Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-20


Continued in our next.
Teaberry fayoring, hitherto unknown
in Europe, has recently been introduced
among the confectioners there.
The Duluth Herald apologies fol
having advised married man to ge
married. 1t thought he was widower
Wolf scalps in Illinois bring fifteer
dollars apiece. and some of the farmers
are selling out sheep and stocking up in
wolves.
The people of Norway are now pre-
pairing for a great national festival, to
celebrate the one thousandth anniversary
of Norway nationality.
A Western paper, abiding to the
statue to Shakespeare in Central Park,
says, That's right; such talent as Will
liam's ought to be encouraged"
An Indiana paper alludes to "the
cycles of time that have rolled like mill
stones of damnation over the American
people in all these long twelve years"
Scene in German omnibus: Con.
ductor to housemaid; snow my dear,
where shall l let you out9" House
maid Corner Of Bockman street, third
story"
The county Jail OF Calhoun county,
Florida, has not had an inmate for over
four years, and the County Commits
sioners have decided to let it be used for
a corn crib.
Christs Hospital, one Of the Oldest
school houses in London, having been
established by King Edward VI, has
been sold to a railroad company for
depot for SS,OOO,OOO.
The husband of the Michigan lady
who attempted to fill kerosene lamp
while it was lighted, was obliged to &C
cept the offer of friends house in
which to hold his wife's funeral.
The English language consists Of
twenty-five thousand radical words, of
which Shakespeare uses fifteen thousand;
and it is the vernaeular of seventy mil
lions of human beings.
The marriage service, in the opinion
Of Western newspaper, should be
changed to read who dares take this
woman2" And the groom shall answer
81 dare" For shame
The shocking rumor that the Christian
Young Men OF Cincinnati we're holding
a series Of balls in their rooms has no
better foundation than that they have an
apartment devoted to "psrlor croquet."
OF the many Polesimmigrating to this
country it is remarked that very large
percentage are journeymen tailors. This
is doubtless owing to the mutual attrac-
ton between the needle and the Pole.
Some of the papers are criticising the
rhetoric of clergyman who has recently
preached and published the following on
the passage Of the Red Sea; The bill
lows reared as Gods hand pulled back
upon their crystal bits.
A shooting festival is to take place at
Zurich from the l4th to the 2lst of next
July. In a circular which has been
issued by the committee, the riaemen of
Great Britain and Ireland are especially
invited to take part in the competition.
In 1850 Mrs. Franklin Bennett lowered
pail of butter into her well at Union
City, Michigan, and the string breaking,
it remained there until the well was
cleaned out last week, when it came out
fresh and sweet, twenty-five years old.
The University Of Oxford. England,
will celebrate its thousandth anniver-
sary this year. Popular tradition as
signs King Alfred the Great as its found
er about the middle of the ninth CEN
tury.
A South Carolina editor offers his pa
per free, one year, to the man who
brings him the largest watermelon of
the season. In the meantime he intends
to live on the melons that don't take the
prize.
Never be critical upon the ladies"
was the maxim Of an Irish peer, remark
able for his homage TO the sex; "the
only way that true gentleman ever at
tempts to look at the faults of a pretty
woman is to shut his eyes,"
why, Emily, how do you do2" 81
am very well, Julia. / celebrated my
wooden wedding last week. Why, /
didn't know you were married. How
did you celebrate it?" BY marrying
a blockhead."
Captain McTaggart, of the English
mercantile service, has been telling to
the merchant marines a story of a sea-
serpent two hundred feet long, which he
says he saw off the west coast Of Africa
last September.
One Indianapolitan has sued another
IndianapOlitan for sl5, 900 consequential
damages done to the formers wife by the |
latters COW. Considering the extremely
uncertain tenure Of property in wives
under Indiana law the sum cla;mad