Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-15

having been established in l772. Sam
uel Taylor Coleridge was at one time
itseditor, and Southey and Lamb con-
tributors.
Paris conversation: Il, a LIBERAL 0,
mol " said deputy to his friend. But
you love liberty. at leastP" I" Yes, as
suredly, my faith But one may love
an omelette without being a cook.
French paper,
Few people who have had limbs ann
putated forget their phantom members.
Most men retain SO vivid sense OF the
existence of limb that it is more obtru-
sive than is that Of the truly living tel
low member. t re OWLS 1ti
1t is the style nowadays when an en-
gagement is broken of for the lady not
to return the presents given her by her
fancee or even the engagement ring,
which is kept as an Indian keeps scalp
AS trophy Of former victories.
A severe storm at Thibodeaux, Louis
iana blew down house, killing two
men and seriously injuring two others.
A little boy was caught in the air and
landed three hundred yards away, unin-
jured. Upon alighting, he exclaimed,
II tell you had a sweet ride"
Mr.. Brown, you said the defendant
was honest and intelligent. What makes
you think soY Are you acquainted with
him?" mo, sir, ! have never seen
him." Why, then, do you come to
such conclusionH" Because he
takes ten newspapers, and pays for them
in advance" Verdict for defendant.
A notion dealer in Charleston, s. G,
lately advertised for chinquepins, and
coon skin firm in the mountains soon
overstocked him. He wanted to write
to the firm to stop, but couldn't
spell the word to save his life. So he
Just got mad and enclosed two chinque-
pins in letter, and told them, Please
don't send me any more of those
things"
The last census Of Japan gives the
number Of inhabitants at 34,7S5,32l. OF
these l,S72,959 are engaged in literature
and the military service, and 3l,9o4s2l
belong 10 the working and trading
classes. The number of priests Of
luddha amounts to 944,a6s, and that Of
the priests Of Stu to 1881 The re-
ceipts of the government are estimated
at ssOO,OOO,OOO.
The population of Virginia In 1860
was l,596,SlS souls, of whom 1861, 6ss-
less than one-fourth-were cut off in
West Virginia. Their color has nothing
to do with the question of the public
debt. Virginia contains 4O,SlO square
miles of territory, and West Virginia
20,5Os. These last figures ase set down
from memory-the others are taken
from the Federal census.)
Grace Greenwood describes old Bal
boa seeing for the first time the ocean
on the other side of the continent, when,
silent as a peak in Darien, he stared
at the Pacific" and thinks he did the
correct thing in not trying to express his
emotions. Grace, however, with an in
consistency which could be less readily
pardoned in less clever writer fills two
columns and half with her own views
of the California coast.
The police in and around London is
an independent administration. It en-
braces London as whole, all Of Mid
dlesex county, parts Of Surry, Kent
Herts and Essex, and its jurisdiction ex-
tends over the whole lower course OF
the Thames and its banks. The Ne
tropoIitan Police is a corporation having
a patrimony and resources of its own,
confined to a receiver named by the
oommissionerin-chief
King Charles II paying a visit to DR..
Busby, the doctor Is said to have strut
ted through the room with his hat on,
while his majesty walked complacently
behind him, with his hat under his arm.
But when he was taking his leave at the
door, the Doctor thus addressed the
King; II hope your majesty will ex-
cuse my want Of respect hithertoi but if
my boys imagined there was greater
man in the kingdom than myself ]
should never be able to rule them. >"
The editor Of the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser thus moralizes on what
may be called jail enjoyments" There
is one solaee which every great man in
jail can freely enjoy, and that is the
thought of how many greater than he
have been in the same predicament. 1t
is also a common practice with illus
trious men when thus confined to amuse
their leisure by writing witty or pathetic
things upon the walls Of their prison.
The walls Of the Beauchamp Tower,
London. are fruitful with illustrations Of
this fact. When lead pencils are want
] ing, they usually takO nail or piece
Of glass, or anything that viii SCRATCH
aud are 80 enabled to pass the dreaFy
hours away, and perchance contribute to
the edifcation Of future generations.