Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-17

Exquisite little vests Tor summer even
ing toilettes are made of gay colored
silks trimmed prSfusely with lace and
embroidery.
A vigilance committee Of matrons in
West Virginia recently warned too at
tractive grass widow to leave the town
in ten hours.
A Delaware paper says of man whose
cow mired to death: Mr.. Jones has the
sympathy of the whole town in this his
dark hour OF grief"
A Japanese dramatic company OF the
highest class is on the way to this coun-
try, and will produce number OF so
ciety plays of Japan.
A correspondent of the New York
Sun objects to calling Washington a
winter watering place, because whisky
ing place is the plain English of it.
A Minnesota paper says: If pitch
ing fish from the lakes with an ordinary
thin tined hay-fork is any indication OF
good fishing, then we have good fishing
here"
The Menominee, Wisconsin, ladies are
getting more patriotic every year. They
celebrated the Fourth this year among
themselves, picnicing and firing guns
and crackers.
Many young ladies are going through
series of calisthenic exercises in order
TO give their wrists the strength neces-
sary to WELD the monster Trianon fans,
now fashionable.
A Michigan woman, whose husband
was compelled to run away, to escape
arrest for incendiarism, was so overcome
by shame and modification that she
committed suicide.
A Louisville church deacon has been
investigated, because he was in the habit
of carrying a pitcher OF beer into the
sanctuary every day, and it was the COM
munion pitcher, too.
Flotow's opera Nadia" which he
composed ten years ago, has just been
produced at Milan, and with great sue
cess. Its subject is the domination of
the Moors in Spain.
A school-house was recently burned
by an incendiary in Texas, and the
plucky mistress now teaches hedge
school under brush shed, where the
switches are handy.
Verdi has proposed to the Syndic of
Milan to compose and direct the per-
Torrance of funeral mass, to be cele-
brated next year on the anniversary Of
the death of Manzoni.
In Paris they have gone back to the
" limp" style of a century ago, short
waists, no crinoline, and all the charac-
teristics of the bellies of Almacks as we
see them in old prints.
The indianapolis Journal praises a
locomotive engineer who slowed in pref
erence to mussing his engine" with a
gray-haired gentleman who was walking
on the track in the city limits.
A little beggar girl in New York re-
Gently presented certificate to person
to whom she had applied for aims, GER
tifying that the bearer is a widow with
five children in destitute circumstances. !"
Numerous visitors to Europe this sea-
son prolong their stay at the lakes of
Switzerland on account Of the moderate
prices; even the most pretentious Of
frst-class hotels never asking more than
about two dollars a day for the best ac-
commodations, provided the traveller en-
cages to spend at least week at the
house.
John Ruskin, says the Graphic, is re-
garded as the champion grumbler Of
Europe, and be is fully entitled to wear
the belt. He never writes nowadays but
to md fault with something. BE would
object to the verdure Of the earth and
the blue Of the sky as monotonous. The
most Objectionable thing in Ruskin is
his existence.
The Iowa State Register tells Of a
Winterset man who came to Des MOines
and celebrated the Fourth rather too
freely, departing for home on the evening
train. Arriving there he managed to
attend TO his chores after q fashion.
While he kept perpendicular he could
carry his load-as soon as be laid il
down il wouldn't stay. To his wife IS
questions as 70 what allied him he replied
Mix, wife, milk; that's what's The mat
ter drinked TOO much warm, and its
soured on me" oh, yes, said the
lady, that story is ell right, but that
smell is rum" Then the cnssed old
cows probably been cerbratn in'pen-
'enee day" said tie insbria,e.