Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-08

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yided Tor literally by the Girard (Phila-
delphia) bequest.
If the New York lawyer, Stillman, had
been stller man, he wouldn't have got
into ble.-BOstoR Post.
Two babes were born in the cars on
the Pacific railroad during the recent
snow blockade on the Western-bound
train.
Baron Won Schlosser, the successor Of
Baron Gerolt as Prussian Minister to
Washington, is said to be remarkably
fine musician.
Mr.. Sturgeon graph cally describes q
certain class of stately clergymen who
carry their lambs not in their arms, but
with the tongs.
A Wisconsin editor was called out Of
bed one night to receive subscription.
After that he sat up nights for a week,
but the ofense wasn't repeated.
A physician has discovered that night
mare, in nine cases out of ten, is pro-
dueed by owing a bill to the printer.
money makes the mare 60.
California-bred horses, it is claimed,
are proving superior in speed, endurance
and general good qualities to the best
raised in the Atlantic States or Europe.
In San Francisco the fact has been
eveloped that a number Of Chinese
merchants have married white women,
and that the women are generally of
Irish birth.
The Central Pacific Railroad Som
panys steamers are carrying passengers
from Sacramento to San Francisco in
the cabin for one dollar, and on deck for
fifty cents.
Charles Sinnot, of New Orleans, set
fire to the clothing of woman during
the Mardi-Gras festivities. Sinnot be-
lied his name, and for this sin repents q
year in Jail.
A thief was lately caught breaking
into a song. BE had already got through
the first two bars, when a policeman
came up and beat him with staye. The
rest may be imagined.
A lecturer recently made a point in
illustrating the power Of heat by saying
that the iron track of the Central rail-
road was one thousand feet shorter to-
day than on the 4th Of July last.
Instead of flying kites, bringing down
lightning from heaven, and making phil
osophical axioms, Mr.. Benjamin Frank
lin Of New Orleans spends the major
portion Of his time in stealing ducks.
The prisoners confined in jail at Co
lumbia, Kentucky, have not been enjoy
ing themselves lately. The rooms have
no hues, chimneys, or other arrange
ments for heating. In cold weather they
put the prisoners in their little beds"
and apply hot bricks to their feet.
Mrs. Sarah Newcombe. Of Illinois
killed her husband the other day by
striking him on the head with bed-post
How long are we yet to wait before the
laws will arouse themselves TO the neces-
siiy Of depriying women Of the danger
GUS privilege Of carrying concealed
weaponsP
Two colored boys Of Wallingford,
Connecticut, hunted raccoons the other
day, one Of them climbing the tree and
stirring up the yarmints, while the
other blazed away from below. They
got four coons, and the youngster who
stirred them up got forty I've backshot
in his leg
Says an Illinois paper; During the
cold weather Of Thursday last the city
editor Of the jackson Journal iroze his
ears about foot deep. They are to be
. amputated at the second joint, but his
t many friends will be rejoiced to know
that, in spite Of the accident, he still has
an ample stock for all the purposes Of
his position.
At a meeting of the Connecticut
Academy at the Sheffield school, in New
Haven, on Wednesday morning, Prof.
Marsh gave a brief description Of his
tour to the West last summer, aud said,
among other things, tina; he found in
Kansas fossils Of gigantic sAurians and
y winged replies Of twenty feet spread
. In the bAsalde region he found vast
quantities Of three-toed fossil horses.
Rev. DR.. Beihune once went on board
Of a crowded ferrybOai, aud was looking
a for a seat, when a man unknown to him
started up and said: Doctor, take
ny seat; it Is an honor to give such &
nan a seat Ever since heard Of thai
- big church in New York trying to Eer
you away BY giving call Of 5000 and
+ you sad you'd see EN- id frst, hav,
had great respect for you. and think 4
an honor 20 give you q seat.