Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-03
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after b. W. Beecher.
Father Burke's visit to America is
: great financial success.
. Very little work is being done in thu
. Philadelphia Navy Yard.
The Heroic Newsboy" is the sub
ject of a Bowery drama.
Men frequently find themselves in q
moose after leaving the (h)altar.
Troops at West Point occasionally
swim across the Hudson to Cold Springs.
They have a campaign paper in North
Carolina, which they call Blasting
Powder"
The Woman's Journal is not prepared
to admit that Dr. Mary Walker is rep
resentative woman.
Brown says wedding rings ought to be
rechristened suffer riags. He has been
married Eve years.
A pair of New Haven parents are af-
hicted with boy that doesn't stop
whistling even in his sleep.
General Dan Ruggles, of Fredericks-
burg, Virginia, owns three hundred
thousand acres of land in Texas
The lunaties who take votes on rail-
road trains and steamboats, again show
the recurrence of their four years fit.
The swiftest "pitch" in the country
is young woman aged.twenty-three, be-
longing to Minnesota female base ball
club.
Researches in Chinese archives show
that the architect who designed and the
engineer who built the Great Wall were
women.
President Hosmer, of Antioch College,
has resigned, and Professor Edward
Orion has been appointed to the
vacancy.
The Newark Horse Fair was not a
financial success. Receipts, a little
over $500; expenditures, considerably
above $500.
A man named Mcdowell, of Macon
county, n. c., is the father of twenty
sever children and is seVenty-fve years
of age.
Sir George Biddell Airey, British As
tronomer Royal, has been madea Knight
Grand Cross Of the Bath by Queen Vic
toria.
In the United States there are upward
of eight thousand persons who have
written songs, and composers" almost
innumerable.
Marguerite Dixblarc, the Park Lane
murderess, has been sentenced to death
at the London Criminal Court, but re-
commended to mercy.
If any person has doubts whether adj
vertisements are read or not, let him put
something be doesn't wish seen in an OBJ
scure part Of the paper.
A Georgia judge who, seventeen years
ago, sentenced John Dotton to be hung,
last month performed the same Office for
John Bottoms son.
Poor Chicagoi A female gifted with |
prophecy says that no sooner does the
city shake off her ashes than she will be
destroyed by tornado.
DIR. Loring, of Boston, says if he should |
be a candidate for office he doesn't |
know why his wife should not vote for
him. She does, probably.
A Kansas City man recently died from |
the poison of copper musket ball
which he had carried around in him |
since the battle of Buena Vista.
A New London husband advertises
one cent reward for the return Of his
eloped wife, but doesn't think it worth |
while to have any one sent after her.
20, my dear, there is a most lovely |
set-pin earrings and sleeve buttons.
Do go buy them" Eyes, my dear, !
mean to GO by them as fast as possible
During the St. Louis Sengerfest one |
lager beer brewery sent out 1900 kegs in |
excess of its weekly demand, and the
other establishments did equally well.
An Iowa man is still chuckling in his
sleeve over the way in which he sold an
unsophistieated brewer in his neighbor-
hood by swapping" his wife for bar
rel Of beer.
A poem entitled The destruction Of |
U. Sennacherib Grant" the first line Of |
which begins, 1.-The collectors came
down like wolf on the fold,p is having |
a great run.
Any enterpriSing hquor-seller out Of |
job had better go To Muskegon, Michigan. |
The census credits her with 5,602 inhab-
itants, and she has now but 100 places
where liquor is sold
The physicians Of New Ysrk report
an alarming increase Of cancer on the
nose, caused by the practice Of wearing
eyeglasses that are held to the bridge Of
the nose by spring.
Smalley, Of the New York Tribune,
made his reputation as European cor
respondent by writing London letters
about rowing. He has since H.. =, ,,ood