Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-08-11
PACTs AND PANCIEs.


Three pound spiders are among Il
= natural attractions Of Florida, IL We al
to believe what travellers say.
The photographers recent convento
at Buffalo decided that members OF III
profession we're entitled to be called a
lists.
Five young ladies contested IN tn
New York swimming match for a pair {
gold bracelets aud some coral aud Eo'
earrings.
LISA question whether the Empere
of Austria smilingly declined glass o
American champagne because he had o
had not tasted it.
A woman in Haverhill, Mass, poured
kerosene over COW which was tres
passing upon her premises, aud then sci
the poor animal on ERE.
When a philadelphia husband eome'
home late his wife makes him say "ClaN
ton, Remsen 4 Haael6nger, which is =
book publishing firm in that city.
At an Oregon baby show disap
pointed mother snapped a revolver un-
der the nose Of one Of the judges, and
her husband is after the other Two.
Itisa peculiarly of the Bowery boy
that he never offers TO be; less than a
hundred dollarsl Another Of his peeu-
Eari,ies is that be never bets anything.
The retiring editor of an Iowa paper
compressed his valedietory into two
words, Good Night" and his successor,
equally ierse in his salatatory, wrote
Good Morning"
An Indiana family are living in a cave
in the river bank to escape the cholera,
and the wife congratnlates herself on
the fact that her husband is home by
eight clock every night
By a new method lately devised by
German scientists, it has been computed
that the age of the earth, that lie, the
time since firm crust was formed, is
more than two thousand million years.
A large emigration of divorce lawyers
to Salt Lake City is anticipated, in con-
sequence of the recent action of Mrs
Brigham Young the seventeenth, whose
example may be extensively followed.
According to a New York paper, it is
not considered proper now to wear the
bridal veil over the face at all. 1t is
twisted about the head in manner
strongly suggestive of burlesque &C
tress about to have her photograph Ia
ken.
The Bangor Me people are credited
With marking the names of their chill
dren On tags, which they tie around their
neeks. When the children get lost the
policemen look at the tag and know
where TO take them to-
Away with the nonsense about blush
ing brides" at marriage ceremonies
The dear creature nearly always re-
tains her composure, looking cool as a
cucumber aud collected as 2 tax-gather
er's bills. It's the great big bridegroom
who turns red as a boiled lobster in the
face and quskes at the knees.
NJ. Candolle, French author, IS op-
posed to the study Of Latin because the
English will be the universal language,
and it is destined to be SO because i'm
portaDt words we're put first 10 its SEN
fences. he thinks that to read one Of
HOraees odes to an unlettered artisan,
placing the words in the same relative
positions that they occupied in the orig |
NAL, would suggest to him the idea Of a
dwelling house with the entrance door
in the third story.
Talent does not always run in fam
lies, and the younger Belliui, a nephew
Of the author Of the Pnritani, who
has Just tried his hand in Paris as a
Of al opera named Raphael
has met with miserable failure. One
of the most tragic passages drew shouts
,f laughter at the first representation.
Il was a prolonged note from single
1assoon which accompanied the death |
# the hero.
The following is from the Jessamine
KY Journal: "On the farm Of
Mrs. Nancy Reynolds, in this county, is
turkey gobbler that persisted in sit
ing, until be was finally allowed to re-
main on the nest where the hen had
aid 2 number Of eggs, and actually
latched out the young ones, and TO this
lay has the care Of them, looking after
hem as do hens over their brood His
,aternal consideration is certainly com
nendable."
A Detroit man recently forwarded the
ollowing letter to the insurance com
,any in which bis vife's life was insured
Dear sir-l take my pen in hand to
ct you know that 1 am veil, but that
ny dear wife, insured for 5000 in your
company, Is no more She died to-day.
Her policy is No.. can truly say
hat she was a fond wife aud good moth.
er. have the doctors certificate, 90
that there will be no trouble about the