Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-28
PAcrs AND PANcIEs.

A California lady has obtained
patent for medicaled towel.
: Peanut culture is receiving consider
able attention from the farmers in ha'
, sas.
The Miss Roihehild who is to be maj
! ried has only slOOOO,OOO. Beauty an
booty.
Georgia farmers are advertising 70
white laborers. and oaer them extra IN
duoemenis.
A band Of young men are at work u
Nashville retaining the fallen woms'
Of that place.
Incredible as il may seem, many o
the richest planters 10 Jamaica live oil
cotIee-grounds.
A trout weighing 1855 pounds is divid
ing public attention with the last de
faulter in SAVANNAH.
Bouquets Of yiolets, with terra colts
busts Of the dead Emperor in the center
sell for three sous in Paris.
A Kentucky infant which hasn't got
beyond milk in diet has got as far as
pi in the Greek alphabet
A Georgia paper says Money is
tight, and the banks are each carrying
more cotton than a steamboat
A school exhibition at Dewitt, Iowa,
concluded with the marriage of the
mistress on the lecture platform.
Ten thousand dollars worth Of Erie
railroad shares were recently stolen
from brokers' Office, in Liverpool,
England.
Tho London Morning Post has COM
menced the second century of its ex-
istence, 1t is sixteen years older than
the Times.
Eight old farmers in Franklin county,
Vermont, who live within two miles Of
each other, have had twenty-five wives
among them.
A man was arrested in Providence
the other day for being indecOntly
drunk" hence the question, whenever is
man decently drunk2
A recent case in a Connecticut court
for malicious prosecution occupied the
court for three days and resulted in
verdict for ten cents damage.
A fashionable turnout in Spain is
carriage drawn by four or six white don
keys. Such an equipage would make
sensation in Paramount Park.
Skepticism has never founded EN-
pires, established principalities, or
changed the worlds heart. The great
doors in history have always been men
of faith.
The Marshall Times proclaims itself
an honest newspaper" In another
paragraph it says: When young
man processes honesty nowadays, keep
your eye peeled for thief"
The winds getting round" re-
marked Bibbs to his friend Buggins the
other day, when it changed from east to
west. "Glad of it, replied Buggins,
its been sharp long enough"
Josh Billings says: Yu kant find
contentment laid down on the map; it il
an imaginary place not settled yet; and
those reach it soonest who throw away
their compass and go it blind"
A lady in Indiana thinks she has good
cause for complaint Her husband hung
himself with her best table cloth, when
there was an old clothes line in the cellar
that would have done just as we'll.
a Washington item" reads thus:
Mrs. Grant is said to have the smallest
foot of any lady Of her hight in Wash
ington. She wears No. IL misses shoes.
Miss Grant has also very small feel"
1t is said that Josh Billings in his lee
lures looks in form and features and az
fects in voice and manner the conven-
tioual stage Yankee that is beginning
even now to be a "rara avis way
down 10 Maine"
Mr.. Grafton, of Griffin, Ga, deceased,
is thus remembered by the Griffin Regis
ter: " He was fine man in all respects
he was owing as seven dollars on that
last game of seven-up, but We will threw !
that in toward his head tone.
The number Of outdoor pauper children
in Londos, between the ages Of Eve and
thirteen, is stated at 1850 boys and 99l5 |
girls. OF these 700 boys aud 1926 girls
attend day schools. This is very good |
show for the new school law.
Postal cards will be convenience TO
people who wish to tell you all they
know Smith says to his landlady: Amy |
letters for me to-dsy2" Aud she an
swers: "0nly two postal cards, but
there's nothing particular on them"
Host (really in agony about his pol
shed inlaid aoor): Hadn't you better
come on the carpet, old fellow2 I'm so
afraid you might slip, you know"
Guest with wooden leg) 80, it's all
right, old fellow. Thanksl There is a
nail at the end, you knowl'-PUnch.
Dewitt Talmage, Of the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, has changed the wording Of