Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-08

neck.
Kate and Maria Doherty, Of Spring
field, Mass, are in active training for
the feminine boat race to be rowed on
the Harlem river next month.
Fame is delicate boon. When the
New York Herald prints the name of
Longfellow, it explains in parenthesis
whether it means the poet or the horse.
Nancy Harvey (coloredl died in Bal
timore on Wednesday evening, aged one
hundred and seventeen years. She
split wood out. in heavy shower once
too often.
Ida Lewis, the heroine of Lime Rock,
Rhode Island, has separated from her
husband, VIM. Wilson, on account of
non-support. She still remains at the
lighthouse.
An Ohio dog has been trained to walk
home with handsome schoolmarm, and
he has chewed up about forty young
men who demonstrated with their pocket
handkerehiefs.
Charles 0'Conor asked mulatto boy,
who was a witness in the Walworth case,
Did he give you a cross look2" To
which the lad replied, Not half so
oross oe vnu do NOW
Two indomitable policemen in Little
Rock, Arkansas, put out in boat and
rescued young man from drowning,
aud then had him fined for bathing in
the river before sunset.
A milk pitcher thrown by his wife at
Nelson street (Daubury) man, on Mon
day noon, missed the aim and ruined a
handsome frame which inclosed the
words, God bless our home"
Jacob Hodges. ferryboatman on the
Missouri river, has missed but one day
during the last eighteen years, and be
excuses that one day by saying that he
had to 90 and see his brother hung.
An exhibition is announced in Paris
Of specimens of the art of padding"
and of other methods whereby artificial
beauty and unreal charms are success
fully imposed upon .crsdulous men
A semi-converted japanese gentle
mar, Just before his death, is reported
to have begged that a Bible and book
of Confucius might be buried With him,
as he believed the truth is the same in
both D."
1t is suggested that persons who go
about with their cashmere shawls turned
inside out to show that they are genu-
inc, should adopt the custom Of walking
on their heads, to show that their boots
are soled.
The men of Macon, Ga, are said to
vary the monotony of existence by catch
ing rats with baited hook and line in
the railroad depot. The amusement is
far more exciting than trout fishing, and
causes less personal discomfort.
Quincy is to have an orator from Han
nibal. His letter of acceptance says:
"Save me from a high steppin' pair Of
shoes and a chocolate straw hat, as |
low to toss on the scollops at Quincy
next 4th, regardless Of expense. E"
How things grow out West You
have merely to plant and wait. San
Francisco had 10000 people with or
without souls in ls53-iD 1868 twice as
many, and is swelling With rage in 1873
because it does not number 1000
The Lexington, Virginia, Gazette in
sists that Governor Wise is tagging, be-
cause his last epistIe fills only three and
half columns Of the Enquirer, whereas
the Sanford letter, written in his prime,
absorbed ffty-six newspaper columns.
King Lnnalilo has sent an autograph
letter to the lepers isolated in one Of the
Sandwich Islands, expressing bis SYM
patty for them, but saying that it was
necessary for them TO remain where
they are for the COED Of the whole peo-
pie.
Very laeonic is the report Of Captain
Shaw, Of the London FIRE brigade, re-
garding the destruction Of Alexandra
Palace by FIRE. It is as follows: "A
brick building Of about nine hundred BY
four hundred feet burned out and rosf
of.
Hymen is enjoying a vacation in Nova
Scotia. All marriage licenses in that
province must receive the signature Of
the Governor before the ceremony can