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

he don't suit her."
The proprietors of three of the large
hotels in New York city have recently
gone into bankruptcy
A man in New York gave woman
his note for $4,000 to marry him. She
did so. but he got possession of the doc
pment and refuses to pay. She has sued
to recover, but is doubtful if she can.
ma" said little girl to her mother
" do men want to get married as much
as the women?' "Pshawi what are you
talking about?" why, ma, the women
who come here are always talking about
getting married-the men don't do so.
Plain hair is rapidly becoming the
fashion. How sorry we are for the un-
fortunate girls who have ruined their
front hair by a long course Of hot iron
and crimping- pins. We wonder if false
fronts, such as old ladies used to wear,
will be adopted to hide deficiencies.
Incidence, in whatever shape, lays this
terrible tax upon us, that it will be paid
for out of ourselves. For every hour s
work that we avoid through incidence is
SO much strength lost to u.s. and though
there is help which benefits us, there
is another kind of help which only de-
bilitates us.
1t is a fact well known to artists that
a certain degree of exaggeration is quite
indispensable to apparent veracity. This
is so In literature also; no study of hu-
man character would even be generally
recognized as true which was not ideal
lied and exaggerated almost to the verge
of caricature.
The beautiful Princess Frederick, the
eldest daughter of ex-King George, of
Hanover, is lying dangerously i'll at the
villa of her father, near Vienna. On
Christmas day, 1869, she was fixing up
Christmas tree for some poor children,
when suddenly green wax taper, which
she had lighted, fell on her bare arm and
burned her severely. Since that time
her physicians have been unable to get
the poison out of her system, and it is
now believed that her life cannot be
saved.
A school girl in Cincinnati told some
of her younger companions, on Wednes-
day, that a big man with sharp knife
was in the school-house, for the purpose
of numbering as many children as he
could lay his hands on. The report
spread quickly; there was a rush of little
ones from one of the rooms, the noise
speedily stampeded half the house; and
in a minute hundreds of children were
rushing, breathless, down stairs and out
into the streets.
A young man recently wrote to New
York paper, asking whether it would be
advisable for him to marry young
and tender angel who had never done
her own washing or dress-making. In
reply, the editor advised him to do SO by
all means, and mentioned similar case
in his own experience, where the bride
had never done her own washing but
after marriage she became so fond of the
wash-tub as not only to work for her owr
family, but for several families among
her acquaintance.
A man Of wealth, named Cotheal
recently died at Wurtsboro, Sullivan
county, New York, where he owned q
valuable lead mine. In his will he left
$50, 900 to be applied to further testing g
mooted question among mineralogists a!
to whether the most valuable ore is al
the out crop of mine or in the bowels
of the mountain. Mr. Cotheal held the
latter view, and expended thousands o.
dollars in tunneling the mountain in
which his mine existed. He died befor,
the miners struck the ore-rock. Hi
legacy is left in the hands Of trustees
and the work is proceeding.
An eminent journalist in kalamazoo
Michigan, declared in his paper that
rival editor had seven toesl The riva
editor thereupon came out in a double
loaded article, in which he denounce,
the statement as untruthful, and de
clared that the author Of it was a La
and a scoundrel. The eminent journal
ist replied that he didn't for momen
wish to have it understood that he mean
that all seven of those toes we're on on
foot. And now the rival editor tries I
avoid the public scorn by asking hi
readers seriously, Are these subject
which ought to be discussed in organ
whose duty it is TO mold public opinion ?
A good story is told in the Hartfor
Courant of young couple who wante
to hear Dickens read; they could hardl
afford it, but screwed up their extravi
gance to the necessary pitch. As the
had concluded TO invest, they bethougl
themselves Of poorer family near By
who were suffering from lack of wori
SO they gave up Dickens, and paid tn
price Of the two tickets to their impol
erished neighbors. The poor coupl
took the money, bought tickets with i
aud attended the readings. They had
good time going, and the others enjove
an approving conscience-until the ney
day.
The ugliness Of the present fashion
women's street dress is the subject
general remarks among men. Fro
head to foot il is a succession Of deforn
ing additions TO the natural female Fl
uro. Trailing skirts covered with mu
or dust, and those awful bustles, cor
| bine to make the fashionably attire
woman a mass Of ridiculous absurditie
Can it be that the overthrow Of Paris 1
a seat Of political power is cOincidei
with the loss Of its authority in millineI
and dressmaking2 As it is, the deligl
which men Of sense usuallytake IN loo
ing at the fair sex is wonderfully IN
paired, if not altogether destroyed
Men York Sun.