Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-17

night, providing each with an umbrella
il il rains.
Artesian wells are reported to be
failure in Indiana, though whether the
failure results from the lack Of water oil
the lack of any demand for the article
does not appear.
Items are scarce in Richmond. A
colored man fell in the street the Other
day, and before he could stretch himself
four reporters, with note books and pen
ellis, surrounded him.
Katie Field denies that she is threat
ened with deafness, and wants to know
who started that ear story. Kate has
never been threatened with dumbness
either. Detroit Free Press.
1t is said that St. Louis editor used
to write poetry when boy, and had a
reputation in that line extending over
an area Of country three miles long,
four miles wide aud a mile thick.
Mr. Berghs latest proposition is that
dogs shall be caught with scoop-nets
early i'll the morning. and taken to q
house where they are to be gently as
phyxiated by pure carbonic acid gas.
Robert Franz, the song writer, is
blind, deaf and poor List gave a con-
cert for his benefit recently in Pesthi
the audience being composed princi-
pally of members of the Hungarian
aristocracy.
Another double-headed baby is re-
ported to have been born at Ithaca, New
York, with the astonishing peculiarly
of having in a single body two hearts
four lungs and all its other organs du'
plicated in like manner.
A Partisan has just died leaving the
following testament: ut is my viii
that any Of my relatives who shall pre-
sumo to shed tears at my funeral shall
be disinherited. He who laughs mos
heartily snail De sole heir
A street car conductor in Detroit
picked up navy revolver from the
floor as several passengers were depart
ing. A well dressed woman claimed it
with the remark: That's the SECOND
time I've lost that to-day"
Grants South-down mutton, imported
especially from England for the Presi
dental table, is making him very fat
At his present rate Of increase, foul
years more at the White House will give
the President quite Falstaffian proper
tons.
Itis'generslly believed now by meteor
ologists, says the New York Times, that
we are to have a cycle of very hot sum
mers. An eminent sanitarian in the
Health Department, DR.. Stephen Smith
has already issued report suggesting
measures during the coming summer
which shall prevent the fatal effects o
the expected heat.
A colored resident Of indianapolis
came very near being fatally shot some
three weeks ago, but as that which 9
local paper calls the missile fortu
nately hit him in the head, only pene
trating the skull couple Of inches, the
doctors think he will not be seriously
Inconvenience by it.
A Connecticut woman tried to whip
her boy the other day, but he had read
all the articles OR moral suasion in the
educational monthlies, and knew that
she had no right to break his spirit in
that way, and he stabbed her in the arm,
stole some money that she had laid away
to pay the rent, and took a train to
Chicago.
1t has been announced that the Rus
slams would allow no newspaper CORE
spondents except Americans to accom-
pany the KhiVan expedition. The Paris
Temps says that Herr Stumm, lieuten.
ant of husssrs, " is the only foreign Off.
Ger to whom this privilege will be
granted; with this exception no one who
is not Russian, be be officer or news
paper correspondent, will be permitted
to take part in the expedition"
An Oregon paper tells Of an unforiu
nate fellow who was looking for stock
when fine deer approached and began
biting him. He FIRST essayed to run; but
the vicious deer held him. He mex
turned to eursing the last Legislature foi
passing the game law. But when the
animal began 10 tear his trowsers be lost
his selfcontrol and slew the varmint ID
in self-defense.
We have several pigs that eat cora
a barrel or two from deliuquents would
be acceptable at this time, as well as q
few hundred pounds Of -four" Thu
does a Tennessee editor disclose to the
public gaze the sad condition Of his do
nestle affairs, and distress and suffering
Of bis family. The delinquent subscri
Der who can read unmovsd the foregoing
pathetic appeal. is hardened wretch