Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-02

A 535-ounce gold nugget was lately
found in Australia. 1t was in the wall
of an old trench that was cut about nine
years ago, when large number of men
we're at work in that locality. The sue
cessive rainfalls had. with the continuous
washing and crumbling away of the soil,
brought this handsome little fortune into
daylight.
The Eastern Budget states thirty-fve
Jewish families, including children,
have been forced to leave their resi-
dences in Wallachia, in consequence of
the persecution to which they were sub
jected by the people of that country,
and they are now at Vienna under the
charge of the American Consul, who is
collecting subscriptions to enable him to
send them to America.
Here is one of the soundest temper
ance arguments we ever came across.
The only temperance railroad in the
United States-indeed, in the worlds
said to be the Marietta and Pittsburg
railroad, running from Marietta to Cam
bridge, distance Of ffty-nine miles
Every officer and employe of the road
is practical temperance man, and not
a single fatal accident has ever occurred
upon it since it was first opened This
is suggestive as far as it goes; and it
goes iifty-nine miles. Pittsburg Com
mercidl.
The Placer Herald says: Not over
fifty miles east Of Auburn, on the line
of the Central Pacific railroad, there
lives man whose sense of hearing is
not very acute, as will appear from the
following: The individual under con-
sideration was hunting for game about
a mile distant from his residence, when
a grouse flew up and lit on tree on the
hillside; at the same moment traveller
approached and inquired the distance
to the next station. Deaf man point
ing)-' He flew right up there. Trav-
eler-' How far is it 10 the next stationY |
Deaf man He lit right up there.
Traveler-'You must be tool Deaf
man Yes, there is great many
around this time of the year.
The French Minister for Agriculture
and Commerce has lately issued an adj
mirsble order. Thia is for the analysis
Of wines, various other beverages, and
all sorts of empirical preparations, such |
as pills, powders, cosmetics and patent
medicines. Ample evidence has been
afforded that many Of these prepare
tons are eminently prejudicial to
health, and to certain nostrums for the
hair, paralysis has been distictly traced.
The French long ago initiated the intro
duction of stringent penalties against
adulterators Of food, and the English
Parliament last session followed their
example by most salutary act. Are
we for all time going to permit ourselves
to be half poisoned with impunity to our
poisoners2
The report Of the Cambridge Syndi-
cate on university examinations for wo-
men at Cambridge, Cheltenham, Liver
pool, Manchester, Plymouth and Rugby
shows that while some of the women
examined showed marked proficiency ia
their studies, the great majority knew
quite little about them; they did not ap-
pear to have taken kindly to divinity
music, French or Greek, although the
papers set up in Latin were, on the
whole, creditable. French, music, and
smattering of divinity have, in novels
at least hitherto been held to be very
proper for women, and they have seemed
to like them better than any other pur'
suits; but now the tide of English fe-
male taste appears to be setting towards
political economy, Latin, and tue bottle
and squirt mania sometimes known as
chemistry.