Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-02

Logan, was once poor printer boy, but
BY genius, industry and tact became the
husband Of woman who can earn 500
night lecturing."
Mrs. Mary Ann Cotton, at West Auck-
land, England, has put even Mrs. Luz
crezia Borgia, OF Rome, Italy, in the
shade in the poisoning business, having
put quietus upon nineteen victims be-
fore n shadow OF suspicion fell upon
her.
Corvallis, Oregon, is excited over a
torpedo-bug, who has blown up dancing
party and hoisted Cheap John and his
street platform about ten feet in the air.
The good Corvallis people never 20 to
bed now without applying lighted can
dies to all the rat-holes.
King Lunalilo. the new monarch Of
the Sandwich Islands, has made the tour
Of his kingdom in the United States
steamship Benicia, on the invitation Of
Admiral Pennock. The King will come
to San Francisco with Gen. Scho6eld. to
make a tour Of the United States.
1t is announced that VIM. NJ. Tweed
has been reelected president Of the no.
torious Americas Club, and that ar
rangements are making to renew the
sumptuous life at the club. house that
was interrupted last year by the expos
ure of the frauds in the city government.
The Cuyahoga Falls Reporter says that
Tod Ford telegraphed to that town that
he would lecture for the Ladies Dime
Society Of the Congregational Church.
He gave his subject as "A Taste of Ma
pies and Rome" and the telegraph made
il read, "a Taste Of Apples and Rum. "
A fond father in Burlington, Iowa.
growled like dog with sore head be-
cause a physician charged ten dollars
for removing kernel of corn from his
sons ear, where it had lodged. He said
a coffin only cost seven dollars, and the
corn would have sprouted soon, and
might have been pulled up by the
roots.
A gentleman in Pennsylvania, who
has Just died, had rather an original
manner of dressing himself. His pan
falcons we're manufactured of gingham,
and his coat of blue drilling. He wore
no undergarments, save 'front.' which
was so arranged as to conceal his breast.
He hailed from Connecticut, and was
seventy.eight years old.
An inventor up in Winona has brought
out a machine for propelling canal
boats, which machine is on the principle
Of ducks foot, closing up when 1T is
drawn back, and opening again as it
acts against the water. The Winona
Republican says: "The invention is a
success on small craft, and works with
great ease and smoothness, causing
hardly ripple on the water.
A Bostonian who asked his boy what
he had learned at school one day was
told that his lesson had been: Johnny
shut yer jaws and cantrun." He went
to the school the next day, heard the
teacher tell the boys to repeat, A COM
ma is just pause to count one, and
then heard the class all shout in unison:
Johnny shut yer jaws and cant rum
Explanations followed, and that teacher
is now striving to acquire more distinct
enunciation.
A recent French invention, it is
thought, will enable miners to work with
impunity, no matter how full the mine
may be of choke damp. 1t consists Of a
reservoir of compressed air worn like
knapsack on the mans back, which he
breathes through tube leading to his
mouth, and which also supplies the fame
of lamp which he carries. When the
fame of his lamp begins to turn blue, he
knows that his supply of air is nearly
exhausted, but by simple contrivance
he may replenish his stock from re-
serve tank, placed near where he is
working.