Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-02

of their husbands.
The appearance Of the oyster is not
suggestive of an emotional tempera-
ment, but when torn from their native
waters in the Atlantic and planted on
the Pacific coast they soon die of home
sickness.
There was an old family fuel be-
tween them, was what witness in
Chicago murder case said to the jury.
The judge asked her if she didn't mean
"feud?" and she asked him who was
telling the story.
A disinterested observer says that " if
there is anybody who can keep Tonnes
see from falling asleep, Brownlow is that
body. When he isn't revolving reser-
voir of literary vitrol, he's an animated
chunk of lunar caustic."
A Springfield gentleman concluded to
have a bath the other evening. and in
the dark got hold of chunk of stove
backing by mistake for tue soap. A
more polished man than he was has
never been seen in the whole State of
Massachusetts,
A lady sixty.seven years DID, the
mother of twelve children, fell in love
with young man in Santa Rosa, Cal.
A few weeks ago, finding that she could
not marry him, she took dose Of bed
bug poison and died. Here's chance
for Boucicault.
In 1851 there were eighty-three steam.
boats regularly running on the Missouri
river, some of them as costly in their
construction as any steamboat now
ahoat, and all doing prosperous bust
ness. There are now only four steam.
boats on the lower Missouri, and three
small crafts on the upper.
The Pope has made the See of Mil
waukee an Archdiocese Baltimore is
the Oldest Archdiocese in the United
States, St. Louis the second, New York
the third. There are now eight and will
soon be ten Archbishoprics on this con-
tinent. Those of Santa Fe and Phila-
delphia are soon to be added.
Forney has been out alone in Paris
after midnight and this is what he writes
home: As / loitered on, woman with
sweet face, in exquisite dress, stopped
before me and spoke in her best French.
/ answered her in my best American,
and after good deal Of conversation,
we parted friends in the innocent con-
seriousness that neither understood what
the other had said"
Recent statistics show that of 485, 900
households of Switzerland, 465,00O pos
sess landed property, and Of the entire
population of 100000 about 100000
only have no landed possessions. About
one person in twenty lives by aims,
while in England there is one to every
eight, and in France one to every nine.
The great majority of the people live by
agriculture, but the exports nevertheless
amount to s5S,OOO,OOO annually above
home consumption.
In st. Petersburg, Russia, recently, a
Sergeant de Vile murdered physician
and his cook on account Of jealousy, the
officer being in love with the latter. He
remained in the room where he had COM
mitted the crime, and, holding a knife to
his breast, stood for FIVE hours, threaten
ing to kill himself rather than be ar.
rested. He was drenched with water
and blinded with snuff, but could not be
taken off his guard. he yielded volun-
tarily at last.
The only thing that Earl Russell ever
did greatly was to sneeze. His achieve
ment in that line is thus described by a
biographer: This remarkable man
seemed to concentrate himself, as it
were, for gigantic effort, would be bent
double by the force of the explosion,
and would then dive down into flaming
banner of red silk, from which, after
several minutes observation, he emer-
ged with countenance as vivid as the
back Of a scalded lobster" The late
Lord Clarendon said: when Lord
John takes snuff the consequence
brings down the House.
Among the Syriac MSS: in the Am
brosisn Library at Milan, is a copy of
the Peshito version Of the Old Testa-
ment, which may be assigned TO period
as remote as the sixth century. 1t is
proposed to reproduce this ancient Ms.
in the fac simile by means Of photo
TYPOGRAPHY, under the direction Of the
Rev. Dr. A. Ceriani, the chief librarian
Of the Ambrosian. The edition will be
in two volumes folio, and will consist Of
sir hundred and sixty photographed
pages, and about sixty pages Of letter.
press. The entire cost is estimated at
l,2OOt, and the subscription price for a