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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-03

$50 0AOAGN " OUGlUH
county man, who last session repre-.
aented the alexander %Stephens) Con.
gressional district Of Georgia, is now a
prominent candidate for Clerk of the
House Of Representatives, which cleo.
ton will take place at the next session.
AT the last Congressional election in
Georgia General DuBose and other
young men gave way to Alexander Ste
phens, who now represents the district.
Several of the mine" bid farewell to
their constituents yesterday afternoon
and started off for Nashville to indulge
in law making for a few weeks. No band
of music or solemn procession of hacks
containing lending Radicals escorted
them to the depot as was done on the day
Of their dismal and triumphant return
a few days since. Republics are un.
grateful, and consequently music aoatod
not out in the damp air to cheer the ever
faithful nine statesmen.
If you are creduloas you will believe
at least N hundred men in Memphis
who recollect seeing one or more of the
express robbers as hey prowled around
the city. Men are so apt to imagine
that they detected criminals in advance,
and to believe that they had seen some
person who acted mysteriously. Even
the people who did business in adjoining
Easements to Is Madison never saw the
robbers, aud the negro porters who are
around and in the block and who see
everything never saw but one man
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-03
ZOE GENT,

DOR K~ENT-sT0RE HOUSE; A ROOMS
j above; 1897 Beal st; $40 per month. APP
ply to G00DLETT a CO.,
ly.l5 282 Front street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-03
ANUS EMEMTS.
MEMPHIS THEATER

T. W. Proprietor
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-13
Reasons In Natural. History

] Why have birds gizzards? Because,
Having no teeth, the tough and fibrous
gizzards are employed to grind the
food preparatory to digestion.
Why does black down grow under
the, feather. OF birds as winter ap-
proaches +? Because the down is a nom
Of heat, and black the
warmest color.
Why have. ostriches small wings?
Because, having long legs, they do not
require their wings for flight; they are
merely used 10 steady their bodies while
running. -
Why cannot flesh; eating animals live
on yegetables2 Because the gastric
Juice of fesh-eating animal, being
adapted to the duty which it has to per-
form, will not digest vegetable matter.
+ Why are there SO many bodily forms
in the animal creation? Because the
different creatures which God created
have different modes of life, and the
forms of their bodies will be found to
present perfect adaptation to the
lives allotted to them. s......,
Why have birds with long legs short
tails? Because the tails of birds are
used to guide them through the air by
storage. When birds with long legs
take to fight, they throw their legs
behind, and they then serve the same
purpose as tail.
Why have fishes air bladders? Be
cause, as the density of water varies
greatly at different depths, the enlarge
,.o,,k ~ continuation as kln hy>SS~. 80.
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The Funeral Pneumatic Railroad.

A pneumatic subterraneous railroad is
to be constructed in Vienna, not for the
transportation of live freight, but for
the corpses of deceased from the city
to the cemeteries. From the cellars of
centrally located chapels in the city,
tunnels, two, three, and four miles long,
will run to the different cemeteries out
side the city. The tunnels are to be
only large enough to pass the collins
lengthwise, which will be placed on a
small platform-car moving on rails,
while the blast of air sends the corpses
off to the cemetery at rate of velocity
equal to forty or more miles per hour.
This does away with the tedious and
time-robbing funeral PROFESSIONS. All
the procession that takes place is in the
city from the house to the chapel; then,
as soon as the funeral service is ended,
the &C ffin is lowered down in the cellar
by means of an elevator, the friends go
home, while the body is labeled for it's
destination, and goes where the grave
is situated. We must confess it takes
much of the poetry of burial. the as
sembling of friends around the grave,
etc, but then the world is progressing,
time is be coming more and more pre-
cious, and we can no longer afford to
lose time with slow funerals and if the
living are clamorous for quick trans
portation, why not give this privilege
Il, tho dead alao2
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came to the land, q torch gloved from
the forecastle, a man skipped ashore, g
darky's voice on the bank said, " Gin.
mesde .carpet-bag,E Mars Jones'" and
the next moment we we're standing up
the river again, all, serene. I reflected
deeply awhile, and then said-but not
aloud-well, the finding of that. planta-
fion was the luckiest accident that ever
happened; but it couldn't happen again
in hundred years. And / fully be-
lieved it was an accident, too.
PROGRESS.
By the time we had gone seven or
eight hundred miles up the river. I had
learned to be a tolerable plucky up
stream steers-man in daylight, and be-
fore we reached st. Louis I had made
a trifle of progress in night-work, but
only a trife. I had a note-book that
fairly bristled with the uaAes Of 6Nnsys
"points, bars, islands, bends, reaches,
etc.; but the information was TO be
found only in the note book-none of
it was in my head. It made my heart
ache to think I had only got half OF
The river set down for as our watch
vas four hours off and f0df Acare On,
day and night, there was long four
hours gap in my book for every time I
had slept since the voyage began. -
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The Secret OF Beauty.

