Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-01
lsAOTs AND FANOIEs.

10 take hhJc 'oi''N' "N~"h'
Brighams seventeenth doesn't propose
to die Young Il she can help it.
Mr.. B-tcher is one of the sharpes'
knife manufacturers Of Sheffield.
Judyjudiciously distinguishes between
the falsetto voice and ialse-set-o teeth,
An Indiana gentleman is now living
in house with his 6ith wife and three
mothers.in-law, and yet he is not happy.
The Parsons (Kansas) Herald records
suit for breach Of promise, and says
the plaintiff wants the jary to award her
g., 900 back pay"
The New York World has coined a
new adjective. 1t speaks Of certain
crossings of Broadway as the jammed-
est spots in its whole length.
Probably the most recent American
ism is that constructed by an Illinois
paper, which says that Edwin Booth will
- tragediate " in certain town.
Milwaukee educators are discussing
the propriety of doing away with the
study Of geography in public schools
They consider it too much like periodi-
cal literature nowadays.
A contemporary, speaking Of the diff
Guilty of newspaper editor pleasing
everybody, says: Even il one sounded
the praises Of his Maker the devil would
be offended"
Disraeli is reported to have said that
if not made Premier of England the
coming autumn, he will visit the United
States and 20 around the globe from San
Francisco, by way of Siberia and China.
1t is gratifying to know, on authority
so good as that of the London Lancet,
that the popular author, Mr.. George Au-
gustus Sala, is recovering from an
" erythematous affection which has
yielded to the local application OF the
styptic colloid and the use of faradisa-
ton"
A leathsome uicerous disease has
broken out among the cigar smokers IN
California. Investigation has revealed
the fact that among eight thousand Chi
nese cigar makers there are a great
many afflicted with the disease, which is,
of course, inoculated through the cigars
which they handle to the mouth OF the
smokers.
A natural deposit of Glauber's salt
(sulphate Of soda) has been discovered
in the Caucasus. The salt was struck at
a depth of three feet below the surface,
and was found remarkably pure, being
uncontaminated, aud with
only about eight per cent. of mechani-
cal admixture. The entire deposit IS es-
timated to amount to fifteen and hall
million cubic feet.
They say that when the news of his
mothers death reached the Shah at Der
lin. he sent home the Shahesses, and de-
clared that the royal grief should be post
poned until his return to Persia, which
reminds Kate Field Of the Yankee
woman who, upon being told at dinner
of her husbands death, exclaimed,
" Just wait until I've done eating, and
I'll show yon some tall crying"
Albert Keep. the newly elected Presi
dent of the Northwestern railroad, twenty
years ago kept a store in Whitewater,
Wisconsin. We lived in Whitewater
when he did, and used to tip over the
grindstones in front Of his store to ses
him come out with pitchfork. 1t woul ]
have been monotonous for Keep to run
4 store in a little country town, il it
hadn't been for us boys.-Ld Crosse
Democrat
Mr.. Cough tells good story illustra-
tive of quaint Scottish humor: Two
sparks from London once came upon a
deeeut-looking Argyleshire, and accosted
him with, You have very fine view
here-you can see a great way. Yu
aye, yu aye, ferry great way. Ali
you can see America here, / supposeY
Farrar than that. How is thatY
Yu jist wait tule the mists gang away,
and You'll see the mune.
Strange as it may seem, the average
Of beer in the United States
Is larger TO each individual than in the
North German Confederation. Our
38, 555, 900 people drink 5000, 600 barrels
Of beer per annum, which, allowing for
exports, averages little more than six
gallons, or twenty-five and half quarts
a head. The German consumption is
put down at twenty-one and a quarter
quarts per head.
This laconic but sensible German
ought to be sent out to lecture among
the people on temperance: II sail tell
you hew it vas. drink mine lager;
den put mine hand on ny head, and
dere vosh Won pain. Den / put mine
hand on my body, and dere VOsh Rnoder
pain. Den ! put mine hand on my
pocket and dere was noting. So / jine
mid de temperance. Now dere is no
pain more in mine head, aud de pain in
mine body vos all gone away. / put