wives of one man. They show
that theft died in 1913, the second in
1914, and the third in 1915.
A Peekskill paper has received the
following admonition: Mr.. Edtnr-
What did you print my family matters in
yur paper for, it is none yur bizness if
my wife did have twins, pays for them
and you'll get yur head punched you had
best tend to yer own bizness. j. p"
Mrs. Annie Breed, Of Norwich, Conn,
died few days since and left $4,000 to
a faithful servant, Abby Mickey, for
twenty years Of devotion. The domestic
was so delighted with the legacy that she
actually died of excess of happiness in
less than two weeks.
We doubt the good taste of calling on
the aid of the Bible in writing puffs for
ready-made clothing. Here is the way
one of our exchanges does that business:
The wicked fee when no man pur-
sueth, but the good and sensible man is
as bold as n lion, and rushes fearlessly |
to the establishment of (so-and-so), and |
buys himself new suit Of clothes"
The most eccentric species Of practical
humor that we have lately heard Of was
recently displayed by man living on
the line of the Southwestern railroad,
near Drakesville, Iowa, who, having
taken a spite against the company, |
amused himself the other day by cover
ing the rails for the distance of a mile
with soap. A single train was three
hours in crossing the creased stretch.
A story is told Of a prominent mer-
chant Of Boston, who was an ardent adj
mirer of Grant, and had had fine por-
trait of the President prominently placed
in his house. As soon as Summers de-
position was announced the merchant
went home, and taking down the por-
trait laid it upon the floor, and was
about to put his foot through it. The
summary proceeding was arrested by
his wife, who persuaded her spouse to
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