Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-19

on the safety valve.
1t is estimated that the various missio
and tract societies Of the United State
disburse annually $lO,000,0O0.
In New Haven, lawyer recently OBJ
tanned an injunction to prevent his mex
door neighbor from having wake"
A Kentucky court settled domestic
quarrel by putting the husband unde
bonds not to 90 home fer six months.
Hoboken has temporary mill
famine. The farmers have raised theil
prices and the milkmen have struck.
The discover of California gold still
lives. So does the discoverer of Arizons
diamonds, but great many wish he
didn't.
At Elmna Female College, the fair
"sophs" have interdicted the wearing
of false hair and bustles by the fresh
women.
Osborne P. Anderson, the last survi-
vor of John Browns Harper's Ferry
raiding party of 1859, died in Washing
ton, Wednesday.
The.driver of grocery cart, who let
a basket of eggs fall, says that truth
squashed to earth may git up and git,
but he'll be darned if eggs will"
A statue of Sir Humphrey Davy has
been erected at Penzance, where he was
born. costing $4,000. 1t represents him
holding the famous safety lamp.
1t is common saying that great
geniuses are uniformly modest, and
this, perhaps, suggests an explanation
of the uncommon audacity Of our public
men.
The Richmond State Journal reyivos
the proposition, originating with Gov.
Wise, that the State Of Virginia should
do all its insurance business within its
limits.
The German Consul General at New
York is collecting subscriptions Cor the
relief of the sufferers by the recent
storms and foundations on the coast of
the Baltic.
In Boston the relics from the FIRE most
priced are specimens of burned con-
densed leather, the fine dust of granite
blocks, and gold coins melted in fire.
proof safes.
Josh Billings gives the following ad-
vice to young men: Don't be discour-
aged if yer mustache don't grow; it
sometimes happens where a mustache
duz the best nothing else duz so well.
ga Venetian flute player has invented
a new model for a violin, with metal
strings, which pass entirely around the
drum Of the instrument and give quad
ripple the volume Of an ordinary violin.
In some parts Of the Boston burnt
district land brings highsr prices than it
was held at before the FIRE. Plenty Of
workmen are there TO rebuild, and the
Boston papers say the losses of their
national banks from the ERE will not ex-
coed tive per cent. Of their capital.
A new geyser region has been discov-
cred in Idaho Territory. Some Of the
geysers are very remarkable, one of
them sending up water from one ori6ce
and steam from the other. The bank Of
a river, for distance Of nearly two
miles, is lined with springs and geysers.
flowing into its current and raising the
temperature of the water many degrees.
A Frenchman lately dreamed that the
Emperor of China had condemned him
to impaleInent, and waking up was so
convinced of the reality of it that he
expired soon after. seemingly suffering
All the pangs that the execution Of the
sentence would involve. That should be
dreadful warning against mince pie.
An investigating youth Of fourteen,
from the country, recently, took a look
up a coal shute at Elizabeth, New Jer-
sey. Just then he received a three ton
anthracite shower bath. He was con-
taken back, and got his good
clothes dusty, but came out alive, aud
asked the msnipulators Of the slide il
they wanted TO make fuel" Of him.