Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-11-04


Instances of men who go down on &
piece of orange peel and get up anG
think as much of themselves as they die
before, are rare.
Fly around" remarks the PittsburE
Commercial. What news is this to pu
in a respectable iournal2 Why dom
you drive it away2
Nothing qualities landlady rsspec
for a boader so much as to have him cal
her attention to her favorite boy in thu
act of sand-papering his fingers with
cruller at the supper table.
A strong-armed American tooth ex
tractor has just opened his tool-chest il
Rome. Persons who have seen him &c
through the motions think that he is des
tined to make Rome how"
The Vassar girls are allowed to play
football, and the way some Of them kick
out is topic of frequent discussion in
the young mems mutual improvement
associations of Poughkespsie.
"Sally, what have you done with the
cream? These children cannot eat skim
milk for breakfast" Sure, ma am, il
isn't meself that would be afther giving
the scum to yez. | took that and give il
to the cats"
A rather iliterate young lady, upon
reading that "Boas will be fashionable
this winter" said she was bound to have
one, because she went without last year.
But it was an entirely different kind Of
Beaux she was thinking Of.
OF all cliques the mostimplacable and
unreasonable is a church clique. And
of all uncharitablenes the world never
saw the equal of that shown by those
self-satis6ed aud painfully good people
who would inhict eternal punishment on
all who differ from them.
DR.. Hilgendorf, German now in ia
pan, has found in his studies of Japan
ese crania that the cheek bone, instead
of being a single structure, is frequently
divided by a suture into two distinct
elements. DR.. Hilgendorf considers this
so characteristic that he has called the
additional bone the os japonicum.
A London paper spoils very good
story by contradicting the statement,
somewhat widely circulated, that the
Marquis of Waterford has marked the
event of his recent marriage by remit
ting half years rent to each of his
tenants. This would have been a mat
ter of fifty thousand pounds out of the
Marquis pocket.
The ethics Of Lowell milkmen forbid
the stealing of customers from each
other however silent they may be on the
subject of watering milk. Mr. Grain
flched part of Mr.. Cooper's route, and
was soundly whipped by Mr.. Cooper,
who was arrested for the assault and
fined $50. The other milkmen raised
the money subscription to pay the penal
ty.
The amnesty against the Jews is in
creasing in Galicia. An Israelite, Israel
Klak, bought a house at Korsow. The
mob Of the town gathered and chased
the Jew and his family oct OF his house,
his own property. He applied to the
municipal authorities, but he received
the reply that he must leave the place
within two weeks, as the Jews are in.
furious to the community"
The body of Lady Dixie, who died
recently in London, was burned October
10th at Dresden. The ceremony was
performed in the furnace recently in
vented for burial purposes by Herr
Siemens, end the relatives o. the de-
ceased lady permitting strangers to be
present, a large number of scientific
men attended the experiment. When
the company had complied with Herr
Siemens' request to offer up mental
prayer, the coffin was placed in the
chamber of the furnace; six minutes
later the coffin burst; five minutes more
and the flesh began to melt; ten min
utes more and the skeleton was laid bare;
another ten minutes and the bones be-
gan to crumble. Seventy.fve minutes
after the introduction Of the coffin into
the furnace all that remain ed Of Lady
Dixie and the coffin were six pounds Of
dust placed in an urn. The brother-in-
law OF the deceased was absent.