Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-15
Personal.

Boutwell, has terrinc rect.
Kossuth is TRANQUILITY dying at Turin
Taglioni is sixty-seyen, but still agile
An indiana hunter has achieved q
white quail lao wst DOW IL IL
Manteufiel looks like John Charles
Fremont. g3yri q nni
Bret Harte plays a vigorous game @
seven-up. t-rt
Edwin Adams turns circus fip-hap'
for exercise. gaI ~ tI4h 4 isltD
Within year August Belmont has
won 1874, 900 on horse races. iN.ll'
A colored man is sitting on a jury in
a 100000 case at Cleveland.
Female amendments in Lexington
sling ink-bottles when they get jealous.
Rosa Auerbach, niece of the German
novelist, was recently married in Fort
Wayne. a0 l.a
A colored boy in Trimble county,
Kentucky, has killed thirty-one eagles
in his lie. ..s
Indiana beaux settle conflicting claims
to the hand Of sweetheart by an ami
cable game of freeze-out poker. -
in. Mccullough is Superintendent
of the Panhandle, and has $4,000 miles
of railroad under his control.
Yankee johnson, Of Rock Island, lost
the top of his head and his life in little
misunderstanding with mule. a'a
Secretary Boutwellis very small man
intellectually but there is enough OF him
to disgusta very large country.
An Iowa school teacher has been dis
missed for kissing the big girls. The
girls regard It as case Of persecution.
Two Arabs, called to testify against a
thief in New York, said they were Mo-
hammedans, but were willing to be sworn
on the Bible--as there is only one God,
religion makes no difference. -
By frugality and economy, Reyels has
succeeded in buying $40, 900 plantation
from his salary and the proceeds Of his
lectures, besides giving his sister in the
New York poor-house half dollar.
The coacamen Of George ~ are to be
the next chronic nuisance in the obitu-
ary line. One of them has just been
choked to death by bit of meat at the
age ofeighty7one. m8 8
A Harrisburg lady oiled her childrens
hair, preparatory TO sending them to
Sabbath school, with highly perfumed
preparation of cotton oil. The children
were badly poisoned, but will recover.
Major Eugene Cramer, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, has invented rife which entire
ly eclipses former inventions, No pow
der is used, but only a percussion cap,
making no noise whatever, yet sending
a ball with such force that twill pene-
irate two-inch plank al
The Chicago Republican thinks Brig
ham Young's influence in Utah is wan
ing, because it is said he proposed to
marry carload Of female recruits just
arrived at the sanity city, few days
ago, and only fifteen of the lot would en-
terrain the offer.
The Palace of the Quirinal in Rome,
which, in future, will be the residence of
the King of Italy, is an immense build
ing, twice as large as the Pitt Palace in
Florence, at present the Royal residence.
The Quirinal contains a large number of
old masters, among which is the master
piece Of Milazzo di Forli, transfgura-
ton scene. 44 fpitaa
Pauline Lucca has recovered COM
pletely from her recent illness, and her
voice, which it wass feared would be
ruined, seems on the contrary to be bet
ter than ever. She will reappear in pub,
lie during the present month. The emf
nent cantatrice is said to be at present
negotiating with prominent American
for starring tour through
the United States next winter.
Ostrich breeding, it is stated, is now a
regular branch of farming industry at
the Cape of Good Hope, where extern
siye yards and runs for this class of
mammoth poultry have been established.
At Grahamstown there is q large breed
ing farm, where ostriches are raised for
their feathers. The birds are kept in an
Enclosure of twenty acres, surrounded by
a low wall over which they never attempt
TO cross and escape. A similar pecu
liarity is noticed in the wild turkeys Of
North America, which are caught in an
open hut of logs with a low doorway.
In the Cape establishment the ostrich
are Matched by artificial means. The
long white feathers furnished by the
birds are worth, in the natural, unpre-
pared state, from $50 to 5000 pound.
about eighty being required to make up
that weight A wild ostrich in full dress
is worth from eighty to one hundred dol
lars, and skillful Hottentot hunter will
capture and kill as many as seventy or