Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-04-02

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listers urge the Archbishop OF Canter
bury to support in the House OF Lords
the bill TO legalize marriage with do
ceased wiie's sister. The affection foI
relations increases in an inverse ratio ts
the difficulty Of obtaining them. Mother
in.laws are naturally below par.
A Boston gentleman writes to the
papers regretfully: Thirty years age
beefsteak, oyster and chicken supper
with cream toast aud coffee and 'iixin's
generally, cost but twenty-five cents q
head, and dark seal brandy, or any
other brand, was only six cents glass
land large bottomed cutglass tum
blers, at that
Nellie Magernie. formerly of PittsGeld,
Mass, recently died Of starvation and
poison at st. Paul, MINI. SO says a
current newspaper ilem-adding that
the poor girl had tried to earn her living
as seamstress. failed for want of skill,
fell sick and into want, aud ultimately
took opium.
A California widow lately went for a
youth who had woed and won her, but
was disposed to coqueiie, with a pistol
and marriage license. She took a
clergyman with her who was ready to
preach funeral sermon or perform a
marriage ceremony at the same price.
The young man chose the latter.
A bright little boy hearing his father
say that a man ought to " stick TO his
business" emptied a bottle Of mucilage
in the old gentleman's office chair. The
old man says he has not been stuck so
badly since 1857, and rewarded his off
spring by taking him on whaling trip
to the back cellar.
The curate of st. Giles church,
Northampton, England, is Christian OF
literal beliefs. He was lately found sit
ting, with his Bible open, at the chapter
in which is the verse, If thy right hand
offend thee" etc., and having his right
hand almost severed from his wrist. His
right eye was also injured, as if he had
tried to probe it out with his finger.
The Omaha opera-house has been
turned into hotel; and now, instead of
sweetly warbled words as Sweet spirit,
hear my prayer" and "0n yonder
rock" the guests hear, Coffee with
cock.roaches for two" and Another
ladle full of hash for sick man" and
other remarks of culinary character.
The career of young Englshwoman
named Nash, whose list Of accomplish
nents includes poaching, and who is
said to be a good shot, has been abruptly
checked by a sentence Of five years
penal servtude. After many exploits,
ranging from petty larceny to murder
Gus assaults, for which she had been
eleven times summarily convicted, she
fred gun at constable, and, being
tried for that ohense, was sentenced to
punishment.
The Treasury Department in 1899 in
stituted inquiries as to the cost Of sup
porting a genteel family in Washington
and the estimate returned placed the
amount at S2549 IS for the years 1889,
1890 and 1871, rising to S4l63 GO in
1892 and 1898. Among the items includ-
ed, showing the style Of living on which
the estimate was based, were the keeping
of two horses and the wages Of four SER
wants.
A country minister Of limited ca
pacity" recently married for a second
wife widow of some property. Being
an ardent servant of Mammon, a for
mer neighbor asked him if he did not
do well by the second marriage. "Oh
yes, indeed" he said, with animation,
and then, as an expression of reverent
awe stole into his face, he added, and
what is very remarkable, the clothes of
my wifes first husband just fit me.
A man was recently tried in Liverpool
for marrying, his first wife being still
alive. One of the witnesses stated that
he had made inquiries in reference to
the prisoner, and had every reason to
believe that he had been married to nine
women, aud that he had never done a
days work in his life. but lived on these
unfortunate dupes. The deputy recorder
said the prisoner was not proper per
son to live in the country at all. He
ought to reside in Turkey or Utah. The
prisoner was then sentenced to ten years
penal servitude.