Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-03
pAors AND rASorEs.

York railroad uepots are !" "e"'
uniform.
Fred Douglass is in Boston regrettin
his misfortune in not having been bor'
there.
Men have only one hundred and forty
two different styles OF hats to select iron
this spring. '.i
The discriminating police OF Oxford
Wisconsin, arrest eripples on suspicion
of drunkenness.
! AT the Yarmouth Mills, in Maine
brown paper is made from spruce log
in twenty-four hours.
A citizen Of Henderson, Kentucky
thinks he has struck solid gold placer
in an adjoining county.
A New York court has decided thai
a street car conductor cannot eject
drunken man who tenders his fare.
An Iowa editor recently announced
that certain patron Of his was thiev
ing as usual" He declares he wrote ii
thriving.
McCloud, of Mt. Sterling Kentucky,
who recently died, could repeat the en-
tire writings of Shakespeare, Byron and
Ten Moore.
Some of the Vermont papers COM
plain that Massachusetts is drawing
away the best teachers from that State
by paying them higher wages.
"Sarbiee ober, church door lock, is
jamaican for the truth that Monday in
fluence of religion is apt to be less than
its influence on Sunday.
Many hundred acres of cotton are be-
ing planted in MERGED county, Califor-
MIA, and the prospects that California
will yet be large cotton growing State
is excellent.
Cinnamon are growing civilized. They
now drink their lager straight IN New
York, and enjoy it.
Twenty-four orphans of Burlington,
Iowa, mourn the decease Of one and the
same father.
The champion Indianian is physi-
clan who has been divorced six times,
and has buried two wives (his own
besides.
The Bolivar Bulletin says that mos
quitoes in the Big Hatchie Bottom,
Tenn, are so big that they bark.
One person is born in London every
five minutes, and another dies every
seven minutes in that great city.
A New Orleans editor says he count
ed l73 alligators in a sail of six miles
along bayou" "a strong allegation"
says an incredulous brother.
Mississippi and Tennessee are each
spelled with only four different letters of
the alphabet, although one contains
eleven letters and the other nine.
Somebody asked a Paris editor
Where do you get your intelligenceT
From the papers" Where do the
papers get it2' From other papers.
But who is the first author of itY
Nobody"
The Cleveland Leader said recently
that the rain came just in time to save
Old Probabilities from being mobbed by
rural residents whose farms we're suffer
ing for moisture.
Tillotson very justly says that shame
is q great restraint upon the sinners at
first; but that soon falls off, and when
they have once lost their innocence,
their modesty is not likely to be long
troublesome to them.
Japan has had eight expresses, under
whom it was in every way prosperous.
One of these is now deified into the God
dess Issa, to whose example children are
pointed.
1t is recorded of Sidney Smith that he
was once asked by Landseer, the cele-
brated animal painter, to sit for his por-
trait. is thy servant dog, that he
should do this2" was tho reply Of the
witty divine.
The anatomy of John Zoomy, of
Watertown, Wis, is planted to wheat in
symmetrical lines, as consequence Of
falling in front of his wheat drill drawn
by his runaway horses. He wouldn't
regret the experiment so much if it had
not also broken his leg.
The American Register says that a
committee OF rabbis and doctors have
met at the Soane Museum, London, to
examine the sacred roll of the Penta-
teuch sent over from Alden by Lieuten-
ant Prideaux, and presented by him to
the Society of Biblical Archaeology.
A gentleman in Ellsworth, Maine, had
the thrift to preserve note written for
practice in studying partial payments
and now when all the witnesses are
dead, has the cheek to present it for
payment, which the defendant avoids by
proving his homage at the time of the
drawing Of the note.
Means what He Says.
Though combinations strong as