Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-06

M lie luCCd NoAAil eff~
wilhelm to remit her penalties for
breach of contract with the Berlin Opera
House.
Brignoli threatens TO sue the Paris
Figaro for presuming to question the
freshness of his voice and the modesty
of his demeanor.
The German secretary of the French
legation in Paris is Prince Lynar, who
married Mary Parsons, of Columbus
Ohio, last year.
Frankly speaking, what is to be done
with Congressmen's dirty clothes, now
that they can't send them home by mail
to be washed without paying poStage2
Did you ever stop to think that there
are ffty.fosr distinct varieties of feasG
An Englishman so announces, after ten
years acquaintance with the insects.
One of the Oneida Community who
embezzled two dollars was put under the
pum 0 for half an hour, his head shaved,
and he was then dismissed from the COM
munity.
A Mrs. Brownlee, in St. Louis, under
took to extinguish a FIRE, caused BY the
breaking of a coal oil lamp, with a
broom. The rest of the story is too long
and too painful to relate.
Mr.. Randolph Rogers, an American
has been made member of the Acad-
emy of st. Luke, at Rome. He is the
first citizen of the United States who
has received this honor.
The sea captain who can't report a sea
serpent on his arrival at New York Is
registered as a careless, unobserving
man. who hasn't half attended to BUSH
ness during the voyage.
A boy of fifteen and a girl only thir-
teen we're married at Westerly, Rhode
Island, few days ago. There was much
Indignation at the person who performed
the ceremony for the children.
A contemporary remarks that Senator
Cameron's "head is covered with the
SHOWS of seventy.four winters" He must
have remarkably large head ii the snow
of one such winter az this won't cover it.
Tom Smith, Louisville murderer,
had his death warrant read to him the
other day, and he replied: "Ohl stop
fooling around, and go on with the hang
ingw They are going to on the 18th Of
March.
The American Educational Monthly
for February discusses in leading arti-
Gle, Shall our girls study classicsf
The writer comes to the conclusion
that they should be permitted to do SC
if they so desire.
A new fern of emotional insanity has
been discovered in Kentucky, where the
counsel for the plaintiff, in a breach Of
promise suit, pleaded that his client was
subject to uncomfortable fits Of love
making. accompanied by morbid dis
like to matrimony.
A gentleman was surprised during the
late frosty weather to see his little
daughter bring home from the Sunday
school 4 grave treatise on back-sliding
:" Ny child, said he, this is too old fol
you, you can't make anything Of it.
:" / know it, papa; thought it would
teach me to slide backward"
lie Toilet says the bonnets now
worn are mach improved since the mod
ifcation in their shape. They are still
worn high, and quite backward on the
head, with string tied under the chin, Of
under the back hair, according to the
style Of the rest Of the toilet. The
Spanish veil is much worn, and is gen
orally very becoming.
A monthly magazine prints letter
from Washingtons mother, which com
mences: Dear Brother this Comes by
Capt. Nicholson you seem TO blame me
for not writing to you butt / doe ashour
you," etc. Now, If this letter is gen
uine, then Georges mother couldn'i
spell and punctuate as good as her son
couldn't tell ie.-Norrisfocn Herald
The report of ball at Pulas ki, Tenn.
IN local paper, contained the fol
lowing graphic picture Of the belle Of
the evening: The perfection Of art, tbs
ne plus ultra Of decoration was reached
in the elaborate get up Of this sweet
wanderer from the sky. Her dress va,
made Of orange eolored muslin delaine
with white fxsns deliberately loopes asd
embroidered with artificial flowers. He
hair vas siupendOusly pulled and friz
zled, azi hortioulturally arranged viii
sun 6oEers did up with dahlias soppet
f. in dew"