Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-05

Fors,ers Life of Dickens is called in
England "The Life of Forster with
"Reminiscences of Dickens.
Miss Adele Caroline LongfellOw, a
niece of the poet. has been received in
the Roman Catholic Church.
A Newark bride sent her friends slices
from her wedding cake in which were
beaten up 80 embryonic chickens.
A Missouri judge holds that the court
which has the power to appoint an officer
has also the power to disappoint him.
The Revolution is dead again. The
Rev. Mr.. Clark Jared no better than
Laura C. Billiard and Susan B. An
thony.
1t is a strange historical fact that q
cousin Of Mrs. O'Leary owned the calf
that dug up Missions diamonds in Mis-
souri,.
Some foolish California editor asks:
What is nepotismY 1t is the fact Of
being related to General Grant on his
wife side.
A Russian spy has been detected at
Lemburg sketching the Austrian fortih-
cations, and Condemned to a years i'm
prisonment.
They have machine out in Utah for
Graduating grasshoppers. 1t is drawn
by horses and works on the principle Of
the fine tooth comb.
From the great disturbance which has
been caused by the American case,
one would suppose there must be lady
in it.-Boston Advertiser.
They have flying machine out at
Kansas City, talking machine in Indl-
ana, and no end Of lying machines in
Washington. Grant owns them all
The two hundredth anniversary Of the
birth Of Peter the Great viii be eele-
brated at Moscow on the 3Oth Of May, BY
opening q grand international exhibi-
ton.
New York lager Is stronger than that
Of Germany, the former containing on
an average, FIVE per cent Of alcohol,
while BaFArizn beer rarely exceeds three
per cent
A fellow Who has actually tried it, says
that although there are three seruples in
a dram, the mere drains you take the
less seruples yen will have.-BOstOH
Adrerfisey.
Winter is very ungalIant in Kansas
City. The Journal says: Departing
angry winter threw a handful Of snow
in the face Of blushing young spring
night before last"
Il Is expected that one hundred aud
sixty ministers and thirty-six laymen,
will be present at the Baltimore annual
conference Of the Methodist church
South, to be held at Warrenton, Va, on
the 9Th.
The vaccination style has been adopted
by the ladies Of La Crosse. The sleeves
are slit and trimmed with pufs. The
manipulation Of fair arms is thus denied
to the exasperated doctors, who are now
ripe for a strike.
A Mrs. Woods, Of Millersburg, Ohio,
is making a good thing out Of drunken
husband and the liquor law. She has
obtained, by report, $4,000 already, and
at last accounts Mr.. Woods was on his
way to a drinking saloon.
The Anglo-Brazilian Times says the
Empress Dowsger Of Brazil has freed
the one hundred and forty slaves upon
her plantation Of Macacos, recently sold,
and has provided for the support Of the
infrm and aged among them
The Massachusetts, woman women say
that there are 1859 American and 81
O73 foreign women in that State who are
ready to vote next fall If the legislature
will permit them 50 to do. These would
be voters pay taxes on 1871 ,OOO,O 900.
A Paris letter declares that by actual
count about seventeen in twenty Of the
ladies seen in the streets are dressed in
mourning; but whether this is owing
altogether to loss Of relatives or is
freak of fashion, is uncertain.
1t is a melancholy fact that Mrs. Miri-
am NJ. Cole, the chairwoman Of the re-
cent woman suffrage convention at Co
lumbus. grew SO hysterical that she was
obliged to resign her functions in favor
Of a clergyman.
The trustees Of the University at Cam
bridge have been debating for number
Of days over the application Of a single,
lone woman for admittance to the law
school. but as yet have come TO no con-
clusion.
Madame Regina Dai Gin. famous
surgeon Of Austria, having performed
$50 successful operations in the city hos.
pital at Trieste, was rewarded By the
municipal authorities with a letter Of
thanks AID nnrse NJ GOLD