Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-02

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can never come to q proper understand
ing, because they argue from different
premises.
The man who haz got into the habit OF
never making emmy blunders IL alto
gether too good to live in this world
Billings.
Virtue will catch as well as vice by
contacts; and the public stock of hon
est, manly principle will daily accumu-
late. Burke.
1t is 3l4 years since the first embassy
went from Russia to England. The voy-
age between the two countries occupied
four months.
A Frisco man bought an old trunk for
six bits, and found in it several moss
agates worth s75, and an amethyst val
ued at 5000.
Brigandage in Greece is said to be
worse than ever, and that it is dangerous
for person to go thousand PAGES out
of Athens without an escort.
Women, under the name of assistant
pastors do pastoral and missionary
work for several of the st. Louis
churches, and receive compensation
therefor.
A cautious old bachelor, who knows
that the present is Leap Year, says,
IF you meet young lady who is not
very shy, you had better be little shy
yourself"
The Havanese have not seen an aurora
for thirty-seven years, and when they
had one the other night, they thought it
was the dawn of the judgment day, and
all hocked to church.
The lawyers fees in the notorious
Tichborne case amount to 100000. The
jurymen we're paid five dollars day,
and for the l03 days during which the
trlal lasted, received $elcO'
In Berlin, a mason and carpenter,
who constructed house so badly that it
fell down shortly afterward, have been
sent to Jail for eighteen months, as
punishment for their negligence.
Feejian epicureanism has been exer-
cising itself again on some English
sailors, and John Bull will send out
some seasoning in the shape of powder
and ball for these omniverous Islanders.
All save one of Queen Victoria's la
dies in waiting are widows. her choice
since Prince Albert died. They receive
eight hundred pounds per annum, and
are widows Of deceased peers. Maids
of honor are another class.
The English have been unfortunate in
the matter of iron war vessels, but have
finally copied our monitor style, with
scarcely variation, and they launched,
some time since, craft which they call
the Citation.
II is a great satisfaction to know that
the March Of l772, just hundred years
ago, was month Of high winds and
severely cold weather. We have but an
indistinct recollection Of the month
ourself-and our almanac for 1872
doesn't say anything about it.
What is the principal business car
ried on in this placer" asked traveller
of person in a village. THE manu-
facture Of ready-msde clothing" was
the reply. "You are a queer set to
spend your time in the manufacture Of
what is already made, said the traveller
Chicago item, from the Times: A
stylish.looking lady sat in one Of th'
front windows Of the Madison-stree
House on yesterday afternoon, flirting
her handkerchief. Forty-seven thor
oughbreds stood on the opposita side o
the street, each one fondly imagining q,
was the lovely biped for whom sh'
sighed. One bold, bad man ventures
up stairs and knocked at her door He
husband, who was lying on the sofa, go
up and opened it. Subsequently the b.
b. m. was swept up, and bis remain
will be buried to-day"
Rome is in ecsiacies over new bale
on the subject Of the Divine Com
: medal" A dancing Dante is the hero
Frederic Barbarossa is represented wit
heavy black beard running away fror
! the Italian ballerini. Dante appears
gesticulating wildly, and Virgil enter
and feels his pulse. Then, after bein
? joined by Homer, the trio dance a far
dango in the Elysian Fields. In purgl
tory Dante meets Beatrice, who, in
very rickety conveyance, carries him o.
to the Trono eterno. The last seen
discovers Italy bound in chains; at th
sound Of Garibaldi's hymn her fetter
i fall of Dante rashes forward to bles
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