Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-01

/ pentlng OF their hhsi anu preparing
their spring dresses.
They now speak of Caldwell as the
"weak.eyed, red.whiskered child Of cor
ruption from Kansas"
Cincinnati, opposed to all empty
forms, has abandoned the official pre-
tense of STRENGTHENING.
An ingenious Yankee seamstress
makes squirrel, in his revolving cage,
turn her sewing machine.
The young girls in the High school of
San Francisco have formed q Society
for the Suppression Of Slang.
A vigilance committee in Phoebe, Cal
ifornia, recently ordered all habitual
water drinkers to leave the city.
The highest society of Cleveland,
Ohio, looks up to a lofty belle measuring
nearly eight feet in her stockings.
Bloomerism has reached Japan, aud
even the young men there are beginning
to wear trousers. The world advances.
The price of the Sword of Bunker
Hill has deprecated to seventy-6ve
cents, owing to competition in the BUSH
ness.
1t is proposed TO set up some new
weather cocks in Washington. Good
heavensl We thought there were enough
Of them there.
In the olden times in Louisiana when
a man had lawsuit, he used to hire
lawyer; now he has to hire judge. N.
o. PicdyUne.
The authorities Of a Minnesota town
have sued a neighboring town for not
keeping the smallpox within their own
corporation limits.
A reporter Of the Poughkeepsie Eagle
interviewed winter menagerie, and left
most Of his trousers against the bars Of
a cage occupied by hyena.
A clergyman in Pennsylvania, instead
of saying, Let as pray says Let US
interview the throne of gracel" The
dominic had once been reporter.
No cards was great success. mo
speeches" will be g still greater one.
Your regular speech maker is, at best,
what Carlyle calls spOuting wretch"
Sanguili, one of the leaders of the
Cuban insurreetiOnists. has lost the use
Of both legs. and has to be tied on his
horse with ropes, when leading his men.
A spiritualistic burglar in Springfield, |
Mass, pleaded in defense, recently, that
the spirit Of dark-hsired woman con-
troIled his actions" aud directed him |
when and where to break through and |
steal.
1t is stated that the Episcopal Theo-
logical School of Cambridge, Mass, re-
Gently declined donation of 100000, |
on account of certain conditions &C.
companying the gift.
Niagara county, New Fork, has a
Mans Association. No
one is, admitted who has not = we'll.
defined skating park or baseball
ground upon bis Uranium.
A selfish California minister recently
refused to perform the marriage service
for couple where the bride was his own
absconded wife. And that aggraVatiDg
woman said that be was just as mean
as he always used 10 be.
A Connecticut woman was recently
berett Of the faculty of speech by being
hit with snow ball, and many married
men in that part of the country have
been heard to remark that, after all,
winter has advantages net afforded by
any other season.
Since the breaking of Fosters neck
The opponents Of capital punishment
have come en- masse to the front, show
ing up dead Cesar's wounds TO excite
he pity and disgust Of the populace for
such bsrbarous cruelty.
Cophology is a new word, coined in
England, TO express the science Of the
deaf and dumb. The word is derived
from the Greek kophGs, which occurs
six times in the New Testament, and
which, from the centext in the English
accepted version, is translated three
times as deaf and three times as
dumb"
Winter in England has not been mild
nor hasty in departing. The newspapers
report thunder storms, with showers Of
hail and snow" in different parts of the
country during the first days Of las.
month, and on the 18th there was quite
a snow fall ip London, and one of the
heaviest snow storms ever known in
March wAsreported in Yorkshire.
Mr.. MaedOEell. British charge DAT.
faires at BuenOs AyreE, has written
dispatch to his government which must
powerfully discourage emigration to
Brazil Neither sheep farming. cattle
raising. mining. agriculture nor con-
neree presents openings to tempt an
No doubt a great deal Of
money has been made in Mexico. Bra
II, and the old Spanish colonies Of South
Americs, and no doubt there is a great
zeal more 10 be made there; bot those