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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-10
INSURANCE.
MERCHANTS
FIRE AND MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF MEMPHIS,
Have Removed to OHlce Formerly
Occupied by DeSOtO Bank,
No. 20 Madison Street.
BOARp on nIRECr0Rs.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
M. L. MEACHAM. ....of M. L. Meacham A Co
A. N. Mckay ....... Of SledRe, Mckay A Co
s. MANsFIELD.~-.....Of Mansfield a Higbso
WIN. JOYNER~.. Of Joyner. Lennon 4 Gale
WIN. b. GALBREATH.... Cotton Factor
Hon. JOHN 0VERTOR, JR............... Memphis
j. NJ. PETTIGREw.-Of EdmOnds. Pettigrew
4 Co.
loAAO sVhWAB .........--........of Schwab a o
b. Z. HALLER......of HOllowell. Crockett a.
Halter.
- Taxes Fire and Marine risks. DWELLING
Houses and isolated Couutry Stores
especially solieited. Csc
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-10

PLAY billiards t willet.'
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-12-10

200 Elegant SETS ladies' furs
KAHN 4 FRRIBERG.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
How 10 Leai n Cow.

The Ames (Iowa) LateliigeHeer has
the following: Every woman will
tell you that a man can be led easier
by putting an arm around his neck
than by pulling his hair, but we new
er knew till recently the reason you
can't lead 3 COW behind a wagon is
because she objects to having her
horns pulled. The other day a red
shirted emigrant passed through here
on his way to Carroll county. His
family and household possessions
were in a covered wagon, to the bind
of which was fastened COW. Be
bind her with a sharp stick, walked
the emigrant, giving her a sharp welt
occasionally when she hung back.
Every now and then she would brace
herself and stop the team, and then
in unclerical language he would be-
seech her to 90 on, marking each for
chile period with 4 prod Of the sharp
stick. The poor cow rolled her eyes
and lOlled her tongue. The poor
emigrant too, was dusty and tired.
but his voice and stick didn't fail him.
She had suddenly halted the process
sion in front of the pOstoffice, and
WaS SuahluS ieI Hcdu Al ASPly W hiS
earnest entreaties, when man called
out to Red Shirt that he didn't un-
derstand cows worth a cent.
"Well what are you going to do
about il? asked Red Shirt.
"Why just take that rope of her
horns, aud put it around her neck
and she'll lead as quiet as lamb. Ii
she don't I'll follow her a mile my
self"
The rope was changed to ] er neck
and the team started. The COW gave
a look of surprise and walked along.
''WelI that beats all, ;" said Red Shirt,
and without . word of thanks he
mounted his wagon. The procession
moved slowly toward Carroll county
and tbt COW followed with counte-
nance as placid as if she were walk
ing home at milking time.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
Civilization Among Insects.

Sir John Lubbock, in his book on
the "Origin and Metamorphoses of
Insects" states that if certain beetles
and other insects found in the nests
of ants are used by them for any pur-
pose, the ants must have more domes-
tie animals than we do. 1t is a well
known fact that ants collect in their
nests q certain species of aphis or
woodlcuse, from which they draw
honey, keeping them, in fact, just as
we do. cows. There is also a species of
red ant which does no work for itself,
but makes slaves of a black KIND.
Certain remarkable species Of beetles
are rarely, if ever, found excepting in
ants nests; they are blind, and ap-
parently helpless, giving no secretion
of any use to the ants, yet they are
tended with much care. Although
these beetles are never found except
in ants nests, yet there are many
communities which do not possess
them. If, however, one of them
should be placed in a community
where it does not belong, it is imme-
diately killed and eaten, while the
ants from the same nests are kindly
received. NJ. Lespes, who first OBJ
served these facts, concludes that
some ants are more highly civilized
than others. Sir John Lubbock hints
that the ants may possibly have some
feeling of reverence for the beetles. Ii
they had only been centipedes, how
easy it would have been for Darwin
to show the gradual development OF
fetch worship!
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
Mr. stephens and General sherman

Last week Hon. Fernando Wood
gave an entertainment to gentlemen.
Among the guests were the Hon. Al
exander H. Stephens and General
Sherman. Mr.. Wood approached the
General and said: "May L present
you to Mr.. StepheDs?" "Oh, yes"
replied the General; 'I am not afraid
to meet Mr.. Stephens" Alter the in
PRODUCTION General Sherman said:
''Mr. Stephens, I am very happy to
see you in Washington again occupy
ing your old position of honor" Said
Mr.. Stephens in reply: "And 1 am
happy to return. am gratified and
overwhelmed with the kindness, hon
or and respect with which l have
been treated" Said the General:
"Mr. Stephens, after all, this is good
world. There are good men and good
women everywhere, and If we only
feel kindly towards others, we will
find that it is always returned"
There was much more said that 1
have forgotten, except that Mr.. Steph-
ems announced that he would go lar
ther than Charles Sumner in seeing
every right to the negro. 81 aeknow-
ledge" said he, 'that 1 did not al
ways think so, but now that the col
ored man is voter, don't stop half
way in their education and privil-
eees.U So here we have the speeta-
Gle of two extremes meeting.-Wdsh-
ingt0a Correspondence Louisville Jour
nal.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
Mamma.

