Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-11-12

the electric influence, and we're in CON
tiAual danger Of going OF while when
caught in thunder storm their hair lit
orally stood on end. The whole party
experienced shocks more or less severe
but none were injured.
A witty scientist once silenced Lon
don fsh-woman, who was pouring out Al
him food Of vile talk, by hurting at
her, in emphatic tones, the language o.
paleontology, thus. "You iehthyosa'
urus. you pierOdactyl, I'll feed you on
cephalopods, and sauriAns shall consume
your parietals." In blank silence the
woman stared at her enemy, aud did not
utter word in reply.
The new Vienna waterworks we're
opened on the 2lth ultimo ia the pres
ence of the Emperor, the Archduke' aud
various high officials. The water comes
from the Alps, distance OF ffty-tour
miles BY means Of tunnels and aque-
ducts The cost Of the works has been
about siO,OOO,OOO, and they have been
finished in three years aud half.
An Iowa minister, in discoursing TO
his audience a few Sabbaths ago SAID
Religion in the heart, my friends is
like four aces in the deck-without 1t no
man can hold a certain hand To some
of his audience his illustration was for.
chile In their judgment the deck
would be a barren pack without the four
aces. A few, however, flushed with
indignation, arose straight up ana
passed out the door.
A little unpleasantness occurred IN
the streets Of Norwich, Connecticut, re-
Gently. A young man was walking with
his beloved, when they we're suddenly
met by the damseIs father who ordered
his daughter to return home forthwith.
The young man, however, seized the
stern parent and gave him severe
whipping, after which he and his beloved
drove over to an adjoining village and
we're united in the bonds OF mstrimony.
To be sick is to enjoy monarchical
prerogatives. Compare the silent tread
and quiet ministry, almost by the eyes
only, with which be is served, with the
careless demeanor, the unceremonious
goings in and out (slapping of doors or
leaving them OPEN of the very same at
tendants, when he is getting little bet
ter, and you will confess that from the
bed of sickness Chrome let me rather
call III to the elbow chair Of GONZALES
cence. ia a fall from dignity amounting
TO deposition. Charles Lamb.
According to the last census of Paris
there are 30, 600 Americans permanently
residing in that city, subdivided thus;
LouisiGnians, nearly 10000; Virginians,
5000; other Southern States, 5000; North
and West, 1000. The vast preponder-
ance Of Southerners in Paris is due to
causes which arose during and have
arisen since the war. The New Or
leans Times says that most Of the Lou
isianians now residing in the French
capital are "absentees who live there
on the rents of their property in New
Orleans and in the State.
The Courier-Journal says that many
Young men become lawyers or doctors
because they have an idea-and it is
about the only idea they have, too-that
the professions OF law and medicine in
volve no hard work, with plenty of gem
teel ease and idleness. And when they
have become doctors or lawyers they
find that they have to work much harder
to keep themselves supplied with beer
and tobacco than they would to earn a
genteel living in the capacity Of street
car driver. 1t is the duty of every
parent to paste this in the hat of his
ambitious but feeble-minded son.
There is a sort of homely truth and
naturalness in some books which is very
rare to find, aud yet looks cheap enough.
Homeliness is almost as great a merit
in book as in house, if the reader
would abide there. 1t is next to beauty,
and very high art. Some have this
merit only. Very few men can speak
Of nature, for instance, with any truth.
They overstep her medesty, somehow or
other, and confer no favor. They do
not speak good word for her. The
surliness with which the wood-chopper
speaks of his woods, handling them as
indiiferently as his ak, is better than
the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm Of the
lover of nature. Thoreau.
The Boston Journal shows low easy it