Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-30

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course without fouling and the WHINE
came in six lengths ahead.
A Cheyenne policeman has testi6e,
under oath that half the population o
that town habitually becomes drunk ant
disorderly before midnight.
Max Adeler keeps dog" says al
exchange, "te worry his mother.in- law.
And so ought every man whose wifi
keeps mother to worry him.
A letter in the New York Tribun,
/ says: Papa has given us three cents
day for not sucking our thumbs. W,
send one dollar for a child in Kansas.
Some of the leading theaters in Ger
many propose to put stop to recalls ant
of throwing bouquets and wreaths on tn,
stage during the progress of an opera ol
q play.
When the editor of the Courier-J Jour
nal was in New York and restaurant
waiter asked him what part of oyster'
he liked BEST he promptly replied: "Tl
take breast.bone."
The manufacturers OF glass bottles
claim for their business the unenviable
distinction Of being at present the dull
est and most unremunerative of all
branches of manufacture.
The Book of Kells,' valued al
100000, which was announced as miss
ing from the library of St. Columbkill
in Dublin, has been found in the British
Museum. How it got there is mystery.
Count Bella Sxechanyi is now organ
izing an stro-Hungarian expedition
for the purpose of exploring the Hima.
layas. Several eminent scientific men
in Austria are to accompany this expe-
ditiop.
Lord Lytton, son of the author of my
Novel, and himself known to literature
under the nom de plume of Owen
Meredith, has been appointed British
Minister to Portugal, an ornamental
position worth $4,000 a year.
The British Government is engaged in
making such improvement to Cork har-
Dor that, when finished, it will be one of
the best harbors of refuge in the world.
The entrance will be protected by forts
armed with guns of the heaviest calibre.
1t seems that the Japanese merchants
understand "cornering," and have some
times tried the game with rice or silk
But they treat this kind of crime in ia
pan the same way they do false estima-
ting on the part of contractors-cut off
heads.
A Nantucket fisherman. whilst return.
ing home the other day, was struck sud
denly by something which knocked him
senseless in his boat On coming to his
senses again, he found that a large duck
had flown directly against his neck With
such force as to kill itself at once, for it
lay dead in the dory.
Prof. Emanuel Herman of Vienna
first introduced postal cards. They were
used in England, Germany, aud Switzel
land in 1870, in Belgium and Denmark
in 1871, and in Norway, Russia, and
the United States in 1928. In some
foreign countries card is attached on
which an answer may be returned.
AS the congregation of the Raasay
(Seotland) church were returning home
ward on a recent Sunday evening, man
named Duncan Matheson was suddenly
attacked by a stag, which threw him to
the ground, pierced his arms in two
places with his antlers, and bruised his
head very badly before he was able to
call for help, which was fortunately near.
The game deer has since attacked several
men; aud the people have taken to car
rying weapons of defense out Of doors,
in case Of similar encounters.
Bazaine's escape has been immortal
lied in Partisan toy. On a little tower
stands little man of tin. dressed as
Marshal Of France, aud holding a rope
in his hands. Touch a spring, and the
Marshal launches into space, slides down
the cord, and lands in a boat which
comes laboring out from the rocks of tin
over a cardboard sea. just as the Mar
shall drops aboard a soldier in uniform
looks from the tower in evident alarm.
The boat moves back to its station, and
all may be begun again if the joke be
thought good enough. - Boston Post.
A young japanese, while in the United
States. expressed much surprise at see
ing cranberries eaten at the table, and
said that in the mountains Of Japan they
grow very large and beautiful, but are
never cooked. Some old man occasion
ally goes up the mountain and picks
long basket full Of them. which he brings
on his shoulders down to the town. Here
the boys gather about him and for a
small coin purchase the right 10 crowd
their poekets with them. And what use
do you think they make Of this otherwise
useless fruit2 The boys blow the glow
ing berries through rattan tubes, as oar
boys blow white ones through tin ones,
That's what cranberrieB are used for in
Japan, where they grow in great perfec.