Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-21

Is OeChusc thcI hio ouS" 'NN' PN~f~'
Up to this date we haven't heard that
any OF the girls who wrote their names
in spring hats have married millionaires'
A Rochester man who dreamed he
dwelt in marble halls awoke on the side
walk, having bounced out Of the win
dow.
An impoverished fop wears ten
cent silver piece on his shirt bosom, aud
calls it his dime and pin, which it GER
tainly is.
Life is but stage. You may have
heard this before, but the fact that Yer
mont has three female stage-drivers may
be new.
Miss Mary Low won the sophomore
prize for defamation over her male
classmates last week at Colby University,
Maine.
Girls under ten years Of age are not
required 10 work more than fifteen hours
and half per diem in the mills of Law
renee, Mass.
"How are you getting along, JohnT
mot very well; have to live on my
wits" 81 should think that would be a
very thin diet"
Four hundred and sixty,four Massa-
chusetis women have signed petition
asking Congress not to interfere with
Mormonism.
A petition Of the Legislature 10 legal
ize polygamy is said to have been signed
BY ons hundred and sixty-two splnsters
of Lowell, Massachusetts.
There is an Arabic poem which com
pares woman to mirage, but says that
while mirage's deceit is brief, wo'
mau love deceives eternally.
Susan B. Anthony says she wouldn
be frightened at standing face to face
with Satan. Satan himself admits that
the scare would be on his side.
An Iowa justice of the peace refused
to fine man for kissing a girl against
her will, on the ground that Hannah
could have bitten him but did not.
Miss Mary Wadswerth, MD. female
physician who emigrated from New
Hampshire to Turkey, was recently mar
ried to Russian surgeon named Bas
sin.
An industrious housewife in Milwau
kee has completed forty-two dozen straw
hats since February, in addition to per
forming all her ordinary domestic plati
tudes.
Young ladies' who have red hair will
be interested to learn that hair made
from the bark Of the redwood tree hal
been patented and will soon be in the
market.
I"I'm not in mourning" said a youns
ledy frankly to lady querist, but az
the widows are getting all the offers now
a-days, we poor girls have to resort tC
article"
Two sisters in Brooklyn lately came Il
fisticuffs over some disputed fnery, and
their aunt, with whom they resided, had
to invoke foreign Intervention to quel
the inter.niece-ine strife.
A New York female who read that the
Hoosac tunnel cost 5000 a yard, said she
would have dress pattern of from that
piece il the old man did not lay up a
cent for the next two years.
Miss Susan Bridge, of Connecticut
boasts of seventeen different marriage
engagements, each one of which was in
cited by pure love, and yet she feels that
she could love just once more.
All the humorists are not in America.
A writer in the Pail Mall Gazette says
that " few persons, probably, as a rule
sleep so soundly or enjoy SO much un'
disturbed repose as night watchmen."
Queen Victoria's chief physician says
that homework is admirably calculated
to preserve a robust woman, aud tC
strengthen one who is weak. An hour
in the laundry is better than vial oil
iroH."
A lady was examining an applicant
for the Office Of maid of-all-work. when
she Intercepted her as follows: Well,
Mary, can you scour tinware with slAc
rityf' " No, ma IN, I always scour them
with sand"
Boston young ladies put on a clean
pair Of stockings when they have their
photographs taken; bot after figuring
over the question for several years Pro
lessor Agassiz says he does not know
why they do 50.
As a rich aud prstenuous shoddyite
was looking at some paintings which he
purposed to buy. the dealer pointed to q
fine one, and said, That is a dog after
Landsser. is IT, really3 exclaimed
the pretender. What is the dog after
him for7''
Sarah Walker. seveniy-three years o.
age, reached Lowell the other day after
a tweniy-mile walk, IN search Of work
10 ihe mills. She stated that her object
rs 10 lay un little money aEainsi De