Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-04-20

The wine given the Prussian soldiers
costs fifteen cents bottle.
Fashionable dogs in New York, the
fashion authorities announce, are to
: wear silk neck ties this summer,
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton Of Dover, England, by vote of iif-
teen to thirteen, has expelled Punch,
the comic paper, from its reading room.
Leghorn fats, we hear, are becoming
fashionable again for seaside wear. Our
bellies must be emulous of the youthful
beauty of their venerated grandmothers.
An old lady observing sign over a
tailoring establishment bearing the in
scription, Fountain of Fashion" ex-
claimed "Ah that must be the place
where the spirits come from. "
A stone-cutter in Ohio has achieved
Immortality for himself by tracing on a
tombstone the assertion that the little
child buried beneath "was an angle on
earth, and now she was an angle in
heaven"
The Princess Frederick Charles of
Prussia is selling tickets for all her own
paintings, which are to be disposed of in
a lottery for the benefit of the Invalid
Fund. The drawing will take place on
lst of June.
A Kansas hotel door bears the follow
ing placard: This hotel is closed on
account of Indifference between the pro-
prietor and cook, which was settled with
pistols, and sent the proprietor to the
grave and the cook to the jail
Six years in the penitentiary, is the
sentence passed upon the Prussian bur
gomaster who was arrested sometime
since at Baltimore and taken back to
Prussia for running away with twenty
thousand dollars belonging to the public
treasury.
A little girl in London, who sold wa
tercresses, had Bible given to her by
a city missionary She read it for some
months, and told the minister that she
liked the Old Testament better than the
New, as there was a deal more fun an
fighting in it"
Sir Edward Thornton, the British Min
lister, receives a salary of S25, 900 a year,
and after the settlement of the Alabama
claims, it is said, it will be increased to
$40. 600, his mission being raised to that
of an. am mbassador of the first-class.
Madame Parepa-Rosa was prevented
by ill-health from singing at the recent
wedding Of the Princess Louise, and by
advice Of her physician she will abstain
from the exercise of her profession for
several months. She has relinquished |
her engagement at the Royal Italian |
Opera in London.
At Grass Valley, Nevada, a curious
nugget. weighing about an ounce and a |
halt. was lately picked up out Of the
sluice boxes This nugget represents in
shape the design of the seal of the State
of California. The Goddess Of Liberty,
with the cap and staff in hand, is sculp-
tured in pure gold by the hand of Ma
ture. An imaginative eye can also see
outlines OF the bear at the left hand of
the Goddess. This singular specimen is
to be saved from the melting pot and
the mint because of its curious shape.
The following is the latest arrange
ment Of wedding anniversaries, and will
be interesting to those having large cir
cles of liberal minded friends, and in
tending to celebrate hereafter: First
iron; fifth anniversary,
wooden; tenth anniversary, tin; fifteenth
crystal; twentieth anniver-
sary, china; tweniy-fiith anniversary,
silver; thirtieth anniversary, cotton;
thirty-fffh anniversary, linen; fortieth
anniversary, woolen; forty-fifth anniver-
sary, silk; fiftieth anniversary, golden;
seventy-ffth anniversary, diamond.