Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-01

reads all the political leaders. His wife
has ascertained the price Of board in al
the lunatic asylums in the vicinity o.
Boston, just for fun, you know.-BostoH
| Globe, s 5of
Corea is diligently purchasing arms
from China and preparing for an inva'
sion of Japan. The Coreans are mainly
angry with the Japanese because
the latter have permitted themselves to
be corrupted by outside barbarians. ,
| A California husband has sued for a
divorce because. during his absence from
| home, his write wrote him to the effect
that the longer he stayed away the bet
ter she liked him. She declares in her
answer that she didn't mean it in that
sense. fD 1
/ A young man at Ergisch, Switzerland,
recently stabbed his father in drunken
rage. The parent, feeling the wound to
| be mortal, called his. son to him, forgave
him, pointed out the best means Of
J escape gave him some money and ex'
/ pired.
There is nothing the Chinese won't
learn. Some workmen Of that nation
atty, who recently left cigar factory
in San Francisco on strike, gathered
in force the other day and threatened to
clean out the new force who had taken
their places.
/ tits said that the soil of Ireland is
fatal to snakes. A son of Erin, who
visited the green isle this summer, and
returned to Augusta, Ga, with me-
mento in the shape Of shamrock
growing in Irish soil. tested the matter
by placing snake within the box con-
tanning the plant. The creature died
almost Immediately.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don News thinks it probable that Father
Hyacinthe's marriage will be followed
by that of a large number of French
priests, many of whom are, according
to the Patrie, going to renonnce pub
licIy their vows of celibacy. The aver
age number of priests in France who
marry is, it appears, not less than from
twenty to thirty year.
Mr.. Charles Dixie is soon to become
the proprietor of Notes and Queries,
and on the LIST of October DR.. Doran
will assume editorial control of that
periodical. DR.. Dixie, grandfather of
the now proprietor, was one OF the
earliest contributors to the Notes and
Queries, which has done such good work
in its peculiar department in literature.
Mr.. Alcott thinks Coleridge was the
great reader of his time, and brought to
light richer spoils than any scholar Of
his day, or since. His reading was not
only choice but miscellaneous. Nothing
of permanent value appears to have es-
capped his searching glance, and his crit
icisms on books are among the most
valuable contributions to British letters.
The English philsnthropist, Miss Rye,
who nobly deVotes herself to that most
useful charity of saving children frsm
crime, has sailed from Liverpool with
fifty little ones, whom she will furnish
with homes in Canada. Her efforts are
in the most promising field. for it is es-
pecialIy in dealing with the classes whom
circumstances compel into crime that an
ounce of prevention is worth pound of
cure.
On August LIST, 1885, the horse Dutch
man trotted on a course near Philadel-
phia, three miles in 1921 He was rid
den by Hiram Woodruff. and his time
was never exceeded until last Saturday.
Flora Temple at one time trotted three
miles in 1881. but all the animals that
attempted it gave out on the last mile.
Last Saturday, at Prospect Park, New
York, the bay mare Huntress was
matched against Dutchman's time, and
trutted the three miles in 7;2lf.
The Chinese government has given
orders that all the forms of religion Of
Coufueius shall be rigidly enforced
among the students recently sent to this
country, and that the four books of the
five kings, and the sacred edict of En-
peror Kangbi, shall form part Of their
regular lessons. This action has been
taken because those students who pre-
ceded them became contaminated, "
while in America, with Christianity.