Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-01
.l rAcrs AND FASCIEs.

The editor of the London Telegraph
is to be made baronet.
Three thousand species of grass are
now known to botanists.
! Hope never dies, though it may appa
rehtly keel over at times.
New Hampshire has done her summer
boarders out of $2.50O,0OO.
A chicken thief was publicly logged
at Henderson, Kentucky, the other day
A woman has applied to the Mayor o.
Chicago to be appointed ON the poles
! force.
NJ. Mori, the Japanese Charge DAT
flares at Washington. it is reported, is to
be recalled, eh
Gambetta says Napoleon and his min
ions heeced France of six hundred
thousand francs.
An Indiana editor has eloped with and
married the Balm of his life. Hex name
was Margaret T.
In Berlin the street Arabs throw stones
at ladies when they ride on horseback
through the streets.
There ere nine vacant seats IN the
French National Assembly, through
deaths or designations.
There are one hundred and s'xty-one
foreigners employed in the Department
of Public Works in japan.
A little girl in Washington is dead from
the poison of nickle cent which she
swallowed three months ago.
1t is the man who determines the dig
nifty of the occupation, not the occupa-
ton which measures the dignity of the
man.
A lady wrote her lover, who had be-
come insane, that he had gone out OF
his mind, but had never gone out OF
hers"
A Florida seminary withdraws thought
from dress by putting the girls in uni-
form-dark green tor winter and pink
for summer.
A Chicago advertisement for three
lady copyists brought in two days an
influx of two hundred and forty-nine
beautifully written letters.
Two young Italians recently entered
the crater of Mount Vesuvius, the first
to venture since its late eruption. Ten
guides accompanied them.
A young lady in Harrisburg has been
made blind by the poisonous dyes in
some goods she has been sewing on in
fashionable dry goods house.
Haste and rashness are storms and
tempests, breaking and wrecking bust
ness; but nimbleness is full, fair wind,
blowing it with speed to the haven.
A New York letter writer says that in
one Broadway business house there is
not less than nine divorced husbands,
two Of whom are members of the firm.
A French fashion writer says: "Almos'
every year fashion adds another button
to ladies kid gloves. They viii reach to
the elbow shortly, as in the days of our
grand-mothers. "
j, A soldier, telling his mother of the
terrible fire at Chickamauga, was asked
by her why he did not get behind a tree.
I" Treel" said be, there wasn't enough
for the officers"
Bertha Davis, Of Rochester, has been
stirred in the very depths Of her nature
because American women, as rule,
don't know how to yriggle their behind
bunch with grace"
An Alabama paper publishes the fol-
lowing notice: Married, at Flintstone.
By the Rev. Mr.. Windstone, Mr.. Nehe-
miah Sandstone and Miss Wilhelmina
Bgglestone, both Of Limestone.
OF the many Poles immigrating to
this country, it is remarked that a very
large percentage are journeymen tailsrs,
This is doubtless owing to the mutual at
traction between the needle and the Pole.
A new kind of rice, with large grains
las large as melon seed, and not
unlike that in its creamy white color =
is being used in Boston, says journal
Of that city. 1t is imported from the
East Indies.
IF there is anybody under the can
mister Of heaven that have in utter ex-
cressence," says Mrs. Partington, " it is
the slanderer going about like boy con-
struetor, circulating bis calomel upon
honest folks."
Georgia has hale aud hearty citizen
who has been struck by thirty two min
ME balls. one mortar she'll, one shrap-
mel, one three-inch cOnical, struck by
lightning, bitten BY rattlesnake and
chased by mad dog.
Devs,ion to public opinion was
evineed by lady Of eighty, who recently
married a man Of q correspondingly
appropriate age, because, she said, he
comes about my house so much; II /
don't marry him people will talk"
One Of the noteworthy instances of
woman's rights in practical operation
is at the small station Of Richmond, on
the Boston and Albany railroad, where
Mrs. Fairbanks is the station agent and
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