Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-10-14

There is a man in Dubuque who is SO
afraid of hydrophobia that he keeps his
hat full of memoranda how to proceed in
case he is bitten.
Two hundred and fourteen prisoners
are in the Washington City jail, which is
seventy more than have been confined in
that institution since the war
A California newspaper tells rather
leathery story of striped squirrel,
which was seen leading blind rattle
snake to his hole in the ground.
A recent raid of wild steers upon the
New York promenades is facetiously
called by some of the journals of that
city the battle of Bull Run"
A physician, after many years prac-
tice, says that among his patients three
had died of gluttony to one who has been
the victim OF intoxicating liquor.
A Dubuque man advertises concern
ing his runaway wife, that As l never
pay my own debts, it is reasonable to
suppose that l shall not pay hers.
Vieuxtemps has at last positively re-
signed his place as professor in the
Brussels Conservatory and gone to Paris
to live. Wienlswski succeeds him.
Chicago claims to possess l.s5S,7l4
feet of water pipe within her borders;
NewYork, 2, lO2, 9S3; Brooklyn, 1875, 239;
Boston, 1855, l66, and Baltimore, ,l99,.
439 feet
Henry Ward Beecher has been com
PEELED to cancel some of his engagements
to lecture on account of pressing legal
business, which demands his presence in
New York
Some mischievOus person put some
coal oil into well at St. Louis, recently
and DO amount of cleaning and pumping
has since been able to take the taste out
OF the water.
There are said to be 1856 people in
Berlin who are unable to read or write.
OF this number 1929 are over 20 years
of age, while only 4S Are between the
ages Of 10 and 10.
No interest whatever is taken in Lou
isville in New York's threadbare Shaks
pesresn controversy; but bacon will be
closely canvassed this season, and every
body will take sides.
1t is reported from Sicily that the
north side Of Mount Etna has been rent
open and torn up in a transverse line
about two miles in length, upon which
are situated twenty craters.
The Supreme Court of Maine has de.
cided in a case where the maker of
will believed that her dead husbands
spirit dictated the document that such
belief was not proof of insanity.
The death was recently announced of
the wife Of Sir Charles Wentworth
Dixie. She was daughter of Sbiel,
the eminent Irish orator. and only re-
Gently attained her twenty-sixth year.
Women, it is said, are no longer scarce
in Nevada, as is evident from the fact
that crosseyed female, with her front
teeth ont, was recently allowed TO
shoulder her own trunk and carry il to
the hotel.
A Western man set fire to the prairie
for fun, but after be had run seven miles
and climbed tree, with his pants about
all burned off, he concluded the sport
was little too violent exercise to be
INDUCED in oftener that once in life
time
A Paris retail dry goods and notion
store employs force of 1900 clerks and
2l5 porlers, and its trade requires, for
is proper transaction, the use of IS
wagons and SO horses. All the employees
dine at the establishment. and a number
Of them are lodged there also.
The old stat, erected in the year 1887,
At West Point, which was blown down,
has been replaced by a new one Of
Northern pine, twenty-three inches in
diameter at the base, and seventeen at
The cross-trees, the whole being one
hundred and thirty feet to the truck"
and costing $500.
Never bet on horserace, my son.
Il is wrong to bet, aud besides, the horse
that ought to win is likely. in nine out Of
ten cases. to be jockeyed to the rear.
Do not bet at all, my son; but, il you
bet on the horses, get acquainted with
he riders before the contest, and see
how the thing is coming out"
At the new United States Hotel,
Saratoga, during the past season, an i'm
nense amount Of edibles we're consum-
ID. Amoung them we're 6l,6l6 lbs. Of
beef. 22,07O lbs. OF mutton, 1895 lbs.
1f lamb. 30.729 lbs. Of chicken, 1851 |
lbs. Of fowl, l6,O95 lbs. Of butter. 1883
dozen Of eggs. se.64o quarts Of milk,
52sT quarts Of cream, and 1885 lbs.