Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-06

Gold and silver brocade dresses for
evening recall our grandmothers days
Mr.. Alfred Forbes, of Swanton, Yer
mont, is a father at the age Of thirteen,
Fred Douglass says he has got tired
OF playing menagerie for the public.
General Harrison's grave is to be
looked after by legislative committee.
A man who sat upon paper of carpet
nails said they reminded him Of the in
come tax.
The inmates of the State prison are
said to be unanimous for the lone term
principle" "
Beecher writes that he has no belief in
the interposition of spirits outside OF
the body.
A French girl in Winthrop, Me-, has
been sneezing for week, and the doc
tors cannot stop it.
Mount Hood, Oregon, is throwing out
dense column of smoke; indicative of
active volcanic action.
Miss Kate Stanton, in her lecture on
Whom to Marry" recommends men to
choose large women for wives.
Having appeased his hunger for buff
falo, Alexis can now devote himself to
killing" the little dears.
A journal OF health prescribes ten
drops ST kerosene oil every night as a
certain cure for consumption.
AT the coming masquerade, young
men DESTROYS of finding the pretty girls
must shun handsome masks.
Those who buy tombstones of US
look with pride and satisfaction on the
graves Of their friends" is the advertise
ment of a Western stone-cutter.
Two Chicagoans, uDaccustomed to
worship, debated with the sexton whether
they would take seats in the parqaette
or balcony Of church.
Josh Billings says: :" don't rekolect
now OF uver hearing NV two dogs fight
ing unless there was a man or two
around.
Stokes asks suspension of public
opinion" and public opinion respect
fully, yet firmly, asks suspension of
Stokes
An Illinois clergyman forbade any
further contributions under five cents,
saying that the widows mite business
is played out here.
The infdels Of Massachusetts have
subscribed $3AQ00 for the erection of a
building for their use in Boston, to be
named Paine's Memorial hall.
How long do you wear a shirt" Sc
verely asked an inspecting officer of a
soldier whose shirt was too dirty for
dress parade. "Twenty-eight inches,
sir, was the respectful reply.
The King of Burmah has just degraded
one of the ablest and most powerful men
in his dominions-Yau Atween Woon-
" for drinking wine, taking brides and
speaking i'll of his majesty"
A London BLACKBOARD has just been
arrested for very petty" larceny IL
was his habit to seize little children and
iespoil them Of their clothes, like Good
Mrs. Brown" in "Dombey and Son..
An Euglishman has constructed
self-aeting knitting machine. three of
which can be tended by little girl, and
together will make 10000 loops in a
This will abolish old ladies en-
tirely.
Since the good people Of Kansas sang
the silly hymn TO the Grand Duke Alexis
the citizens and eitizenesses Of that
State have been known, among the
dukes suite, as the Kansasses and the
Kansassesses.
A farmer who recently had his butter
seized by the clerk Of the market for
short weight, gave as a reason that the
COW from which the butter was made
was subject to cramps, and that caused
the butter to shrink in weight.
Rev. John A. Broadus, D. D., in let
ter giving some account Of his travels in
Scotland says: ." / am able to give the
information, derived from educated per
sons in the vicinity, that the name Bal
moral has its second aud third syllables
pronounced like the word moral"
In breach Of promise suit recently
tried in indianapolis, it was proven
that the tickle fair one was accustomed
to bestow such endeariug epithets as
id old pup" on her Adonis, and this
within the immediate Ficarage Of the
Rev. @. c. Harding, author Of Hell on
the Wabash"
Panoramas Of the Chicago FIRE are per
the country from Maine to
californiA. Several blood eurdling de-
linsatioEs Of the burning Of Mosc0w, ihs 1