Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-21
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The richest planters in Jamaica live
on coffee grounds"
Small portable stoves for carriages
are used in New York.
The Empress Eugene is reported to
have an income Of $4,000.
A bad glass for the eyes-YOur sixth
glass Of hot brandy and water.
Mean things-To ask for discount
when you buy the wedding ring.
An Iowa lady is paying an election
bet, by kissing the winner once a month.
A Missouri girl recently anointed the
head of her faithless lover with hot glue.
Louisville is still supplying small
towns in the neighboring counties with
smallpox.
An Illinois spinster proposes to set
herself up in rafie with lOO,OOOtickets
at 81 piece.
An English woman recently became
the fourth wife Of Mohammedan official
in Morocco.
A member of the town council of
Rome, Ca, is named Marcus Tullius
Cicero Clemens.
A boy at Leavenworth. Ind, has been
dis6gu-ed for life by rats that attacked
him in his bed. =,
The fashion of deliberately trimmed
bonnets is said to be dying out. They
were more ribboned last year.
A Connecticut man is going to see
the transit Of Venus, even if it is cloudy,
unless his balloon or Venus goes back
on him.
Music is the food Of love-according
to Shakespeare. Beef and mutton are
the food of matrImony-according to
Kitchener.
This insurance policy is queer
thing" said Dobbs, reaectively. IF |
cant sell it / cancel it; and if | cancel
it can't sell it,
A French writer says: The seasons
in London are equally divided--there
are four months of winter, four of fog,
and four of rain"
An Alabama woman has just won her
case in court, having argued it herself.
The jury were probably bachelors, and
unused to argument.
A Stonington Conn COW swallowed
hoop-skirt, which SO affected her inter
nal arrangements that she had to be
sacrificed for beef.
To say that the conversation heard
among horned cattle is generally low is
what Mr.. Bergh will doubtless regardss
a cowherdly insinuation.
A Pittsburg brides dowery lately con-
sisted of two barges Of coal, which her
father thinks ought to secure her recep-
ton by the ton anywhere.
Edwin Emm, Of Southampton, Eng
land, having been arrested three times
on account Of mistaken identity, has
gone mad in consequence.
Colonel York, Pomeroy's betrayer, led
a regiment Of colored troops in the war.
Since then he has been editing news
paper in Montgomery county, Kansas.
Almost every house in Northern Iowa
has piano, but the only thing played
on them is Seven up and poker, when
they are not used as adiniDg table by the
family. aae
Constantinople has forty.three news
papers, of which nineteen appear daily.
OF the latter FIVE are Turkish; four
French, two English, Eve American;
and three Greek n
A man at Titusville has started an
autograph factory. BE supplies auto
graphs to order at ten cents each, or
one dollar a dozen assorted. They are
all warranted fresh.
1t is stated that the Prince of Wales
is shortly to visit ireland, when he is to
be installed President of the Order of
Chivalry, a new grade recently estab-
lished or revived in Masonry.
The whole stock in trade of a magi-
clan was sold by auction in London re-
Gently. The magician was present, and
explained TO purchasers the working Of
the different conjuring tricks and appa-
ratus.
A drunken fool made a sandwich Of
a FIVE dollar bill and piece of bread in
Kansas City, q day or two since, and |
ate it amid the plaudits Of the specta-
tors, who thought A. T. Stewart was in |
town in cog.
It costs a saloon keeper in Ohio $50 to |
sell drink Of liquor to q man who is
already full, or chuck up" As a sa-
loonist receives but ten cents for drink,
he is consequently $40 30 out, besides
the wear aud tear on the tumbler.
A tender and touching allusion was
made by a speaker in the Kansas House
Of Representatives to q recently de- |
ceased member Of the State Legisla-
ture, Brother Rigs" he remarked. |
viii not feel the cold where he is gone"
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