Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-29

A circus company lately used four
barrels Of -four in adjoining Pittsburg
with posters.
The oolored custodian Of the Buffalo
cemetery has retired on the urnings OF
5000 funerals.
The epizootic is still wandering around
the Pacific slope, hunting new ranches
and pastures green.
A London gas company has dispensed
with stokers, and proposes to make its
gas by machinery.
Survivors of the Atlantic disaster are
already turning up numerously to solicit
aims in inland districts.
At an exhibition of tableaux vivants
in London, recently, little girl wore
gems worth half million.
An old conductor says he is no judge
Of female beauty. but he can always tell
when ladies are passing fare. p"
An Iowa wood cutter has invented a
new sewing-machine, which wicked
wag christens the hemlock stitch.
A coroner's jury in Kentucky took the
liberty of finding man guilty Of murder
and sentencing him to Jail for life.
Girls have spring bonnets on their
minds just at present, and are loaded
down with weight of responsibility.
Very few horses eat corned beef, but
we saw one standing the other day be-
fore a store with bit in his mouth.
The FerRandina Observer accuses a
fellow-citizen of softening the landscape
in front Of his store by inserting an iron
pump.
At Wetherfeld, Conn, an inspector
Of lumber and onions" has recently been
appointed, in accordance with the an.
cient rule.
A Russian baron is said to have fallen
desperately in love with one Of the col
ored twins exhibited in Philadelphia two
years ago.
An American in London writes that
he has been ten days sight seeing in the
British museum, and has not got beyond
the first floor.
The Oldest Baptist church now in ex-
istenee in England stands on Hill Cliff,
north of London, it having been founded
nearly three centuries.
The Fairplay Colorado Sentinel
claims to have the highest newspaper
office in the world. 1t is 10000 feet
above the level of the sea.
Sunday schools have been running in
indianapolis for fifty years, and yet eight
out of ten Of the male citizens wink
when the call for gin and water.-St.
Louis Democrat.
Oswego Aldermen are accused of
handing their free passes out of the win
dows to their friends to secure admis-
sion for them to shows.
A woman Of Watson, Michigan, fear
ing that she would not survive her hus-
band, took full dose Of the latest patent |
medicine, and thus died.
A Harrisburg foundry has recently re-
ceived four ancient Japanese bells, each
more than six hundred years old. They
are to be broken up and recast.
A student, undergoing his examine
ton, was asked what was the mode OF
action of disinfectants. He replied,
" They smell SO bad that the people open
the windows, and the fresh air gets in"
An old woman at Liverpool, Ohio,
didn't want 'em to take any trouble
after she was dead. but il it was just the
same she'd like to be buried with her
spectacles on"
Baron Tauchintz, the Leipsic pub
Usher, has sent the free library at Chi.
cago copies of all the works published
by him. There were over twelve hun
dred Of them.
A man in Sussex county, N. j., has
brought suit against a clergyman for
having married the plaintiff 8 daughter
without his consent, she being under
eighteen years Of age.
The Troy IN. " papers, to get rid Of
the organ grinders, periodically insert a
statement that there is great scarcity
Of them in Buffalo. A general migra-
lion thither is the result.
Nearly a million bushels Of oysters
we're spoiled in the she'll during the re-
cent heavy frost in Maryland, for the
-eason that several fleets Of oysier.boats
we're ice-bound in the rivers down the
,ay.
A San Francisco gentleman recently
.rought home q new Chinese servant,
nd the lady Of the house inquired bis
anne. "Yuug Hoo Win, vas the re-
". "Ohi" said she, / cannot call
on that; viii call you ChArlsy."
What is your manner he asked in re-
lrn. Ny name is Mrs. John Brown
b. "Welle. ] calle Jon Johnl" ex-
lainsd the Celestial. ]