Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-13

A Boston paper apologies to worthy
Archbishop because the types made il
call him miserable instead Of venerable,
as it intended.
The last word (" is the most danger
Gus of internal machines. Husband and
wife should no more strive to get it than
they would struggle to get possession OF
lighted bombshell.
A fond mother in Kingston, New
York, keeps an old-fashioned rocking
chair sitting in corner as an ornament,
because in it she has rocked ten babies,
all of whom grew up to be men, and are
now living and married.
A man in Michigan snapped his horse
for wife. An old bachelor acquaint-
anoe said he'd bet there was something
wrong with the horse, for its owner
would never have fooled it away in that
reckless manner.
The whole length of all the railways
in the world is about 10000 miles. The
cost of the same was in round numbers
ten millions of dollars. Those of Great
Britain are the most costly, and those of
the United States the least so. The
railways of the world is supposed to give
employment to one million persons.
They have peculiar breach of prom
Use case in the st. Louis courts. Louise
Bulls has sued father and son for
$4,000 damages; her ground of action
against the son being that he refused to
marry her according to promise, and
against the father that he had objected
to the proposed match.
Many persons have wondered why
horse chesnut horse radish, etc., are so
called. A Scotch work, entitled ETY.
mons of English Words, says that the
original word was harsh harsh ches-
nut, harsh radish--and that the French
and Swedes translated it into horse;"
hence the common error.
A London correspondent reports that
the skirts of the Princess of Wales
somehow caught fire when she was dress
ing for the banquet following the mar
riage of the Princess Louise, and that,
though she sustained no very serious in
jury, the shock had an injurious effect
upon her health.
A fashionable young lady of rather
attenuated figure while in the hands of
her dressmaker became alarmed at the
spaciousness apportioned to her bodice,
and declared that she could never wear
it, and the silk had been wrongly cut.
Pardon me, mademoiselle," said the
modiste, the design is quite correct;
the fitting is exactly as it should be. |
have made your dress and now must
bring you up to il"
A New York paper says: " There is
story going around about New Orleans
printer who declined to 90 out and drink
when asked, but placed the money he
would have spent, had he gone out with
the boys, in a savings bank, and how in
five years it had amounted to untold mil
lions. But then he didn't have wife.
We tried that once for year, quitting
smoking, and placing money that would
have been used in bureau drawer. One
day we wanted to 60 out with the boys,
and went for the money, and it was gone
and in its place was some new dress pat
terms, and bonnets, and things. She
looked calm enough, but we began to
smoke again.
An exchange says: "Some years ago
physicians had a habit of recommending
every consumptive patient to take cod
liver oil. The incredible nastiness of
the dose must have constituted its pecu-
liar merit; for, as a matter of fact, any
result established by cod-liver oil would
have been attained by the patient, had
cream instead of oil been prescribed.
Suddenly this idea seems to have dawned
upon the medical faculty. AS oonse-
quence, we now have a milk-cure an
nounced as specific for consumption.
Patients who formerly put their trust in
cod-liver, are now told the COW is their
only hope. They are made to drink
vast quantities of pure milk, instead of
frequent doses of the unspeakable vile
cod-liver oil. The effect is all that can
be desired. The patient who tries the
milk-cure finds himself rapidly growing
fat, and it is also said that he becomes
childlike and bland in his demeanor.
A revival preacher says that the tough |
est customer he ever came across in the |
pursuit of his calling was a rough old |
fellow in valley of the Green Noun
tains, who approached him at the close
of an evening meeting with very long |
face, and asked gravely; Did / under
stand you to say that hell was a lake of
fire and brimstone2" "Yes,n said the
divine, thinking he had at last succeeded
in making an impression on the hitherto
obdurate heart, and going on to enlarge
upon the horrors of the place of tor
nent. Nonsensel nonsensel" inter
.upted the listener; i don't believe a
word of it; you pile it on too thick; a
nan wouldn't live q minute in such
place" They will be prepared for it."
laid the minister, impressively. "Ohl
for it, will they2" exclaimed
he anxious listener, Frightening up.
I'd as soon be there as anywhere else,
hem" and off he walked, perfectly sat
s6ed and as gay as lark.
The Brick Pomeroy divorce is now at
raeting a good deal of attention, on ac-
.ount Of the notoriety of one of the par
les. The New York Democrat-Brick'
laper-has this to say Of it:
For ten years they have not lived
ogether, but during all that time Mrs.
'omercy has never known the want of
my comfort it was in the power Of her
husband to provide. He has been pros
'erous, but in his prosperity the wife
nd daughter, though absent, have never
cen forgotten or neglected. Few have
yer suffered as has Mark M. Pomeroy
n all these years; he has been under the /,
an Of society, that would not and could !
ot understand him, but which was al
Tays too ready to pass its judgment
he whole course of his life was changed, .
nd the most radical points Of his nature
rought out He has known little Of
appiness, save that he had in triumph
yer the world; and we are sincerely I
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