Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-05

White linen guipure lace or insertion
is very much used this season for trim
ming thin dresses. isn
A postmaster-editor in Wisconsin be
gins she and "him with capital hi
when they refer TO Grant.
A Boston girl has sued good-lookinp
mulatto for breach Of promise and re
covered a thousand dollars damages.
Every day smart young girl drives
| into Council Bluffs with load of wood
has il masured and unloads it herself.
Prince Charles of Roumania never
visits the theatre at Bucharest, although
he is a great lover of the dramatic art.
There has probably never been a
greater variety or more costly importa'
tons in silks than the present season
displays.
Twenty.three inches is considered the
proper size of lady's waist at the pres
emit day, when small, wasp like waists
are no longer admired.
The town Of Sedan has sent vote OF
thanks to Count 0rloff, the Russian am
bassador, for his successful efforts in
disinfecting the battlefield round Sedan
aRd Metz.
An erudite Georgian wrote to the Sa-
yannah News to inquire If Mr.. Sbak-
speare, of whom he had recently heard,
was an army correspondent in the late
war.
The English betting authorities have
decided that all bets on the Tichborne
case are of. on the grounds of mo YER
dict no bet" the claimant (Tichborne)
having been non-suited.
A rumor obtains currency in London
that Lord Penzance is again to intro
duce the Deceased Wife's Sister bill in
the House Of Lords. and that the Arch
bishop of York is to cease his opposition.
During an awkward pause in the fam
lily dinner, Mr.. Hunt, Of Kentucky,
knocked his wife down with plate, and
she retaliated by practicing on him with
the carving knife. Then both rose and
got their deserts.
Color is the most important thing in
precious stone; two precious stones,
otherwise identical in composition, are
by slight dash of colsr changed into
two far more valuable gems; thus a rock
crystal becomes an amethyst; an oriental
topaz a ruby.
Mrs. Stowe said, when she returned
from Germany, that she really enjoyed
the German church singing until they
reached the eighteenth or nineteenth
stanza, but then her enthusiasm was
very apt to break down.
A Second Adventist in New York
State has been fattening an OK for the
past ten years, for a grand feast when
Christ shall appear. BE has spent
nearly all his property in feeding and
purchasing food for that OK.
North Germany has at her disposal an
army of 100000 men, France will
soon have 100000. Austria has more
than GOO, 900, and in few years Russia
will have 100000 The entire loss Of
Germany in the recent campaign is
stated TO have been 10000 men.
Helen HUntsays the Germans are less
given to routine than we are, and fol
the average Americans to sleep in one
house, breakfast in second, dine in q
third, tea in fourth and sleep again in
q fifth, seems to turn life into perpetual
passover, not to be endured many weeks
at time. F
Two reverend gentlemen Of the Meth
odist persuasion in Plymouth, Ohio. bad
literal wrestle with much spirit last
week in the shop Of an aecomr odating
apothecary Of the place, who saw fan
play while they pummeled each Other
like two camps meeting Of the church
militant
A lady converted q gentleman to the
female suffrage doctrine the other day
He met her 10 the street during storm
and lent her his umbrella she has moi
returned it, and he believes nov thal
women should have just the same priv
leges as men and no more.
/. A World correspondent thinks Mis-
Buchanan, Of the Chicago Post, is I
/. great journalist. Among her quali6ca
: tons are the ability to work like light
5 5 ming and seldom revise her manuscript
I in the least" She also throws of ,
: poem nov and thea for a magazine.
How easy
Dibbs and his wife were induIgine il
"reminiscences over their dinner nut
= and raisins. How one thing bring
up another" said the lady. Absorbe,
in pleasing retrospsction. "Yes," re