Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-25

dies men inquire what he has lett behind
him; and angels inquire what he has
sent before him.
Admiral Winslow, who commanded
the Kearsarge when she sunk the Ala
bama, will receive $24, 600 as his share
Of prize money.
A German in Rio Janeiro drove long
nail to the head in his skull, but failed
to hit anything inside. and the spike
was withdrawn without injury.
A house in Michigan was recently
struck by lightning and consumed, to-
gether with $500 in greenbacks. This
shows the folly of owning greenbacks.
Somehow, they won't do right in Ken
lucky. This time it is Mr.. Desprin, of
Green county. He has gone to walk
with his wife's sister, and won't come
back.
Wisconsin papers say that Mrs. Abra-
ham Lincoln last week left Waukesha,
where she had been spending the sum
mer, for an extended tour through the
West. d.
Professor John Tyndall, the eminent
English scientist. viii visit this country
shortly, and will deliver series of lee
lures on scientific subjects in many of
the large cities.
An accommodating justice in Mass q
chusetts recently sentenced prisoner
TO nineteen days Imprisonment, because
Just that time remained before the cul-
pitt expected to 20 whaling.
A very modest young lady, who was a
passenger on board packet ship. it is
said, sprang out of her berth and jumped
overheard, on hearing the captain, during
storm, order the mate to haul down the
sheets.
Two Partisan workmen undertook TO
joke the police the other night. One
was to throw himself into the river, and
await, after having swan to a safe place,
the searchers which the other was to
arouse; bat he jumped in only to sink
and be drowned.
A Saratoga letter has the following
head lines Lots Of Pretty Girls and
Flirtations-Hotel Hops-Hugging in
the Round Danees-Squeezing to Music
Dancing Young America to Death
No Mercy Shown-The Departing Belle
of Mature Years.
Thousands of bushels of apples viii be
left to rot on the ground in the orchards
Of western Massachusetts, this autumn.
In some towns farmers are Offering cider
at one dollar and half per barrel, and
it is difficult to find purchasers sufficient
10 exhaust half the apples at any price.
The critical faculty in California
journalism is improving. For example
the Napa Register, after quoting some
stanzas from Joaquin Miller's isles OF
the Amazon pointedly remarks IF
this kind Of jingle is to be accepted in an
intelligent community like that Of Nspa
county as poetry, all hands had better
sell ont and 60 West"
Prince Metternich once got of bon
mot about the price and sizes Of his
wife bonnets. The Princess had handed
him her quarterly bonnet bill, amount
ing to 225O ironcs. The Prince, with
his usual courtesy, Immediately handed
her a check for Il, and laughingly re-
marked; Ny dear, l have noticed that
in proportion as your bonnets diminish
in size the price Of them increases. One
Of these mornings we shall have the
milliner bringing nothing but the bill. ,"
A contemporary thus sums up the
requisites for a modern belle: Just
now TO be a belle the only things
esteemed TO be necessary are to be
i dressed always in the very latest style,
TO wear ones hair on the top Of ones
head, to walk on tilted heels, 10 carry a
vinaigretie, TO know when to faint, when
: to blush, when 70 snub admirers with no
prospects, when TO look tender and Ian
; gushing, TO dance aud eirt to ones
hearts content, to follow the ceaseless
round Of pleasure and never grow weary
such is the life Of the sAratOss belle.
The aim Of her industry is TO work eais
and dogs upon canvas; Of her literutare
10 read novels" ra.s orer