Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-16
PERSONS AND THINGS.

seth Green mas taken up lroglculture
In Sonora, Indiana, scalps are quoted
at $500 2 'h' r - '''
p Grand Rapids girls are suspended from
school for gum chewing. Tgow eaf
D. Henry Hammer is hammoring away
at The Handwriting of God :" in Chi
cago. -1'3 ~ ' i'A'' g"
A two-months Illinois infant has dis
tinguished itself by dying Of heart dis
ease. .uoN
y A blind man attended dance in Mar
shall, Illinois. got drunk, got mad, drew
q knife, and stabbed three of the guests
The New Orleans Commercial say
that the introduction of Canadian labol
into Louisiana has begun, and creates
much interest among the planters.
X The family of j. G. Kondrup, the
Danish Consul at Baltimore, are goot
deal worried because little John Henry
| Kondrup has swallowed small mouth
organ.
A Maine sophomore tried to haze 8
freshman, but came off second best. The
fresh tied him into a chair and shaved
his head, all but scalp-lock on the
crown. id ln.13 tir ailsef llill
Jim Skunk, son Of the late Governor
Francis r. Skunk, of Pittsburg, is con
sidered one of the most brilliant politi
cal writer's in the State. He married
one of Jerry Blacks beautiful daugh-
ters. TFayHF ff
A A Kansas paper tells Of can Assistant
Quartermaster of the United States
Army, whose economical habits enabled
him to lay by for rainy day over $3.50,
900 in the short space of live years on
salary of $l25 per month.
II is said that Secretary Boutwell, has
no nail on one of his thumbs, caused by
habit he had when in the. whisky bust
ness of leaving his thumb, in the mea
sure when drawing the fluid, for his Gus
toners, by which the nail was eaten off
The latest agony among fashionable
ladies is to,enamel blue'y veins upon their
exposed busts. AS fashionable women
are not, as general thing, wellYersed
in anatomical knowledge, these arti-
fetal veins run in all sorts of directions.
In Boston-staid, select, proper and
eminently aristocratic Boston-mapy
young ladies are accompanied when Y
the streets by maids, a Ia Paris, II would
be we'll for able-bodied men to carry the
canes of the Boston "swells."
The World recalls the fact that 'YThe
Hon.. Jacob M. Howard" who has been
so beautifully laid out in Michigan, is
the same incandescent1 patriot who
sought cheap capital by being borne into
the Senate Chamber upon stretcher to
vote for the Impeachment of President
Johnson,
Rev. Ernest Benin, a German Lu-
theran minister in the town of Worth,
Illinois, recently sued his congregation
for three thousand dollars arrearages,
aud in the course of trial it was devel-
oped that Benin is tobacconist by trade,
and entered the ministry after two
months study.
A correspondent Of the Portland Tran
soript claims to have in his possession a
diary of Nathaniel Hawthorne, kept in
1916. found in the neighborhood of the
old Hawthorne home in Raymond, Me-,
and in which the boyish thoughts and
fancies of the great word painter are
written out.
There was a large amount Of valuable
practical philosophy in the remark K Of
the gambler who called his companions
attention to the business in hand when
ever they fell to discussing, what might
have been il certain cards had been dif-
ferentlv used, with the remark, Look
here, gentlemen, thar amt no use a
plsyin post mortem hands. I.. fi- ~
Horace Greeley's little boy, who at
tends an uptown school, will tell the
truth any way yon can fx him. The
other day the teacher spelled out the
word grace" and asked the young
man to pronounce il. be gave Il up,
when the teacher, to refresh his memory
asked him: What did your father say
this morning before eating breakfastt
The boy thought minute, and finally
rotten.
Ii is reported Of a young married
eouple in Massachusetts. that. having
quarrsled,- they separated, and subse-
duentgy went to work in the same mill
and boarded in the same house. Having
adjoining rooms in the latter, they pleas
ahtly spent their leisure time in talking
about each other to companions in a
voice loud enough to be heard through
thethin partition, varying the progre.=me
occasionally. BY kicks against the inter
vening wall and cries OF | wish u was
you'll i.f't