Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-08-01

editor as senile, singer of unsavory
English"
Three hundred and fifty-six persons
are regularly employed on the Philadel
phia Ledger.
One of the wealthiest bankers in Italy
is Emmanuel Mirafoni, illegitimate son
of the King of Italy.
Brick Pomeroys newspaper expert
ment in New York cost him 100000,
and failed after all.
One thousand three hundred and fifty
people plunged into the surf at Long
Branch on Wednesday.
Gnats are so many and so blood
thirsty in upper California that people
have to 60 about yelled.
A gold lode in Colorado recently sold
for 100000, is now producing at the
rate of $4,000, 600 per annum.
The International Prison Congress at
London is represented by delegates from
fifteen of the United States.
The usual order Of things has been re-
versed at Satory. A Communist dying
has shouted "a bias Ia Commune"
St. Louis has been blessed with two
odd exhibitions on the same evening
George Francis Train and the circus.
Don't drive the toads from your gar
dens if you would save your young
plants from the depredatiens of insects.
A farmer had calf so contrary. he
said. that he had to pull his ears off to
make him suck, and pull his tail off to
mako him let 60"
A young Western man committed sui
eide the other day, because he was dis
appointed in the effects Of a vegetable
diet on his system.
Hon. James Brooks says in his Seven
Months Run that the railroads of Hin
dostan are the most potent missionaries
ever sent there.
The names Of the Allen line Of
steamers between Liverpool and Quebec
all end with the letter N, and those Of
the Anchor line with A.
There are 994 cheese factories in all
New York, which convert the milk Of
295, 900 COWS. The total number of fac
tories in the United States is 1861.
The Chateau de Monte Christie, on the
banks of the Seine, which was bought
and baptized by the elder Dumas, has
just been put up for sale in Paris.
The California Miller, who writes poe
try, and calls himself joaquin" has
brought grist to the New York mill, in
the shape of novel in manuscript.
Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith, of
presiding bishop of the Epis-
copal church in the United States, has
ceased from active duty, and is about to
remove to Philadelphia.
Camping out is row at its hight on
the New England coast. Many islands
and beaches are dotted with the tents of
families who spend week at the sea-
side in this primitive manner.
George Mcdonald, whose greatest sue
cess as an author has been in portraying
the Scottish peasant, has selected as the
subject Of his Boston lecture the grand
est of all peasants, Scotch or other
Robert Burns.
A London lady, who means to keep
abreast Of the times, has read within the
past year fifty metaphysical and scien-
tlfc works, as many more of history and
belles-letters, besides five hundred nov
els, plays and poems.
Lager beer is the fashionable drink at
Long Branch, and dealers, taking ad-
vantage of the fact, sell a compound
that defes description, and is sure to
produce Katzenjainmer, if taken only
IN small quantities.
A young man at Pougbkeepsie, New
FORK, paid 4 visit to bis afiianced, and
found, when he attempted to leave, the
house had been quarantined on account
Of smallpox, and he has been detained
there for fortnight.
The learned Professor Person had a
great horror Of the east wind; and Tom
is said to have kept him a pris-
'ner in the house for fortnight by tx
ng the weathereock in that direction.
The physician who attended Mexican
Buchanan in his last illness explodes
he story about his being poisoned,
which was manifestly 81 the sensational j