Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-08

In one of the French provinces re
Gently, a travelling dealer induced {
woman to sell her hair. Her husband
when he learned the fact, followed the
dealer and revenged himself by shaving
his head.
Partisan ladies are so over-burdened
with beads and bugles on their costumes
now that they go tinkling and jingline
through the streets like the celebrated
old lady who had rings on her fingers
and bells on her toes.
A young lady, writing to her swain,
is said to have indited: Dear -:
Come and see us soon. We have just got
new lamp that will turn down, down,
down, and make it deliciously dark.
Your affectionate -"
A man had better have milestone
tied to his neck and be cast into the sea,
than to promise to marry Texas girl
and then refuse. The whole country
turns out to hunt him, and he is gener-
ally left to grow up with tree.
The satirists have exhausted consider
able wit upon the Smith who blooms into
Smythe. There is chance to give him
rest now and go for a grocer's clerk
named Hunt, who has mounted military
title and the aristocratic exuberance of
Hantte.
A gentleman who has watched the
weather forty years says that when the
first snow is followed by rain, such is the
case with every snow storm of the win
ter. This he claims is not theory, but is
knowledge gained by actual observation
by himself for the last forty years, and
by his father for thirty years previous.
How much is your stick candy2" in
quired boy of a candy dealer on yester-
day. six sticks for FIVE cents" six
sticks for FIVE cents, Ell? Now, lem me
see. Six sticks fer FIVE cents, five fer
four cents, four fer three cents, three fer
two cents, two fer one cent, one fer moth
in. And he walked out, leaving the
candyman in a state of bewilderment.
A shipment of seventeen boxes of
corpses was recently made by steamer
from San Francisco for China. The
bodies of Cinnamon who die in this
country are sent to vault in that city,
where they are kept until about a hun
dred have accumulated. The Cinnamon
will not leave their country unless sure
CT being returned if they die abroad.
1t is sometimes as convenient to be
great in little things as it is important to
be great in big ones, and landlady tes-
tifes that the greatest man who ever
boarded with her was q gentleman who
never complained if there were not
knives and forks enough to go round, Blu,
placidly went to work with his fingers as
if knives and forks were the superfuous
outgrowth of too luxuriant civilization.
The carrier pigeon, says a recent
writer, when travelling never feeds. III
the distance be long, it flies on without
stopping to take nutriment, and at last
arrives, thin, exhausted, almost dying.
II corn be presented to it it refuses, con-
tenting itself with drinking little wa
ter and then sleeping. Two hours later
it begins to eat with great moderation.
aud sleeps again Immediately afterward.
If its flight has been very prolonged, the
pigeon will proceed in this manner forty.
eight hours before recovering its normal
mode of feeding.
The Russian mother.in-law was on
hand when the dear baby was born.
was seat on all sorts of err
-ands. and was as docile as a lamb. He
vent for Victoria, carried the crib up
stairs, brought up a tray Of tea things
and made himself useful in many ways.
And then he was sent out of the room,
and Mrs. Edinburgh and her ma had the
usual talk" Edinburgh fingered near
he door until be heard his wife's mother
Iay: "Out all night -" The villain -
oh, If I'd known OF this 1.-The ruff
ianl" And then he left.
A beautiful woman of society, mem.
Der Of distinguished family, died very
Of late in Paris. After a little
While It was known that she had been
stacked with varioloid, and, imagining
{ to be the smallpox, she had destroyed |
herself. She left little note, which may
hus be translated: II have not the
strength to live without love, which de-
bends on loneliness. l cannot be lovely |
Ifter having the smallpox, and prefer
leath to hideonsness. / ask my hus.
land's forgiveness. am sure be would I
'ather be the widower Of handsome
woman than the husband OF fright. I
Tou who love me, pray for and pSedon