Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-07

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Noisy cats of the Thomas variety
may be abated by little strychnine.
A Maine legislator hopes for better
life where there is less friction"
General Joe Lane is 10, healthy, and
spells himself with small g."
A non-explosive Jersey City lamp
smashed window fifty feet remote.
Colored velvet collars are now worn
with street costumes in New York.
An Illinoisian took revenge by cutting
off the tails of his enemies horses.
Blind Tom is seeing" what he can
do in the musical line at Norfolk, Va.
A Vermont village school sings the
multiplication table to Yankee Doodle"
1t is grand thing fo- the poets that
ever rhymes with never
Connubial disquietude is the latest
reportorial phrase for wife-beating.
A train untracked now means that
the train was thrown off the track.
Othello smothered Desdemoha with
charge of buckshot, down in Georgia.
The people of Seneca, Kansas, dig
their coal out of their own yards.
They can smash up trains in England
almost as well as we can in America.
A mine of old copper coins has been
discovered at Oyster Point New Haven.
To what color does Aogging change
boys complexion 1t makes him
yell o.
The Holy Father is said to contem-
plate visit to France, this spring, for
relaxation.
The intelligent compositor pleasantly
alludes te " Alexis, the noble Russ" as
Alexis, the noble Kuss."
A Chicago boot-black recently bought
nine hundred-dollar lot, fer which he
paid in fractional currency.
A new source of revenue was tapped
in Washington, recently, by fning a
man FIVE dollars for cursing President
Grant.
1t is said that whatever Midas
touched turned into gold" In these
days touch man with gold and he will
turn into anything.
Hair dressers are advertising that
since the dukes visit to St. Louis human
hair has gone up. The duke wore his
la PompadOur.
Husband, if an honest man is God
modest work, what is an honest wo-
mani" "His rsrest, dear" ives the
uncivil reply
An Indianian asked the clerk of
court whether he couldn't reduce the
rates IL half dozen fellows dubbed
together to take out marriage licenses.
A New Orleans paper says that
young widow in that city, who writes
well, ais training herself for an editor.
Who is the editor she is training for2
The young men win read with interest
that the present style of cable neck
chains, worn by fashionable young la
dies, are purchased at the dollar stores.
New York young ladies who wish to
make their friends think that they have
a great many admirers present them
selves every two or three days with
handsome basket of flowers.
If the French government can farm
out the monopoly for the sale Of tobacco
in French domination for thirty years to
bankers who will pay off the balance Of
the war debt, it is fortunate. The peo-
pie of France can pay the debt If they
chews.-BOstoR Post
The olive crop of the Mediterranean
countries has been seriously iHjdred by
protracted drought. Should the crop
in France also prove fsilare, Of which
there is some apprehension, the results
will be serious and extensive in their
effects
Near Jordan Village, in Owen
county, Indiana, lives man by the
name of Hiram Morley whose FIRST wife
is living, and who has twenty-seven chill
dren-twenty-fve boys and two girls,
and all twins but onel The children are
all still single, and all live al home with
their parents.
All our rich people have become wild
lately on the subject Of descent; armo-
rial bearings are the fashionable study,
and New York is blessed with that sweet
boon, herald's college. De Brett and
Burke are faithfully conned by every
ambitious nobody, and if among the roll
Of Britain's nobility can be found q
name which in any way resembles his
own, JOY fills his breast and straightvsy
Gimbrede hath an order. For two weeks
does the armorial fever rack our no