Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-01-24
The fashionable wedding tour is nov
to Florida.

The fashionable wedding tour is now
to Florida. en
"Uproarious disposition is the charge
made against his wife by the last Indiana
applicant for divorce.
An ice bridge has formed across Mia
CARA river, below the falls, and it is said
to be frozen SO hard that it may remain
for many weeks.
In Galveston, Texas, an indignant
father whose daughter had married
against his will, sent her for wedding
present patent burial case.
A popular preacher recently said that
an Inheritance Of more than $4,000 or
$4,000 to a child would more likely
prove curse than a blessing.
Horace Greeley wrote West Point
Developments" and the compositor set
it up "Devilments," and when Horace
found how much better it sounded, he
swore he wrote it so.
The following are the ages of several
prominent New York millionaires: VIM.
b. Astor is Dearly 7S; Alexander T.
Stewart, &C; Cornelius Vanderbilt, 76;
Daniel Drew, IL; Peter Cooper, ~;
George Law, 73.
An unfortunate New Haven youth was
recently so convinced that he had swal-
lowed his two artificial teeth, plate and
all, that he suffered horrors in imagina-
ton and a severe pain in his stomach.
He afterwards found the teeth in his vest
pocket.
A clergyman was preparing his dis
course on Sunday, stopping occasionally
to review what he had written and to
erase what he was disposed to disap-
prove, when he was accosted by his little
son, who had numbered but FIVE summers.
Father does God tell you what to
preachT' Certainly, my child. Then
what makes you scratch it outY'
On the morning of the lst instant
Queen Victoria's New Year gifts to the
poor Of Windsor were distributed in the
Riding School at Windsor Castle. Three
thousand two hundred pounds of beef
we're presented to seven hundred and
ninety recipients, and one thousand two
hundred and five hundred weights Of
coal were sent to their homes.
The last account of the Siamese twins
is by letter from Eng. He states that
their condition is worse; they are ex-
oeedingly restless, and Eng, who is pal
sled, is failing quite rapidly. These
brothers, although they lost some $40,-
600 By the rebellion, are still in good
pecuniary circumstances, being worth
about 5000, O00 The families Of the two
aggregate some six or eight children.
Amid the horrors Of war that affiict
Paris, both within and without, it is
pleasant to record q humane act At ono
time venders Of singing birds tried to
introduce a taste for them, as an element
of food, among the Parisians, but there
was so much Indignation and horror ex-
pressed by the ladies' that the idea was
abandoned. and so the singing birds
perhaps the only evidences Of cheerful
ness in the beleagured city-still I'll the
air with their merry notes.
On the farm owned by William Gray,
in Sheffield, VI, there is large granite
boulder, lying apparently on the surface,
on the top Of which 5 a spherical sXoa-
walton constantly filed With water, even
In the dryest time Of summer. with no
visible inlet. What makes it more Gu
rious is the fact that il never was known
to run over. but is always full. Mr. Gray
saws that the water has been dipped out
and the excavation Immediately regained
its usual fullness without any rain.