It is not in pearl powder, nor in gold
en- hair-dye, nor in jewelry. It cannot
be got in bottle or box.
It is pleasant to be handsome but all
beauty is not in prettiness. There is q
higher beauty, that makes us love peo-
pile tenderly. Eyes, nose, hair, or skin
never did that yet; though it is pleas
ing to see fine features. What you are
will make your face over for you in the
end, whether nature has made il plain
or pretty.
Good people are never Unlocking.
Whatever their faces may be, an amia-
BILE expression atones for all. If they
can be cheerful also, no one will love
them the less because their features are
not regular, or because they are too fat,
or too thin, too pale or too dark. Cal-
tivation of the mind adds another charm
to their faces, and. on the whole, if any
girl is DESTROYS of being liked by the
many and loved by the one, it is more
in her power than she may believe to
accomplish that object. ~.
Cosmetics will not accomplish it, how.
ever. Neither will fine dress though
woman who does not dress becomingly
wrongs herself.
Forced smiles and affected amiability
will be of no avail bat if she can man.
age to feel kindly to everybody, not to
be Jealous, not to be cross, to be happy
if possible, and to encourage content
ment, then something will come into
her face that will outlast youths roses,
and ain her not only husband, but
lifelong lover.
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ulates the relation of the specific gray
ity of the body of the fish to that of
the water in which he moves, -r

ulates the relation of the specific grav-
ity of the body of the fish to that of
the water in which he moves. - 10.
Why are woodpecker's tongues about
three times longer than their bills :?
Because, if their bills were long they
would not bore ths tree 30 efficiently !;
and when the trees are bored, and the
insects alarmed, they endeavor TO re-
treat into the hollows of the, wood but
the long, thin tongue of the wood
pecker fixes Them on its sharp, horny
point, and draws them into the mouth
of the bird.
Why has the elephant a short, un-
bending neck? Because the elephants
head is SO heavy that it could not have
been supported at the end of long
neck, or lever, without a provision of
immense muscular power. Note.-Ac-
eording to Culver, the number of mus
cles in the elephants trunk amounts to
400, 600, all of which a, under The will
as it is to these that the proboscis of
this animal owes it's fexibility. 1T
can be protracte at pleasure, raised up
OF turned to either side, coiled around
on itself or twined around any object.
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A Defense OF Pretty Women.

After all, is the world so very absurd
in its love of pretty women Is woman
so very ridiculous in her chase after
beauty? A pretty woman is doing a
women's work in the world, but not
making speeches, nor puddings, but
making life sunny and more beautiful.
Man has foresworn the pursuit of beauty
altogether. Does he seek it for himself,
he is guessed to be poetic; there are
whispers that his morals are no better
than they shonld be. In society reso-
lutte to be ugly there Is no post for an
Adonis, bat that of . model or guards
man. But woman does for mankind
what man has ceased to do. Her aim
from childhood is to be beautiful. i''
., Even as a school girl she notes the
progress of her charms-the deepening
color Of her hair, the growing symmetry
of her arm, the ripening contour of her
cheek. We watch with silent interest
the mysterious reveries of the maiden
she is dreaming of coming beauty and
painting for the glories of eighteen. To-
sensibly she becomes an artist; her
room is q studio. her glass an academy.
The joy of her toilet is the joy OF
Raphael over his canvas, Of Michael
Angelo over his marble. She is creating
beauty in the silence and the loneliness
of her chamber. She grows like any
art creation, the result of patience, of
hope, of Thousand delicate touchings
and retouchings.- Woman is never per-
feet, never complete. A II stless night
undoes the beauty of the day sunshine
blurs the evanescent coloripg of the
cheek frost nips the tender outlines OF
her face into sudden harshness. Care
plows it's lines across her brow; mother
hood destroys the elastic lightness of
her form the bloom of her cheek, the
quick fash Of her eye. fade and vanish
as the years 60 by: But woman is true
to her ideal. She won't know when abe
is beaten, and she manages to steal
fresh victories even in her defeat. She
invents new conceptions of womanly
grace she rallies at forty, and fronts
us with the beauty of womanhood she
makes a last stand at sixty, with the
beauty Of her age. She falls, like
Cesar, wrapping her mantle around her
-"puried in wooden 'twould saint
provoke II Dsath listens pitifully to
the longings of a lifetime, and the
wrinkled face smiles with something of
the prettiness of eighteen. ....
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A Lost Babe.

