Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-08

Thanksgiving is the great wedding
season in Boston.
Coffee parties" are the latest names .a'
for fairs in Massachusetts,.
Both hot drinks and iced drinks are
becoming popular in the South
Coal is going down at Scranton but
nowhere else in the country.
Many bouquets are being constantly
sent to Eugene by Partisan ladies.
1t now costs fifty cents more than
it used to for Cairo man to beat his
wife.
At Indiana fires they burst open wAis'
ky barrels and FL their hats with the
contents.
An Albany paper accuses G. +. i. OF
a. ola podrjda of sesquipedahan VERDI
age" I'D
The dirtiest strike out-Grants prop
osition to strike hands with the Gar
of Russia"
Ashbury can't get over it. He is
about to build new yacht, and tempt
fortune again.
The women who are clamoring to be
taught anatomy had far better learn
how to carve Punch.
An Indiana editor says; I'VE leave
tomorrow for the country hog show and
hope to take the prize.
The latest menagerie quotations for
tigers is $4,000 per pair. This sale was
made in Cincinnati. Ll4
A playing card factory is the largest
manufacturing establishment at Little
Rock, Arkansas. ia
Everything in life worth having is
wrestled for and acquired through severe
labor and self-denial.
A negro girl in Selma, Alabama, skips
rope with pailful Of water on her head
without spilling drop.
A marriage is published in the Buff
falo papers to which is affixed the words
no cards; no NONSENSE"
A Western clergyman requests the
wearers of squeAking leather to come to
church in their old boots.
During breakfast Californianess shot
her brotherinlaw's head of, and then
serenely finished her coffee.
Mile Angelique, the latest Paris de-
butante, is altogether angelic, accord
ing to all accounts.
Those who favor the Indian peace pol
icy maintain that Penn is mightier than
the sword.
1t is stated in mitigation Of FIJI can
nibalism that only boys from twelve to
fourteen years old sre eaten.
Five rats declared war against a Wis
consin boy, and would have killed him
but for the arrival of reinforeements.
The claim of being the real Napoleon
! Ill, son Of the Duke of Reichstadt il
made by iourneyman tailor of stutt
gardt. b..
A Georgian, who had never worked Al
the gunsmith trade before, made rifle
which took the frst prize at the STATE
Fair.
A Pennsylvania thief jumped upon .
locomotive while it was In motion, stol'
the danger lantern, and jumped of
again.
All fears Of the cholera from Russil
seem to have subsided. Alexis only
brought HoopenkOf With bim.-Neu
York Post
Illinois farmers call the conduct o.
the Canada thistle paradoxical, because
the more sewing 1t does the more tarel
it makes.
4 young lady writes to friend: Miss
Smith is staying With us. We went oui
sailing yesterday. l didn't know there
was so much in her"
Mr.. D. A. A. Buck, jeweIler of wor-
cester, has built working miniature
engine of gold and silver, which may be
completely covered by tailor thimble.
A most unpleasant method of murder
owes its inFsation to cleselspd. Itoon.
sists in jamming hot soldering iron
down the victims throat.
It was better than usual Monaghan
luck for party Of California ChinameR
to find the only big nugget-a fourteen
pounder-that has been dog out for
years.
A former lover Of Minnesota bride
demanded his present back again, and,
being refused. signi6ed his disapprsba-
ton By knocking the husband over with
q meat Ak.
The latest style Of bridal hesd-dress
lis q wreath composed Of small white Os-
trieh tips. The bridal veil is trimmed
with vines Of the lilies Of the valley and
jesssmine.
The Washington Territory convicts
have drawn up resolutions 70 the eject
that II they are not Furnished With to-