Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-16

live on, and to insure to their heirs a
comfortable independence. lsi
The Gushing Olivia is basking among
the ruins of Chicago. She writes;
Sometimes the wind whistles like q
Down-East Yankee, and no attention is
paid to it. Again. it shrieks like a
woman whose children have been smoth-
cred by the flames. At the same time
Lake Michigan groans like monster in
agony" -
The following conversation took place
at the cemetery Of Montmartre on All
Souls day: Lady in black" How
much is this wreath2" La marchonde
-" Five francs" Lady in black" Good
graciousl If / were to give five francs
for wreath, my husband would rise
from his grave to reproach me. He was
SO economical-the poor. dear mani"
Poor Carlotta is as crazy as ever. Her
latest mania is to imagine herself sur
rounded by the Court of Mexico This
lady Of her snite is made grand mistress
OF the palace; that gentleman Minister
of State, and so on. Often when alone
she places the chairs around her in order,
hangs dresses upon them and asks ques-
tons, and gives answers to these strange
ladies of honor.
From one of the New York Herald s
able hanging reports In few seconds
more the prop was knocked from under
the drop, and the body of Jacob Brock
was swinging, struggling and surging in
the last agonies of violent death,
aRother victim of strangulation. Stall
wart men, Mortified, turned their heads
to shut out the CHASTITY sight, and with
piercing shrieks half dozen negro wo
men tainted"
"a woman's head, says Coleridge,
is usually over ears in her heart Man
seems to have been designed for the su-
perior being of the two; but as things
are, women are generally better crea-
lures than men. They have, taken uni
versally, weaker appetites and weaker
intellects, but they have much stronger
affections A man with bad heart may
sometimes be saved by strong head;
but corrupt woman is lost forever.
The Greek religion by many persons
is supposed to be quite one and the same
with that of the Romish Church, but
this is mistake. 1t has very many diff
ferences in both ritual and faith. The
Church of Russia retains only the seven
ecumenical councils of the ancient
Church of Rome, rejecting alike all
new dogmas, theories and revelations,
such as the immaculate conception,
canonizing of new saints, and the au-
thority of the Pope, infallible or other
wise.
Bradlaugh, the English Reform dems-
gogue, is described as Ben Butler re-
peated: "a bold, audacious, brilliant,
assuming man. Brutal in his instincts,
selfconceited, egotistieal, oyerbearing,
with tongue that cuts like a rapier,
naughty, vicious, boorish, avaricious, in
fact everything that is calculated to
sway a class who demand ruler reflect
ing their own debased natures, and with
whom they can therefore have feeling
Of sympathy"
In London, England, the following
stunning placard was recently displayed;
The United Christian Band of the
Royal Artillery of Heaven A COM
pauy of extraordinary men, who have
been rescued from among the cham
pions of the devil, having been wrestlers,
publicans, pugilists, etc., etc., but are
now the servants of God, and of His
Son Jesus Christ, Hallelujahlll who,
by the assistance of the Holy Ghost,
propose making desperate attack on
the kingdom of Satan, in the Town Hail.
Longton."