Peacham, in his Truth Of Our
Times" London, 1888, says There
are many that believe and affirm that
mauna, which is sold in the shOpes of
our apotheearies, to be of the same
which fell from heaven and where
with the Israelites were fedde." The
common mamma of commerce is made
by making incisiOns in the stem and
branches Of certain trees, natives Of
the sOath of Eurole, which grow to
the height of about twenty feet, and
are cultivated in plantations for the
mamma they produce. The mamma by
which the Israelites were miraculous
ly fed is supposed by some to be iden-
tical with an exudation found on the
stems Of shrubby plant which COW
ers immense plains in-Arabia and
Palestine. The juice hardens on the
branches, and is most abundant dur
ing hot weather, and is collected by
the Arabs who cross the desert, they
using it as nutriment for themselves
and eamels. Others hold that it is
not improbable that this mama of
the Israelites was the mqnna OF lich-
Ell, which grows chiefly upon the
steppes of Tartary in great numbers,
upon dead, lOamy soil and unfrequent-
ed rocky cliffs, loosely attached, and
consequently easily separated. When
it ia collected in hOllows, or perhaps
carried a considerable distance by high
winds, it produces the remarkable
phenomenon of showers of mama
rain. This lichen is usually the size
of a hazelnut, and when ground up
and baked as bread is eaten quite gen.
orally. The commercial mama is q
saccharine substance, white, inodor-
Gus, and of sweetish taste, and in
medicine is used as a gentle tonic.
Tamarisk mamma, or mama of Mount
Sinai, is obtained from the tamarisk
trees, which grow abundantly in the
vicinity. A thick transparent syrup
exudes from the trees, through the
punctures made by a small insect, and
dropping from the branches upon the
ground, it is collected and cleaned. It
is eaten with bread, and is considered
delicacy it is also said to be effi,a-
ciOus in diseases of the chest. In
Syria the lareh exndes from its,ieayes
and branches hOneyed juice, which,
on becoming hard, is called mama
of brianeon. The cedar of Lebanon
produces small quantities of trans
parent resinous drops, called mama
by the monks, who collected and pre-
pare from it various Ointments, which
have considerable reputation as q
remedy for phthisis. Australian man.
ma is much used as pleasant purga-
tive.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
AFTER the Free Masons.

A new and deterpined foe of the
fbrethren of the mystic tie," has aris-
en- in Illinois. This valiant individu-
al is no less a parsonage than Profes-
sor Blanchard, Of Wheaton College.
He has been delivering free lectures
we should think no one would wish
to pay for hearing them-in which he
goes for the Order right and left. He
first attacks its antiquity, and asserts
that masonry was never heard Of prior
to I717. The professor claims that the
first lodge was organized in June Of
that year, in London public house
known as the Apple-Tree Tavern,
when Hthe system of secret signs,
qrips and passwords was instituted.n u
He closes his lectures with the asser-
tion that the ''institution is irreligioGs
and immoral, and that no good man
had been or could be a Mason" PeO-
pie generally will be inclined to smile
at the ridieuIonsness Of such argu-
ments against an order that embraces
among its members some Of the best
men living, and WHICH has certainly
done more to alleviate human suffer
ing than any other agency devised by
u1an.-ByfdlO Express.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
Married over the Edge OF the Hdg-

