Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-12

A young lady fast asleep is all right
but one fast awake is a dangerous char
acter.
The Yosemite Valley is great even IL
its snow, which is now over forty feet il
depth.
American watches are now manufac
tured fully up to the long-established
European standard.
Lemon juice is much used by physi
clans to effect cure for some attacks
of rheumatism.
Artificial milk is manufactured in
France quite extensively from prepa'
ration of prepared bones.
Apples are very profitable crop
throughout this country, and the supply
seems to be insufficient.
A New York rag picker died recently
leaving $4,000, the savings Of many
years Of hard work.
The hired girls of GAINESVILLE, Wis,
threaten to strike unless all the kitch'
ems are provided with rocking chairs.
The salary of the Governor of Cali
-fornia is ten thousand dollars per an
num-the largest in the Union.
The oysters of Maryland are more
than equal to its grain crop, and q
source of sure and legitimate wealth.
Flattery is like fail, which, if not
adroitly used, will box your own ears
instead of tickling those Of corn.
The eleven Territories exceed by
nearly 100000 square miles the aggre-
gate area of all the present admitted
States in the Union.
That Brooklyn, N. Y, is City Of
Churches, is generally conceded, bat are
the people church-goers2 There's the
rub.
Sir John Davie, in poem on dane
ing, written in 1896, describes the polka
infinitely, just as it is danced among US
now.
A Western female convert jubilantly
confessed, that, finding her jewelry was
leading her to perdition, she had given
it all to her sister.
A tree which was cut down recently il
Kansas contained two bushels of BEEF
and three hundred pounds of beautiful
transparent honey.
The Massachusetts State Board o.
Health say too many shade tree
round dwellings is the cause Of sick
ness in many towns in that State.
Poor Richard, or somebody just as
smart, once said that admiration wa
the daughter of ignorance; we like Il
worship our heroes and heroines from I
very respectable distance.
A rag-picker died in New York las
week, leaving $4,000, every cent Of whicl
she had saved from the proceeds Of rag
gathered in the streets, besides at ih
same time supporting herself.
1t is stated in mitigation Of Feje
cannabalism that only boys from twelv
to fourteen years old are now eaten b
educated persons; only the very loves
class eat old men and women.
The students Of the four theologica
schools Of Chicago hold quarterly SC
ciables, in which they forget that the
are Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterian
and Congregationalist, and remembe
they are Christians.
A pious but uncultivated judge close
a sentence with the following touchin
report: prisoner at the bar, natur
has endowed you with a good educatio
and respectable family connections, il
stead of which you go prowling roun
the country stealing ducks"
Speaking of crowds, the London sa
urdAy Review says that Mr.. Darwin hl
not yet arranged the precise line Of OF
ancestry, but a good deal that is sing
lar in human nature would be explain
ed, if it could be proved that one Of OF
remote ancestors was a sheep.
The new New York divorce bill ALLOW
as a cause for limited divorce sue
conduct on the part Of the husband Il
ward the wife as shall, without jul
cause, deprive her Of the society Of he
relatives or friends, or Of attendant
upon public worship, or shall designed
{ render her life unhappy or uneomfor
able"