Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-07-31
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abled.
China has launched her first heavy war
frigate.
Sunstrokes seem to be mainly a city
affection.
The Terre Haute lookup contains Mr..
Heavensent.
The tail is not the end of fish SO
much as the fms.
A three-ton sea lion has been killed
off the coast of California.
Senator Sumner has taken quarters at
the White Sulphur Springs, Va
The spirit photographers has invaded
Denver with his ghostly camera.
Edward Eggleston's Hoosier School
master" is the latest nonsense to be
dramatized.
An English Lord IS stopping at Sara
toga, and is the handsomest man there
in his own estimation.
Eggs sell in South Carolina at ten
cents dozen. A dozen of eggs will go
farther than a ten-cent cigar.
The word e it," occurs but once in the
entire Bible, and that in Leviticus,
twenty.ffth chapter and fifth verse.
Nothing but rough board at the head
and a cedar bush at the foot marks Gen
eral Magruders grave, at Houston,
Texas.
A pocket bootjack has been invented.
You put your foot into your pocket, give
a spring into the air and off comes your
boot.
The people of Wyoming don't know
whether to call their female judge
Justices of the peace, or a justice OF
the peaces.
The Londoners are complaining be-
cause the thermometer stood recently at
F30 in the shade at eight o'clock in the
morning.
Belmont drives four thoroughbreds be-
fore an English mail coach at Newport,
with footmen and tigers in gorgeous
livery.
Fanny Lewald, the German authoress,
announces her intention to lecture on
woman rights in the United States next
autumn.
Several newspapers have lately been
published in Poland for the first time,
and periodical literature is greatly on
the increase.
One million four hundred and twenty |
thousand dollars, in eagles, were coined
at the United States mint, San Fran
cisco, in April.
The progress of an operator in the re-
cent wheat corner of Chicago is summed
up thus:
" First stage, plenty money. no wheat,
Second stage, plenty wheat. no money,
Third stage, no wheat, no money"
A preacher at Burlington, Iowa, says
he does not want Mason, Odd Fellow,
nor a Democrat in his church. He
probably wants to wrestle with the devil
all by himself.
1t is said that Guizot is in the habit
of aseribing the mistakes of President
Theirs to his youth and want of expert
ence. Guizot is mature man Of eighty
five years, while Theirs is boyish fell
low of seventyfve.
A Jewish Rabbi accuses a merchant
of slandering him by alleging that be
(the Rabbi) on certain occasion dis
missed his congregation with the Apos-
tolic benediction. One hundred thou
sand dollars damages is the modest sum
asked for.
A graduate of an Eastern college, a
good scholar, and for year popular
clergyman, is now a teamster in Des
Moines, hauling at twenty-five cents
load. He has always been man Of
COED habits, could get living by teach
ing or preaching, but prefers bis present
work.
Schools for printers are established
throughout Germany, designed to in
struct apprentices in the theory and
practice of printing not only, but to i'm
part general knowledge of foreign Ian
guages, and an accurate acquaintance
with the type Of all languages.
A lady bound for Long Branch from
New York, the other day, saw her trunk
falling over the steamers railing, and
like prudent woman jumped in after
it. The trunk and its contents were
ruined, but the lady was fshed out only
a little demoralized.
Rhinoceroses are not nice animals to
have about in flower garden or even in
wheat field One Of these interesting
but demonstrative brutes got loose from
menagerie in Vermont, few days
ago, and before he could be captured
again had trample6 down twenty acres
Of wheat.
At the grave Of a wealthy and distin-
guished citizen of Vienna recently, two
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