Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-11

Alexis is going to "perforate the
bounding buffalo" in company with
General Sheridan.
A Portsmouth, N. H., youth won the
stakes of a bet By eating two pounds OF
raw beefsteak.
The Countess Guiceioli will pass her
remaining days on her estate near Flor
ence.
The Boston papers complain of the
cultivation of pork" in the streets OF
that city.
At Virginia City, recently, man died
at the grave while his wife was being
buried.
The snow is said to average more
than two and half feet deep through
out the woods in Maine.
An Italian nun died of grief at being
compelled to vacate cell she had oc-
cupied for fifty years.
One of the best political notices OF
the times is-"0fice-holders to the
rear; taxpayers to the front.
Some one says that Sunday evening
tea is the most sociable and enjoyable
meal during the whole week.
Grstave Dore is said to have pro-
duced more than forty-fve thousand de-
signs without assistance.
A Boston banker has just imported
the larges. diamond in the city, at cost
of ten thousand dollars.
A Kentucky farmer refused to buy a
sewing machine" he sowed his wheat
out of bucket.
King Louis of Bavaria broke his ma
trimonial engagement with his cousin
because she ate prunes.
The Postoffice Department has agreed
to receive mutilated currency in pay
ment for postage stamps.
Here is an awful warning. A Phila
delphian was arrested and held to bal
in $500, for stealing two umbrellas.
The Horrors ef Venice is LOUISE
Muhlbach's latest work, and it is said Il
be historically sensational in character
A new style of fur is known by tb:
name of wolverine. and will be, it il
said, as popular next season as seal skin
is this.
The distribution of breech-loaders t.
the German army is complete; 1904
las riAed breech leaders have been
served out.
A new style of India shawl is called
the reversible" and can be worn in
three different ways and is of three diff
ferent colors.
The Nashville Banner has it thai
Henry Farmer, the Memphis autist, who
has many friends in Nashville, has gone
to New York to get married
The Boston Transcript says that il
that region, elderly gentlemen pro
long their lives by giving good din
ners and going to them"
A recent calculation estimates that
enough iron wire to belt the globe with
a netting a yard wide is made yearly
into cages for birds.
The following paragraph is going the
rounds of the Northern press: The
city charter Of Memphis permits womer
tax payers to vote"
Vaccination parties are the rage ou
West in these smallpox times. SENT
mental lovers delight to receive the vi
rus from their sweethearts arms.
The St. Louis reporters do not permi
the Duke Alexis to simply rise from I
chair. Not much. They write that h'
"untelescopes his immense form"
The eminent French sculptor, Fran
co.'s Gaspard Aime Lanno, died las
month. He was a pupil of Cartellie
and Lemot. In 1927 he won the CRANE
prir Of Rome, and in ls43 a medal o
the second class.
The Nashville papers state that yes
terdsy Mrs. Paralee Haskell, after 1
pleasantly spent holiday Of two weeks
has returned to the city and resumed
her duties, which she so well discharges
as State Librarian.
Holland is the paradise for period
Gals. No country can boast Of so mani
monthlies, weeklies and quarterlies il
proportion to population. There ar
eighty Dutch serials devoted to htera
ture, seven to typography and SibfOgra
} ply, eleven to medicine, Eve 10 maths
MATES, two to the woman question, fT
to political economy. and eighty 10 re
ligiOn