Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-16

Eugenie bought II at a sale some year
back for el, 720, aud it was fortunatel,
saved from the Tuileries before the fire
A devoted wife in Rock county, Wis.
made her husband New Years present
of the tax receipt on his homestead
The money for it was taken from his vest
pocket while he was asleep the Sunday
before.
The press of the country has come to
the conclusion that the song Of the
merry plow-boy and the MARBLE Of the
lark should enterinto poetry written for
publication when the thermometer indi-
Gates ten degrees below.
Quite a sensation was created in
Springfield, Mass. on New Years Day
by two pale-faced Yankee damsels per-
ambulating the streets for hours es-
corted by a negro as black Of complex
ion as the ace Of spades is generally
supposed to be.
The Rev. Robert Collyer made ten
der allusion to "gin mills" the other day
in Chicago, saying he wished that all
whisky shops were down in hell, chained
up in the bottomlsss pit for thousand
years, and new chain ready for them at
the expiration of that time"
On the occasion of the last annual
market in Berneck, st. Gall, says the
Swiss Times, an innkeeper, while carv-
ing California ham, came upon mug
get of gold of the size of walnut
The lucky find, weighing l5l grammes,
proved to be of the finest gold.
One of the saddest sights in this seq.
son of the year is young man who has
waited outside of the church of an even
ing until he is chilled through, only to
see his girl walk off with some rascal
who has been Inside all the time toasting |
his sinful shins at the stove.
The futility of attempting to thwart the
designs of Providence by passing laws
against the careless handling of fire.
arms has been impressibly illustrated in |
Michigan in the case of an old lady who
was shot through the head last week by |
gun which fell of its own accord from
the wall of an adjoining room.
One of Witchita's (Kansas) best ho-
tells employs a lady runner to the
railroad depot. Since her employment
it has been found necessary to make
fourteen additions to the house and run
it up FIVE stories in hight The other
hotels in the town are closing up.
It is singular fact that Of the three
engineers who had the contract for con-
structing the Mount Gents tunnel, Som
eiller is dead, Grandis and Grattoni is
insane. The cause of Grattoni's inEan-
ity is attributed by his physicians to an
over-use of hair dye, strongly impreg-
mated with mercury.
For assault in rudely kissing Miss
Olive Williams" Mr.. George Chambers,
Of Omaha, was required to pay five dol
lars and costs, amounting to twenty-four
dollars. Mr.. Chambers has appealed to
the District Court. He CALAMITY offered
to compromise by putting the kiss back
where be took it from, bat his PROPOSE
ton was Indignantly rejected.
The sharpest, so far this month, is the
Troy girl who makes her unsuspecting
father the bearer of sweet missiyes TO a
clerk in his Office who has been forbid
den 70 visit his employers house. She
pins the letter in the old mans cloak,
and when be reaches the Office and
throws of the garment, the clerk gets it
and responds by the same carrier.
An Indiana man has upset all the
theories of the teetotallers by killing
himself with drinking iced water, of
which he imbibed twenty-four tumbler-
fuIs in twenty-four hours. This shows
the necessity Of moderation in the use
of any accustomed beverage, for, as the
friends Of the deceased observe, an
equal amount Of whisky wouldn't be
thought anything Of in that part Of the
country.
One Sunday, when e stranger was oe-
cupying Dr. Chspin's pulpit he was
greatly annoyed by large number Of
people who got up and went out. En-
during it as long as he could, he came
forward and announced; "All those who
came here to worship Almighty God will
please join in singing hymn, and while
they are doing so, those who came here
to worship E. H. Chaplin will have an
opportunity TO leave the church" His
audience remained.
A more or less worthy Scotch wife was
demonstrated with by her minister for
her habit Of beating her husband. She
explained that her husbands conduct
was not at all what It ought 10 be. The
minister, recommending kindness and
forgiveness, enjoined her no more 10 use
her fists and nails, but to heap Goals Of
FIRE upon the head" Weel, minister"
replied the nov enlightened wife since
you say sac, III Try the Goals. but ! may
tell ye that iva or three kettles O. boil
ing water hse vroeht nae Improvement.