Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-24

offers TO start subscription Tor the pur
pose of moving Cleopatra's Needle
to London. The cost is estimated a
$4,000.
Queen Victoria recently sent three
pounds to the wife of private in AZ
English regiment, the understanding be-
ing that there was one pound for each
baby.
Ladies are again wearing at their
wrists those old fashioned little bags in
which our grandmothers used to carry
their purse and handkerchief. They are
called portages.
A little fellow, who had just com
menced reading the papers, asked his
father if the word Hon" pre6xed to
the name of Mr.. P, member Of
Congress, meant honest2'
A manin Western Massachusetts,, who
had been blind in one eye for many
years, had his sight fully restored lately
BY being knocked down. As he lost his
sight by similar accident, he is now a
firm believer in homeopathy.
A number of offers from wealthy per
sons have been made to the relatives Of
John Hanley, the boy survivor Of the
Atlantic wreck, to adopt and educate
him. His sisters are disincline1 to part
with him, and have hitherto declined ali
offers.
A Western jury recently brought in a
verdict of "justifsble breach of
promise" Shortly afterward, an in
furiated female was travelling around
town with seowl on her face and a
seven-shooter in her hand. The jurors
laid very low that day.
1t occurred to the intellectual dram
attic critic of a Cincinnati daily that
a" Macbeth was a good way to spell
the title of one of Shakspeare's plays,
and he has since received letters from
every Scottish clan, instructing him in
Caledonian orthography.
The house in which Andrew johnson
was born in Raleigh, N. c., was torn
down lately, and the people hocked
about to secure the nails and splinters
for relics. So saysa local paper, but
we imagine the people can find better
use for old nails and kindling wood.
There is a man now at work on the
model Of cannon to be exploded by
nitro-glycsrine. When he has his ar
engagements completed he will proceed
to the summit of Monnt Washington for
the purpose of testing his invention, and
will doubtless have high old time of it
there.
A number of human scslps we're re-
Gently discovered in a bale Of rags re-
ceived fror' the West by a paper mill
in Petersburg, Va. A Virginia editor
wants them converted into paper, so he
can print on it, and send copies to his
4" dead head subscribers. -Norristopn
Herald.
A correspondent suggests that all
hotels should be supplied with small
balloons which should be so secured to
the windows Of the sleeping apartments
as to be easily entered thcrefrom. In
case of fire the dodgers could enter these
balloons, cut the cord, and in very few
be safe from danger Of conaa-
grafton. hr
AT Phoebe, Nevada, boring shaft, at
distance of three hundred feet, struck
into a subterraneous river, moving with |
10 rapid a current as at once to cause
powerful draft of air downward through |
he shaft. As there is no running stream
u the neighborhood, this subterrsneous
liver is to be made use of for irrigation.
The Boston Globe says. that an old |
sdy in that city, who was thought to be
IN dying condition Friday night, re-
covered sufficiently to steal to a parlor
window and notice who went to a we'd
ding across the street Saturday after
noon. Since then she has not been able
TO leave her bed until last night, when a
daughter went by the house
with a new bonnet.
Riddles squaw states that DR.. Thomas
was shot by Boston Charley. The poor
old gentleman feel Oh his knees from the
effect of the first shot, and beseeched
Boston to spare his life. Boston re.
5ponded 10 the request Of the generous
Did man who, says the New York Her.
Ids correspondent, had in my pres.
nee given him blankets and money. by
ihoOtiug him again through the head"
The new parssols are very odd; they
lave short, club handles and STATS. with
heavy knob Of gold. silver, ivory, tor
oise-shell or mother-of-pearl-these, Of
curse, come With the richest silk covers.
ined and fringed. Pale pongee para
.ols, lined with delicate pink, blue and
resn, have also club bsndles, formed Of