Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-04

Positively no admittance here IS the
forbidding notice over the entrance Of
an Alabama cemetery.
The horse Longfellow had palace
car all to himself, on his journey from
Kentucky to New York city.
1t is singular fact that much Of the
ancient Japanese ware is decorated with
Roman and Grecian borders.
The sportsmen Of New York are about
to petition the State to spare the Adiron-
dack woods from the settlers ak.
The Chicago News has it on reliable
authority" that Greeley will not with
draw under any possible circumstances.
Those who possess tender skins can
laugh the mosquito to scorn after they
have bathed in coal oil or peppermint
essence.
A hickory pole, crowned with large
white hat, has been raised by the enthu-
siastic people of Tompkinsville, Staten
Island.
The agricultural reporter of the Cou-
rier des Etats Unis remarks that the
rain on Sunday came just in time pour
encourager les oats"
Old English ballads and the better
class of American musical composition
are quite superseding the sensational
songs once in vogue.
At least one master builder at Will
liamsburg, N. Y, has been revenged on
the striking carpenters by running off
with his foreman's wife.
There is less crime in Alaska, accord
ing to its population, than in any other
portion of the globe. Whales blubber
is not an exciting dish.
A grocer is willing to admit that
honest tea is the best policy, but when
it comes to coffee, he doesn't believe in
running the thing into the ground.
A man in Lansing, Mich, has crow
that associates with the hens and crows
like healthy rooster. Who has more
caws to crow than crow?
A four-year old, being asked by his
mother if he would like to have wings
and be an angel, replied, No, ma; I'd
rather be hawk and live on chickens"
A Bachelors Union has been formed
at Kalamazoo, Mich. We never heard
of but one bachelors union that was
successful, and that was called marriage.
A Texas lawyer has been found, forty
three years old, who never drank drop
of ardent spirits or malt liquors, nor
swore an oath nor belonged to a church.
Next
1t is so pleasant to know that Agassiz
has found a few species of gasteropods,
fourteen kinds Of shinoderus, including
an euryale, fifty specimens ofophiuraus,
and, to crown the whole, a large
heliaster.
A quiet old gentleman Of New York
thinks that he could forgive Boston a
portion Of her high fittings" if she
would only invite all the street must
clans Of New York to take part in her
coming Jubilee-and keep them.
A Spanish interpreter, charged at a
London Police Court with aceosting wo-
men and kissing them, besides other
violent acts, defended himself on the
plea Of delirium tremens, and was sent
to prison for seven days to be taken care
Of.
The Journal des Debats says: " II has
just been discovered that a solution Of
sulphate Of iron sprinkled upon fruits
and plants has a wonderful effect Beans
gained sixty per cent in size and in
quality, and pear trees were wonderfully
benefited by the new fertilizer"
Russia, Austria, Italy, France, Spain
and the United States have a legal
tender paper with a forced circulation.
France and Spain are afflicted BY num-
berless local curreneies Of no general
acceptance. England and Germany
alone, among the great powers, maintain
a specie circulation.
A new Canadian paper started out
with the idea Of disearding the "u," as
in " harbour" colour" aud so forth
but public sentiment" has forced the
paper to take up the letter and use it.
The paper, however, makes up the dis
appointment by spelling niger" with
one "g," aud dog with two Of them.
On the removal Of the bodies in the
burial ground Of st. Alphonsus Church,