HOW CALIFORNIA MOTHER WHO WOULD
DANCE WAS BAmsdaDso
A ball was given at Camptonville,
Ynba county, CAL, on New Years Eve,
which was attended by certain lady
who resides some distance from that
place She had baby that could not
be left at home. Arriving at Campton-
vile early in the evening Nth Der
baby, she put up at the Gfo6e hotel,
kept by one Jones. She. told Jones she
was DESTROYS of attending the ball if
she could find some one who would
take care of her baby. Jones, being an
accommodating fellow, proposed that
he would "father" the "youpg 'un"
dd interim. The lady acceNe1 TIA
offer with Joy, and putting the baby to
sleep, laid it down gently. in. Jones'
bed, and then went to the ball. Up to
midnight Jones made frequent visits to
the room, to attend to the wants of his
precious charge. From that hour the
babe, so far as Jones or its mother Was
concerned, was left ason4s for JeneA fell
a victim to sleep. It happened, how
ever, that a stage-driver was asleep in
room nearly opposite to the one &C.
cupied by the babe. About one o'clock
A. n. says the North San Juan Times,
the babe began to cry fearfully, and to
appease it the stage driver took it to
his own bed, and kept it qniet thezre
mainder of the night. He was up and
off by day break, before the mother had
returned from the ball, and before any
one was stirring in the house, leaving
the babe fast asleep in his own bed.
An honr later the bali broke up, and
the mother returned to the hotel. She
went straight to Jones' room to see her
babe. Lo! and behold it wasn't there
neither was Jones. Soon the whole
house was in an uproar, and search was
made for the missing babe, but all in
vain. In the meantime the whole town
was startled by the information that
child had been stolen and carried away.
Finally, it was remembered that the
tage-driver had slept in the house that
night, and that possibly he might know
something about the missing child. He
was telegraphed to on the subject, TO
Downieville, and in the course OF few
reply was received from him,
which read as follows: Crank Ramp
pin: You will find - childg6 my bAd
at the hotel EdR ~ reesi IN 16
telegram me mother fdshed {fantlcallY
to the stsge drivers room and found
her precious babe lying in his bed fast
asleep. Nearly gT1eqF3 &8E9
vi, lille got got drunk shasssSEsi"SsoVef
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IRON IN THE CoLoRING MATTER OF
BLOOD. -Paquelin and Jolly, in a
memoir presented to the Paris acad-
emy. have proved First, that the iron
exists in the blood disks in the state OF
a tribaric phosphate. Second, that the
hematin does not contain iron-what
already Chevreul observed when he
stated that the composition of the col
oring matter varies with the nataro OF
the solvent used for its extraction, but
at the same time he did not know how
to obtain it in pure state. We have
succeeded in obtaining the pigment per-
fectly pure and free from iron. Hema-
tin has the following properties: 1t
burns without leaving ashes, like res
inous substances it is insoluble in
pure water it desolves in very small
quantity in ammoniacal water, to which
iS gives pale yellow tint; it is changed
by solutions of potash and caustic soda,
to which it gives brown color; 1t Is
slightly soluble in alcohol the solution
is amber color ; the solvents of the hem
atosine are ether, chloroform, benzoie'
and bisulphate of carbon. With these
bodies the diluted solution is amber
color when concentrated it is red.
StvoRY OMELEr-Make batter as for
a pancake, chop a little parsley and
green onions, and pepper and salt, stir
in, and fry in plenty of lard. 1t may be
seryad either dly or with gravy,
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Babies Names.

