Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-03

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A Western paper. with peculiar stan
dards Of value. says that potatoes ar
. one cigar and drink of whisky pc
bushel at Davenport.
, A St. Louis beer guzzler has gone t.
San Francisco to drink match with.
man who can drink fify-eight mugs Of
beer in FIVE hours. knowing that thu
fools are not all dead yet.
The heirs of an Illinoisian. who ia
tally fractured his skull by falling out o.
his wagon while intoxicated, have recov
cred $1,000 damages from the barkeepel
who sold him the liquor.
A monuments is about to be erected at
Mechanicsville to the memory of Col
Ellsworth, of the Fire Zouaves. who was
killed at Alezandris, Virginia, at the
commencement Of the civil war.
4 Pere Hyacintbe, in letter to M Louis
Veuillot. says that he shall go on cele-
brating mass just as the married bishops
and priests did in early times, and as the
Eastern priests do to this day.
Professor Rudolph Virchow, the dis
tinguished German psychologist, has had
conferred on him the freedom of the
city of Bologna; probably because he
has shown himself sosage.-NeV York
World.
Mr. Holloway, the patent pill poten-
tate, is about to build an insane asylum
in England at cost Of nearly 100000;
presumably to show his gratitude to the
class from whom most Of his fortune was
derived.
Thackeray's son-in.law is the present
editor of the Cornhill Magazine, and his
daughter, Miss Thackeray, one OF its
most constant contributors. Her weekly
receptions during the season bring to-
eether one of the most charming lite
rary circles to be met with in London,
Granite and freestone crumbles un-
der the influence Of intense heat, while
iron curls and melts. Brick appears to
be the nearest freproof Of any building
material yet discovered. and Philadel-
phia is chiefly built Of brick.-PhiladeI.
phia Ledger.
The Maharajah Holker, of Indore,
has sent munifcent contribution of
%, 900 rupees, or f25OO. to the East In
dia Association, with letter intimatiDg
that he will, if he finds the Association
continuing to work with benefit to India,
be happy to render it further assistance. |
The author of "Ginx's Baby" has
found rival at Stanley Bridge, Eng
land, in the person of an iconoclastic |
reverend general named Stevens, who
has taken up the cudgels in defense Of
free trade in whisky. and who holds to
the beautifully charitable belief that all |
temperance orators drink like fish.
Victor Hugo is Of opinion that it was
the beauty of the eye Of Eugene de
Montijo which kept the Bonapartes so
long in the Tuileriss; which reminds US
Of what that other Frenchman. Pascal,
said-that had the nose of Cleopatra
been q little shorter, it would have
changed the history Of the world.
That was q curious idea of the Ameri-
can lady. who recently married Rus
sian nsbleman in Paris, Of appearing
at the altar, instead Of in the bridal
dress, in the deepest mourning, which
she is wearing for her father. Black at
q wedding has always been considered
an ill-omen; but that bride should 20 |
to the altar in it is q new feature In
fashion ever varying changes.
Newburyport had haunted school
house. There were rumorS Of spectoraI
figures and phantom voices, and for
nearly year the town was frightened |
from its propriety. Finally the author
tiles set the police to exercise the spirit
that made night dreadful to the people of
Newburyport, which they did, finding it
embodied in the person off miseheyiOus
boy named Currier. |
That vas not a bad reply given re-
Gently at barnraising in Pennsylva-
MIA to young man who bad bseH re-
lating his more than wonderful exploits
in various quarters Of the globe. At
the close Of QUE of these narratives be
was not little set back by tia remark |
Of an old cOdger: Young man, amt
you ashamed to talk so when there are
older liars on the gronndT'
A certain number Of weapons to
which historical record are attached,
and witch belonged to the Museum Of |
the sovereigns, have Just been placed
in that Of the ARTILLERY at Paris. Among
them are the cross-bOW Of Marie de
Medieis, ihe marriage sword OF Henri |
~, pistols which belonged to Napoleon |
l.. a small model Of a cannon offered TO |
Louis XIV by the Francs-Cemtois,
ssbers and saddles presented to the
Firstc onsul. etc.
The unmarried ladies Of the Moquis
tribe Of Indians Of Arizona are a eurios-
ity 70 us outside heathens. They wear
their hair in such romantic style that
there is no danger Of fellow installing
one for married woman. AZ soon as
they are manageable they do their hair
up on each side Of the head, something