Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-29

have been frozen to death on the West
ern plains this winter.
The largest aqueduct in the world is
the Croton aqueduct in New York. 1t
cost sl2, 100000
The New York Tribune talks of a
square-toed lie." That is one which is
not to the point.
Madame Mosheles, the widow of the
eminent composer, is atpresent engaged
in writing the life of her husband.
When Alsace belonged to France, the
government sold there annually eight
million francs worth Of tobacco.
NJ. Lebeau, director of the Journal
Oficiel of the Commune, has escaped
from Versailles and is in Brussels.
There are two reasons why we don't
trust a man; one because we don't know
him, and the other because we do.
Sixty per cent. of the population OF
England live on the narrow line which
divides sufficiency of food from starva-
ton.
1t would require less than seyenty-fve
dollars from each inhabitant of the Uni
ted States, to extinguish the natio ual
debt.
A heightened Cincinnati policeman
has been discharged for refusingto turn
out and attend the funeral of a colored
patrolman.
Next to Rothschild, the wealthiest
banker in Vienna is man who in his
youth started as an errand-boy at a sal
airy of one form week
Prof. Huxley says he wants nothing
to do with spiritualism, unless the spirits
can talk more sensibly and wisely than
their friends report them to do.
In an assault case in an Oregon court,
lately, lawyer asked a physician who
was on the witness stand if he had made
diagnosis of the plaintiffs physi-
ology." tE
Hundreds of people would take dollar
chances in a so-ealled charity lottery
who would never think of giving two
cents to blind man. cr
Storage space is so valuable in the old
parts of London that moderate sized
cellar, or an attic, comma nds readily
fifteen hundred dollars per annum for
rent.
Macmillan, who inundated himself
on the Mexican idea, or rather who was
led to do so by Napoleon, the little, now
sleeps at Vienna under q pretentious
monument.
Persons returning from Paris say that
the deadly absinthe is used by the BOhe-
mian class of that city as freely as
American whisky is consumed in this
country.
Nine Kibrisli Pasha, the widow Of the
late GrandYizir Kibrisli Mehemet P,'sha
is about to bring out an auto-biogra phi
cal work of special interest, EMIT lee
Thirty Years in the Harem"
In three States of the South the ne
groes outnumber the whites by large
majOrities. In Mississippi the majority
is 81 1905, in Louisiana 2O,l45, and in
South Carolina l24, l47.
Some one has taken the trouble to as
certain the number of battles Tough
since 1894 by the armies Of Austria
Nearly seven thousand battles or one to
every fifteen days are the figures gwen.
In recent letter, Senator Brownlow
claims that, Notwithstanding his physi-
cal weakness, he discharges his duties as
well as the majority, with the exception
of speech-making.
During the rejoicings at Brill in honor
Of Dutch Independence, a quaint medi.
eval eavalcade, representing the variou.
trades of the Netherlandish bur zhers,
paraded the streets.
England manages to get along will
killing one passenger in .256, 29O on hel
railroads; France, one in 1856, 555. Bel
GUM, one in 1851 ,sOl; Baden, one il
l7,5l4,977; Prussia, one in 2I,4lI,4ss
Those who are about to travel in Europ,
will see by this that it is much safer t.
do it in Prussia.
A correspondent Of daily paper IN
this city makes an inquiry as to tbs
authorship Of quotation, in order t.S
have an opportunity Of mentioning his
acquaintance with an eminent literary
gentleman, and also informs the public
thathe was perseeuted by the slave
power. Singles says tits too thin. &"