Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-05-08
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Negroes are to be placed on the Gin
cinnati police. Place them on the scent
of a crime and they will surely smell out
the offender.
On the day of Hedwig Rabies we'd
ding with Niemann, the best tenor in
Europe, she received from the Emperor
of Russia pair of bracelets worth ten
thousand roubles.
| a Chicago merchant advertised boy
wanted" and before he got down town
his clerk met him breathless and told
him that his wife had twin boys. Oh, it
pays to advertise.
Photography is not fine art but an
art science; narrow in range, emphatic
in assertion, telling one truth for ten
falsehoods, but telling always distinctly
the one truth that it is able TO perceive.
They do large divorce business in a
quiet way in Massachusetts,. The Wor-
cester Gazette mentions that there are
now one hundred and fifteen suits for
the dissolution of the marriage contract
pending in the Supreme Courts there.
They have SYLVAN curiosity in Geor-
gia Two pine trees, FIVE feet apart at
the base, come together thirteen feet
above, forming solid body, then sepa'
rate, uniting again twenty feet above,
and terminating in single top.
Power is responsibility. The more
power a man has, the more he will be
respected till we come down to those in
diyiduals whose power is so exceedingly
limited as to excite no sensations of
respect whatever.
The Western racer Longfellow,"
has recently been purchased of his
breeder and owner, John Harper, Of
Kentucky, for $4,000 James d. Nc
Mann, of New York Whose name is as
ISOLATED with the trotting mares Flora
Temple " and Lady Thorn" which he
trained and drove), and VIM. WEIGH, Of
Philadelphia, are the purchasers. This
celebrated animal is considered the
fastest running horse in the world.
The New York City postoffice gives
employment to no less than five hundred
clerks and three hundred carriers. Three
thousand bags of letters and printed
matter pass through the mail every day,
their total weight being something like
one hundred and fifty tons. The pro-
portions are: letters, 900 bags; papers,
Fl, 100 bags. The four weekly mails for
Europe every month make about eight
tons, including printed matter.
Persons who have not been in the
habit of drinking buttermilk consider it
disagreeable, because slightly acid, in
consequence of the presence of tactic
acid There is not much nourishment |
in bUttermilk, but the presence of the |
Tactic acid assists the digestion of any |
food taken with it. The Welsh peasants
almost live upon oat-cake and butter
milk. Invalids suffering from indiges-
ton will do well to drink buttermilk at
meal times.
lie Toilet, the Partisan fashion organ,
says that fashions for this summer are |
more simple, and therefore elegant, than
during the overplus Of pouffs and other
exaggerations. Costumes, dress, mantle |
and underskirt alike will not be done
away with. Evening dresses will be made
long, either demi-train or very long, ac-
cording to the occasion for which they |
are intended. The trains are cut
squarer and the sides little more accent
uated. Bonnets are not so high, and
there is no end to the varieties of hats.
TUNES are worn very much draped, but |
not so much bouffant as formerly.
A number Of marriage ties will before
long connect the English aristocracy
with America. Recently we announced |
an alliance between Mr.. Sheridan and |
Miss Motley; and now an engagement is
announced between the daughter Of Mr.. |
Russell Sturgis, one of the partners in |
Earrings, and Col. Leo Seymour, son of
the Right Honorable Sir George Hamil- |
ton Seymour, G. C. B. Col. Seymour is
in the Guards. His father is an eminent |
retired diplomatist, son of Lord George |
Seymour by a Hamilton. The money is
all on the side Of Miss Sturgis, unless
indeed Sir Hamilton wins the suit he has |
lately instituted to obtain the vast Irish |
estates Of his cousin, the late Marquis of
Hartford.
1t is proposed to lay down cast iron
tube for railway purposes between Eng
land and France. The tube would be
commenced at one side Of the channel,
and laid at the bottom Of the sea, being
built up inside q horizontal cylinder or
bell, to be constantly pushed forward as
the building of the tube proceeded. The
line selected for the tube to be thus sub
mergedis close to Dover on the English
side Of the Channel, and would extend
TO Cape Grisnez on the French coast,
the distance between the two points being
twenty-five miles, and the average depth
of water one hundred and ten feet.
According to this plan, the tube would
be made large enough for the passage Of
railway carriages Of ordinary construc-
ton, whilst the traffic could be worked
by pneumatic pressure, thus securing a
constant supply of pure air, and at the
same time precluding the possibility Of
a collision. 1t is estimated that a slow
train will be able TO accomplish the dis
lance in one hour and six minutes, but
an express train in forty-six minutes.
Five thousand passengers and ten thous-
and tons of goods could be conveyed
through the tube daily.
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