Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-03


Choral tipplers are quite common.
Spain has nearly 5000 nunneries.
A lull in the Borgia crop is apparent.
A late food in Oregon drowned 1000
coons.
Eggs are twelve cents per dozen in
Usage, Iowa.
Olive Logan is opposed to Dolly
Vardens."
Coleridge, when cured of opium, took
to snuff.
Farmers clubs are the primary schools
of agriculture.
A St. Louis servant girl claims to be
cousin to Nilsson.
Dies are engraved nowadays in
Cesar's time the die was cast
Rochefort is said to be in the deepest
distress at his melancholy fate.
Madison University has four natives
of Burmah among its students.
Montreal has constable who can ar
rest a man in nine different languages.
A South Carolinian is in Jail for shoot
ing at robin and-killing his neighbor.
The book to which reference is most
frequently made nowadays-the pocket
book.
Never run down your opponents goods
in public. Let him do his own adver-
Using.
Australian preserved meats are now
very largely imported and used through
out England.
The Prince Joinville has been rein
stated as admiral, and the Due d'Aumale
as general.
Every woman is in the wrong until
she cries-and then she is in the right
Immediately
A classical loafer in Kentucky devotes
himself to the Greek poets, while his
family is starving.
There are said to be million and a
half of people in Germany who speak
the English language.
All the non-German Jesuits and monks
have been ordered to leave the Polish
districts Of Upper Silesia.
The amount raised in the Southern
States to build monument to General
r. E. Lee is about Sll 900.
The University Of Prague is to be
separated henceforth into two. viz, a
German and a Czech University.
A gushing shopman hangs out this
|, placard. "Our custom is enormous, but
OF it cannot stale our infinite variety
A Gate City lawyer included in his
( bill against his client: ITO waking up
in the night and thinking about your
case, five dollars"
The town council Of Trieste has sub
! scribed fifteen hundred forms toward
the Arctic Expedition, to be undertaken
] next summer.
:; Few national banks are ever started
by plaintiffs in libel suits against news
papers, with the money recovered from
a the defendants.
Y Gounod says ne has composed mos
of his operas after midnight, aud thai
!. he has hardly ever written line o
:, music in the daytime.
J, DR.. Leiber praises Humboldt for per
5, fecting German prose, and 70 perfec
!, prose requires mastery skill. He an
improves prose is beneiactor.
T Swimming being now taught in th
:. British army, as 3 military duty, tn
? number of fatalities from drowning il
, that service has sensibly diminished.
d A landlord in Cincinnati recently 90
J. rid of a non-paying tenant by lightinl
"a a quantity Of sulphur in the basemen
q and filing the house with the fumes.
q. Altogether, Germany has pow receive
at FROM France for indemnity and int
y rest EST, SOC. 900. less $4,000, 900, or tn
- value of Alsaes aRd Lorraine railways
A number Of French ladies who hay
become reduced by the late war MOI
earn their living by teaching French I
D, Americans who are anxious TO aoquir
the pure Partisan accent
The Chicago Post misanthrOpicslly re
III marks that Nilsson has INVESTED he
q S4O0, 900 in Ameries because Ehs loye
Of the country and the rates Of interest 81
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