Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-02

The fashionable ladies of New Yorl
discard corsets, and their dresses are
made to fit like gloves.
Success in any employment is the re
suit OF mans love for his work. Thil
is particularly true of good eaters.
There is nothing to be SO highly prizei
as asoft, sweet voice in woman, except
her ability to take in washing when hard
times come.
AWestern paper describes an exchange
as bright as schoolma' am in bath.
tub" How came the editor to draw the
comparison?
We are soon to have the promised new
postal card. 1t will be nearly white,
printed with black ink, and the border
will be narrower.
At silver weddingin Boston the other
day, the ten children of the couple, all
unmarried, stood up with them and re-
ceived the friends who gathered to cele.
brate the event.
Every maiden is now mysterious. She
spends much other time alone and when
ever one enters suddenly, she hides
something in drawer. Christmas is
coming Hartford Times.
An eccentric mans will divided his
property among his heirs accor ding to
their respective weight, another illustra-
ton of the adage where there's a will
there's weigh"
And now the head of the family. re-
turning from his club" through the
sharp midnight air. gently rolls his sleep.
ing spouse over to the cold side of the
bed and sinks softly into the vacated
spot with sigh of thankfulness.
The difference in nature was well illus
trated at the depot the other day. Two
sisters met. "Oh, my dear sister' said
one, exhaustedly, as they embraced.
You've been eating onions" said the
other calmly and fearlessly.
Little George Householder, of Knox
vile, Tenn, took peep at a powder
flask that he had buried, and touched a
match to it. AS likely as not when he
makes tour Of the country with hf md
organ, he will say he lost his eyes in the
war.
To correspondent who inquire ,s eff
there has been any sudden drop irL dry
goods this week, a commercial writer
says: I'VE have noticed but one. She
said when we picked her up, fast 'peo-
pie who ate grapes ought not to throw
their skins on the sidewalk. +"
Says the Columbus (Mississippi) In.
dex: "A few Sundays ago negro wo-
man at a baptising near the ferry exhib.
tied her Radical prOclivities during the
excitement always attending such occa-
sions by shouting at intervals, Sweet
Jesus, dear Yankee Jesus, how l do hub
you
The japan Mail describes the city of
Yeddo as a miracle of cleanliness. )
Notwithstanding the thousands of fee
which tread the streets, they are an cles IN
as the seldom visited parks of the Ar is
tocracy. No person throws pape' r or any
refuse in the streets"
The poet who sent an effuy' ion en,i.Ied
Nothing but Flowers" : q a naner for
publication, is on the ragged edge of
notification. The p oem appeared as
Nothing but FioAs When the com.
po'ltor was reason ed with, he said he
,nougnt there ought to be something
lively asoO'. the poem.-Norristoqon
Herald.
Inc hicb mond Journal has a touching
.ceount Of the suicide of a young lady.
After the story is told it says: Upon
her bed, when found, we're two pet dogs, !
Vno will never more gambol to her beck |
md call and for the amusement of their
,enue mistress" 1t seems very sad to
hjnk about those dogs.
In an Illinois town not long ago one. !
1t the attractions Of an evening ey,ter-
ainment was to be a tableau OF the
Prodigal Son" after Dubufe's paint
ng. But the bestlooking youn's man in
he place had been selected for the
'rodigsl, and every one of the girls
Tanted to be the woman who should |
ang on his shoulder end look lovingly |
t him, aad that broke up the business.
Queen Charlotte wife CT the king of the |
friendly IslanIss, is q Methodist class.
'ader, and toe king is licensed local
reaeher Of the same denomination. 1t
not much Of kingdsm-only Is, 900
nhabitsnts-and its only productions
re earthquakes and bananas. When
egans they cut Of their little fingers
nd toes as propitiary offerings to their
DDS, but when the Wesleyans establish
d missionary station there in 1927
hey stopped the surgery. made them
ear clothes, set up a printing press,
.urht them the mulfinhcation fafla