Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-10

"Old Talk-TaIk" is what Mark TwaiI
calls George Francis Train.
Lucca docs up" her hair with rose
tinted and scented tissue paper.
Paul Morpby, the great New Orleans
chess player, is practicing law.
Miss Hills and two other ladies wan
to be State Librarians Of Indiana.
The new ruler of Mexico chews plus
tobacco and smokes clay pipes.
Mr.. Stephens writes his paragraphs
one Hundred miles from his Office.
General Dix, of New York, is the old
est Governor in the United States.
Oil wells that produce two hundred
barrels per day are reported from Peru.
Kaiser Wilhelm is going to pay q
state visit to the Gear at St. Petersburg.
In the late great storm in Paris a lady
was blown through plate glass window.
They talk of General Mcclellan for
Governor of New Jersey, to succeed
Parker.
The St. Louis City Council refuses
to repeal the law regulating the social
evil.
The French doctors have decided that
choral is about as good poison as
strychnine.
The man that built..Boston's big organ
is dead, aud Boston did not sniff a
snifle.
One of the grievances of the Indians
is the large increase Of bald-headed en-
igrants.
Snow has fallen every day since the
l4th of November at Portage Lake,
Michigan.
Mem. for a rainy dsy-A woman with
an umbrella is as dangerous as q man
with a shot gun.
A man in Vermont has, this year, shot
ten large eagles, which he sold for an
eagle apiece.
An Indian six feet and eight inches
high takes walks around Nashville clad
in linen buster.
Quaker missionaries are at work in
Mexico, trying to induce the rival lead
ers to become friends.
A New York street car conductor says
s. yes, ma'am, to the ladies. A statue
Of him is already proposed.
Six of the signers Of Jefferson Davis
bail-bond are dead; but Gerritt Smith,
who headed the list, still lives.
About sixteen thousand persons at
tended mass at the Jesuit Church, in
Chicago, Christmas morning.
Naples has raised three thousand sol
diers to hunt down seven brigands. but
the brigands are hunting the soldiers.
Josh Billings will soon celebrate his
6fy-ffth birthday. As A. Ward said Of
CHANGER, BE has talent, but be can't
spell"
Captain Jack. who manages the No
doc war on the part Of the ssvages, is
said to be the best shot on the Pacific
slope.
Harry Meigs, the South American op-
orator, made his fortune by sundry little
presents Of $4,000 10 President Balta's
wife and daughter.
George W. Bagby, Mozis Addums,"
the Southern journalist and humorist,
has the greatest appetite Of any man
south Of the Potomac.
Madame Clemence Roberts, at one
time at the head Of French romance
writer's, died in convent recently, at
the age Of seventy-6ve.
At the Smithfeld Christmas cattle
show her majesty Queen Victoria took
" FIRST honors in pigs, and the duchess
Of Athol was first in Scotch cattle.
George Francis is going to write a
book on his imprisonment. BE says Il
shall be written with blood and bound
with the hide Of Congressman.
At a recent negro funeral in Delaware,
the minister spoke Of Christ as "the
Alpha and 0gama," clad in a white gar
nent reaching down 10 his foot-locks"
A wealthy bachelor Of Georgetown.
District Of Columbia, was in such haste |
TO marry . vidov-an old love-that be 1
could not wait for dental repairs, and /
took her mAtrimoaially in toothlsss I
condition.
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