Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-10
PAcrs AND FANCIEs.

the defendant eighty.
Tom Hoods editorial duties on Fun
will ba undertaken by the editor OF Judy
during the formers visit to America
A man from Zanzibar, Africa, is regis.
tered at a Troy hotel. lie Is supposed
to he in search of Stanley-with a bill
A farm in Essex county, MAssaehu'
setts, has been in the possession oil the
same family for two hundred aud thirty
seven years.
Barnum's men are digging bones from
the old Indian bone deposit at Bridge
mort Connecticut, as the starting point
OF new museum.
A letter from Zanzibar says the Sultan
refused to sign the treaty TO suppress the
slave trade, alleging that slavery is per-
mitted in the Koran.
A Massachusetts, man recently excused
himself for not calling in the aid OF a
doctor to his sick wife, by saying that a
coffin was less expensive than a doctor $
bill.
A subscription is on foot in Philadel-
mia to raise 5000 for the purpose OF
placing grandson of Morgan, the Rev
dictionary General, in charitable IN
stitution.
Miss Ride Zollicoffer, daughter OF
General Zollicofer, has been appointed
to write and read an essay on the female
characters Of Shakespeare before lite
rary society in Columbia.
A question is now raised as to whether
the law giving Mrs. Lincoln the franking
privilege for the rest Of her life has been
repealed by the recent act of Congress
on the subject Of ranking.
The Duke of Edinburgh played the
fiddle at a recent public concert at Al
bert Hall, London. 1t was a concerted
piece, and nobody heard his particular
fiddle, but he was loudly applauded.
The recently published letter purpost-
ing to have been sent TO Amadeus from
Victor Emmanuel, commencing Sire,
my beloved son" is pronounced a
forgery by the European papers.
A Chicago man has private armory,
consisting Of musket carried by his
grandfather in .he Revolution, another
carried by his father in 1872, and third
carried by himself during the rebellion.
William Gordeuio was the first person
upon whom the title of Doctor of Aedi-
cine was bestowed. he received it from
the college at Oosti, in 1920. 1t has
been been bestowed upon several
since.
A distinguished American tourist is
amazed at the NJ ,ber of apotbecaries
who must have done business in Pom
pei, as he notices nearly every house
has "Salve" inscribed in large letters
in its vestibule.
A man in San Jose, California, moved
his residence outside the city limits to
avoid city taxes. His taxes amounted
to thirty dollars per annum, and he now
pays eighty dollars per annum for the
privilege of sending his children to the
city schools.
1t is said that if a grand international
convention of fashionable ladies from
every country in the world were held to
decide upon the most unhealthy and
destructive mode of doing up the hair,
they could not invent style more detri-
mental to the natural growth of the hair
than that now in use.
Good little boys will now put up tree
bird boxes for the little songsters that
twitter about mornings to build their
nests in, and by and by, when the nests
are full of speckled eggs, the good boys
will climb the trees and steal them to
string them together and make neck
laces for nice little girls.
Pickpockets in New York adopt the
ingenious plan of wearing false arm
when operating in street cars or in other
places where people sit closely packed.
The artificial limb is visible, resting
quietly or the lap Of the thief, while the
real hand is busily employed in search
ing the pockets Of neighbor.
A notable death occurred at Willim-
antic, Conn, last week, the "last of the
Mohicans having died there in the per-
son of Leonore Uncas, grandson Of the
great Narragansett Chief Uncas. He
was a noted hunter and fisherman, and
was seventy years old at the time Of his
death.
Mr.. Jones, who rigidly adhered TO The
rules of etiquette, went home one night
and found his wife sitting in another
mans lap: Next day he told friend
of the circumstance. What did you
do about itY said his friend. Dol "
replied Mr.. Jones. What in thunder
could dol l never had an introduce
ton to the man"
The influence Of women in political
matters in England appears to be worth
winning. At a meeting recently, in
support Of Parliamentary candidate,
the chairman specially commended the
candidate to the ladies presen, as being
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