Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-18

crease according to the amount Of all
expended.
A retired actress has been teaching
elocuiion TO the children in Carson City
aud the old people declare that all the
young folks say beeyoutiiool skeey'
aud " the nobul juke."
A Massachusetts, journal we'll says
1T is proposed in Maine to exempt poor
widows aud orphans, who earn their
bread by the needle, from taxation; but
il is not explained what they are now
taxed for"
The first mule ever taken into the
Hoosae Tunnel was brought up recently
after three years residence in the
bowels OF the earth. He began TO kick
vigorously as sson as he reached the
surface-a thing he was never kRown to
do before.
Many people consider the game OF
base ball a silly, nonsensieaI amuse-
ment. They are mistaken. A Terra
Haute catcher" recently caught a
coal.oil lamp on the fly, hot from the
hands Of his Infatuated wife.
An individual with water on the brain
wishes to make a wager that he can
swim from the Nsrrows to Long Branch,
the real difficulty Of which undertaking
may be more conveniently tested by
spending seven hours in bath tab Of
cold water with coffin at hand.
Buffalo Bill showed at Hartford, the
other day, that his reputation as a
marksman is not founded altogether in
the imagination of his chronicler and
compeer, Med Buntline." He picked
up a rife at Colts Armory, and put
bullet in the bulls eye seventeen times
out OF twenty.
The second husband Of Montreal
widow, provoked beyond endurance by
the perpetual recital of the virtues of
his predecessor, recently went and
smashed that dear departed's monument.
His doctor says it will be some time be-
fore he RECEIVERS his own heads tone,'
though the scratches will heal without
disfguring him much.
Mary Harris, young woman who it
may be remembered shot Treasury
clerk named Burroughs in Washington
several years ago, but was acquitted by
the jury, has recently been sent to an in
sane asylum, having shown unmistakable
signs of insanity. After her acquittal
she was employed for time as clerk
in the Philadelphia postofiice, and more
recently in the Patent Office at Wash
ington.
Dion Boueicault writes to New York
paper: IL never paid fsrthing for
favor from the press, and never will,
and, in candor, am bound to say that
If | offered il / am sure it would be
regarded as a gross insult" The ten
der of farthing for newspaper favor,
would, beyond doubt, be treated with
lofty scorn in any portion Of our great
and glorious country. There are some
papers which would refuse ten times
that amount.
The Mayor Of Schenectady, it is said,
recently disguised himself as a rough,
and staggered through the streets to test
the vigilance of his police. He was ar
rested, and examination showed bur
glars tools, policeman's whistle, and
other uncanny things concealed on his
person. He was about to be locked up
to await trial, when his disguise was dis.
arranged, and he was recognized and set
free by his thunderstruck subordinates.
At recent audience given by the EN-
peror and Empress Of japan to the
American and Russian Ambassadors and
their wives, the appearance of the En-
press is thus described: The Empress
was attired in dress of heavy brown
silk, with overdress Of crimson wrought
with gold. She had her hair dressed
very lastly, pulled at the side, drawn
back from the forehead, and low, while
stiff at the ends and fastened with rib
bons. The sleeves Of the overdress were
wide and full, and reached nearly to the
floor. Her face was white with powder,
her lips vermillion with paint, eyebrows
not to be seen, having been pulled out,
while the teeth were blackened to the
utmost"
Prince Bismarck is not SO much a
man as he is German, and so when the
Burgomeister Of Strasburg requested
that the French tongue might be taught
in schools together with the German he
refused, and gave as reason for his re-
fusal that, so far as was known, on the
other side of the frontier the German
tongue was not taught in the French
schools "--as if German would ever be-
come such facile means Of conveying
thought as the French is-and in Ger
man thought may be concealed as well
as in any Italian that Machiavelli ever
used; French. German and Italian being
thus mingled must have seemed dan
gerous compound-something like a dy-
namite-for the astute Prince.
ATTORNEYS.
1T. SwsrSE. BENZ. COLNAE.