Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-31

Charles Reade, it is asserted, frequent
| ly spends eighteen hours out OF the
twenty-four in bed.
An old lady says of q certain pom
pous clergyman, that he seems filled
with the divine infaters.
Mrs. E. V. N. Hitchcock, Vermont
girl, is a prima donna of the grand
opera at Brussels.
l have known people who had 50 little
character that they didn't even have
any failings.-JOsh Billings.
Piles of golden oranges illuminate
every street corner in New York city,
and the price is twenty for twenty-five
cents"
A North Carolina man last week
shipped nearly twenty thousand rabbit,
mink and otter skins He makes the
" fur Ay."
1t is said that it is the little women in
the world who have the greatest amount
of perseverance and energy and the
most endurance
A fond motherat Council Bluffs, Iowa,
recently adornedher hayward and erring
daughter with a plumage of far and
feathers.
A Winona Wedding degenerated into
pugislistic entertainment, and the
bridegroom was escorted to jailto spend
the honeymoon.
Another rip Van Wrinkle" has been
distressing the American people. This
time it is in Hartford, Conn, and his
name is John Murray.
Ingraham, of Louisiana, was formerly
9 wharf roustabout in good standing in
eolored society; but he took to drinking,
and was sent to the Legislature for one
year.
Tom" l say, Jack, what n beautiful
complexion Miss Smith has. Do you
know her2" Jack-'No, but / know
girl who buys her complexion at the
same store"
/ would say to all young men, marry
your second wife first, and keep out of
debt by all means, even If you have to
borrow the money TO do it.-Adrk
Train.
Railway travellers should not carry
reading to the point Of fatiguei they
should not read in waRing or defective
light; they should give good paper
and bold type a very decided prefer
ence. Lancet.
An artistic curiosity Of great value
has lately come to light in Vienna. II
is complete set Of wooden chessmen,
some inches high, richly carved, and
full of character, by nc less q masteV
than Albrecht Durer.
A sneak thief recently stole coat at
Marsballtown, ILL.,, which had been hung
across the fence to be disinfected of the
smallpox, and. as a consequence, has
gone to bis reward.
Men are said to be the cause of all the
extravaganza in women's dress, and
when they cease to pay court to silks.
velvet, panniers, ehignons and furbelows,
the women will go over to CALICO dresses
in battalions.
Mrs. Kate NJ. Pinch, of Monmouth,
Maine, lately feeling queer sensation on
the crown of her head, was examining IT,
when she discovered the point Of a nee
die protruding, and with pair Of pin
GERS she succeeded in drawing forth q
needle about one and half inches
long. She swallowed the needle FIVE
years ago.
The superintendent Of the census es-
Inmates the loss Of population by the
late rebellion as follows; Direct loss
from wounds and diseases, 500, OO0; adj
ditional Confederate loss, $50, 900, indi,
rect loss by the withdrawal Of / 500, 900
men from domestic life, and the conse-
quent diminution Of births, LAS, 900;
loss by check given 20 immigration, 354,-
900; retardation OF increase in the col
ored population, $4,000; total, s,OOO.-
900.
Dr. Cumming thinks It sad thing to
be blessed by the Pope. This is the
way it works, as he sees it: The bless
ing showered on the Emperor Of Austria
had ended in Sadowa; the Queen Of
Spain, who had received the Golden
Rose, was soon q fugitive; Macmillan,
who had been blessed was shot Victor
Emmanuel, who had been cursed in the
severest manner, was now King Of Italy,
his son King Of Spain, and his daughter
Queen Of Portugal