Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-18

When man is out of temper he shows
most of it; when ne is out Of money he
shows least.
Grant, like the sea-gull, is fitting
along the shore from Long Branch to
Atlantic City,
Lolita Crabtree, the actress, has bought
very handsome and valuable residence
in Oakland, California.
A chiropodist in San Francisco swal-
lowed some of the acid with which he
killed corns, aud it killed him.
A Kentucky lady gently strobe into
the dark cave Of eternal night at half
past six in the morning" Tough luck
Cant they train Cinnamon to eat
grasshoppers2" is the conundrum pro.
pounded by interested parties in the
West.
Some young infdel says that to put
your arm around girls waist, when
she wants you to, is a heap better than
religion.
A Boston lady in California says that
the Strawberries on the Pacific coast
have but little flavor, being a cross be.
tween tarnip and dried apple.
The Warner diamond, of yellow tiuge,
from South Africa, having 60 facets,
weighing 40 carats, is worth $4,000. 1t
belongs TO fellow in this city.
A Texas man has had to put muzzle
on his dogs tail because he wagged it
so enthusiastically that he knocked over
a lamp and set the house on fire.
An agricultural journal maintains
that alum water is qnite as destructive
to insects as Paris green, and, unlike
the latter, is not at all dangerous to
leave about house.
The WATERFOWL Times reports that
Kitty Watson, mare owned by G. W.
Virgins and Calvin Scripture, and able
to trot mile in 2:24l, was sold last
Friday to a gentleman of Haverstraw
for $4,000.
A company has been organized with
a capital of $4,000 to cultivate the
Petrie plant, valuable product of the
gulf coast of Mexico. The fibre of the
plant is seven feet aud hall long, is
very durable, aud is claimed to be the
equal of hemp for rope, bagging and
other articles.
A Western journal thinks that the
coming cremation age will witness
change in the obituary column Of the
newspapers. In place OF the customary
notice of funeral and burial, we shall
have something like the following:
Tomorrow, at 3 p N, shall burn my
mother-in.law. JOIN ROBINSON"
The South Kensington Museum, in
London, has cost the nation since its es.
Establishment $5,95S,549 A eorrespon-
dent writes: Those who have visited
this matchless museum will know that |
understate rather than overstate its ac-
tual present value when | say that il its
contents were disposed OF az auction to-
morrow they would not bring less than
twenty millions sterling"
A man tried to smnggle wagon load /
Of tobacco across the Belgian frontier !
recently by driving at full speed, but the /
soldier brought down the 4
horse with his rifle. There was six hun
bred dollars worth Of tobacco in the
wagon, and the horse was in armor and
so armed with knives about the bride
that one could not have stopped him by
hand without being cut 70 pieces.
Hamburg, Conn, has recently had a
curious love affair. Two brothers courted
the same girl, and she engaged herself
to the younger, but as the time set for
the marriage drew near the youth had
in obtaining a certificate.
the girl transferred her afec-
lions to the older one, and, be having
armed himself with q certificate, they
we're married on the day set for the mar
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