Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-25

as you can. Jonuhy ios M W.
you had different teacher from what
I've got
A bright little Jersey lad recently
broke through the ice at Lake View
while skating. As he went down he hur'
riedly shouted the street and number Of
his residence-information which proved
of value on his rescue.
A writer in the Cincinnati Times says
There are in Cincinnati about fourteen
hundred tenement houses, containing
about sixteen thousand rooms, in which
are domiciled ten thousand families, ag-
gregating between forty and fifty thou
sand persons.
The late Rev. Chousey Hall Townsend,
having been robbed by thieves breaking
into his vicarage, wrote the following
epigram upon his loss:
They prigged my gold repeater. they prig9ed
my silver store,
But they eouldn't prig my sermons, for they
were prigged before.
That same girl who wouldn't marry
a mechanic who turned out to be gov
ernor" is again going the rounds, after
ten years silence. Don't be uneasy,
girls; if you don't want to marry me-
chanic, why, don't do it. Perhaps an
editor will come along one of these days
The French women are the best dressed
in the world, German women have the
most luxuriant heads of hair, the Spar
ish women the smallest hands and feet,
Italian women the most brilliant COM
plexions, South Americans the most
beauty and American women the most
style,
An Oregon paper says: John b.
Peak ran off with country-girl and
married her, for which he was prosecu-
ted in the circuit court at Corvallis last
week; but the jury got sight of the pref
ty wife whom he got by the operation,
and unanimously voted that they would
have done 1t too.
The Queen of Prussia has invited the
English Laureate, Tennyson, to visit
Berlin. The Queen Augusta is said to
be the most intelligent sovereign in Eu-
rope, more of diplomat than her hus'
band, and not an unequal match for the
premier whom she has frequently con-
quered in political intrigue.
In Mahometan countries, pilgrims who
have been to Mecca are distinguished
by green tprhaps, and have certain roli-
gieus privileges, and are so apt to pre-
sumo on their piety that 1t has become a
proverb, IF man has been to Mecca
once, watch him; if twice, do not trust
him; if three times, move out of his
neighborhood."
The FIVE lovers of Springfield, Mass
girl, each ofwhom she had taught to think
was the favored one, discovering that
their love was joint-stock concern, re-
Gently met at the house of the fair one,
and with one accord dropping Oh their
knees, offered her their hearts and hands.
The tableau was an active one, but the
young lady refused them one and all.
A young lady who has been taking
quinine in large quantities become so
impregnated with iron that one cold
evening, when her lover kissed her at
the door, he had the same experience
that small boys do who approach their
mouths to the lamp-posts, and before he
could separate his lips from hers, was
caught by his ought-to-be mother-in-law.
Moral-don't take quinine.
A very beautiful lady of the.Die Yer
non type, in Boulogne, sent challenge
to the publisher of humorous journal
who had twice in succession concerned
himself with her private li.e." A formal
acceptance of the dael was Immediately
returned, politely waving the choice of
arms, but expressing decided prefer
ence for those of the lady herself. Re
Cancellation followed the repartee, and
yhen last heard from the lady was treat
ing him after the preliminary manner of
a grizzly.