Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-20

the only living CRATES on this continent.
A California deaf and dumb asylum
has ordered an organ from an Eastern
firm.
A war would be blow to the people
who are inheriting vast English es-
tates. .ios ~
Thirteen young ladies are knocking at
the door of the Yale school of Journal
ism.
A Missourian couldn't shake hands
with the grand duke, but kissed one of
his trunks. 3hlIAIEl = VIZ
Walked over, the basement of his
pantaloons is Springfield euphemism
for kicking, 81 1900 aT
Childhood-The finger of God upon
our brow, gradually removed by the
hand of time. e.1 81
Respect to age and kindness to chill
dren are among the tests of very anna
BILE disposition.
William Shakespeare lives in Ala
bama, and at the grocery store he is eel
ebrated as mellow-drammer,
Louis Napoleon has been arrested in
Houston, Texas, for drunkenness, but
doesn't want anything said about it.
A Fort Wayne, Ind, woman has been
married three times, to Messrs. Robb,
Robins and Robinson, respectively.
A philosopher says that if anything
will make woman swear, it is looking
for her night cap after the candle is out.
Lolita has been elected an honorary
member of a New Orleans base ball
club, and will doubtless make a good
catch.
A Kansas billiard table is described
by correspondent as having old boots
for pockets, and eight broken hoe-handles
for cues. f..
Thomas A. Scott is reported to receive
$3.50, 900 year as the sum of his united
salaries from. the railroads which center
in him.
Coleridge tells of man who had such
an overwhelming selfesteem that he
never spoke Of himself without taking
off his hat aae1 4'i 4
The Dakota county vigilance commit
tee announces that it is in flourishing
condition, and calls upon horse thieves
to take notice -'
An Indiana girl, who had been Tilted
bit off the thumb of her faithless lover.
She probably wanted to secure as much
of his hand as possible.
An Ohio paper mentions a housewife
in that State of such extraordinary neat
ness that she scrubbed her kitchen floor
until she fell through into the cellar. 2
A laundering Chicago doctor mistook
the symptoms of diptheria for small
pox, and the patient only escaped the
pest-house by clipping into the country.
Forsythe, Georgia, negroes derive
handsome income by forcing quarrels
with white men, getting knocked dowH,
and then compromising for FIVE dollars.
An Irishman was once asked to define
an Irish bull, to which he replied,
" Whenever you see two cows lying
down in field, the one that is standing
up is bull.
Old stove-pipe " hats may yet be,
come valuable. A Philadelphia halter,
recently established at Madras, has
written for large consignment Of them,
for the use of the natives idols.
The following is a sign board upon an
academy for teaching in one of the far
Western States: Freeman and Hugs,
school teachers Freeman teaches the
boys and Hugs the girls. s.IHi
A veteran observer says: al never
place much reliance on a man who is
always telling what he would have done
had he been there. have noticed that
somehow this kind of people never get
there.
A lady who had a great horror Of to-
baceo, got into railroad carriage, the
other day, and inquired Of male neigh
Dor, 81 Do you chew tobacco. sir2" mo,
madam" was the reply, but l can get
you a chew If you want it. "l'sf-
Upon recent investigation at Chi
cago as to overlooking street cars, rail
way superintendent testified that the
more people there we're ia a car, the
more wanted to get in, and the women
were worse than the men. he Is bold
man to say so, but thousands have
thought So