Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-17

botanists, died recently al Tubingen, in
his sixty-seventh year.
The editorial fraternity of Northern
Indiana will put in cocktails at Putin
Bay on or about the 18th.
The Mayor of Providence has made
an inaugural address long enough to
reach across Rhode Island.
They are trying to abolish the right Of
Imprisonment for debt entirely from the
civil courts of Great Britain.
Horace Greeley recently wrote an ar
ticle about Buell. papers" and the
compositor set up the Bull capers.
Miss Paulina Given, of the Des
Moines Register, is said to be the only
lady in Iowa who is given to journalism.
Henry Hart, New York millionaire
is his private Waterman, and does the
travelling around nights among his
treasures.
The Italian coral fishery has been very
successful the past season, the total value
of the yield being about three million
francs.
The English journals are amazed at
the nomination of Victoria c. Woodruff
for the Presidency, regarding it as a
serious matter.
The Cincinnati Commoner audaciously
speaks Of the greatest military genius of
his time General Burnside) as that
exaggerated hotel waiter"
A Chicago editor recently received a
perfumed note asking why Mr.. Byron,
who used TO write such sweet poetry,
keeps so quiet lately.
We don't like Wilson any the less for
having been cobler. But we should
like him much better IL he were sherry
cebbler. = Courier Journal.
A report Of Texas hanging says:
The drop fell with dull, heavy thud,
and Stephen NJ. Ballew was dangling
between heaven and earth"
Miss Anthony is reported for the first
time in her life, to have been quite I'M
manned since her unkind reception at
the Cincinnati Convention.
An Iowa clergyman who wears white
hat which he bought ten years ago is in
terrible row with his congregation,
which doesn't like political preachers.
The Christian Union says, in praise Of
Wards statue Of Shakespeare, that it is
not merely the best statue-it is the only
statue of Shakespeare in the world.
A new Chinese temple was recently
consecrated in San Francisco, with sew
enty-6ve gods, two of which are eighty
feet high, and cOrrespondingly large.
A blind man at Fort Wayne, Ind, was
recently married to blind woman in
the presence of three other blind per-
sons. The question is, were there any
witnesses2
Some ungallant wag says that when
Tennie c. Clahin was married to James
Bartla, faro banker. ten years ago. she
was not more than twenty-five or thirty
years Of age.
The notorious Tichbourne claimant is
announced to lecture in England, and
proposes. after tour through that coun-
try, to become q rival Of George Francis
Train in America.
Some one says that Fairness, who
wrote "The Sight Of He'll for the delec-
tation Of the little ones, should be re-
warded by death on funeral pyre com
posed Of his books.
Beecher takes ground that the germ
Of everything good is in the heart preVi-
Gus TO regeneration by the Spirit.
Alas how the good old orthodoxy is
beeomingdiluted in very broad channels.
In Scotland man is responsible for
the support Of all his descendants. A
coal merchant in Tarbot was lately com
PEELED to reimburse the parish for relief
advanced to his granddaughter Ia widow
and her five young children.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts has pre-
scented flOto be given away in prizes to
workmen's cats at the third national
exhibition at the Crystal Palace. Lady
DNevill and Miss Hales give silver
medals to encourage the kind treatment
Of cats.
Mother Goose is not an imaginary
person. She was the mother-in-law Of
q printer in Boston, Mass., and her real
name was Elizabeth Goose. The first
edition Of her Well-known rhymes was
sold for two coppers on Devonshire
street.
A lady teacher inquired Of the mem
bers of a class Of juveniles il any Of
them could name the four seasons. In