Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-30

sherry, the fashion being now to drink il
out of wood.
The volcanic soil in the neighborhood
of Vesuyius is said to be an antidote for
the potato disease and other fungoid dis
eases of plants.
Amherst, intellectual with its two col
leges, moral with its forty and odd min
listers, is also spiritual with its score OF
more of liquor shops.
The Valley Falls New York; Catho'
lies have resolved that not more than
FIVE carriages shall be allowed at any
funeral within that parish.
Colorado started college few weeks
ago, and up to date its inmates consist
of one woman, three Indians, q buffalo
calf and professor of botany.
An Indianapolis woman opened the
cushion of her working chair the other
day, after it had been used nineteen
years, and in it found 6l2 needles.
If the Pilgrim Fathers had landed at
Galveston and paid three dollars apiece
for breakfast at hotel, none of us fell
lows would have ever heard Of them.
History repeats itself in this our lat
ter day when the ruler of Egypt finds it
necessary to send corn to relieve the
famine. distressed region of Asia Minor.
Land and Water says that the shrubs
which supply the mobiles of japan with
tea are reported to be five hundred years
old, the tea grown on old plants being
the best.
What you been q doin'?' asked a
boy of his playmate, whom he saw COM
ing out of the house with tears in his
eyes. i've been a chasin birch rod
round my father" was the snarling re-
ply.
An inquiring man thrust his fingers
into horses mouth to see how many
teeth he had. The horse closed his
mouth to see how many fingers the man
had. The curiosity of each was fully
satisfied.
Mrs. Ryner, the belligerent actress
who attempted to horsewhip the dra-
matte editor of the Rochester Democrat,
has been discharged by the manager of
the opera house in that city for conduct
lady.
The new hotel in San Francisco is to
be seven stories high, and Mansard
-oof is to be built above the seventh
story. The walters will be required to
part their hair in the middle, and ad-
lress the humblest guest as Colonel"
The New Orleans Republicans ac-
count Of the sinking of the Empire says
If the captains daughter: When the
body of Fanny Jeanfreau was recovered
he corpse Of her infant brother was
closely clasped in her arms. They were
tent to their fathers house, No. 10 Spain
Itreet. Fanny was to be married in
ew days, and had come up from the
to prepare for that event.
Pause, rash youth, you are in the
labit of removing the postage stamp
rom your sweetheart's letter and pres
ing the under side of the stamp to your
fps, under the rapturous delusion that
he honeyed labials gave it adhesion to
he envelope-oh, pause, for Williams,
# the Norristown Herald, detected, at
he postofice, the other morning, his
adylove's coachman applying the stamp
o the last letter she sent him. So per
shes forever another of loves young
Ireamsl-Ddnbury Necs.
Young man, you feel a superiority to
he human race as you stand at the altar
nth your fair young bride. You would
lot change places with the President
Yet a few short years, few whisking Of
an untimely stoppage or
wo Of fatirons, and your weary body
viii rest under the shading willow, while
ONE young gallant will bring your late
afflicted partner out to the cemetery on
calm Sabbath evening and whisper
owe in her ear. as together they strsw
PEANUT shells over your grave. "Oh,
vhy should the spirit Of mortal be
,roud2"
One Of the Judges Of the Illinois Su-
IRENE Court recently addressed very
letter to the Chicago Bar As
in which he told that body that
Il the seven hundred cases now pending
,efore him and his associate Judges,
i've hundred are made up Of the merest
rash-questions Of fact and interprets-
ion Of the law which any attorney who
-alues his reputation ought 70 have been
ashamed to put in bis brief. The Judge
ldded 10 this, the lawyers of the older
states Of the Union would not compro-
Mise their professional standing by
ringing such cases 10 a court Of last
esort,"