Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-15

A Terre Haute man is credited wit
taking his wife back FIVE times, after a
many elopements.
Duluth is said to have city ordinanc
which prevents a man from keepin
more than two tame bears.
The Brooklyn Argus is of opinion tha
a kind word will always 60 further thai
hatlron or potato masher.
A Western paper announces the dealt
OF lady celebrated for the purity o
her character and complexion"
Jenny Linds eldest son is at Corpu
Christi College, Oxford, and she has
daughter just coming into womanhood
Mrs. Livermore is showed up" il
Minnesota. She is to lecture next year
Now"
Alex Dumas speaks of dead actress
as that pretty little Partisan soul, born
tear"
James Russell Lowell says: Put q
Yankee on Juan Fernandez, and he
would make a spelling.book first and a
salt pan afterward
A Georgia bridegroom, who did not
appear in time for his wedding, was
found asleep with fifteen cents in his
pocket, waiting for the initiation of the
currency.
Bowles, Mississippi negro, is said to
banker after social equality disturban-
ces. He goes around on steamboats,
asking for bridal chambers and things
which he knows he cant get, and then
prosecutes the captains for not giving
them to him.
The American Register of Paris in
forms US that dancing is going out OF
fashion in Europe, and says: "If men
and women could hirt as conveniently
and as pleasantly without its protection
it would be given up altogether in civil
lied countries"
A Western paper says dealers in but
ter classify it as wool grease, cart grease,
soap grease, variegated, tesselated COW
grease, boarding house breakfast, infe.
rior tub, common tub, medium roll, good
roll, and gilt-edge roll. The terms are
strictly technical.
Some of the English papers give cur
rency to report that a marriage may
possibly be arranged between the Prin-
cess Beatrice, youngest daughter OF
Queen Victoria, and the Marquis OF
Stafford, eldest son of the Duke OF
Sutherland. This peer is one of the
richest in England.
In the production Of wine and brandy
Los Angeles is the leading county in
the State of California. The number ot
vines returned by the assessor of that
county for 1873 is 4,220,000. The mum
Der Of gallons of wine returned is 1903,
900, and of brandy 10000
An autograph letter of Tasso, the
Italian poet, is said to have recently
come to light, in which the author o.
Jerusalem Delivered " acknowledges
the receipt Of twenty-five lires, for which
he has left in pledge a sword, six shirts
four sheets and two napkins.
The longer / live" said Sidney
Smith, the more l am convinced that
the apothecary is Of more importance
than philosophy, and that half the un-
happiness of life proceeds from little
stoppages from duct checked up, from
food pressing in the wrong place from a
vexed duodenum or an agitated pylorus." Z"
A member OF the Ohio Legislature
recently visited the State Penitentiary.
and while there had his hair cut by the
prison barber. While undergoing the
tonsorial process a party of lady and
gentlemen visitors looked in, and the
legislator was made happy by catching
such remarks as, Ugly look about the
eyes" Vicious mouth, Looks capable
of any wickedness," Wonder what he
did2" etc.
The observations of a married man
have led to the conclusion that money
put into mirrors is good investment, as
they afford a marvellous amount Of com
fort and qualification to a woman. He
says his wife thinks just as much of
consulting her glass when she ties on
her apron as when she ties on her bon
net, and while be goes to the door at
once when there is a rap, she exclaims:
Mercy Joseph, who is that?" and
dashes for the looking glass.
The suffering in Paris this winter is
very great, the want of work. Relief is
not given for nothing; but good, whole.
some food is supplied at a nominal sum,
a plan which enables families with very
small means to weather the storm. A
special bakery for the hospitals and the
poor turns out thirteen tons of bread
daily. The street ballad composed in
honor OF jaime dare in front Of the
Tuileries, has sold for five hundred
francs, which was handed over to the
poor.
The price of tickets in the Havana
lottery has been reduced over 100 per
cent, and has no longer a fixed value.
The value of premiums has decreased in
proportion. A ticket formerly cost $50
in Spanish gold, equal to SIS 70 in
American coin, and now such ticket
costs only IS in Spanish or s % in
American gold, and is steadily declining
The prizes announced are not paid in
gold, as formerly, but in deprecated
paper currency, which does not even
pass current in the whole Of the island,
and the main premium Of 100000,
although advertised, does not exist, as
the holder thereof would receive less
than one-haf OF that sum, OF say
S43. ATS in Spanish or $40, 76l in Ameri-
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