4.
When people name their babies they
sh Did remember their fnture feelings
AS a general thing, name that has
PLEASANT sound, and is neither too COM
mormon too far-fetohed and romantic,
the pleasantest to have. And it is
4lways better to have one that, while
6dhitting of childish diminutive, will
6otsptnd ridiculousif its bearer lives
10 h an old man or woman. - 1-'.i
q At the same time, there is such q
ahihg as sticking too strictly to the
common place, and it is not considerable
D infict upon innocent babes their
Rra6dfathers' names, or even their
if they are obsolete or
shidedus. --.
b Ltis due TO your baby to give it q
name that will not be torment to it in
its school days-and there is nothing
like queer name for children to make
sport with-and one that will last it if
it lives to be eighty.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-13

A WoMANs CoURAGB.-Richard A.
Proctor, in his "Borderlando of Science"
and in the chapter on " Flying and Fly
ing Machines" states that "the first
person who scared aloft in the air by
this invention Chat of kite carriage)
was lady, whose courage would not be
denied this test OF its strength. An
armchair was brought on the ground,
then lowering the cordage of the kite
by slackening the lower brace, the chair
was firmly dashed to the mai" line, and
the lady took her seat. The main brace
being hauled taut, the huge, bouyant
sail rose aloft with its fair burden, con-
tinuing to ascend to the height of .
hundred yards. On descending she ex-
pressed herself much pleased with the
easy motion of the kite, and the de-
lightful prospect she had enjoyed"
A SAD commentary on capital punish
ment, exercised in the case of murder
esses, is that of the New Brunswick
woman, who recently gave birth to a
child that is to be deprived of its
mother next month by hanging. A
woman who WIS recently hanged in
England, too, asked to suckle her infant
SIS the last act before ascending the
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equals the estimate, surpaSS rtlat- OF any
other mine in the histor1 Of TIE World.
In comparisons made between the deuel.
1ped richness of the Nevada mines and
thai of other famops srgentiferous de-.
pesits the former rate far ahead. The
totll yield of the Mexican silver mines
franz the conquest to the- present time
hs been figured at $4,000. 900. The
gxf Mexican bonapss during three
centuries yielded $500 COG. 600 bRE this
represented group Of mines Of Guam,
ajuato, of which the Vaiencianna, the
richest, has as its greatest yield in \,
year 81, 800, cod. q Ths GREATEST yearly
productions Of the Potosi mines of Boz,
livia have been about s., 250. 600. The
richest silver bearing district Of Europe,
that Of Freiburg, in Ss1ony, containing
one hundred and fifty miues, only gives
a total yield of about 81 ,OOO, 600. The
maximum annual produces of the Sierra
Almagrer and Observation-Disclosures minss.
Of Spain was only about $3.50 0O0, while
the greatest yield of the silver mines OF
Konigsberg, Norway, in any one year,
was only quarter Of million dollars.
The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-02-13

DIVORCES IN ENdLAND.-Thei increase
in the business of the divorce court is
rather alarming. In 1870 the court an
nulIed 154 marriages; in 1871 the. num-
Der was 176; in 1872 it rose to 173, and
last year it was 215. If one will reflect
that before the divorce court was estab-
lished the number of divorces obtained
in England was scarcely five per year,
and that domestic life was then farmore
pure than it is now, he may estimate
for himself the value of this especial
invention of "human progress" Isup-
pose that if law were passed by which
parents might kill their children under
certain circumstances, the number of
babies put to death would increase
a.
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cussipn about points r. and Sc cossess,.z
that fairly made, my head swim. xaad,
more than ONCE drove me- to the verge
of committing myself through igaor7.
anoe. t.nHS1 fsifI'i ,si % :. - !,
Bedtime came 1t last and fbastenea y
xszoanau HAAsa-1
guise,r apd resumed MY usual apparel
my purpose bSin8 tof qit The hSuSd
when all -ras quiet, meet Pet asthe ap-.
pointed rendezvous, and conssy hersh
. carriage, engaged to besi4 waiting, to
the placs at whfch. the nuptial knot was
to be tisds Sn ~ XIX. *
It is an unromantic fact to speak Of in
this connection, but ono which subse.
quent events make it necessary to men
ton, that the excitement + was 1aborins
under caused my nose to bleed freely.
II had barely succeeded in stanching
ID, when a glance at my watch appraised
me that Iihad no time to spare. -. -
I opened my room door softly and
stepped into the hallway. ria ~
CHAR exclaimed voice. sa.s4
I turned quickly and found myself
face to face with old De Bruin, who was
evidently surprisea toasessn somirg
out OF what he, gqPposed toube the.
majors apartment. He didn't stop to
barley, hoyeyer. but passed by, carry
ing his chanbef Rnqp in lis Mnd,
I had gone but few steps when Mr..
De BruiR rushed out, pale. With alarm,
and ehOutang :: 81 ~ ASA =
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Reforming A Pug Nose.

