Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-21

sleighs.
Some OF the Boston moralists who are
a shade hypercritical about what plays
they witness go to see The New Magda,
len because it is founded on a bible
story"
General Banks has new lecture, on
What a Man owes to the Town He
Lives In" Information on this subject
has heretofore been confined almost ex-
olusively to the tax-lists.
Danbury News: The Rhode Island
authorities forbade the passage Of Bos
ton girls trunk across its territory, OBJ
jeeting to the shadow the same would be
likely to cast over the State.
The strongest man in Cincinnati is a
doctor who can hold man of equal
weight with himself at arms length, in
either hand. He can also, with his
fingers, twist ten.penny nail into a
screw.
An operator on the Paris Bourse died
with a-broken heart because Of his fail.
ure to meet his obligations. he died
only few weeks since, but he said,
write on my coffin that l died on April
9TH; that was the day on which did not
pay my differences"
Some surprise was created among the
Faculty of Yale College the other morn
ing by seeing the statue of President
Pierson arrayed in the airy costume Of
a red flannel shirt, with a demoralized
silk hat on his head, and a seedy cotton
umbrella in his hand.
The leading English brewers are com
planning of the use of sulphur in the
drying of hops. The object appears to
be to give the hops more attractive
color, but the sulphur Injuries the beer,
and is said TO produce prejudicial effects
upon the health of those who drink it.
A discussion having sprung up in
Bostoa as to the pronunciation of the
word sojourner," it appears that ten
leading photographers place the accent
on the first syllable and three of less
place it on the second syllable
You pay your money and take your
choice,
Professor Tobin has purchased a
model of the entire working apparatus
with the Atlantic cable, and
be purposes showing in lecture the pc
,uliarities of the girdle Of the EARTH and
Ire manner in which the breaking and
place of fracture of the cable is discov-
,red.
Mr.. Medill writes that in the Alps
English ladies may frequently be met
With climbing the mountains on foot;
tut he says, Whenever NEE! woman
carried on sedan chair by four Switzers
Up a mountain to see a glacier, an ava.
anche or a cascade, it is not necessary
o look at her prodigious mass Of back
lair to know that she is not English, but
American"
A French veterinary surgeon has COM
,uted that there are 6,l49 800 horses n
europe. OF this number he reckons
hat France has $685. Austria
England, 1866. 200; Germany,
100000; Prussia, 100000; Turkey,
100000, and the rest are divided among
spain, Holland, Belgium aud Switzer.
and No account is given of the other
European nations.
The old house in St. Stephen s square,
Vienna, where Marie Veigel, the wife Of
jarrick, was born, is to be demolished.
She was a trained ballet dancer, who
appeared on the Drury Lane boards in
744, under Garrick's management.
They lived happily together. She sur.
lived her distinguished husband twenty.
our years, and was buried beside him in
Westminster Abbey.
No less than seven comets appeared
n 1873. The first, observed by NJ. Ste
,han, at Marseilles, on the Sd of April
he second, by NJ. Tempel, at Milan, on
be Sd of jelly; the third. by NJ. Borelli,
It Marseilles on the 10th Of August; the
ourth, by Paul Henry, at the 0bserva-
DRY Of Paris, on the 23d Of August; the
fifth, observed by NJ. Stephan, at Mar
eilles, on the Sd Of September; the
evsnth, discovered by NJ Coggia, at
iarseilles, on the 10th Of November.
A priest who was examining a confr-
nation class in the south Of ireland
.sked, What is the sacrament Of mat
imony| A bright little girl at the
lead Of the class answered, A state Of
into which souls enter TO pre-
,are for better worruld." That's the
.nswer for purgatory," said the priest.
Put her dswn fut Of the class, said
he subieacon. Lave her alone, re-
orted the priest, " for snysAAisg you or /
NOV to the contrary she may be per
ecty right