Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-22

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A country editor in Michigan prints
his paper ON wooden press Of his own
manufacture.
One of our bachelor readers supposes
a lady's bridal day is that on which she
first takes the rein.
One English life insurance company
issued in 1871 more policies than all the
American companies.
An enthusiastic gentleman kissed
Longfellow's sable rider after he had
won the Long Branch race.
We hate some persons because we do
not know them, and we will not know
them because we hate them.
Ever since the 9th of June, the ami
versary of Dickens death, his grave has
been generously decked with flowers
Some of the papers in San Francisco
are morning over the twenty-five per
cent. decline of real estate in that city.
The Baptists of Virginia are still agi-
tated over the question of the regu-
larity" of Roger Williams baptism.
A young explorer in the country thinks
the humming birds have sharp way of
presenting bills for the morning dews.
A Mr.. Carroll, of San Diego, CAL, has
tarantula which he has kept under a
glass without food over four months, and
it is still lively.
1t is stated that forty-fve per cent. of
the gross products of California is from
agricultural sources, while but sixteen
per cent. is from geld and other metals.
California contains a larger number
of foreigners proportionately than any
other State in the Union. The census
shows 1896, 393 natives and 3O9, S89 foreign
born.
Of the great auction sale of Wamb-
wells menagerie, it has been facetiously
written: 1.-THE lion of the sale, if the
bull may be pardoned, was the ele-
plant"
Boys twelve years old are found stu
pidly intoxicated in the streets of Des
Moines, Iowa, where it is fondly sup
posed the liquor traffic is efectually
squelched.
"Glen Mary" one Of the most roman
tic and fascinating localities among the
Catskills, has been disfgured and ruined
by gaudy signs and advertisements of
quack medicines.
Nothing more impairs authority than
too frequent or indiscreet use of it.
If thunder itself was to be continual it
would excite no more terror than the
noise of mill.
A Chinaman in San Francisco who
has given himself up as the murderer of
Sun 10y happens to be named All Hung.
And do not deny, in regard to the
same, what that name might imply"
Last year the quantity of beer pro-
duced in the United States was I, 1853, 10
barrels-ninnety-two half pint glasses
for every man, woman and child in the
country.
Kentucky sportsmen are using nitro
glycerine to catch fish with, pound
of it exploded below water recently, ele-
waiting eighty-six of the fnny tribe,
weighing from half to thirteen pounds
each.
In French court recently, as wit |
ness was about to give in his testimony,
an advocate remarked: 81 wish to re-
mark to the court that this witness is en-
Titled to entire confidence, as he has not |
had time to consult his lawyer
The St. Louis Republican is shortly to
be enlarged to the size and style Of the
New York Tribune, and is to be printed
on the Walter press, which strikes off
$4,000 copies an hour, printing both
sides Of the sheet at the same time.
The theory that Stokes was the gentle
man who was present when Colonel Fisk
fell down stairs and killed himself, is to
be discarded. He is now mentioned as
the gentleman who gave a laundering
surgeon a chance to murder Fisk with
probe.
Seventeen pleasure trips to the United
States have been arranged in Germany.
The average expense Of the whole trip.
including a ten days sojourn in this
country, is three hundred thalers. The
visitors will arrivein this country mostly
in August. They start from Cologne
and Hamburg.
Under the head of "TriHes by Tele-
graph" the Chicago Inter-Ocean says
there were four fatal sunstrokes yester-
day in Boston" These things you call
fatal sunstrokes are triaes certainly, but |
you viii find few people who like to be |
triaed with in that way.
That was a sly old seotchman who, on
marrying very young wife, was rallied
by his friends on the inequality of their
ages. She will be near me" he re-
piled. 81 to close my cen" "Weel, re-
marked another of the party, I've had
tva wives, and they opened my cen"