Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-14

had kept up her wickedness ever since.
l tell you, my dear sisters, the devil has
not left you alone yet. Satan refused to
smite Jobs wife because he knew she
was one Of his best allies"
Some say that the latest styles Of la
dies shoes are adorned with large ro-
settle or bow on the instep. We only
wonder how any ladies can be led into
defacing all the beautiful outline of o
good foot by rosettes and buckles and
heavy shoes, instead of the neat and
smooth kid boot, which sets off the foot
and ankle as nothing else ever did, es-
pecially in these days of short dresses,
when lady has chance to display her
foot to the very best advantage.
The Washington Republican says;
"Some one has fastened a pretty lar
criticism upon the California poet, Joa-
quin Miller, who, in his Kit Carson 5
Ride makes that hero dash away on a
bareback horse and afterward rise in
his stirrups. The criticism is not fair
at all. and the some one" who wrote 1t
is evidently fool. The chief beauty Of
the poem is that the poet leaves to
the imagination of the reader the fact
that Carson stopped at the first house he
came 70 and borrowed a saddle.
A highwayman named Balland, con-
fined in Newgate prison, London, sent
for solicitor to know how he could de-
fer his trial, and was answered; By
getting an apothecary to make an ath-
dayit of his illness" This was accord
ingly done in the following manner;
1.-THE deponent verify believed that II
the said j. Balland is obliged to take has
trial at the ensuing session, he will be
in imminent danger of his life" To
which the learned judge on the bench
answered, that he verify believed SO too.
The trial was ordered to proceed imme-
diately.
The last game of rouge-et-noir has
been played at Baden-Baden, and the
Conversation Haus must now be devoted
to other uses. In chronicling it the in
eyitable moralist of the Telegraph says,
with his plentiful uses of platitudes and
capital letters: There remains only
Monaco as home for Organized Ruin
and Mathematical Swindlingi and the
Casino, which is far more important
edifce than the palace Of Prince Girl
maldi on the picturesque rock jutting
out into the Mediterranean, has done
this autumn very encouraging stroke
of business; the most thickly-plumed
pigeons being the Russians and Ameri-
cans"
Frederick Lidenhall, late Colonel Of
the Sixth Legion, says the Paris Liberte,
is now in mad-house at Camdentown,
London. This singular gentleman, who
has $4,000 a year, was in Paris when
the insurrection broke out and got him
self presented to General Cluseret by
his cook, who made him a Lieutenant
| Colonel. Lidenhall took part in several
combats, and when the Versailles troops
entered was able to make his escape
with his English passport. However,
the terrible events through which be had
passed troubled his brain, and his fami.
ly had him shut up The strangest part
of the affair is that when Lidenhall went
mad he fancied himself Frenchman
and took to speaking the French Ian
guage.
One of our citizens went to the cars
to see his daughter off. Securing her q
seat, he passed out of the car and went
round to the window to say a parting
word, as is frequently done on such oc-
casions. While he was passing out the
daughter left the seat to speak to friend
and at the same time a prim looking
lady, who occupied the seat with her
moved up to the window. Unaware Of
the important changes inside, our ven
cradle friend hastily put his face up to
the window, and hurriedly exclaimed
zone more kiss, sweet pet. In anoth
err instant the point Of a blue-cotton UNI
brelIa caught bis seductive lip, followed
by the passionate injunction, Scat, yor
gray-headed wretch" and he seated
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