Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-10-14


Colonel down and severely burning his
face. 1t appears that the servant, find
ing a bag of powder in the apartments,
mistook it for black sand, and filled all
the spittoons with it, so delighted was
she with the gloss of the mischieyous
granules.
A Paris correspondent says OF an ac'
tor who is performing in spectacular
melodrama called the Dogs OF Mount
Bernard in that city: His name is
GUNNER; and since thirty years has
been assassinated in every prologue by
the villain of the piece; he has been
poisoned, stabbed, thrown into the water,
cast into bottomless pits, burned at the
stake, and buried alive. The most ter
rible deaths have no effect on him; he
ever comes up smiling, and his features
Ado not bear the slightest mark of suffer
ing"
In speaking of the suicide OF Alice
Blanche Oswald, in London, NJ. ID. Con-
way SAYS that she leaped into the river
at the very point where Hood saw "one
more unfortunate lifted from the waves.
A friend of Mr.. Conway, on the night of
the sad occurrence, saw young girl
walking toward the bridge weeping, and
started to inquire the cause OF her grief
but thinking it q trivial matter, passed
along When he returned some men
we're taking her out of the water-the
body of Miss Oswald.
A letter from Cincinnati to the Boston
Post says: "Tbe fact cannot be con-
cealed; Cincinnati is the Queen City no
longer. She is only the Queen Dowager.
Her youth and freshness have departed.
Wisely she has renowned the poTps
and vanities of the world; given up the
of princes and the gay
delight in which youthful creatures like
Chicago find food for their vigorous If
somewhat riotous blood, and has settled
lown among the hills of useful and
economical old age"
"Old Father Martin" blind beggar
If thirty years standing upon the
BRIDGES and boulevards Of Paris, has re-
gently died. He did not ask for aims,
out has a placsrd on which he has
stamped, Martin, blind since birth,
.eads with his fingers, and writes with
lis knife. Have pity upon him" He
carved the alphabet out of wood, some
lines in ornamental Gothic, sometimes
n English, but always with the utmost
though he had never seen :,
etter. He drove trade that kept him
live, and when he died, at the age of
ixty-seven, he left his savings, about
300, to lady who had treated him
Kindly.
W men q SHell ib uSlu up W tAS SoAi
here is peculiar vibratory noise.
'hilosophically investigated, the pecu-
lar sound thus recognized is phenom-
non that very much perpiexed learned
Gentlemen for long while. The expert
nent is easy made by simply pressing a
piral shell, common in collections, over
he cerebrum of either ear. If large
hell, the sound is very much like that .
f far-off cataract. Now, what causes
u Every muscle in the body is always {
n state Of tension. Some are more =
n the stretch than others, particularly !
hose of the fingers. It's conceded that
he vibration of the 6bres of those in ,
he fingers being communicated to the
hell, it propagates and intensifes it, as
be hollow body Of violin does the
ibration of its strings, and thus the ,
coustic nerve receives the sonorous i'm
ressions. Muscles of the leg below the q
nee are said to vibrate in the same way, !
nd if conducted to the ear produce the
anne result.