- ~
Mrs. st. Johh, Eckel, Maria Monks
daughter, gives the following account
of the successful reformation of her
pug nose 'sOne of the first things
my sister had said, on seeing me. was,
But where b your pug nose I? II Il
gone, replied; but did not tell her
how it had gone. will here make the
confession to the reader.f At night I
would take long string and fasten if
around my face, drawing it SO tightly
sround the tip of my nose that could
hardly breathe through my nostrils.
During the day I used to pull on. the
nose. In two years I succeeded, and
the pug disappeared. How much did
not suffer for this vanity ?" iu|'
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The Boy Was INNOCENT. The other
day letter carrier asked Larch street
boy if he wouldn't stop at Mr.. Jones
house and tell the old man that there
was registered letter in the postoffics
for him, and the boy said he'd cheer
fully do it. When he approached the
house he saw Mr.. Jones at the gate,
shoveling off ice, and he hslloed across
the street: ~s .-.s --.-,.t to 81 p
"Say, Mr.. Jones, you've got letter
in the postofice." ......... .- ..,
81 have, eh ? you young sauce box y
roared Mr.. Jonee, and he ran across the
street and made an awful blow at the
lad with his snow shovel ~" B.
When the boy reached home he in
formed his mother that if ever Jones
wanted anybody to run for the doctor
again he'd do his own running.
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EVERY daughter of the queen Of
England knows how to cook and keep
house, which shows that queens are not
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THE STUFF OUR ARMY Is MADE Or
During the last six or eight years, &C.
cording to the Army and Navy Journal,
fully one half of the recruits received
into the army have deserted. There
has been an improvement, however.
during the last few years, the number
of assertions falling of some fifty per
cent. The change is attributed to the
army bill of 1872, by the provisions. of
which inducements are offered to men
to remain in the service. The pay was
increased, portion being retained until
the final discharge, and savings banks,
wherein the thrifty might lay up store
of cash, we're established. The journal
thinks, and wisely, shat the best mate
rial for the army is recruited in the
country towns.
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Presently he pulled rope, and struck
few strokes on the big bell. The
stars were all gone now, and the night
was as black as ink. 1 could hear the
wheels churn along the bank, but was
not entirely certain that 1 could see the
shore. The voice of the invisible
Waterman called up from the hurricane
deck:
What's this, sir?''
Jones' plantation.
I said to myself, I wish I might ven
turs to offer a small bet that it isn't
But did not ohirp. 1 only waited to
see. Mr.. B., handled the engine
hells and in dina TINA the hoat,s nosa
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That evening I presented myeito
Ill in thIcAning, with ali the digA1gy
of padded portliness and the frosts of
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forgery Dy registering ING name nImEelI.
tseest1aEApfnkKw4h Mr.: De
Brnin. Pet 1eft us early, doubtless to
-prspars for -euf-midnight fitting; and
the old gentleman tackled me in a dis
.cnssipn. about points r. and Sc oossefs'.z'
that fairly made. my head swim. xs,dl
more than ONCE Grove me, to the verge
of committing myself ,l through !. igaor7
Bedtime came IL last, and fhasseney1
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% For forms Of government let fools contest
Whatevsr's best administered Ia best"