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

what injured" according TO local re
porter through being run into by a rail
way train.
Every person on the staff Of the Lon
don Times has held his place nine years
while some have been connected will
the paper twenty-five years.
Under the heading of HAPPY
Thoughts" the Petersburg (Va,) Appea
says that more sickness prevails in thai
city than for many years past,
Useful industry does not so much
consist in being continually busy as il
doing promptly those things which are
of the first importance aud which viii
eventually prove most profitable.
Dryden was so bound up in his books
that his wife exclaimed; II wish | were
book that / might always be in your
society" 4" | wish you were an almanac
so could change you every year, re-
piled he.
1t is noted, as a pleasing sign Of the
progression OF civilization among Par
isian journalists, that two well known
writer's recently encountered each other
in the street. and fought with their um-
brellas.
Slowly, bat surely, the great Of the
world are passing away, and none re-
main to fill their places. To the long
array Of brilliant and famous men lately
deceased we are now obliged to add that
of Mr.. Ephraim o. Mitchell, the cham
pion clam digger" Of Bridgeport, Conn,
A Springfield massachusetts, paper
says: The windy beard Of Rolus him
self, and all his succedaneous bags Of at
mesphere, beswept our segment of earth
from long ere dawn yesterday through a
bitter twenty-four hours Of extreme win
terness and physical and spiritual SILVER
ings.
A Vermonter is going into the bust
ness Of raising bears for market. He
gets bounty Of SIS for each one to
begin with, the meat will bring $50, the
skin $50, and the bears grease will swell
the total to 800, which, with we'll
stocked breeding farm, would yield more
than bare living.
1t is poor work allays settin' the
dead above the Twin. We shall on us
be dead some time, / reckon-it I'D be
better il folks nd make much on US be.
fore hand instid O. beginnin' whom we
we're gone. It's but little good you'll
do a-watering the last years crop
George Eliot.
Chief Justice Chase has bought an old
historical homestead farm of some sixty
acres near Washington, from which he
often walks to the capitol when the
morning is fair, a distance of a mile or
more. he is spending some care and
cost in embellishments, and means TO
end his days in this quiet retreat.
Prince Bismarck may be honest and
sincere, but he has lately been carrying
on a lawsuit in the double aspect Of
plaintiff and defendant. AS minister
president he prosecuted the governor Of
Lausnburg (himself) to establish the
liability of that duchy, lately ceded to
King William by Denmark, to contri-
butte towards paying the debt Of the Dam
ish kingdom.
The Macon Telegraph says that men
have been sent TO the gallows on weaker
evidence that that which veriGes the ex-
istence of the great sea serpent. II the
choice were advertised Of furnishing for
a valuable consideration evidence guar
anteed TO send murderer to the gallows
in New York, or Of producing proofs Of
the presence Of the great sea serpent
Of Sandy Hook, the latter would mon
opolize all the bidding.
Il is stated that a New Hampshire
minister recently portrayed the history
Of Jonah after the following style: 81
seem to see Jonah passing along the
road to Nineveb; / seem to see him en-
tering the ticket Office. buy his ticket
aud pay for il; | seem 10 see him walk
upon the vessel; seem 10 see them lift
their anchor and the stately ship move
gradually out upon the broad Atlantic. "
Ills told Of Canning that at the Cliff
ford street Club, London, on Que occA-
sion when he was loudly denouneing
Mirabeau just as foamiug pot Of porter
was brought in and placed before the
president, he continued: "To the steady
eye Of a sagacious criticism the eloqnence
Of Mirabeau will appear 10 be as empty
aud yapid as bis patriotism. Il Is like
the beverage that stands, sir, 70 invit-
ingly before yOu-foAmy aud frothy on
the top, heavy and muddy within"
In the TyrOlean, mountains il is the
custom Of the women aud children 10
come out when il Is bedtime, and stag
their national songs until their husbands
and brothers answer them from the hills
on their return hsme. On the shores
Of The AdriAtie such a custom prevails.
There the wives Of the fishermen cone
down about sunset and sing q melody.
Aher singing the frst sianza they listen