Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-18

girl OF nineteen.
. Where the mouth is sweet and tn
eyes intelligent, there is always the lool
of beauty, with righi heart.
According to the statistics of the las
complete census of She United States
men outnumber women by 428, $50.
Professor Tyndall iss perfected {
new respirator for frehen, whereby they
can breathe freely in blrning buildings
Ben Wade has handsome daughter
| who wants to marry handsome carpen
ter and who will do soin spite of oppo,
sition.
Mrs. Woodruff and Jennie c. Clanin
were not let off so easily as first re-
ported. The bail In their cases amounts
to SIC, 900
According to the Japan Gazette, the
Mikadc must be an egregious swell, with
his Write silk trousers and amber-colored
sasbes.
Stanley Appeared on his second lee
tire at Steinway Hall dressed in fancy
white flannel suit, with summer helmet
and top boots.
Connoisseurs pronounce the Empress
of Austria TIE most beautiful woman in
Europe. They have not seen them all,
however.
A Scotch lady, recent convert to the
PRINCIPLES of temperance, ordered the
value of $1,000 of wine, lying in her eel
lar, to be destroyed.
An indiscreet youth in Cairo has been
fined for violently kissing the school
ma'am. She was SO homely that the
judge said there was absolutely no ex-
cuse for him.
Miss Alexander, a California actress,
who was for ten years member Of Brig
ham Young's family, will be the next to
tell on the lecture platform what she
knows about Mormonism.
A Topeka clothes-line thief was very
much disguised the other day, after he
had returned home with his haul, to find
the shirts we're made with abbreviated
legs, fringed around the bottom and
buttoned at the waist He thinks the
tailor who made them was a first-class
fraud.
A Davenport man, with three marri-
ageahle daughters, has posted the follow
ing notice over his bell-pull Wood,
six dollars cord coal, thirty cents a
boShel; gas dear and bad. Parties stay
ing after nine o'clock viii please settle
quarterly. N. B.-A reduction made
after popping, and the full amount
added to the bridal douceur."
Sle.tington, Penn, claims the biggest
girl. The damsel is daughter of Mr..
Nef, ten years Of age, measures four
feet seven inches in hight, four feet four
inches around her shoulders, and weighs
one hundred and thirty-nine pounds.
She is well proportional for one Of her
size, enjoys perfect health, and is as
quick in her movements as any Of the
girls Of her age.
Where's my wifeY inquired Nil, on
returning home one evening and missing
his better half. she has gone to bed
with the toothache," was the reply Of
some member of the family. Well, "
said the indignant Nil, "if she had
rather go to bed with the toothache than
with me, let her GO" and he forthwith
settled himself for the perusal Of the
latest news.
A handsome young Yankee peddler
made love to buxom widow of Penn
sylvania, but accompanied his declara-
ton with an allus ion to two impediments
to their union. Name them, said the
widow. The ant of means to set up
retail store ia ore ofthem," he replied.
They parted, and the widow sent him
ample means When they met again
the peddler had hired and stocked his
store, and the smiling fair one begged to
Know the other impediment. +" J have a
wife already" cried the peddler.
1t is said that Lady BrawnfeId, the
rife Of Mr.. Disra eli, is in failing health.
he is upward ',f eighty years Of age.
nd therefore r. pm fifteen to twenty
ears older than YER husband. The con-
ngal devotion Of the distinguished Pre-