Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-03

boy asked for at fruit stand.
A Connecticut minister has resigned
because his flock didn't want him to plal
croquet.
A new pass has been found across the
Andes, and is shorter than any othel
route.
A Toledo bootblack has bought q
church and given it to his colored
brethren.
In Colorado when lady wears much
jewelry she is described as being well
"salted."
Street car passengers are anxious for
the invention of some method of heating
the cars.
A French chemist makes diamonds by
extracting the color from other precious
stones.
The Bishop of Litch6eld, England, has
been down in coal mine" holding a
religious service.
An American belle abroad is reported
to have accepted the hand and heart Of
Bismarck's son.
George Francis Train and John
Quincy Adams got each one vote for
President in Oregon.
A section of the Rochester poorhouse
is known as Congress Hail. and Sara
toga feels bad about it.
In the Fourth Revenue District of New
Jersey, $4,000 gallons OF apple jack
have been made this season.
A Frenchman lately recovered $4,000
from some friends who had cut of his
mustache in drunken scrape.
John DeHoga, a well-known American
basso, Glibuster and adventurer, recent
ly committed suicide in Australia.
Variety is the spice oflife. A family
at Petersburg, Virginia, has had eighty
five cooks during the present year.
Two eminent German physicians have
gone to Jeddo, Japan, to accept profess
sorships in the new medical school there.
The fre.engines in Evansville, Ind
are used to fill empty cisterns and wash
down the windows of the town council.
La Crosse, Wisconsin, will build one
hundred thousand dollar hotel. Ten
dollars Of the stock has been obtained.
Georgia chickens grow so large that
they are run down and lassoed by men
on horse back, after the style Of hunting
ostriches.
Rossinis " Guglielmo Tell has been
renamed Charles the Bold in Russia,
which is making rather bold with the
authors idea.
During November the Royal National
Lifeboat Association saved in Great
Britain one hundred and sixtyfve lives
and seven vessels.
An Indiana State Senator recently
bought a twelve dollar dictionary and
paid for it with the postage stamps that
were included in his perquisites.
An Indiana man is naming his chill
dren after the New England States.
Rhode Island is the last. 1t weighed
three pounds at birth.
They have precocious politicians in
Mobile. A FIVE year old girl wishes to
know whether Santa Claus is Demo
crat or Radical.
Old Equestrian: "Well, but you're
not the boy left my horse with" Boy;
" No, sir; l jest speckilated, and bought
i'm Of t'other boy for six cents|
Next to subjugating fractions wife in
free country, perhaps the most diff
cult lob in the world is TO tune piano
next door to boiler mandatory.
A. H. Stephens is trying to kill the
legal profession by advising young law
yers not to undertake a case unless they
are sure they are on the right side.
An Iowa man cannot remember where
he hid a coffee pot full Of silver during
the war, and has nearly scratched every
hair out Of his head thinking aboutit.
A Danbury man who was trying to
shelter himself in a doorway from the
rain Of Sunday had the mournfnl pleas
ure Of seeing I'VE of MS umbrellas go by.
The Delaware Indians, in New York,
live in frame houses, wear cutaway
co,ts and stand-up collars, fail in bust
ness and compromise at fifty cents on
the dollar, and are getting quite civil
lied.
Miss Addie Taylor Of Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, attended Frenchman who was
sick Of smallpox few months ago, and
now be has given her fortune Of $780,
900. All the girls in Connecticut are
looking for smallpox cases.
Ms BEST--WERE AWARDED