Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-08
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Names contributions to the vienn
Exposition consists Of several pots o
canned meats and one shirt pattern.
Recently Father Hyacinthe, from hi
pulpit in Geneva, in long discourse
eulogized the life and labors Of JohI
Calvin.
Senator (Parssn) Brownlow denies
that he hesitated about taking his share
of the back.pay steal. He says he voted
for and glories in 1t.
A San Francisco photographer is sale
to have succeeded in taking n perfee
likeness Of the race horse 0ccident wher
going at full speed.
The use of tobacco is disgusting
habit. 1t weakens the frame, benumb'
the faculties, and, what is far worse
keeps up the price.
The Savannah river has produced two
immense oysters, one sixteen and one
fourteen inches long, and they have been
sent to Baltimore.
The late winter has been very fatal to
the bees in Michigan, whole apiaries
having persisted, in spite Of the care
taken to preserve them.
One inch of rainfall distributes one
hundred tons Of water over an acre Of
land--a suggestive fact in mechanical
as well as agricultural point of view.
DR.. Mary l.. Wadsworth, graduate Of
Mount Holyoke Seminary, and a former
practitionerin Springfield, Mass, is now
family physician to the Sultan of Tnr-
key.
See how wonderful are the ways Of ma
ture in Illinois. A pair OF boots costs
just two loads of potatoes, and to raise
the potatoes just wears out pair OF
boots.
Recent heavy rains at Rio Janeiro,
Brazil, caused landslide on the 9TH of
March, in which twenty men were in
stantly killed and more than twice that
number injured.
Let q person begin life by lodging,
and he must run gauntlet to the end,
as a rule. Let him face the world
squarely, and if his success is slow, de-
pend upon it it will be sure.
A young lady in Kentucky, addicted
to dancing, lately arose in her sleep and
prepared for an imaginary ball by cut
ting her hair Off 1t has cured her of
her ruling passion for time.
A Cleveland woman rose so far supe-
rior to sex as to fracture burglars skull
with boot,jack, but delayed giving an
alarm till she could put up her back hair
and the intruder had escaped.
An Indiana Sunday-school man writes
to q Bible firm in New York: Send
me on some Sunday.school papers and
books. Let the books be about pirates
and Indians as far as possible"
1t is said that in Scotland one man in
every thousand goes to college; Germany
the proportion is one for every two
thousand six hundred; in England it is
one for every five thousand eight hun
dred.
The faculty of the University of Ken
lucky, it appears, have vetoed the selec-
ton of ex.President johnson as com
mencement orator, while the students
have entered into a solemn vow to listen
to no one else.
When the speaker of the Arkansas
legislature said that the gentleman from
Clay county was out of order, Clay
county picked up an inkstand and Of
fered to bet ten dollars he wasn't. The
speaker lodged.
Chicago theater goers are enjoying a
burlesque version Of julius Caesar. one
of the scenes of which concludes by
Anthony bearing of. under his arm, the
stuffed efigy of the murdered julius,
while the procession joins in the solemn
refrain of Down in Coal Nine"
A revolving signal light has been in
vented, to be attached to the rear OF
trains, by which the engineers behind
can tell by the speed Of their rotations,
as shown by the succession Of different
colored lights, at what rate the trains
are moving, and when they are at rest.
The fact that New York murderer,
upon being arrsigned for trial, has &C.
.ually pleaded guilty, may be regarded
As one Of the extraordinary events Of
he time. Robert P. Bleekley, who killed
Ms sisce, Maud Merrill, upon being
called for trial, told the court that he
wanted to plead guilty Of murder in the
irst degree; that he had killed his niece,
was not insane, and was willing to suffer
the consequences.
A Michigan newspaper thus closes an
article, attempting to depict some Of the
present attractions Of its locality:
Thus, through varied phases and mod
flying influences, drainage has wrought
this miracle Of change, reducing slowly.
grandly, to present limits this sea Of
waters that once disporied themselves
with the tidal flow and storm, and sound
.np surge. and ceaseless thnnder Of a.,