Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-13

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ing something Of that kind for a couple
Of years.
Several brass cannon, made at Bogots
in l7Ss, have been dug up from Galveston
bay, where they are supposed to have
lain since they were lost by the pirate
Lahtte in 1917.
An old lady passenger was so much
impressed by the polite attention she re
ceived from a railroad conductor, in
Connecticut. that she recently left him
$500 by her will.
This announcement has appeared in
Vienna journal, Anna Agrikol, sick
nurse, watches dead bodies, repairs straw
chairs, and applies leeches, and makes
pastry, deserts and delicacies.
A New Jersey man has succeeded in
raising some very fine bananas-from
the cellar of a neighboring fruit dealer,
and says the climate of this country
seems we'll adapted to this fruit
The fact that John Seigler's gun was
loaded when he blew in the muzzle and
held the hammer back with his toe, was
of no practical value to him, as he did
not live long enough to reap any de-
sirable fruit from the discovery.
Thousands of people might be enjoy
ing reasonable lives. with opportunities
for self culture, for social enjoyment
and for charitable effort, whose sole en-
ergy is absorbed in the desperate struggle
to add superhuities to comforts.
Pierre Berger, of San Francisco, has
been allowed to change his name to
Pierre Bernard Berger, for the reason
that he has brother of the same name
as that he originally held. Names, ap-
parently, ran short in that family.
Gunners should be careful for the next
thirty days or SO, says the Erie Dispatch,
to aim at the ground when emptying
their guns. If carelessly fred into the
air, the chances are ten to one that some
Of the shot, in falling, will hit candi-
dnte for sheriff.
The audience at Chicago theater
were disposed to be hilarious, the other
night, when the wife of man who had
risen from his seat between acts and
started for the door, cried out, Where
are you going, John?" John was dis
gusted, but kept on.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn has just
made a joke. A Mrs. Jury, being ex-
amined as witness in the Tichborne
case, stated that she had eleven chill
dren, whereupon his Honor observed he
had always understood it took twelve
to make jury. England is still echo
ing the laugh which convulsed the court.
An English engineer proposes the es-
tablishment of immense kitchens, pre-
sided over by professional cooks, with
proper number Of assistants, so as to do
away altogether with cooking in private
houses. The different meals could be
delivered to families, being carried to
their houses in wagons specially con-
with heating appliances.
A California paper relates a marvellous
escape from destruction of a ten-year-
old daughter of a mining manager, who
fell into a sluice-box and was swept
along at railroad speed for many hun
bred feet, falling through two dumps"
Twelve and twenty feet high respectively,
but finally escaping with severe bruises,
but no permanent disfgurements.
tits related that young French Off
GER, who fought gallantly through the
Franco-Prussian wer, was taken prisoner
and sent captive to Germany. While
here he fell in love with and married a
German girl, and. recently returning to
Paris, he was expelled from club of
which he had formerly been a member, |
on the ground that he had married into
a Prussian family.
An engineer on the Toledo, Peoria /
and Warsaw railroad in approaching
the trestle work just across the river,
the other evening, saw what be took 10
be a COW on the track. He shut OF
steam and whistled Justify, and Just as
he came up to the animal il sprang over
the fence and disappeared in the water.
Il proved to be fair specimen Of the
Illinois river bull-frog. This is the en-
gineer's story.
The Pail Mall Gazette points to Pal
merston, Brougham, Sir David Brewster.
Walter Savage Lander aud Theirs ss er.
amples Of men Wlo have got the rost
pleasure out Of life, aud we're still young
1t fourscore years Il adds that there
IRE no better gifts, and none which lend
Zeener enjoyment to youth, than pug
iacity, selfconhdence aud vigorous ami
nal spirits" all Of which we're possessed
lyithsse octogenarians ]