Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-02

lul NluoN lut ANoNA"H $50
then abandoning him to the seorn oil
the world.
The list Of female preachers of Uni
yersalism has been increased by the adj
didon Of the name of Mrs. Isabella
Beecher Hooker.
1t took special train with four cars
to carry Kentuckiau's relatives to the
residence Of his bride where the nuP
tails we're to DC celebrated.
A Philadelphia judge always adds
thirty per cent. to the ages of female wit
nesses as they give them. and then he
has about the correct thing.
A literary gentleman who has travelled
over the whole world says that the ladies'
of the royal family of Russia cannot be
matched for personal beauty.
Minnesota goes one better. A Nor
wegian woman in Kewaukee county
aged one hundred and seven, keeps house
for her son, a youth Of eighty.
The first female graduate of Michigan
University has been offered $4,000 year
and her expenses to tell what she knows
in Japan school-house.
The patent office has recently issued
papers TO CALIFORNIA lady, her inven-
ton consisting of a medicated towel
designed for the use of consumptive pa
tents.
The women school teachers Of Detroit
are on a strike for higher wages. They
haven't stopped work, but intimate that
they must do so, or starve at present
prices.
An advertisement in Western paper
says. Look out for Mrs. Snyder, of
Cleveland, who has killed two husbands,
and is roaming around the country for a
third.
Queen Victoria never postpones her
daily walk 'on account Of the weather.
She knows the practical paraphernalia
for a rainy day as well as any trades
mans wife.
Florence Nightingale urges that wo-
men should put themselves in course OF
training. as men do, for special lines Of
business, and then they will never lack
support.
A Michigan girl drew $1,000 farm at
a gift concert recently, and Row the local
poets describe her as " beautiful be-
ing, although she is lame, has red hair,
and no teeth.
A Corinth, New York, schoolmistress
demonstrated her idea Of corporal pun
ishment on one Of her refractory pupils
and his big brother who undertook
stay Of proceedings.
Elizabeth AfIolter, the last Of the thirty
patriotic Swiss women who, commanded
by an Amazon, fought against the
French on the ID Of March, 1898, died
lately in Grenchen, Switzerland.
AueAlbany man refused last Wednes-
day to ride to the grave with his mother
in-law on the occasion Of his wife's fu-
neral, for the reason that the pleasure of
the occasion would be destroyed by such
an arrangement.
DR.. Buchner, scientifically consider
ing woman, asserts that the sex is not
a natural necessity" Perhaps not, in
his opinion, since he mas been born, but
there was a time when it was a decided
necessity to him.
The Burlington Free Press tells Of an
old lady there who had rather dissolute
husband, who fell sick and died. She
attended the funeral, and upon her re-
turn remarked that she had one conso-
lation, "she knew where he slept of
nights"
Sarah Walker, seventy.three years Of
age, reached Lowell the other day after
a tweHty.mile walk, in search of work
in the mills. She stated that her object
was to lay up a little money against the
day when old age should render her
unable to perform hard labor.
Miss Rebeeca Harding Davis, now
mature miss Of thirty.Gve, divides her
time between novels and editorials, and
instrucis the world both through fiction
and fact. She is excellent at solemn
reflections, and makes a judicious use
Of scripture names, Of which her own is
one.
Somebody having applied to an editor
FOR a method by which be might cure his
daughter Of her partially for young gen.
tlemen, is kindly informed that there
are several methods Of reform. The
best are to put her in a well and drop a
few loads Of gravel on her head, or to
bind her ankles TO an anvil and upset
her out Of boat.
Kate Field looks arch and mischiev-
Gus. She is versatile, accomplished.
growing handsOmer every day, proud Of
a touch Of mercury in her Irish blood,
born Of an actor and actress, ought TO be
herself on the stage. and would make a
'school-marm' that no prudent and skin
valuing urohin would ever think Of play
ing fruani from.