Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-25
PAcrs AND PAScIRs.


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San Francisco is building new thea
Alabama will exempt widows from
taxation.
Quebec has wooden railroads, with
maple rails.
Springfield, Mo-, has established her
FIRST cotton factory. fntal
Nilsson receives Sl2lO for every per
formanco in ST. Petersburg.
Rome. N. y, thinks it's lig enough to
have directory. ts..H
Newark, N. j., proposes TO run a
horse.road by steam.
Milledgeville. Ga, wants to be reia-
stated as State capital
The Countess de Montijo has been
stricken with blindness.
An effort is making to change the
name Of Philadelphia, Tenn.
Minnesota contains one hundred and
forty seven school houses.
Illinois is considering the abolition Of
toll bridges.
The Naval Academy, at Annapolis, is
TO be enlarged.
The Wheeling Register has found the
right pronunciation at last-Mob-o liars.
Three relics of barbarism are con
fined 10 Hartford jail for debt.
Floridas gold mine is reported by ex-
perts to be almost big enough to fill a
tooth with,
A member Of the New York police
force resembles the father of his country
in appearances
Won Moltke has completed his history
Of the Franco German war, which nearly
completed France.
1t is the general belief that decent,
respectable man is safer on the outskirts
of the Modoc camp than in New York
street car.
Quail and partridges are SO tanned by
cold aud hunger in Pennsylvania that
the natives pick them by the basketful,
like mushrooms.
A stage horse at North Troy, VT, re-
Gently climbed a ladder into the hay
loft, and they had to remove the floor
ing to get it down again.
A new trial has been granted in a
murder case in Sacramento, on the
ground that juryman slept during the
address of the prisoners counsel.
The st. Louis Republican remarks the
curious fact that none of the unbribed
members of Congress have had public
receptions from their constituents.
Rhode Islanders are multitudinously
signing petitions for the restoration Of
the death penalty, the State not being
large enough to isolate its murderers
from the rest of the community.
Newark has its moral snsceptibilities
shocked by people sitting for their cartes
de visite on Sundays, and loudly calls on
its police to close the photograph CALLER
les on the Sabbath.
slIndiaHals social institutions are being
thoroughly revolut;onized Tho latest
innovation proposed is to fix the price Of
funeral sermons, allowing it to vary with
the estate.
Utah announces the discovery Of an
other iron mine which, being Of the hem
it-tight variety, is thought to be pecu-
liarly available for the manufacture Of
sewing machines World.
A French woman said that she never
loved anything. you love your chill
dren," suggested friend. When they
are little, she replied. And you love
diamonds" When they are large"
Judge DAILY, of New York, has de-
cided that sonin-law is bound to sup
port his wife's mother if she chooses to
come and live with her daughter. A man
should, at least, be advised Of the lawif,
in contracting matrimony, he marries
other members Of the family.
A young Boston lady has taken the
lecture platform, her topic being what
the japanese Want" She thinks it is
an improved language, out we are in
clined to think that it is more cloth in
their pants, and the removal Of the
stick of licorice that now disGgures their
heads. ST. Louis Democrat.
A Vermont farmer sent TO an orphan
asylum for a boy that was smart, active,
brave, tractable, prompt. industrious,
clean. pious, intelligent, good-lo0king,
reserved and modest The Superintend-
ent wrote back that unfortunately they
had only human boys in that institution.
A Sacramento lawyer remarked to the
court. 1t is my candid opinion, Judge,
you are an old fool" The Judge allowed
his mildly beaming eye to fall upon the
lawyer brief moment, then in a voice
husky with suppressed tobacco Juice
and emotion. said, 1t is my candid
opinion that you are fined 800"
A certain clergyman who left notice
in bis pulpit to be read by the preacher
who exchanged with him, neglected to
denote carefully private postscript. and