on.
Emigrants must not stand upon
ceremony. Many a wedding on
wheels has signalized the passage of
Western trains through the last "cit-
iesn on the great frontier. The War
rensburg, MOI StdHddrCt says
Last Friday afternoon, as one of our
popular Justices from Ashbury was
in meditation deep among the papers
pertaining to his law cases, swift
and heavy step was heard on the
stairway and along the hall leading
to his Office. The door was opened
without any ceremony, and i'll rushed
a man in a state of high excitement
not usually seen in our quiet city.
.-"Are you the Squire ?" he asked,
as he wiped the perspiration frOmihis
heated brow.
"I am replied the Justice.
swell, l WANT 10 get married, and
want the thing done right away"
"All right" said the Justice ;
"bring on your woman"
The excited individual then inform
Squire A. that the fair and expectant
one was in town, and that he wanted
the Squire to go to her withihim and
perform the ceremony.
After n few preliminary arrange
meDts, which included the fee and
marriage certificate, the Justice fol-
lowed the gentleman and finally
brought up with him at the side of a
covered wagon on the street near the
public square.
"Here, Mary" said the man, 81
have brought the Squire" and rails
ing the side of the wagon cover, the
form and features of the handsome
young woman were revealed to the
astonished Justice.
"Mary, do you wish to marry this
man ," inquired the Justice, solemn
ly.
"I do" faltered the blushing bride.
"Shall-shall she get out on the
street, sir ?'' stammered the sOOn-t0-
be-husband.
"No," said the Justice.
"Shall-shalI get in the wagon,
then ?' continued the man, who had
some faint idea of the improperly Of
the thing.
mo" said the Justice, "stand by
the side of the wagon, and take Mary
by the hand"
This being done, the two were sol
EMMY made one under cover only of
the white-sheeted wagon and the blue
canopy of heaven. A number of la
dies and gentlemen passed near the
parties, but knew nothing of the in
teresting ceremony that was taking
place. Thus the legal bonds were
bound around the already united souls
of William Mize and Mary Catharine
Palmer.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08

The following is published by the
Washington Capitol as a verbatim re-
port of a lecture recently given by a
colored woman of Washington to her
hopeful offspring:
"Ephraem, come to your mudder;
now, whar you bin ?"
''Playin' wild de white folks GILL
lun."
"You is, Ell? See hyar, chile, you
broke your old mudder's heart, and
bring her gray hars in sorrow to de
grave wild your reckunness and car
ryings on wild ebil assosyshuhs.
Habn't I raised you up in de way you
should orter go ?"
"Yessum."
"Habn't I reezined wild you, and
prayed wild you, and 'plored de good
Lord to wrap you in his buzzum ?"
"Yessum."
Sand isn't I your pastoral detector
and gardeen fo' De law ?r
"Yessum."
"Well, den, do you s'pose rse
gwine to have your morals 'rupted by
de white trash ?u
''No, sah."
"You get in de house dis instep, an,
if 1 ever cotch you 'municatin' wild de
white trash any mo-, fO' de Lord, mig
ger, Pll break your braek head wild a
brick ~
"Yessum.n ~
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
SensafIons OF Starring.

For the first two days through which
strong and healthy man is doomed
to exist upOL nothing, his sutterings
are, perhaps, more acute than in the
remaining stages-he feels an inOrdi-
nate, unsPeakable craving at the
stomach, night and day. The mind
runs upon beef, bread, and other sub
stantials, but still, in a great measure,
the body retains its strength. On the
third and fourth days, but especially
on the fourth, this ineessant craving
gives place to sinking and weakness
of the stomach, accompanied by a
nausea. The unfortunate sufferer
still desires food, but with loss Of
strength he loses that eager craving
which is felt in the earlier stages.
Should he chance to obtain a morsel
or two of food, he swallows il with a
wOifish avidity, but five minutes
afterward his sufferings are more in
tense than ever. He feels as If be
he had swallowed a living lobster,
which is clawing and feeding upon
the very foundation of his existence.
On the fifth day his cheeks suddenly
appear hollow and sunken, his body
aItenuated, his color is ashy pale, and
his eye wild, CLASSY, ,eannibalish. The
different parts of the system now war
each other. The stomach calls upon
the legs to go with il in quest of food !:
the legs, from very weakness, refuse.
The sixth day bring with it increased
suffering, although the pangs of huE-
ger are lost in empowering languor
and sickness The head becomes gid
dy-the ghosts of weli-remembered
dinners pass in hideOus professions
through the mind. The seventh day
comes, bringing increased lassitude
and further prostration Of strength.
The arms hang lifelessly, the legs drag
heavily. The desire for food Is still
left, TO q degree, but II must be
brought, not sought. The miserable
remnant of life which still hangs to
the sufferer is a burden almost too
grievOus TO be borne yet his inherent
love OF existence induces a desire still
to preserve it, If it can saved without
tax upon bodily exertiOn. The mind
wanders. At one moment he thinks
his weary limbs cannot sustain him
q mile, the next he IS endowed with
unnatural strength, and II there be a
certainty Of relief before him, dashes
bravely and strongly forward, wan
dering whence proceeds his new and
sudden impulse.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
Ihs ErIls Of rslng rnhneeo

