Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-01-14

said to have had circulation thus far o
36l 900, 600 copies.
Californians are picking ripe water
melons when it is cool enough to go on
on shady afternoons.
A number of buffalo hunters hav,
frozen to death on the plains This i
called sport out West.
St. Louis boasts filial youth wit
stole the Bibles from three churches anC
bought a new bonnet for his mother.
The increase in the amount of opium
used in this country has been million
ounces per month for the past year.
The British blondes cannot go to ia
pan, the barbarous government of thai
country having prohibited lewd farces.
The most anxious mothers in Duluth
think that ice fourteen feet thick is safe
enough to let their little boys 90 skating.
An American Colonel at Baden-Baden
having lost his money lately, thought he
had no use for brains and SO blew them
out.
Mrs. C. R. Bishop, of Honolulu, has
been offered the crown of the late King
Kamehameha, but would prefer a new
bonnet.
A wicked st. Louis paper says that
whales are running their noses again 81
the outlying capes Of Rhode Island and
causing earthquakes.
The bell.ringer at Brixlegg in Tyrol
who has operated the bell there for forty
years, lately hung himself from the
cross in the top of the spire.
1t is said Carlyle seldom hears the
name of Washington without expressing
contempt, especially if there is an
American to hear.
More than third of Bostnn's COM
mon council agree with Mayor CASTOR
that it would be very wicked to open the
public library on Sunday.
Critics, both here and in Europe, are
continually lamenting that the voices OF
singers are drowned in the tremendous
noise of modern orchestra.
1t requires thirty eight thousand dol
lars worth of Irvine per annum to tie up
the dead letters which the postofice de-
partment fails to deliver.
Seventy-fve car loads of bones have
been brought from the plains Of Western
Kansas to Delaware, to be made into
ivory ornaments for the ladies.
The proprietor of the barn which
was set ON fire in capturing Wilkes
Booth has petitioned Congress to pay
him the value of the destroyed property.
The railroad company of the Y. and
Y. railroad, in Japan, run extra trains
on festival days in honor of heather
gods, and make good thing, financially.
An energetic divorce lawyer of Chi
cago has completed an arrangement
with the county clerk to have his pro
fessional card printed on the backs Of
marriage licenses.
A Marseilles merchant has found some
old tapestries that hung in Nine. de
Sevigne's chateau. They depict the
loves of Anthony and Cleopatra and
Eneas and Dido.
Over seven thousand kangaroo hides
have been worked up into fine boots for
the young men Of San Francisco. They
are said to excel the patent feathers as
a dress boot for hops.
-Four curates at Richmond, England,
struck, the other Sunday, but the Vicar
being a man Of energy, summoned aid
by telegraph and got through with the
services in two churches.
Appleton's Journal reports that the
young ladies in one Of our Eastern cities
are entranced with Joaquin Miller, be
cause he whistles in the parlors Of the
people who entertain him.
A Washington lady recently received
from Paris material for a bridal trous
seau that gave her seamstress the small
pox, and when that wedding comes of
camphor and carbolie acid will be tbs
prevailing perfumes.
The Italian government has annullec
the marriage Of Prince Borghese and
imposed zines upon the civil functions
J ries who OBLIGATED thereat. because the
noble bridegroom added 10 his own title
bis wife's family name Of Torlonia.
! The Danbury News says. The re-
! marks relatives and friends Who attend q
3 funeral make upon the merits Of the de.
ceased are frequently instructive. Al
the funeral Of an aged resident O.
Slawsons, Saturday, neighbor feelingly
observed that The departed uouldn'i
rare and cuss about taxes any more. ''