Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-03

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They find a short cut through it from
the Indian seas to the Adriatic, wher
there is said to be good feeding; espe
cially off Lisa.
| At bull fight in France, recently
one of the animals broke loose, and
overlapping the barrier, rushed among
the spectators, injuring several persons
A soldier at last killed, with his sabre
the infuriated beast.
! Fifty-four out of sixty-nine Chinamer
wrecked on the island of Formoss
recently afforded good meal to the i'm
mediate inhabitants of that coast, who
are now doubtless prepared to give an
opinion on Celestial victuals.
The following shows the space in
square yards occupied by former exhibi.
tons and to be used in Vienna: London
Hyde Park, 1851, $4,000; Paris, 1855,
1873 l4; London, 1862, 2,3l6; Paris,
1867, 527,645; Vienna, 1873, 2,7s3,SO9.
! During a late conference at Worces-
ter, the following conversation was over
heard between two newsboys: II say,
Jim, what's the meaning of so many
ministers being here togetherY' why"
answered Jim, scornfully, they always
meet once year to swap sermons"
A jury was brought into court in order
that one of their number might be in
structed upon the following point of law:
"If | believe that the evidence was one
way, and the other eleven believe differ
ent, does that justify any other juryman
in knocking me down with a chair?"
The judge reserved his decision.
A gentleman talking to another on the
subject of marriage, made the following
observations: IL first saw my wife in
storm; took her to a ball in a storm;
courted her in storm; was betrothed
to her in storm; married her in a
storm; lived with her in storm all her
life; but, thank heaven, / buried her in
pleasant weather.
A recent writer says of the extraordi-
nary dryness of the climate of the Ar
gentine Republic: "a bowl of water
left uncovered in the morning is dry at
night; ink vanished from the inkstand |
as if by magic The bodies of the dead |
dry up instead of decomposing, and
neither exercise nor exposure to the
suns rays produces perspiration.
The tunnel of the West Shore Rail-
road will pass directly under the riding
school of the Military Academy and the
parade ground at West Point, and will |
be twenty-six feet in height and one-half
mile in length. This is the only tunnel
on the line, and will consume two years
in its construction, as tie rock through
which it passes is Of the hardest granite.
After all, it is the best wisdom to treat
with absolute Indifference or contempt a
great deal that happens in this world of
Misunderstanding. Let any good and
well-meaning man reflect upon the blum
ders and ISLANDERS that assailed and pos
sibly annoyed him a week ago, and con-
slider how very dead they are now. Such
fruit of ignorance and malice dies of its
own rottenness.
All the petroleum that has been found
in the United States has been in strip
of territory twenty miles on an average
in width, extending from Canada to
Tennessee, parallel with the edge Of the
second formation and the Allegheny
Mountain range. Nine-tenths of the
present production is found in the Penn
sylvania oil region, which is about
eighty miles in length.
Pauline Lucca promises to become as
great newspaper nuisance in this
country as was Nilsson. Besides oecu-
plying great space in New York papers,
she is already the subject of silly tele-
grams, such as Madame Lucca drove
out in Central Park yesterday, and was
inexpressibly charmed with the scene
ry." Why should any one care a
cent whether Madame Ldcca was mex
pressibly charmed or not, or whether or
not she ever drove out" in her life, SO
long as she didn't break her neck?
Give us a rest.