Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-05

Inc NtN anuNlid thosl hH'o
upon playing leap-frog until the Council
passed an ordinance against it.
Miss Buchanan, Of the Chicago Post
is the life and the soul Of that paper.
Her articles are copied everywhere.
A Boston woman who broke her arm
while visiting friend now sues for dam
ages in not keeping steps in repair.
A rich Englishman has amused him
self for many years in collecting the
ropes with which criminals have been
hung.
Mrs. Stenhouss says she once knew
Mormon with twelve wives who was
obliged to ask for lodging in a station
house. M ea
A negro woman who breaches at q
church near Goldsboro, N. c., is attract
ing much attention by her extraordinary
eloquence. feN
An Eastern scientific seer, Professor
Delissier, prophecies a serious earth
quake for the New England States on
the Goth OF August. u
A Louisville woman who has lived with
man for twelve years and presented
hi. with five children now sues him Tor
breach of promise.
Kate Love, Of Cincinnati, lost one OF
her legs in cider press, and she is now
looking far and wide for a one-legged
husband, not over thirty years Of age,
A hundred and fifty families from
Canada came last week to settle in Mas
sschusetts, 50 that there is some hope Of
slight increase in the next census after
all, f-o 2
A gsldea rule for young lady is to
converse always with her female friends
as if gentleman were of the party, and
with young men as il their female com
panions were present
California is fitting up Central Pa
c,fc freight car as salt water aquarium,
with view to importing from the New
Hampshire coast a load Of live fish to
stock the Pacific ocean with.
As Ohio bridegroom recently brought
his marriage ceremony to an abrupt con-
clusion by accidentally swallowing the
wedding ring which he had kept in his
mouth in order to have it handy.
A little lady in Schenectady recently
sent word to her aged P. in New York
that she must be excused from writing a
longer letter. She had spent very rest
less night with sick doll.
A girl Of thirteen recently brought to
market at Americas, Ca, 5OO-pound
bale Of cotton, the result of her own UNI
aided labor, from the plougsing Of the,
soil to the picking aud ginning.
Kate Williams, of Peoria, ILL.,. knock ed
her lover fat to the ground because he
insisted upon kissing her the third time
at the garden gate on a moonlight night
recently. Two was her limit.
The coming of Miss Mary Carpenter,
the English philanthropist, is looked for
with great interest by the Boston women.
The great question is-How much money
will she carry home with herr
The Chinese in California subsist
largely upon rice, the product Of their
native country. The expectation OF rice
has long been forbidden in China, and
the law is now to be enforced. So the
Celestials on our Pacific coast will be
compelled TO learn 10 eat -four.
One Of Reuters kilograms to the Eng
lish papers recently announced the !ol-
lowing startling news: During a con-
ference, General Comfy has been
trsaeherously shot and killed by Mo.
doc chief. Captain Jack, Of the Peace
Commission, has also been killed"
In recent suit for damages in Bos-
ton, brought by a father whose son was
run over by heavy dray, the Superior
Court charged that inasmuch as the boy
was Instantly killed. without any inter.
val Of conscious suffering, no damages
could legally be claimed, and ordered q
verdict for the defendant.
Thirty.seven covers are laid on the
imperial table at the villa Of the En-.
press Of Russia in Sorrento. The En-.
press and her suite have one hundred
and fifty waiting men sad women, asd
he imperial liveries are green and gold,
and the domesiics wear q long black
cloak With a red sash, black cap With
, gold band and 4 red eocklde.
In San Francisco. recently. q Chinese
,aiisni in q delirious condition escaped
rom the smallpox hospital, and with
Iut any clothing on rushed wildly
through several streets. eventually tax
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