The following article, taken from
the Country Gentleman, 50 thriIIingly
sets forth the fearful results OF using
tobacco that the most hardened sin.
ner must repent and hasten 20 be wise
after reading it:
First experiment. 4 hog vas shut
up in 2 tight pen, and his only food
was One-hsif pound of tobacco a dav.
In one week it had lest four pounds.
Second. A mule was placed in 3
stall withouy food. Two plugs of to-
baccO were placed before her twice q
day. She grew gradually restive. On
the third day, one plug was forced
down her throat, when she tore the
experimenter's ear with her teeth,
showing the bad effect tobacco has on
ones disposition. 1t was then found
necessary to muZzle her so that she
could not open her mouth. At the
end OF eight days she died.
Third. a dog was nailed up in q
tobacco hOgshead. At the end Of four
days ne was taken out much reduced.
Fourth. Another dog was inclosed
in a tobacco barrel and rOlle-i down q
steep hili. Within two years that
dog went mad Frr.-E
Truly these are S2tan's netsi /
could cite plsuty more Of such expert
ments. l- i-.-.
We all know that single drop of
the oil of tobacco placed ON the end of
dogs tail will kill a man in miH-
ute
or four men lately killed on the
Erie Railway three were smokers, and
fneaf fsnfh ha.- r.T~ 2 h
crate chewer OF tobacco.
On-the bodies of the two men wash
ed ashore after the late storm on Lake
Michigan papers OF tobacco were
found. .-..~.
In my own neighbOrhOod a very
accident, by which most
estimable lady, the mother of seven
lovely children, broke her leg, was
occasiOned by a pair of runaway
horses running into fence that sur
rounded a field of tobacco.
Miss Chloe FlatfOot recently died in
the county adjoining mine at the age
lis years. She had both ehewed and
smoked over 100 years, and as she
had no disease till the time of her
death, it is only fair to suppose that
it was tobacco that killed her For so
long a time was Satan spreading his
nets for her, but think Mr. X. will
agree with me that he must have her
sure now. r..- lrf a--.
But why multiply examples? You
know how it is Yourself. So, Mr.. Ed
itOr, do not go on spreading these nets
by showing in your paper how to
grow large crops OF tobacco any more.
Rather interline the book of Proverbs
with the remarks of our second Solo,
mon. Only let me add q word Of
caution to that gentleman. Does he,
let me ask, use tea or coffee? These
are other nets uf stan as much ss tC-
bacco. Does he eat miuee pies and
use saleratus? More anon. Does he
indulge in ice cream or oysters? Let
him beware, lest, when he least ex-
poets, Satan, in scOOping in his tObac-
co users, fly away with him I. Grs-
ham bread without salt is his only
salvation. ....
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
LOST HOURS.

ween the vigil that keep
Is a sad and solemn thing,
Where the chill November breezes sweep,
And the ferns lie witherIng.
For psss The years In long review,
The years / have Travelled past,
The years whenslife was bright and new;
All, what have they brought at last?
And cry, as l look at the dropping flowers
My bafied hopes, and my falling powers.
'oh, my lost, lost hours -
What a harvest might have bsen gathered
IN,
When the golden grain was wasted
What a nectar OF life it was mine TO win,
When the draught was barely tasted!
What happy memories might have shone,
Had folly never stained themi
What noble heights TO rest upon,
II Il steadier foot had gained theml
And cry, as I sit mid my faded flowers,
"Rashness and weakness have fatal doweTs
''oh, my lost, lost hoUisi"
Too late for tattle. too late for fame,
Comes the vision OF better life;
With eyes that are smartiug with tears Of
shame,
gaze AZ the worlds hot strife,
The patient love cannot pardon now,
Or the proud believing cheer;
Where the white cross CLEANS and the vio-
lets grow
Lie the loved that made life so dear
Kind Nature renews her perish'd flowers,
But Death knows nothing ofsun or showers,
"Oh, my Iosi, lost hoursIi'
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
Vol. UME 26-NUMBER IA.
NaDOIenn the FIrSf

