Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-04

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been broken up in Illinois. Ola
A Newport swain received love let
ter sixty-seven pages long.
Senator Sprague has been boarding
the buffalo in his native lair.
Wild tea cures cancers, says Mr.. Chas.
YardIey, Pittsburg, Penn.
A Confederate Colonel adorns a seat
in the Iowa House of Representatives.
The ice on the upper thousand miles
of the Mississippi river is fifteen inches
thick.
A 2OO-acre quarry of beautiful marble
has been found in Calumet county, Wis
consin.
The latest ballad is, Bury your dog
in the garden; it will make your grape
vine grow"
Horsewhipping city officials is becom-
ing popular source of amusement at
Indianapolis, Ind.
"a lot of the prettiest little collins for
Christmas you ever saw was a Ken
lucky advertisement.
A large roll of unpaid bills in his
breast pocket saved the life of Flori-
dian from the knife of an assassin.
A Providence virago, having taken
glass more than she needed, threw the
spare tumbler at her husband.
Wild geese are so plenty in Oregon
that farmers have to hire boys to Brighten
them of their wheat fields.
The pattern of the English cavalry
saddle is to be altered, that now in use
being heavy and inconvenient.. -.
When fellow writes verses he is not
necessarily fool, though more fools
than sensible men write verses.
A night-blooming banjo-picker and a
red-hot soap peddler awake the giddy
echoes around Americas, Georgia.
The physicians to the Emperor of
China receive pay only for the time
when their imperial master enjoys good
health.
A pawnbroker having Joined a tenn
peranee society, it was remarked that
there need be no fear of his not keeping
the pledge,
An Indianapolis young man who is
studying for the ministry, attempted to
brain his mother with Ratchet the 9th
er day.
A Philadelphia lady married her lover
while he was dying of SIN all-pox, and
died herself Of the same disease in few
days after.
Madame Radetsky, one of the Russian
noblesse, is convict at Sing Sing, and
has recently become heiress TO large
fortune in her native land.
Mr.. Archer, of Indiana, struck at his
dog with the butt of his gun. The for
giving beast now bowls above his mas
ter's grave.-Boston Post
Poughkeepsie nurtures a poet who
writes his name c. Alphonse Dayton.
Mr.. Dayton writes his name in that way
because C. julius Caesar did so while on
earth.
Nilsson received $4,000 for an en-
gagement of twenty nights in New York,
and Wasstel hes been paid $4,000 for
an engagement there of similar length.
A doctor having yesterday asked his
patient how his vaccination tookY'
the latter replied, my arm is very sore"
Then" said the doctor, you are to be
pitied but not to be pitted."
Virtue; What it Is and What II !
Isn't, is the interesting title Of Miss
Tennie c. Claain's last literary effort
She is particularly successful in the lat
ter half Of her subject
A letter from Paris says that on the
sth Of December the streets Of that
city we're covered with snow. for the first
time for several years, aud it would have
been excellent sleighing if there were
any sleighs.
A member Of the Board Of supervi-
sors Of a county in Mississippi objected
to levying six mills on the dollar for
school purposes, because there were only |
eight mills in the county, and one Of them ]
didn't have water enough to run half the |
year.
The new German coinage VIII consist
Of the pfenning. the groschen and the
mark. The ore necessary for the manu- |
fscture is found inthe immense specie |
payments which France has made to
Germany in the shape Of the war in
demnity. 1
A New York lunatie proposes 70 start 1
an asylum or house Of refuge for re-
claimed women, the funds to be raised |
By tax on bachelors or a change IN the
law Of deseen, and property, 50 that
none shall inherit property but children
Of those in a direct line Of descent
A Mieh:ssa paper says. a Fsstls-.
nan Who came down from lsabeila
.ouuty says that be stopped in ten hocse'
rhils sravel:ag distances Of tTenty-ons
niles and that ten mothers proudly ca
ibisod 10 hin ten lovsly and Interesting
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