Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-13

Dan Shumway, notorious Western
: desperate, was buried face downward,
with pack of cards in his hands.
Hard times in Persia induce the gyp-
sizes to sell their daughters at the rdiep-
lously insufficient sum of five dollars.
An American singing-girl in Italy
named Jane Armstrong appears on the
bills at Milan as "Giovannina Angina.
J A black-and-tan terrier is registered
in the Louisville directory, and receives
many letters from travelling agents and
others.
"A Fourth Ward PERSONAL---VERY.
| Loa6ng-Liberty League" has been or
ganized in Chicago. So says one of the
journals of that city.
The beggars in Buenos Ayres ride on
horseback, and when they do not wish
food, as coolly beg that you will, for the
sake of the Virgin, bestow some money
for them to buy cigars.
A sportive hunter of Detroit, who kept
aask of whisky with him on shooting
trip, struck a race course in the suburbs
on his return, and walked around it all
night, wondering why he didn't get to
tewn.
Devoted Montrealists have been pay
ing homage to a cross of mist which
they thought marked the resting place
of saint. Some iconoclastic shovels
showed that it was caused by defective
intersecting water-pipes.
The boys in New Orleans, new in the
hight of their kite-hying season, are said
to be more of an affiietion than the
mosquitoes. In upper tenbcydom, there
are two clubs, the ''Trundle-Bed Tigers
and the Pap Invincibles."
An experienced bousekeeper tells
contemporary that flies may be kept ont
of the butter plate on the table by a
simple and novel expedient by planting
in it a thin slice of bread, cut column
wise and inserted in a perpendicular
position.
A man a hundred years old went to
have a pair of shoes made The shop |
keeper suggested that be might not live
to wear them out, when the old man re-
torted that he commenced this one hun
bred years great deal stronger than he
did the last one.
A gold chest, with Captain Kids
name On it, has been dug up on farm
in New Jersey. The country around is
in state OF great excitement. Capt. |
Kidd might be forgiven for his piracies,
but for planting those demOralizing
treasures. never.
a. 7. Stewart many years ago made
it an infexible rule to dismiss on the
instant any clerk who was fond
representing anything on bis counter to
be better quality of gods than it re-
ally was. He does not seem TO have
lost anything by it.
Here is a prospectus of Oil City, by
Titusville paper: A small, gnarled,
frowsy, knotty, bare-backed, up-and-
down, bumped, round-shOuldered, guilty.
precipicy, and generally shotup, seooped
out, ravined, inaexible, irregular, greasy
and siab-sided shanty town"
A boy has been found in India occu-
plying a wolf den, and fed by the pro-
prietor with raw meat. There IS an old
story great deal better than that, in
which there we're two boys, and they
sucked wolf-or may be it was the
other way, we dithremember iuth how
it wath."
Professor Lebig, in a lecture on pois-
ous, said that people we're foolish in
using arsenic to poison their enemies.
for the billionth part Of grain can be
traced in the stomach, and " if the
person should die it remains there for
ever" Arsenic is SO injurious when
used in coloring materials, that he even
objects to children using green.coyered
school books.
Charles Levers last book, Lord XIII
gobbin," just published by the Harpers,
has this melancholy dedication: ITO
the memory Of one whose companion
ship made the happiness Of a long life,
and whose loss has left me helpless. |
dedicate this book, written in breaking
health and broken spirits. The task that
was once my joy and my pride l have
lived to find associated with my sorrow;
It IS not, then, without a cause say
hope this effort may be my last"
Henry Faxon and the Fat Coatribu-
tor were standing on the street corner
in Cincinnati one day specializing as to
how they could raise enough money 10 4
purchase the next drinks, when Artemus
Ward came along. Boys" saws be
why in the world don't you two ppt
your money together and establish a
paper2 Make il real lively. YOU kuowii