y writer in IcElpie Bar asserts that
history has not represented the First
Napoleon as he was in reality. Poets.
Z private secretaries, courtiers. eDtLu-
siasts, enemies, and ciamorers have
drawn the portrait We propose %
examine his character from the point
of view CT Psychologist aud p0sitivis'.
NOpOleOn was neither dark nGr fair.
he had DARK chestnut hair, eyes grey,
complexion of = pale brown, without
any red in il, ami a smooth skin.
The brain was large; the skull belong
ed 10 the largest development ever
Known; his circulation was slow, the
pulse counting forty beats a minut. /;
ne perspired little, and was insensib,e
alike 10 heat and cold, hunger ard
thirst his chest was prominent, and
his limbs well propOrtiOned; MS
height was five feet two inches Or q
lymphatic temperament, hecOuld sup
port alike excess OF physical and il :
tellectual exertiOn. 1t was q eOnstitu-
ton Of granite Warm baths, coffee.
and strong wines restored his eircula-
tiOn. His intellect was vast and
manysided, applying itself To details
and generaliZati0nS made up of pro-
diSiOus memory that rapidly took ac-
count of place, number, and cause,
and the bearings of thiEgs; a genius,
IN fine, eminently practicle aud posi-
tlV. Dissimu latiOu, an extTaordin-
ary power OF generalization, and q
sluggish temperament, making up this
wonderful man; these qualities are
the sources of his greatness. He was
fatalist. Events are brought about
by bower superior to human will, he
said. There Is neither good nor bad
in the world. The morality of All ac-
ton IS to be judged by its expediency..
Religions are human Institutions, ser
wing as q sort of vaccine 70 protect us
against lower superstitiOns, To be de-
Tended, not in the interests of society.
but in the Interests of the priests.
Such was his creed, and he naturally
hated those who possessed q higher
one.
TO sum up the characteristics of Ma
'poieOn, he possessed one of the vast
est intelleets ever known, owing such
superiority to his utter insensibility
to impressions, his sluggish tempera-
ment, his wonderful faculty of COM
-binstiOn and reasoning. War was 10
him a pastime; politics personal af-
fair only; he possessed neither relig-
iOus, moral, nor political beliefs; he
held the human race in profound con-
tempt, and was the greatest egotiist
ever known; a men Of prodigiOus ap-
titnde for knayery and mystificatiOn,
and for administrati power; an IN
tellectual giant, who caused the retro
gressiOn of France and Of all Europe,
and who possessed one of the worst
hearts that the history of the human
race has disclosed. All lovers of pro-
gress ought to make q pilgrimage to
Waterloo once in their lives; not to
exult over the destruction of a French
army, but TO contemplate the spot
where this great enemy Of the human
race fell a victim to his own exresses.
The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-01-08
''Remonstrate y repeated the lady

demonstrate, ~ repeated the lady,
with q scornful smile. 'If you had
the spirit of q man"
81 thought you didn't like spirit"
said Ar. Tompkins.
There are occasions, sir,' said the
widow; but her modification cut
short her utteranee.
any dear fellow" said Mr.. Tomp-
kins, TO the coaehman. 81 think You
ought to consider"
"You bean't my missus, be you ?r
said the coachman, surlily. "When
1 drive for you, you can give me your
advice. alters looks t0 my employ
err
"Then why didn't you obey my or
ders ?" asked the widow.
"'Cause amt nigger-a blacky-
moor" answered the coachman, sur
lily; "and flesh and blood can't stand
your going on"
'Oh, If Henry were here :" said the
widow.
"Fire and furies :" shouted Tomp-
kins, pulling off his red wig and fling
ing in the face of the coachman.
"What do you mean, scogndrel, by
speaking in that manner? You are
dismissed, do you hear? and leave
the room directly"
'tNOt for the likes Of you" answer
ed the coachman, doggedly.
The next moment he lay sprawliDg
on his back, by q stunning blow SCI
entifica1y planted midway between
his vision. Not liking repetition of
the same, the coachman picked him-
self up, and retired in disnay.
"What does this transformation
mean ?" asked the Widow, gazing in
establishment at the dark locks of her
belligerent defender.
"iSimply this,u was the reply, rthat
Thomas Tompkins and Henry Tomp-
kins are the same. You wanted to
marry an imbeeile; determined to
make such a character ridiculous, and
have, therefore, thanks to Boyle, been
playing an assumed part. Yet, dear
Maria, will take no undue advan-
tage of you; and if you are afraid to
marry man, pil resign my claims in
favor of the next bloekhead you dis
cover"
"Phere is my hand" said the wild
ow, blushing; 81 am satisfied. But
was Fanny in the plot?
necessarily; but this is the only
matter she ever deceived you inn
So the widow married, a seCond
time, a man Of spirit; but he was no
tyrant, and the household authority
was amicabIy shared between them.
The coachman, wonderfully improved
by having a tight master, was retain
ed in his place, and never ventured to
refuse to harness Hbecauseu ~ as he as
sured crony of his, who drove pea
green cab, "Mr. Tompkins was a wOn-
derfully hard hitterw