Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-09-01
VARIETIES.

n new style Vi tdr-flHR 10 III tho ouape
of a paddock, having the nails repre-
scented by large diamonds.
For next season, it is said, that bon
nets are to have all their trimmings on
the back, instead of in front, as for
merly. ef3
The buzz of bumblebee saved an
Illinois mans property. 1t awakened
him in time to save his shop and house,
which had caught fire accidentally.
The Russian ecclesiastical authorities
in San Francisco have given orders for
the construction of church to be
shipped to, and erected on, st. Paurs
island, in Berhing Straits.
A barrel of ale standing on sidewalk
in Bridgeport, Conn, the other day, sud-
denly exploded, knockingdown one man,
nearly killing another, and producing
general excitement
A considerate and superstitious burglar
in New Orleans returned wedding ring
he had stolen, with an anonymous note
explaining that would bring calamity
if he took it away" 20
Miss Josephine Weinlich is the leader
of the Vienna female orchestra of TWEEN
ty-six young ladies, which appears for
the first time in America, at New York,
on the 18th proximo.
Very elegant morning dresses are Of
thin yellow baptiste, madew with alternate
1ounces of white and yellow embroidery.
The overskirt is trimmed to match, and
the waist is made in the shape of o loose
sacque, cut open at the back.
Abraham Lincoln, being annoyed on
one occasion by fiddler, who persisted
in playing in front of his house, sent
him out dollar, with the message that
one scraper was enough at the door.
A. r. Stewards new hotel for women,
at the corner of Fourth avenue and
Thirty-second street, New York, is rap
idly progressing toward completion.
Two million dollars have been appro-
priated for it, and another million will
be required to complete it.
Diagonals for mems suits are mach
in vogue this summer The New York
World says that gentleman who got
home night or two since in an elevated
condition tried to persuade his wife that
his desultory gait was owing to the fact
OF his being dressed in diagonal clothes.
Chicago storekeepers have recently
been afflicted with a welldressed, re-
spectable-looliing " customer" who was
suffering from a terribly bad cold, and
Aourished large handkerchief about
extensively. After his departure. it was
invariably found that he had swept away
in his handkerchief much more than he
had paid for.
A schoolmaster in Bridgeport, Ct,
who asked a small pupil Of what the sur
face of the earth consists, and was
promptly answered, Land and water"
varied the question slightly, thatthe fact
might be impressed on the boys mind,
and asked what then do the land and
water make?' to which came the imme-
date response, Mud.
Oil of peppermint srecommended by
DIR. Alfred Wright, in q letter TO the
Lancet, as q remedy for facial neuralgia.
He says that when in China he learned
that tho natives were In the habit of
using it, making the application to the
seat of the pain with camers hair
pencil; and since then he has used it in
his own practice with good effect, in
both govt and neuralgia, the relief being
almost instantaneous.
An aged woman in North Adams, Mas
sachusetts, relates that many years ago,
while attending a social dance, a young
mechanic asked her hand for one Of the
dances She Indignantly refused, feel
ing very much mortified that he should
make such an offer. Years have passed.
and she has filled an honorable hut hum
BILE position in life, while the young man
whom she then scorned has been Cover
nor Of Massachusetts,.
A North Carolina correspondent says
f0ur grasshoppers are singular race
Myriads have collected on the road near
the Fox place. They first ate the grass
clean, then the leaves from the eleca M.
pane and Canada thistles, and at last
they went over the wall, and the foolish
things, not knowing enough to journey
on to the green grass in sight, attacked
an apple tree nine feet high, taking every
leaf; and now they are eating the bark
from the branches.
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