Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-03

green corn, strawberries and SIGH.
The woman suffragists of Illinois arr
to hold their State convention mex
month.
Providence local papers speak of {
carriage smashup as "vehicular break
down"
An Eyansvillian admonished his wife
with a wringing machine, and now re
poses in jail.
In Cincinnati about 5000 persons, OF
one in every "a of the population, can
not read Or write.
The governor Of Iowa thinks the
grand jury system a costly and useless
relic of bygone days"
Fifty miles of additional snow fencing
will be Immediately constructed on the
Union Pacific road.
Theaters are queer places. There
they always give the unimportant parts
to super" human people.
The important question just now is
Have you been vaccinated2 The next
in Importance is, Did it take2
The Churchman thinks that pom
pous obsequies are the mark of anything
but true and lasting respect.
Alaska is wetted by rain 240 days in
the year, and dampened by fogs nearly
100 of the remaining l25 days.
Josh Billings says: "Praze and abuse
are both good in their place, but itl
kant hay but one give me the abuse.
The delicate way of expressing the
fact that lady has added to the natur-
al charms of her complexion, is to say
that she is calcimined."
A woman in Worthington, Ohio, re-
Gently aimed kick at her husband, but,
missing him, accidentally killed little
child who was standing near by.
According to Boston paper, "a wo.
man in Duxbury stepped on a needle
that went in at her foot and came out at
her neck" She must have been high
stopper.
An escaped leopard is making it lively
for the boys in New Jersey. The New
York Standard says he does not tarry
long in one place, but changes his spots
continually"
The late Baroness Weld has left the
bulk of her property to Archbishop
Manning for religious purposes, includ-
ing large sum for building a Roman
Catholic church at Oxford.
George Eliot is said to have received
the largest sum ever agreed in advance
to be paid by a publisher for novel.
She was given $4,000 for Remola."
which came out in the Cornhill Maya
zine.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Boston discussed the question,
the other evening, whether the public
library ought to be kept open on Sun
day, and finally decided it in the affirm
alive by nearly two-thirds vote.
A young lady in Holly, Michigan, had
her love affairs disturbed by her mother,
and settled them with arsenic. Letters
found in her room suggested the text
and pall-bearers for her funeral, which
occurred two days afterward.
They have heavy winds in the Sand
wich Islands. The report Of recent
gale states that "The Island of Hawaii
has not been heard from" from which it
is inferred that that Inflated piece Of
real estate was entirly blown away.
At wedding in Rochester recently a
nice lowered cake was most horribly
mutilated by an old gentlemen who mis-
took it for a dish Of mashed potatoes,
and thrust spoon into 1t with the re-
mark, Twill now carve the potatoes. "
There is girl in Easton who has been
engaged at different times to fifteen diff
feront men, and calculates that the sum
total Of kisses she has received from
them would amount to larger number
than there are dollars in the national
debt. Sad, but creditable.
A recently arrived English servant
girl pitched a cup Of sealding coffee
into her mistress face, at San Francisco,
because the lady hoped the Prince Of
Wales would die. She is now looking
for another plaee-British family pre-
ferred-references unexceptionAble.
A New York exchange talks as fol-
lows about Clara Louise: People in
New York are beginning TO find out that
as an opera singer neither Psrspa, Nils
son, nor any other stands higher in gen
eral excsiisnce tbaR our own Clara Lou
lisa Kellogg. Parepa may excel her in
the eoneertroom, but neither Moulton
nor Nilsson can. This was expressed
by Us long ago, and We we're considered