Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-30

A tower clock is said to have the most
striking face of anything seen on the
street.
The Princess Beatrice, of England,
has told the Earl of Aberdeen to ask
mamma" aa
The Mobile Register wants the Presi-
dent to put on the crown andput out
the carpet-bagger.
King Oscar IL. Of Sweden and Nor
way, will be formally crowned at Stock
holm on the 18th Of May next.
A Madison, N. j., poultry fancier has
one-legged gander which whips all the
dogs and other ganders in the place.
The Baroness de Samuel, wealthy
Jewess OF London, is about to marry a
young English nobleman. who is very
poor. Sad aG aH
The sheep-killing season, by dogs, is
said to have been successfully inaugur-
ated in the neighborhood of Wytheville,
Virginia.
A Syracuse man has turned up who
was supposed to be dead five years ago
and found his heirs calmly enjoying his
property. b.
At Muscatine, Iowa, recently, some
naughty boys locked up church during
service, aud obliged the congregation to
climb out OF the windows.
A man named Page asked hotel
keeper at Omaha what time it was, and
being told that it was IL o'clock, shot
himself through the head.
A poor young girl, who earns living
by working on hoop-skirts, in reply to an
inquiry, stated that she had spent the
summer at the springs"
Mr. Jean Dolfus, rich manufacturer
at Mulhouse, celebrated his golden wed
ding by the distribution of forty thous-
and dollars among his work-people.
Another convict is missing at the State
prison, in Auburn, New York. The
authorities are sure he is in the prison
but can't find him. -BostoD Post.
An amateur journalist of indianapolis
has made fortune by his pen: His
father-in-law died of grief after reading
one Of his leaders, and left him $3.50, 600.
The meanest man has been found al
last He lives in Ottawa, and cut to
pieces nine shirts left out to dry by q
poor washerwoman who had offended
him.
Voltaires definition Of physician is;
San unfortunate gentleman, expected
every day to perform a miracle-name'
ly, to reconcile health with intemper'
ance.
The minimum speed at which news
reports are sent is twenty-five words per
minute-l5OO per hour; very often as
high as forty words are sent-24OO words
per hour. I
The Massachusetts Legislature, sum
moued to meet in extra session on ac-
count Of the great fire, have taken
advantage Of Il TO vote themselves an
increase Of pay.
An English court has decided that
people who pin their faith on spiritual
mediums instead Of using the medium
Of their own senses are fit subjects for
lunatic asylum.
The Star of South Africa, theIfamouI
large diamond from the South African
miaes, blazss in the coronet Of the
Countess Of Duelley. 1t weighs forty
six and a half carats.
A poet asks; Where are the dead
the vanished dead, who trod the eartl
that now we tread2" II we we're Il
make a random guess, we should say tn,
most Of them are buried.
An old bachelor at a weddingfeas
had the heartlessness TO offer the follow
4 ing toast: "Marriage-The gate through
which the happy lover leaves his en-
ehanted regions and returns to earth.
New York poodles are dyed to mattel
TO color Of their owners gloves. anC
} their tales are scented with costly per
fumes, which difuse delicious fragrance
when wagged in an energetic manner.
, The New York Mail says the les JUS
I passed in Kansas, giving mothtrs con
, troll Of their children, is a capital meas
ure and should be initiated in oihe
States. Children have had control o
their mothers so long It is time Cor
change. We believe in rotation in III
domestic Offices.
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