Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-01
rAcrs AND FANcIEs.

a financial panic. IA ia.aa....s i.f
Ice twenty feet thick is reported from
some parts Of Lake Superior. l,.r.
A Rhode Island druggist has just iilled
by mail an order from Oregon for 4 box
OF pills. etlHisinoa 8 q arlveI.iefl
Two Springfield girls are training daily
for the coming girls regatta on the Har-
lem river. ...
A female lawyer appeared for the hrst
time in a Chicago court last week and
won her case,
Bismarck's eldest son has been deco
rated with the order OF the Sun and
Lion by the Shah Of Persia.
Betsey Moore, of Quebec, refused TO
marry her lover until he broke bis Lex
in the attempt to recover her new bon
net. Uf Iut
A Western reporter who has inter
viewed dairyman adds cruelty to the
act by headlining his article, "A MIX
man Pumped" --- 81
A Colorado paper thinks civilization
10 Denver has received new impulse by
the reduction Of the price Of beer to
five cents glass.
A horse that hunts for rabbits and
Kills them with his fore feet. merely for
the pleasure Of it, is among the boosted
possessions of New Albany, Ind.
A shrewd lawyers clerk in England
eluded a suit for breach Of promise by
always signing his letters to his adored,
"Yours, lovingly, etc. (but without pre-
judice.)" ,r8 am
A Minnesota paper ASSERTS that q kerr
osene lamp, so set that the rays of the
sun passed through il and came to a
focus on a window curtain, set the cur
tain on fire,
Two or three hours practice every
day with the monster fans now fashion
able, will be found by ladies as effectual
in Strengthening the arms and wrists as
dumb-belI exercise.
Punchs notion Of nobility is that q
man Of birth is commonly one whose re-
mote ancestor did something, and his
immediate predecessors, for many centu-
ries, nothing at all.
The laborers employed at some min !
ing works in Missouri are debating the
question as to whether when the whistle
blows for dinner they should empty
their shovels or throw them back on the
heap. .u. t
The moa, which occupies the same re-
lative position among birds as the ele-
plant does among quadrupeds, was sup
posed to be extinct, but live specimen
is lately reported to have been seen in
Australia.
According to the will Of the late Leo
Hudson, the equestrienne, her house in
Baltimore is 10 be Sold and the pro-
ceeds devoted to the purchase Of q
bronze statue ola horse, to be placed
over her grave. -
A Belgian professor recently gave
public exhibition in Brussels Of his abil-
ity to ay. His artificial wings were most
ingeniously constructed and worked
splendidly in theory, but the attempt was
a complete failure.
The State Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton of Indiana held meeting at Terre
Haute recently, and resolved that they
had had enough Of respectful considera-
ton, and intended to nominate candi-
dates for the next State election.
A father. in consoling his daughter
who had lost her husband, said: 81
don't wonder you grieve for him, my
child; you will never find bis equal
~ don't know as can, responded the
sobbing widow, but I'll do my bestl
The father felt cemforted.
Squirrels are SO plenty in the vicinity
Of Oshkosh, Wis, that the inhabitants
can kill bushel in ten minutes with a
club. Squirrel pot-pies, containing ten
squirrels. and fost thick, are hawked
about the railroad depot upon the arrii
val of trains at ten cents each.-S.
Louis Democrat
A Louisville man has been troubled
" o visit from the ghost of his first
wife. lie did not see the ghosts face,
nut he knows Il must have been her, be-
ause she marched strsight to the PAN
ry and went for the wedding cake the
,erfdious man had prepared for his
econd marriage.
A New York Central railroad conduc-
or seized a nobby dressed young fellow
rho had dropped an insulting note in q
ady's lap on his train, the other day,
ragged him irSG bis seat and led him
y the ear through the train to the
aoking car, where he babe him rsmain.
be passengers enjoyed the young rep
obate's discontinue.
The following incident is related by q
eotch paper; AT DumfrieS recently, a
oung woman, evidently from the
ountry," was seen standing with a very
erplexed air at one Of the pillar letter
oxes. She was observed to knock sew
raj times on the top q the iron pillar,
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