Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-22

AVhoOiSs
Before you commit suicide take q cold
bath. What people term despair is very
often dirt.
Smirkins looked at painting of a
pig and pleasantly asked, who is that
pigment for2
The Boston hay dealers are introduc-
ing the practice of chopping the hay
before pressing it.
Extending your shop front into the
newspapers" is the latest definition for
advertisement.
A little girl, aged fourteen. while tend
ing COWS at Eagle Lake Wisconsin, was
eaten by wolves, recently.
A Georgia editor refuses to support
Greeley on the ground that it is as much
as he can do to support himself.
Ladies work-boxes are now provided
with musical machinery in the lid, which
plays when the box is opened.
]. C. Hays, once leader of the TEX
as Rangers" is living on the interest of
5000, 900 at Alameda, California.
An Iowa man who went hunting with
horse and buggy killed one bird and
shot the top Of bis herse's head off.
A man in Polk county, Iowa, has
stolen and concealed bridge twenty
four feet long, without taking it apart.
| A Wisconsin man lent cook $3.50
watch to tell when to commence cook
ing dinner, and now has neither watch
nor cook.
Brignoli is singing in Italy and visit
| ing his relatives there after twenty years
absence. His voice is improved since
leaving this country.
Tastes have changed within the past
5000 years. Once extreme criminals
dreaded the river Styx; now their great
est fear ia Of the Neuse.
The only prisoner IN the Jail at South
Bend, Ind, is indignant at the Oireum-
stance. He says that he was not con
demned to solitary confinement.
Ebony wood weighs SO pounds to the
cubic foot lignumvitsi the same Aick-
ory,,52 pounds birch, IS poandsj beech,
40; yellew pine, SO cedar, p white
pine, 25 and cork, l5
The postmaster at Medina, New York,
said that three cents would pay the post.
, age on letter to Australia, which he in
/ sisted was in the United States, and
a. smilingly handed a young lady back
seventeen cents of the twenty proHered
only to ask her Cor il again the next day
Make your bed in the mesEiEgi sew
buttons on your husbands shirt; DO MOI
! rake any grievances; protect the young
and tendsF branches Of your family
plant smile Of good temper on YOU
: face, and carefully root sSt 81 angry
: feelings, and expect good crop Of hap
3. piness.
!. A parrot which was hung in the neigh
borhood of the building in which thu
English Wesleyan Conference met, be
;, came, during the session, quite familia
n with parliamentary proceedings, AM
J, her strident voice was frequently hear
a above the hum of the assembly, cryini
(. out: Mr.. President, rise to order"
:; The Inflated Empress Carlotta vii
J. leave fortune Of five million dollars
= which will be inherited by her brothers
. the King Of Belgium and the Count @
y Flanders. She had vainly tried TO tax
= her whole capital with her to Mexico
Her brother, the King, refused to let h,
have it, and paid her only the interes
Is Her father, King Leopold l.. left h
9. three children a fortune Of 6fteen mi
g. lion dollars in cash.
In Baltimore, a number Of leadir
clothing houses have issued a cireul'
pledging themselves to discharge SUE
of their cutters as shall not withdra
from the "Order of the Sons of Adam
}, The cutters held a meeting on Mondl
afternoon. unanimously rejected the d
mand Of their employers, and withdre
from the shops in which they we're eT
ployed. They have received comm
4. nieation from the "Sons of Adam
Philadelphia, approving their actio
and promising them assistance.
,s The Mobile Tribune is responsible {
this: LAST Thursday night an eeee
trio individual gave party and invit
quite a number Of young ladies and &c
tlemen 10 it. When everything was 8
.. ing on lovely, and none suspecting 1
% denouemsnt the old gentleman point
a fre-arm at one Of the male guests, a
dancing about like harlequin, exelaim'
ny Marry my daughter on the spot Mar
a. :, nv daughter on the spotl And
ny young man did marry her. But he b
not vet sent rs any cards.
Tur nEcT--WERE AWARlE