Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-02

he had forgotten, and took him home to
dinner After several attempts to find
out his name, King said: My friend
and have had 8 dispute as to how you
spell your name indeed, we have laid a
bottle of wine on it. oh with two
ps," was the answer.
There is something more than daily
ferry now between Europe and America
-in fact, the rate is something like a
steamer for every twelve hours from the
port OF Liverpool alone. When to
these are added the ships Of the French
and German lines we get some idea of
the prodigious increase of late in steam
communication between the two CONT
nents.
In England any misguided person who
sells any adulterated article whatever is
fined ESQ for the first offense, and for
the second gets six months imprison-
ment with hard labor And these PEN
alties are enforced vigorously. What a
/ comfort It would be if we could have a
little law and little energy in this d.
rection here.
A lawyer, upon circuit in Ireland,
who was pleading the case of an infant
plaintiff, took the child up in his arms
and presented it to the jury, suffused
with tears. This had great effect,
until the opposite lawyer asked the child,
"What makes you cry?" He pinched
me, answered the little innocent. The
court was convulsed with laughter.
A Page county Iowa. couple eloped
the other day to get married. The irate
father pursued and overlook them, and,
under cover of revolver, ordered the
would-be bride to dismount, but she
wouldn't, whereupon he fired at the
would-be husband, who returned the fire,
disabling the old man, who then retired,
and the pair went on TO matrimony.
Kiss Kate Stanton, the noted lecturer,
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says she hopes when "this cruel war is
over" the Administration will issue
proclamation and let us know it. She
says she is curious to know if the Indi-
ana women have gone to making lint,
since Morton's speech declaring the can
vass to be the old fight between the
Boys in Blue and the Boys in
Grey"
The grand jury of San Francisco, in
view of the alarming prevalence of
recklessness and crime among the young
Of the city, devote a considerable por-
ton Of their recent report to impressing
upon parents the duty of restraining
their boys from frequenting the public
saloons Of the city, and they recon-
mended that children be compelled to
employ their time in industrial and edu-
cational pursuits
They have new arrangement in
France. They call it rallie papier 1t
is like fox hunting, only lacking the fox
element The company goes careering
over the country in chase of horseman
whe is given ten minutes start, and
whose track is marked out by bits of cut
paper which his motion scatters out of
couple Of huge bags with which he is
laden. The bush " or trophy of victory
is white satin rosette, which he wears
on his left shoulder, and which becomes
the spoil of whoever is lucky enough to
overtake and snatch it from him.
This is the little repartee which cost a
Frenchman at Mulhouse eighteen hours
in Prussian guard house, few weeks
since. He was brought up before the
civil tribunal as witness in some case,
and was asked, as the primary question,
what language he spoke. i speak
English TO my wife, French to my clients
and German to my dogs whereupon
the judge rosred, Away with him!"
Said graduate from Williams college,
after having driven two-horse team
over the plains from Milwaukee to San
Francisco. and dug for two years in the
various diggings, carrying his pick and
shovel on his shoulder from place TO
place, and almost always with poor sue
cess, as he trudged along one day, dead
broke" wet. weary, and wayworn:
There is destiny that shapes our ends
rough, hew them as we will.
A French correspondent writes: There
we're few ladies at the Mount Parnas-
sus terminus in fantastic sporting gar
ments. They wore soft felt hats, with
tufts of cocks feathers; short brown
linen dresses faced with red; strong hob
nailed boots, fitting very neatly, and
brown CATERS. At the country seats Of
the legitimist mobiles chatelaines often
go afeld with the gentlemen to shoot
psrtridges. French women never look
so betwitehing as in semi-masculine gar
ments.
A man in Pennsylvania has invented
a rat trap that is made to operate upon
the selfish passions Of the poor rat and 1
lure him into trouble. The Mechanic
and Farmer, in a description Of the
trap, says that mirror is set in the
back part Of the device, beyond the bait,
and as his ratship is out on a foraging
expedition, he espies the bait, and at the
same time believes his own image in the
mirror to be another rat making for it