Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-20

Herr WAUGH, a German explorer o
Africa, has arrived at Guilimane on hi'
way home, in good health.
Bob Anderson claims to be king of the
highway in Colorado, and has robbed
thirteen coaches to prove it.
Mr.. Ernest Renan has got so far as
Naples, but, the World says, with no in
tention of going over to Rome.
Leap year is drawing to a close.
Young ladies had better look we'll be-
fore they take to the fatal trapeze.
Sylyanus Cobb is old and gray, but he
has that same respect for truth which
has characterized all his serials.
White men are to be banished from
the Cherokee Nation. who is there to
mourn for the poor" white MANI
The Marquis of Waterford is about to
enter the Roman Catholic Church. The
Marchioness went over some months
ago.
The San Francisco car conductor who
snubbed Mrs. Fair has received notice
of the cancellation of his life insurance
policy.
A Miss Apple tried to commit suicide
at Mariposa, CAL, lately, because she
was neglected fruit. Miss Apple wanted
to be one Of pair.
The Christian Leader (Universalist)
is now edited by the Rev. Z. b. Chaplin.
The cream of the clergy are assuming
the editorial tripod.
"Is that marble2" said gentleman,
pointing to the bust Of Kentuckys great
statesman. No, sir; that's Clay"
quietly replied the dealer.
In London a man who beats his wife
is sentenced to three days imprison-
ment. If he refuses tc Fay his omnibus
fare he gets sever days.
Voltaire was asked what he thought
was the age of the world. II don't
know" said he, "but regard the world
as an old coquette who conceals her
age"
A new use has been found for mica.
1t is now attracting public attention as
material for roofing buildings, for
which purpose it has been found to be
peculiarly adapted.
Queen Victoria's capital invested in
horseAesh amounts to only paltry
10000, though that, as the economical
Dixie may remark, is equivalent to a
hundred ponies"
The sheriffs of Ohio received over
$4,000 for bringing Presidential election
returns to Columbus, under law passed
before railways we're near as numerous
as they are now.
Elder Of fourteen" Where's baby,
Madge2" Madge-'In the other room,
l think, Emily" Elder of fourteen
go directly and see what she ia doing,
and tell her she mustn't"
A man who had been given up for dead
twenty years ago arrived in Paris fort
night since. He was sailor who went
on an expedition to the Polar seas at
the beginning of the reign Of Napoleon
III.
The St. Louis Democrat says: Mr..
Froude came over to teach US; be will
20 home taught" The Democrat hopes
that Mr. Froude will Immediately drop
Ireland, and adopt some other topic"
A correspondent of the London Daily
News, stationed on this side Of the wa
ter, writes home, in unfeigned astonish-
ment, that on election day the ladies
promenaded the streets just as on any
other day"
By a recent governmental order in
France all patent medicines and cos
metics are to be subjected to careful
chemical analysis, and the sale pro-
hibited Of such as are found to contain
any deleterious ingredient.
do you think it safe, my dear, said
husband to his wife, for me to take of
flannel when it looks like spring." Per
haps so, replied his wife, "but I never
saw any flannel that looks like spring.
The female convicts Of Maryland peni-
Tertiary are being taught to do plain
sewing Of all kinds done on sewing ma
chimes, in place Of the old trade Of box
making. Sewing gives them -aziier
means Of support when once more left
to depend upon themselves.
The new French Minister at Washing
ton, Count de Noailles, is to have q COR
geous establishment this winter. and has
taken two fne houses adjoining each
other and knocked out the partition TO
secure large enough building.