Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-28

nave one as auyOouy eise' Ono hoP'
boarders. Another, who was a man
with diamond studs and gold watch
chain, wanted turkey for a brother
who was sick
When young lady receives from her
beau lovely" bouquet of cut flowers,
she may keep it fresh and fragrant for
from fifteen days to month by insert
ing the stems in water in which sal am
moniac or chloride. of ammonia has been
dissolved in the proportions of seventy
five grains to the quart. This is what a
French horticulturist says.
The sisters of a colored Baptist church
at Raleigh, N. c., held public meeting
the other day, and raised a subscription
to release their pastor, who was in Jail
on charge OF bastarjy. When the fine
had been paid, the sisters marched to
the Jail door and received the reverend
gentleman with open arms. The scene
is described as deeply affecting.
The Lord Mayor of London was re-
Gently invited by the city Of Paris to be
present at coming ceremony there.
The Sheriffs we're not included in the
invitation, and q grand question Of ETH
quette has arisen, as it is against the
ancient civic tradition for the Lord
Mayor to make State visit unless the
Sheriffs accompany him.
A High School girl in Chicago street
car was recently overheard reciting her
lesson to n fellow pupil in this fashion:
If the angles at the base of an isosceles
triangle are equal TO the square Of the
hypothenuse of right-angle cone, then
the rectangle of the diameter of n circle
is equal to the square of the-ah--to the
-ah--is equal to the-ah-to the square
-ah-to the--ah-oh, bother; gimme
that boekl 1 wish pa'ud let me take
dancing lessons instead of these horrible
squares and angles and hypothenuses.
A London correspondent of the New
York Graphic, tells this interesting little
incident of the recent Mansion House
banquet, which. it is needless to say, was
kept out of the London papers: Mr..
Stone, the new Lord Mayor, is Tory,
and fond of his glass. By the time the
health of the Prince and Princess Of
Wales had TO be proposed our new civil
dignitary had become slightly elevated,
aud he proceeded with much loyalty, to
remark Cd the Princess:
"she's all my fancy painted her. she's lovely
she's divine,
But, alasE she is another's and she never can
be mine."
There had been lynchiDg near
Paducah KY, and little boy named
Arthur Holmes had been one OF the
spectators. For days afterward the
event was uppermost in his mind. Tax
ing his younger sister Off into the woods,
he suddenly whipped out a rope, I'D
justed moose aroHnd her neck, put the
line over. the limb of tree, and pulled
her off her feet. After suspending her
a few seconds he let her down, about
half choked to death. and was solemnly
adjuring her to confess to stealing
horses when the father appeared, A
sound spanking closed the scene.
Lucy Hooper, in har last Paris letter,
says of the German hair trade: The
highest-prieed hair is pure white, long
tresses Of which are sold not by the
pound but by the single hair, each hair
being valued at about half n cent. The
most valuable of the natural hues is pale
gold; a switch Of that color was dis
played, valued at nearly 500, even IN
that Wholesale mart. The greatest curl
osity l saw at Wetzlar was a switch oil
light b-own hair, measuring six feet in
length; and for which 500 has been
paid to the original owner thereof. This
unparalleled braid is to be reserved foT
exhibition at our Centennial"
It may not be generally known that
ammonia will change violet eolored
flowers 10 green; tobacco smoke, owl ng
to the ammonia contained therein, will
have the same effect. The easiest way
to accomplish the change in color is TO
pour little ammonia upon plate, pHi
funnerover It, spout up and insert the
flowers in the small end Of the funnel.
BlEe, violet and purple flowers will be-
come green; deep carmine becomes
black; white. yellow, ETC.; red and
white flowers becoming green and yell
low. These artificial colors will last for
several hours, when by degrees the
Towers will again ASSUME their natural
hue.