Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-29

script of Don Quixote has been discoy-
cred in Spain. 81 FasS
A cook advertises for a situation, and
adds l.. No objection to dressing chill
dren. i Hgrriblel aawg
The dead are never ILL., Consequently
all diseases may be classified as affec-
tions of the liver. a9
The New York Evening Post defines
robbing savings bank to be " the mean
est of all crimes. va fd
The total valuation Of Cincinnati is
$lsS, S72 1893, Of which all but Sl3, S66,O2
is subject to taxation.
A Paris journalist has compared
France to bottle Of champagne, Of
which NJ. Theirs is the cork.
The trustees of Harvard college are
agitated by an application from lady
for admission to the law school.
A Hartford skating park proprietor
adyertises different rates Of admission
for grown people and adults"
There is now overwhelming evidence
to prove that the illness Of the Prince of
Wales was contracted from sewer gas.
The best thing that can be said about
Governor Warmoth, is that he was well
brought up" Hight six feet two inches.
1t is gravely proposed to NicOlson the
Chicago roofs to prevent conhagration.
This is the railing passion strong in
DEATH" sfessy fa4t
At Reading, Conn, there being no
hearse in the town, the ceffin at recent
funeral was taken to the grave in coal
cart. a ei118ei1 ln b.ss
Elizabeth Dcthless has been divorced
from John Detbless, in Fond du Lac,
Wisconsin. So the deathless tie is sum
dered 4t r.nl oai'
Miss Julia Trelawney Leigh Hunt, the
surviving daughter Of Leigh Hunt, died
at Hammersmith, near London, Feb
ruary 4th.
Hamlet is believed to have belonged
to the National Typographical Union.
He killed Polonius because he thought
the latter was rat.
An Iowa woman lost her thimble last
November, and found it on the 10th in
slant in her stocking. That woman is
not given to change, ....g d
No man was ever yet convinced of
any momentous truth without feeling in
himself the power as wellsas the desire
Of communicating it.--iSouthsy. y5l
8 Deans offieeAFreshman: Please, sir,
was my petition for excuse for absence
from reeitations grantedY Secretary:
What was your excuse, sirP FIR. Il went
to have tooth out Sec: Tooth in.
Exit FIR: R. U. E.-Harrard Adcoeate
A sarcastic Georgia editor, in mo-
ticing a fair which recently came of in
Macon, says: Zone of our cotempora-
ries took very valuable premium. but
meddlesome and firm policeman made
him put it right back where he took it
from"
The Boston Transcript says: Hon.
W. Z. Gladstone is now sixty-three years
Of age. More than thirty years ago,
when he was quite a young man, Ma
cauley said of him, that whatever he
sees is refracted and distorted By false
medium of passions and prejudice"
A parsimonious sea captain, answering |
the complaints of his men that the
bread was bad, exclaimed: What
complain of your bread. that is made
from Hour2 What do you think of the
apostles2 They ate shew bread-made
from old boots and shoesl"
Sir Henry Holland, one Of the most
obssrvant Of men, regrets the erowding.
rush and tumult Of modern society-the
extinction of individuality--and those
evening assemblages. under whatever
anciful name conyoked, sitting breath
IS well as conversation-which have
argely swelled society, but not improved
t."
The death Of the most eminent OF the
ragedians Of Germany, Bogumil Dawi-
on, occurred recently AMIN tlsa. He
vas but fifty-fouy1e stands the nd though
Usually recoguisascle changing to that
country, to whose art he added 50 new
md brilliant luster, he was the child Of
/ Polish Jew. ~
A Russian panthologist has diseOv- !
red the cause Of hYdrophobia. h has
Deen putting mad dogs under his micro
cope for some time, and now ahuoun- !
.es that the main cause Of rabies is
he anatomical alteration Of the kid !
leys through their parancbymstous in
ANIMATION" We always thought It
vas something like that, bot what are ,
Ne goins 20 do about it7 4