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


weight of the happy couple footed u
500 pounds.
A preparation warranted to banisl
wrinkles is among the latest OF the TOT
lette decisions.
Austria is to ft out and send an ex
petition into undiscovered portions
Africa for observation and discovery.
The English cooks are so mad Tn
Gar had theimpudence to bring his owl
cooks with him, who prepared every
thing.
An actor in New York recent.
retired from the theater at which
he was engaged, rather than shave OF
his mustache.
Moreau, the Partisan dealer in vegeta
BILE medicine, who poisoned his tive
wives, is called in his neighborhoo'
Rhubarbeblue.
A professional beggar in New York, o
easy, winning manners and gentle
manly appearance, is known to maxi
as much as fifteen dollars per day.
Cincinnati complains that the station
houses are filed with idle Migrants
whose only hope for subsistence during
the winter months seems to be the free
soup houses.
The German government, it is said
contemplates the erection of new for
tress in South Wurtemburg, to protec
its frontiers from any attacks by way o
Switzerland.
A brother of Mr.. Gladstone advocates
gigantic water scheme for Liverpool
and desires that it shall go to Scotland
fer a supply of water. Why not go q
little further north, and tap permanent
supply of iee-water2
An enthusiast describing the appear
ance of Mount Washington last month
remarks that it was white as a table
cloth" Either that man has no chill
dren or he does not permit them to have
molasses at their meals.
Three years ago California farmer
received by mail a spoonful of oats.
This he planted The next year he
planted the produce Of the first lot.
This year he repeated the process and
harvested 200 bushels Of oats from an
acre and half field.
A Southbridge, Mass, mill superin-
tendent advertised for an overseer for
his mule room. Among the answers re-
ceived was one in which the applicant
urged his selection on the ground that
he had three years charge of Govern
meat mules whilst in the United States
army.
That naughty Catholic priest in PhiIa-
delphia, who ran away with the female
organist OF his church. gives as a reason
for bis strange conduct that he "coulSn'
believe in the infallibility of the Pope.
We never knew of these little eccentri-
cities being attributed to such reason
before.
A Vermont editor named Clarke went
of on his vacation recently, and while
he was away his assistant accepted and
published some poetry, To October. "
The paper had tremendous sale, and,
after the edition was exhausted, some
one discovered that the poem was an
acrostic, reading, Albert Clarke is an
ass.
Perhaps the most tremendous incident
of the visit of the Gear to London is that
he wore frock coat to ball, and danced
in "frock sui" with the Duchess OF
Sutherland. On his visit to Paris in the
summer of the great Exposition, he fixed
the fashion for eating birds by taking
them in his fingers. 1t is good to be a
Gear.
The Tower of London is locked up
every night at eleven o'clock. As the
clock strikes that hour the yeoman
porter, clothed in a long red cloak,
bearing huge bunch Of keys, and &C.
eompanied by warder carrying Ian
tern, stands at the front Of the main
guard-house and calls out Escort keys.
The sergeant Of the guard and FIVE or
six men then turn out and follow him to
the outer gate, each sentry challenging
as they pass with who goes there ?"
the answer being Keys" The gates
being carefully locked and barred, the
procession returns, the sentries exact
ing the same explanation, and receiving
the same answer as before. Arrived
once more at the front Of the main
guard house, the sentry gives a loud
stamp with his foot and asks, Who
goes there2' Keys" Whose keys2"
Queen Victoria's keys" Advance
Queen Yictoria's keys and alPs we'll. q"
The yeomsn porter then calls out, God
bless Queen Victoria. To which the
guard responds Amen" The officer
on duty gives the word, Present arms,"
and kisses the hilt of his sword, and the
yeoman porter then marches along
across the parade and deposits the keys
in the lieutenants lodgings