Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-22


bacco worms, and eat them with re-
fish.
The Chicago Tribune hopes that
when DR.. Livingstone is found he will
be put under bonds to keep out of AT
RIGA.
The yachts Dauntless, Sappho, En-
chantress, Wanderer, Alarm and Colum'
bia will cruise in European waters next
summer.
The English censor of plays prohibit
ed all illusions to Mr.. Gladstone or the
Ministry in the holiday pantomImes this
year.
Those who buy tombstones of us look
with pride and satisfaction on the graves
of their friends, is the advertisement of
stone-cutter.
The New York Evening Mail says it
is the latest fashion for a lady to have
her trosseau and wedding dress made in
her own home.
A bachelor is described by member
of the Sorosis as a man who has neg
lected his opportunity of making some
woman miserable.
Several large coal piles in Chicago
have never been extinguished since the
great fire, and still shoulder during the
day and blaze forth at night.
Chicago has fourteen lecturers in the
field, and the Boston Post sorrowfully
remarks that this is her gratitude for
all that has been done for her"
OF the Boston great organ! DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes writes that it is
that HimalayaH home of harmony
which you are too see and then die, if
you don't live where you can hear and
see it otter"
A Boston clergyman, in speaking Of
sensationalism last Sunday said:
"The United States are becoming
great theater for dramatic display in the
various departments of politics, phi
lanthropy and social reform
The Evansville journal has a wide
awake corresIondent-one ~. NJ. A. !"
He recently exhausted half ream Of
foolscap at Cincinnati, interviewing
George Francis Train, but G. +. T.
turned out to be wicked euss bent on
a practical joke.
James to Josie: No more. Like
the Arabs, we will fold our tents and
quietly steal away, and when we spread
them next we hope it will be where the
woodbine twineth, over the river Jor-
dan, on the bright and beautiful banks
of heaven. From yours, ever, JAMES.
A Des Moines girl, enjoying buggy
ride with her lover, had her chignon re-
moved by horse which was driven up
behind. Just as the thing was done the
driver of the horse whipped up and
passed the lovers and whirled away.
the chignon dangling from the horses
mouth.
Aretiring editor Of an Ohio paper ear
nestly says Looking back to-day over
more than seven years editorial labor
upon this paper, | trust it is not mere
personal vanity which prompts the
thankful hope that my work and labor
of love mas not been in vain in the
Lord The subscription list has nearly
trebled since 1864"
The streetcars in Syracuse are so
comfortable and warm that old ladies
now take their knitting work, sit down
by the coal stove, and knit round three
or four times while going to and from
the business portion Of the city. Young
ladies lean back throw off their shawls,
and read novels till they leave the cars.
The Louisville Journal, referring to
the fact that somebody is going to build
a hotel in Rhode Island ninety-two feet
long and sixty feet wide, expresses as
constituent that the authorities should
permit any body to put the State all
under one roof in that way 1t does
seem strange that Sprague should thus
permit his tail-race to be invaded.
A man from one Of the rural districts
recently went to Washington to see the
sights A member Of the house, whose
constituent be was, said: Come to-
morrow and l will give you a seat on
the foor Of the house No you don q
replied Jonathan Il always manage to
have a cheer to sit on at home, and bet
hain't come 10 Wash a ton to sit on
the hoorl Injins may do that when they
come, If they like, but that am civil
lied, don't do Il.