Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-29

tackled the rabbits and other smaii game
in the Kentucky mountains.
Our poetic Hibernian explains that
love is commonly spoken Of as flame
because it's finder sentiment.
The Commissioners who investigated
the Boston fire did not find out the cause,
and say SO in report of five hundred
pages.
Cynthiana, KY, was named in honor
of two daughters Cynthia and Anna OF
General Ben Harrison, of Revolutionary
fame. ~
A dead goose in Georgia did not hang
so high but that a rattlesnake attempted
to swallow it, and did get it down as far
as the wings.
A Mormon missionary named Brand,
now operating in Missouri, thinks he
puts his stamp" on new convert
every two days.
The King Of Italy dimes at twelve
o clock, and:prefers beets, onions, cab
bage and other garden sass to any
fancy dishes.
A young lady in New York carries in
q locket, suspended around her neck, a
portrait of the person she loves best. 1t
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At Solomon City, Kansas, since the
late heavy snow, the wolves have dug
into the graves in the cemetery, and
Toasted on the bodies Of the dead.
A Washington paper pronounces Mad.
Flores, wife of the Minister from Equa-
dor, the most beautiful woman at the
national capital this season.
Barefooted boys in Australia have
hard times, owing to the heavy growth
of nettles, which reach length OF forty
feet in few weeks.
Women in Manila receive wages that
enable them to vie with the men in lux
urious living. Female cigar makers
there receive seven cents per day.
A man in Franklin, Kentucky, re-
Gently seriously injured, is getting well
because the surgeon brought with him a
Bible by mistake for his case of instru-
ments.
The fashion editor Of New York
paper thinks that if ladies would only
use their powder puffs mere sparingly,
men would get through the season with
one dress coat.
An English hotel proprietor recently
asked Sergeant Bates to pay in advance
because he had no luggage but the Stars
and Stripes. The warrior refused and
left the establishment.
Even Grand Duke has to suffer the
pangs of despised love. 1t is reported
that the Duke of Mecklenburg- Schwerin
has absolutely refused to allow his
daughter to marry the Russian Grand
Duke Vladimir.
o, the snow, the beautiful snow; such
chunky thing, you know; blueing your
nose and chilling your toes as, whirling
along the street it goes. No silly praise,
not any for Joe, for that coolest OF
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Three magisterial clergymen, of Sut
terworth, England, sent an old woman
of IS to prison for seven days, recently,
because she broke a stick from farm
ers hedge, thereby inaicting damages to
the amount of one penny.
The New Bedford Mercury says that q
monkey which deserted from a South
American schooner at New York and hid
away on New Bedford steamer came
SO near starving before he reached the
whale oil metropolis, that he ate one of
his toes and a part Of his tail, as sub
stitute for rations. His narrative "
must be painful one.
"Mr. O'Flaherty," said a pompous
fellow, you would be long time in Ire
land before a squire would ask you TO
dinner" "Ah, then. troth ! would,
your honor, responded Mr.. o Flahertyi
and your honor would be a long time
in Ireland before they would make you
a squire"
The latest verdict recorded was upon
a gentleman who had expired in st Of
inebriation. The jury returned Death
by hanging--round a rum shop" This
was savage and devoid Of regard for the
geutleman's family. In similar case
in California the verdict was more grace
fully and considerably put: Accidental
death while uupacking glass"
Prof Agsssiz Is gradually toning him
self down in the matter Of food. De now
retains his usual health on one meal per
day. he thinks that in about one hun
dred years hence be viii be able 10 live
on nothing, and discharge his cook.
Men Who are unable to get good cooks
may obviate this difficulty 10 time by
adopting the Professors mode Of living