Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-26

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to be told in debate they lie.
Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, is the great
resort for English consumptives.
The ex-KiDg of Naples has had two
divorces, and now is after another.
Australia has higher trees than Cali
fornia, which is saying good deal.
A Des Moines cabinet maker has re-
ceived an order from Brazil for school
seats. ga
A Newark physician was fined hfty
dollars for failing to report case a
smallpox.
Stealing candy from an old apple wo-
man brought twelve Dubuque damsels to
grief,
Prince Humbert of Italy is at present
on visit to the Imperial family OF Ger
many.
The ex-Empdror Napoleon is exceed
ingly popular with the residents OF Chs
elhurst.
One hundred and fifty ministers in
the Church of England are said to be OF
Jewish birth.
The Empress Eugene had the pleasure
of seeing her name set up in an English
paper as 'the Express Engine.
A Philadelphian has purchased sew
enty-fve acres of land in New Jersey,
to be given up to raising chickens.
Jeanette Bennett and Ida Greeley
we're both educated at the Convent of
the Sacred Hart in Manhattanville, New
York.
The salt business of Michigan is fall
ing off; this will not interfere with the
Salt River explorations next fall, how
ever.
At Anderson, S. c., and old man aged
ninety, and his wife aged eighty-seven,
died within an hour of each other, last
week, after q married life Of seventy
years.
Despite all the efforts of political econ
omists to reconcile capital and labor
current events show that there is a
striking difference between them.
Over thirty thousand acres of govern
ment land we're disposed of to home
stead and presumption entries by the
Sioux City office during the month of
May.
Ole Bull sailed in the steamship At
lantic on Saturday for Norway, to par
tieipate in the one thousandth anniver-
sary of Norwegian nationality. He was
escorted to the steamer by large party
of friends.
General Z. NJ. Lee is leeturing Four
years in the saddle with Sheridan and
Fitzpatrick. It looks as if this was
packing them in rather closely, but es
they stood it four years, it may not have
been so uncomfortable, after all.
Biologists say that the immense delta
of the Mississippi was manufactured by
an ancient river Of prodigious magni-
tude, which ran from Lake Michigan to
the Gulf of Mexico, and flowed at about
three hundred feet below the present
land level
The father of Thomas Mast, the great
caricaturist, was professional musician,
calling which he intended his son
should follow, to which end he used to
thrash him with leather strap most en-
Enthusiastically and faithfully, in order to
make him learn the scales on the violin.
Thomas, however, had a genius for
drawing, and he knew it. he is happily
married to the daughter Of an English
lady, and has three children, all living
An editor who received a letter in
which weather was spelled "wethur
says it was the worst spell of weather
he had ever seen. The worst spell
we ever remember to have seen is in the
following letter to a schoolmaster in In
diana: Sur, ass you are aman of no
legs, wish to entur my sun in your
skull" This looks like an insult at first
glance, but when translated is compli-
ment. " Sir, as you are man of know
ledge, wish to enter my son in your
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